Tag: ONLINE ADVERTISING

ARCON warns bloggers, skit makers, others to ensure compliance with advertising code

Aminu Imam

The Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, (ARCON), has warned bloggers, skit makers and influencers to ensure compliance with the Nigerian Code of Advertising Practice. In an issued statement issued yesterday, the ARCON Director-General, Dr. Olalekan Fadolapo, warned that the Council is set to enforce compliance as part of efforts to sanitise advertising space. In the statement, Fadolapo said: “ARCON has received complaints on the advertisement, advertising, and marketing communications activities of skit makers, comedians, influencers, content creators/producers, bloggers, vloggers etc on digital media platforms. “Most of the advertisements exposed by…

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Turkey fines Google $25m for online advertising abuse

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Turkey’s competition authority fined Google 196.7 million lira (25.54 million dollars) for abusing its dominant position in the online search market. Google “intensively” uses tactics on its search engine to block rivals in the online advertising business, an investigation by Turkish competition authority found, a report said. The competition investigation included Google’s Turkey branch as well as Google International, Google Ireland Limited and Alphabet Inc. In February, Turkey slapped 98.3 million lira (12.7 million dollars) fine on Google over similar anti-trust charges. 

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