On Black Friday 2021, one of the most popular shopping days of the year, Patagonia matched its sales with donations to organizations fighting climate change, resulting in a donation of $10 million to grassroots organizations…
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Substantiate, Don’t Exaggerate: NAD won’t let you exaggerate a competitor’s flaws, even if your product truly solves the problem
NAD rules that inflating claims against competitors is unfair If your service really is 20 times better than a competitor’s, how do you fairly substantiate the claim and publish an ad? The National Advertising Division…
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Conducting In-Person Surveys Again, Despite COVID-19
As stay-at-home orders are being lifted in many parts of the country, marketing research facilities are reopening, making it possible to conduct in-person survey research again.
The Importance of Substantiating Advertising Claims With Surveys
In October, the National Advertising Review Board ruled against a pasta advertisement Goya Foods had been running in Puerto Rico. Goya had been selling its Excelsior brand pasta on the island with the tagline “La…
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Will your taste test substantiate your advertising claims?
In the November, 2018 issue of Quirks Magazine, Dominique Romanowski published an article about surveys to substantiate advertising claims. “Are you considering making superiority in advertising claims such as “Brand X” is preferred to “Brand…
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