
A TV that is somewhat saucy from British bookmaker Coral ran afoul of this country’s ad standards council. (Image: Coral)
A TV spot for UK-facing bookmakers Coral was banned by the nation’s Advertising Standards Authority because it’s deemed to link gambling with ‘seduction,’ therefore contravenes gambling advertising regulation in that country.
The TV spot featured two men in a barber store who’re reading The Racing Post and discussing whether to spot a bet, whenever an attractive young woman enters dressed as being a jockey. Pausing and then close one man’s jaw with her riding crop, she holds up a indication bearing ‘today’s great offer’ the name of the horse and its chances while among the men places a bet in the Coral mobile app.
Gibraltar-based Coral has protested its innocence, however, claiming that, while the did that is commercial contain a stylish model, it ‘did not consider that it linked gambling with seduction, sexual success or enhanced attractiveness’ while the character did not ‘flirt with or seduce the males and there is no recommendation that the men would become more attractive or sexually successful after betting.’
Seduction Fills the Air
Nice try, Coral. We at Casino.org don’t imagine to be specialists in things of seduction, but we would like to think that if an appealing girl dressed as a jockey teasingly closed our gaping jaws with her riding crop it could at least be described as a little bit Continue reading “UK Gambling Ad Labeled as Seductive Is Prohibited by ASA”