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Two posters for HSBC advertising the bank’s green initiatives have been banned for omitting information about its own contribution to carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions. The posters ...
In the first ruling of its kind, the UK’s advertising watchdog has banned a series of sustainability-focused adverts from HSBC bank because of their misleading environmental claims.
The UK's advertising regulator has banned two HSBC advertisements for being "misleading" about the company's work to tackle climate change. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the ...
Howard Brown from the Halifax adverts has recorded a ‘protest song’ written by comedian Dominic Frisby – and it’s safe to say, viewers are pretty baffled.
Howard from Halifax adverts has launched an unlikely new front in the culture wars by becoming an anti-woke warrior with a new song railing against diversity, pronouns and gender identity labels ...
But when the advert aired for the first time on Boxing Day in 2000 Howard was definitely not going to be returning to his normal life at the Sheldon branch of Halifax as the advert instantly shot up.
HSBC ‘greenwashing’ adverts banned The posters, seen on bus stops in Bristol and London in October 2021, read ‘Climate change doesn’t do borders’. Josie Clarke.
One of the banned ads seen in London. The UK's advertising regulator has banned two HSBC advertisements for being "misleading" about the company's work to tackle climate change.
A series of adverts by HSBC Holdings PLC have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority due to misleading environmental claims. HSBC has provided £115bn to fossil fuel groups since 2016 A ...