8 result(s)
  • Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Ltd t/a KFC

    • Ruling
    • Upheld in part
    • 20 December 2023

    An email and two outdoor poster ads for KFC, seen in October and November 2023: a. The email

    . 1. Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Ltd t/a KFC did not believe that the ads were offensive … the tagline to KFC. They also provided a number of articles that demonstrated that “Finger … publicity garnered by KFC when it suspended the use of the slogan amid the Covid-19 pandemic. This data

  • Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Ltd t/a KFC

    • Ruling
    • Not upheld
    • 09 June 2021

    A TV ad for KFC, seen during March 2021, featured two young black men in a KFC restaurant waiting … at the counter for their food order. The voiceover stated, “Get 10 KFC Mini Fillets for £

    Chicken (Great Britain) Ltd t/a KFC said the ad was designed to promote their “Big Deal … men were the lead actors, people of various ethnicities were featured sitting in the KFC restaurant … likely to be a KFC guest or to eat the product. KFC said the two lead actors were brothers and were

  • Harm and offence: Race and ethnicity

    • AdviceOnline

    did not uphold complaints about an ad for KFC. Complainants believed that the ad, which depicted two … black men in a KFC restaurant, perpetuated negative ethnic stereotypes, specifically the perceived … likely to do so than any other ethnic group (Kentucky Fried Chicken Ltd t/a KFC, 09 June 2021

  • Top tips on targeting and placement

    • CAP News

    Ruling on Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Ltd t/a KFC, 2023 was upheld for the poster (Ad c

  • Countdown to our 50th 2005

    • ASA News

    that the record for most complained about ad ever, a record still held to this day, was set by KFC for

  • Banning ads for HFSS food appearing in children's online media

    • ASA News

    – Asda, Kellogg’s, KFC, KP Snacks, Lidl, Marks & Spencer, McDonald’s and Pringles

  • Harm and Offence: Language

    • AdviceOnline

    “what the fuck?”, and was likely to cause offence to a general audience (KFC, 04 December 2019

  • Top 10 most complained about ads from 2017

    • ASA News

    : KFC’s ad featuring a dancing chicken received 755 complaints, landing at the top of the list. KFC was