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ETHICS

Moral standards and principles against which behavior is judged.

DECEPTION

Making false or misleading statements in an advertisement.

PUFFERY

The use of absolute superlatives like “Number One” and “Best in the World” in advertisements. It is also called as an exaggerated commercial language of advertising.

Regulation

Brings to mind government scrutiny & control of the ad process.

SELF-REGULATION

The advertising industry’s attempt to police itself.

UNFAIR ADVERTISING

acts or practices that cause or are likely to cause substantial injury to consumers, which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves and not outweighed by the countervailing benefits to consumers or competition.

VERTICAL COOPERATIVE ADVERTISING

An advertising technique whereby a manufacturer and dealer (either a wholesaler or retailer) share the expense of advertising.

Comparison Advertisement

Are those in which an advertiser makes a comparison between the firm's brand & competitors' brands.

Monopoly Power

The ability of a firm to make it impossible for rival firms to compete with it, either through advertising or in some other way.

ADVERTISING SUBSTANTIATION PROGRAM

Intention of ensuring that advertisers make available to consumers supporting evidence for claims made in ads.

CONSENT ORDER

An advertiser accused of running deceptive or unfair advertising to stop running the advertisement in question, without admitting guilt.

CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER

Requiring an advertiser to stop running an ad within 30 days so a hearing can be held to determine whether the advertising in question is deceptive or unfair.

AFFIRMATIVE DISCLOSURE

That important material determined to be absent from prior ads must be included in subsequent advertisements.

CORRECTIVE ADVERTISING

Requiring an advertiser to run additional advertisements to dispel false beliefs created by deceptive advertising.

CONSUMERISM

The actions of individual consumers to exert power over the marketplace activities of organizations.

Behavioral Targeting

The process of database development made possible by online tracking markers that advertisers place on a Web surfer's hard drive to track that person's online behavior.

SPAM

To post messages to many unrelated newsgroups on Usenet.

Phishing

Where spammers try to entice web users to enter personal info on a fake website.

PREMIUMS

Items that feature the logo of a sponsor and that are offered free, or at a reduced price, with the purchase of another item.

APPROPRIATION

The use of pictures or images owned by someone else without permission.

DEFAMATION

When a communication occurs that damages the reputation of an individual because the information was untrue.

SLANDER

Oral defamation that in the context of promotion would occur during television or radio broadcast of an event involving a company and its employees.

LIBEL

Defamation that occurs in print and would relate to magazine, newspaper, direct mail, or Internet reports.

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Advertisements that use an expert or celebrity as a spokesperson to endorse the use of a product or service.