{"id":2011,"date":"2016-02-23T19:59:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/23\/hundreds-of-people-complained-about-this-overtly-sexual-ad\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T19:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:59:45","slug":"hundreds-of-people-complained-about-this-overtly-sexual-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/23\/hundreds-of-people-complained-about-this-overtly-sexual-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people complained about this &#039;overtly sexual&#039; ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Moneysupermarket\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAyLzIzL2YzL21vbmV5c3VwZXJtLmI1YTBhLnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/307a3825\/2ca\/moneysupermarket.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Hundreds+of+people+complained+about+this+%27overtly+sexual%27+ad&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F23%2Fmost-complained-advert-uk-2015%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F23%2Fmost-complained-advert-uk-2015%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 An advert featuring a middle aged man called Dave dancing down the street in denim shorts and high-heeled shoes was the most complained about clip of 2015, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has revealed.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/03\/uk-bans-ad-slimming-pills\/?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">UK bans &#8216;irresponsible&#8217; weight loss pill ad after scores of complaints<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Moneysupermarket.com&#8217;s advert, which many thought was &#8220;overtly sexual,&#8221; received 1,513 complaints. However, the ASA didn&#8217;t agree, and ruled that the ad was not in breach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asa.org.uk\/About-ASA\/About-regulation.aspx\">Advertising Code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Protein World&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/04\/27\/protein-world-beach-body-advert-london\/\">infamous<\/a> &#8220;beach body ready&#8221; posters also featured in the ASA&#8217;s countdown of top 10 controversial ads, with 380 people submitting formal complaints about it. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/23\/most-complained-advert-uk-2015\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/uk\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/adverts\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Adverts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/advertising\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Advertising<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1456226798' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1456226798'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/HuLRHEQL1vM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 An advert featuring a middle aged man called Dave dancing down the street in denim shorts and high-heeled shoes was the most complained about clip of 2015, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has revealed. See also: UK bans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/23\/hundreds-of-people-complained-about-this-overtly-sexual-ad\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}