{"id":6672,"date":"2014-04-30T08:38:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T07:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2014-04-30T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T07:38:36","slug":"virgin-media-uk-direct-mailing-advert-banned-sky-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/04\/virgin-media-uk-direct-mailing-advert-banned-sky-complaint.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media UK Direct Mailing Advert Banned by ASA After Sky Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of complaints by Sky (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a>) has caused the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/asa\" target=\"_blank\">Advertising Standards Authority<\/a> to ban a direct mailing promotion for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s broadband, TV and phone bundles, which omitted material information regarding the differences between the two services and failed to make adequately clear the basis of a \u00a3214.95 savings claim.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The complaint isn&#8217;t specifically broadband focused and so we won&#8217;t spend too much time discussing it, although suffice to say that the ASA didn&#8217;t buy into the mailings &#8220;<em>truthful comparison<\/em>&#8221; table that appeared to compare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s TiVo service bundles with Sky+HD.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asa.org.uk\/Rulings\/Adjudications\/2014\/4\/Virgin-Media-Ltd\/SHP_ADJ_254931.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">ASA Ruling (REF: A14-254931)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We understood that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> intended the comparison with Sky to be a general one rather than a comparison between a specific Virgin TV package and an equivalent product offered by Sky, and that they wished to promote an offer independent of that comparison.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We considered, however, that the inclusion of comparisons throughout the mailing, including specific comparisons between the services offered by both, such as the fact both offered Sky Sports and Sky Movies channels, and that a consumer could record, pause and rewind live TV with both providers, meant that some consumers would instead understand that the savings claim was based on a comparison with the cost of a similar package from Sky. 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