Ladbrokes Casino recently had their award-winning commercials taken off the air after just a single member of the public complained that they glorified gambling. Now popular online bingo site are facing similar difficulties.
A statement from the ASA said: ”We noted there was also a reference to chat rooms where you could ‘make new friends’, which we considered would have particular appeal to older children and young persons.”, ”We noted that the brightly coloured and animated bingo balls had happy, smiling faces and were shown bouncing around the fairground and playing on the rides. We considered that, in some scenes, the bingo balls looked like brightly coloured sweets.”
