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The ministry has also increased the number of price monitoring centres from 175 to 283

In June, the I&B Ministry had first issued its directive on online betting ads, saying that gambling was illegal in most parts of the country

Ad spend projected to be Rs 30,000 crore this time - growth of 15% over last year's Rs 26,000 crore

Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio together are likely to spend the bulk of around Rs 350-400 crore in festive season advertising

New guidelines stipulate that indirect ads of regulated products such as liquor and tobacco will not be permitted

The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) maintained that its code already required ads to not deride anyone on the basis of race, caste, creed, gender or nationality

It is said that Japanese television ads pack a lot of words, of­ten in just 15 seconds

Law will require services to give users the ability to easily opt out of tracking

"These complaints are just one of the manifestations of the various conversations happening in India," says ASCI General Secretary Manisha Kapoor

For advertisements in electronic media, the government spent a total of Rs 193.52 crore in the last three years

The popular designer brand has been facing flak on social media platforms as well as from a section of politicians from the ruling BJP over an advertisement

After facing backlash on social media platforms and also from a politician from the ruling BJP, the company has withdrawn the ad campaign.

Facebook said it believed actual conversions such as sales and app downloads are higher than reported

The trial for the same has already taken place in countries like India, Australia, Brazil, and Germany in April.

A House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids, saying the Google-owned video feeds children inappropriate material in "a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content" so it can serve them ads

This will enable brands to pitch consent-based and privacy-safe campaigns to over 320 million of its customers, the firm said

CCPA has issued show cause notices to various companies for misleading and misguiding advertisements during the Covid-19 pandemic

Facebook previously told investors that Apple's changes, scheduled to go live early next year, will lead to significant headwinds because most of its advertisers are small businesses