Nationwide TV ads starring Dominic West banned as misleading
03-04-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com

Nationwide TV ads starring Dominic West banned as misleading

ASA says sneering bank manager character wrongly suggests building society has not closed any branchesAdverts featuring the actor Dominic West as a sneering bank manager will be pulled from TV in their current form after the advertising watchdog ruled they were misleading because they wrongly suggest that the building society had not closed branches.The Advertising Standards Authority (Asa) received 281 complaints, including one from rival lender Santander, about the advert, which ran in October
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