A nice little win for VM
 

Not really a high profile discussion thread but I have seen quite a few posts where members have accused VM of not blowing their trumpet so I was quite pleased to read of this successful defence of VM's advertising claims.

'ASA rejects Sky complaints over Virgin Media mailing'

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/s...g--895663.html

Re: A nice little win for VM
 

Nice one, thanks jo :tu:

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This will not have been raised here as its not anti VM :LOL:

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This would be because it's not really news - advertising complaints are made by all sorts of companies all the time and are not upheld - Virgin have I'm sure made plenty about Sky and BT that weren't upheld either.

You would hope that the vast majority of Virgin's ads don't infringe, would be a rather messed up company if it were newsworthy for them to produce standards compliant advertising don't you think?

Jo - since they became Virgin Media the last thing I would accuse them of is not blowing their own trumpet, quite the opposite the flood of PR from them has been enormous, and along with that there have been a flood of upheld or partially upheld ASA complaints.

Just FYI from a few weeks ago here's an upheld complaint from Sky regarding VM, one from the month before where 6 of 7 points were upheld, it happens all the time and is really nothing noteworthy. They both snipe at each other, sometimes one wins, sometimes the other.

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@ Iggy. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/04/8.gif

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:D nice one.

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ha ha :D

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Its just companies crying about the other company saying something nasty, petty really why don't they just try and combat the ad with response in there own ad.

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Because that would be petty in public instead of behind the scenes with the ASA?