Often it is just one complaint that triggers an investigation into an advertisement by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) but for Paddy Power Games, the latest saw two! The advert in question was for Paddy Power Games and was seen on TV back in December 2017. It featured a casino security guard watching customers gamble […]
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Rehab Bingo Re-Branded Because Of ASA
Rehab Bingo first launched into the world of online bingo back in 2005 as part of the Rehab Group. Since launch, a percentage of the money spent at the site has been donated regularly to the Rehab Group charity. The charity provides health and social care services in Ireland. As we reported yesterday, Rehab Bingo […]
Social Responsibility Failures Cost Butlers Bingo
Over the last few months we have seen some quite large fines levied against a number of gambling operators for failures around the social responsibility policies. Gala were fined £2.3 million and 888 a massive £7.8 million. Broadway Gaming (the company responsible for Butlers Bingo and a number of other online bingo sites) appear to […]
Advertorials Underfire From ASA
If you haven’t already figured it you, here at Playing Bingo we advertise online bingo sites. We do so by providing our readers details of promotions and various updates on software, new bingo sites and general news from the world of online gaming. In all the years we have been doing this, we have done […]
BeGambleAware Advert Banned For Being Offensive!
For the most part, when the ASA publish a ruling we’re in agreement but every now and again we’re left scratching our heads and wondering ‘why?’. This is certainly the case on a recent upheld complaint about the BeGambleAware ‘Voices’ campaign using online bingo as the gambling example. If you read our original article about […]
Daytime TV Ban Expected For UK Gambling Adverts
Adverts for the gambling industry look set to vanish not only from our daytime TV screens but also social media due to fears that they are influencing the young, resulting in gambling problems. Under current rules, adverts are allowed to be shown before the 9pm watershed, but recent figures from the Gambling Commission have shown […]
ASA Ruling on Butlers Bingo
Broadway Gaming Ltd, the company that owns and operates Butlers Bingo have this week had their wrists slapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have they were reported for misleading information on their mobile home page. The complaint was brought after their page featured a promotion on the 15th April offering “Deposit £10. Play £35”. […]
Winner Bingo Sexually Seductive…NOT!
Every Wednesday without fail we check the Advertising Standards Authority web page to see if any online bingo sites have fallen foul of the Codes that regulate advertising across all media in the UK. It’s not a regular occurrence that we see a bingo brand listed but when we do we are often seen slapping […]
Table Top Entertainment Ltd Learn Nothing From ASA Ruling
On 23rd July 2014 a ruling was published on the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) website against Table Top Entertainment Ltd t/a Jackpot Cafe. There had been two complaints about an advert that had appeared on the social networking site Facebook. Jackpot Cafe had intimated in the ad that a UK man had won £18,000 with […]
Jackpot Cafe Facebook Ad Banned By ASA
In April of this year one of our team, Kath, covered a story about advertising on Facebook by Jackpot Cafe. In the article she questions how responsible the advert actually is and suggests that it breaches Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) guidelines. She was so incensed by the ad itself that she even took the time […]
