Crazy Frog on MediaGuardian
||It may have beaten Coldplay to number one in the charts, but the Crazy Frog ringtone ad is driving some people, well, crazy.
A TV commercial featuring the chirping cartoon amphibian attracted around 800 complaints from members of the public, according to the Advertising Standards Authority.
Around 200 people complained that the commercial from ringtone company Jamster was targeting children as potential subscribers, while another 600 thought Crazy Frog was on TV too often.
Although the ASA has launched an investigation into the objections and passed them on to TV channels showing the commercial, it has no powers to rule on the frequency of adverts.
Nor is the watchdog able to ban an advert simply because people find it annoying, so it is focusing on the potential "financial harm" to children.
Crazy Frog was cleared in an earlier ASA investigation after viewers complained about his visible penis. ||
Via MediaGuardian
A TV commercial featuring the chirping cartoon amphibian attracted around 800 complaints from members of the public, according to the Advertising Standards Authority.
Around 200 people complained that the commercial from ringtone company Jamster was targeting children as potential subscribers, while another 600 thought Crazy Frog was on TV too often.
Although the ASA has launched an investigation into the objections and passed them on to TV channels showing the commercial, it has no powers to rule on the frequency of adverts.
Nor is the watchdog able to ban an advert simply because people find it annoying, so it is focusing on the potential "financial harm" to children.
Crazy Frog was cleared in an earlier ASA investigation after viewers complained about his visible penis. ||
Via MediaGuardian
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