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        Category: Endorsement
        by Robert Laplaca on June 29, 2021

        “NIL” is short for “Name, Image, Likeness,” but for college athletes it may now mean “no income limits.” All three branches of government...

        by Robert Laplaca on November 8, 2018

        On November 2, 2018, the New York Attorney General came crashing down on a number of moving services that paid for at least 60 fake positive online...

        by Robert Laplaca on June 21, 2018

        Meet Lil' Miquela. She has 1.2 million Instagram followers: She's modeled such famous brands as Diesel, Versace, Fendi and Chanel. In March, she...

        by Robert Laplaca on May 22, 2018

        "Beer: The cause and solution to all of life's problems." Mr. Homer J. Simpson would love the recent case of a Massachusetts craft beer company...

        by Robert Laplaca on January 2, 2018

        The FTC put out its consumer protection year in review providing a comprehensive list of significant consumer protection developments in 2017. Let us...

        by Robert Laplaca on December 28, 2017

        "It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition,...

        by Robert Laplaca on December 20, 2017

        It's story time here at youwmightbeawinner. Young Aaron from Portland, Maine writes, "Mr. Blogger, what do you have to say about the tale of the...

        by Robert Laplaca on June 22, 2017

        You may or may not have heard of some recent developments in the promotion world. If you haven't, great, let me be the first to tell you. If you...

        by Robert Laplaca on June 7, 2017

        Our teachers have told us that there's no such thing as a bad question. In that light, I've come up with 11 common (simple) questions about...

        by Robert Laplaca on March 17, 2017

        Kayla Kraft (no known relation to the cheese people) found herself on a Natural Light coaster with a fake handlebar mustache drinking a beer under...

        by Robert Laplaca on January 24, 2017

        To use or not to use a popular marketing tool? That is the question. Shakespeare, himself, opted for a popular marketing tool when he cast the famous...

        by Robert Laplaca on January 9, 2017

        On December 14, 2016, the Consumer Review Fairness Act of 2016 was passed to try to put an end to companies taking down nasty reviews about their...

        by Robert Laplaca on October 6, 2016

        When shopping online, we all want to know what lawnmower/backscratcher/egg timer is the best. Once we've found an array of options, many of us go...

        by Robert Laplaca on September 23, 2016

        On Tuesday (September 20, 2016), the FTC and Nutraclick entered into a consent order concerning Nutraclick's online offer for "free" samples of...

        by Robert Laplaca on September 13, 2016

        Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal dismissed a lawsuit against Yelp! by a disgruntled business that received a one-star rating from a...

        by Robert Laplaca on August 23, 2016

        Unless you've Rip Van Winkled for the past month, lost your television/iPhone/iPad, or simply given up on international competitive athletics to...

        by Robert Laplaca on August 19, 2016

        Recently and without fanfare, Pinterest revised its Promotion Guidelines in a few significant ways. The old Guidelines said you cannot "run a...

        by Robert Laplaca on March 16, 2016

        This week the FTC settled charges against Lord & Taylor from alleged deceptive native advertising during its March 2015 Design Lab social media...

        by Robert Laplaca on February 10, 2016

        We all know Peyton Manning – he's a professional pitcher: for Papa Johns, DirecTV, Buick, and Gatorade, among others. He's also a professional...

        by Robert Laplaca on January 6, 2016

        Yesterday, the FTC settled a deceptive advertising lawsuit against the creators and marketers of the Lumosity "brain training" program. For those of...

        by Robert Laplaca on March 2, 2015

        1. Practically every type of promotional activity is regulated in some way: Sweepstakes and contests User generated content on websites...

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