{"id":5620,"date":"2017-05-24T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2017-05-24T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:06:04","slug":"asci-wins-gold-at-global-easa-best-practice-awards-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=5620","title":{"rendered":"ASCI wins Gold at Global EASA Best Practice Awards 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) Global Best Practice Gold Award was presented to The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) at the EASA&#8217;s bi Annual meeting in Athens for the \u201cASCIonline\u201dMobile App.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EASA-Representative-and-Ms.-Shweta-Purandare-on-receiving-the-Gold-Award....jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5621\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5621 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EASA-Representative-and-Ms.-Shweta-Purandare-on-receiving-the-Gold-Award....jpg\" alt=\"EASA Representative and Ms. Shweta Purandare on receiving the Gold Award...\" width=\"452\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EASA-Representative-and-Ms.-Shweta-Purandare-on-receiving-the-Gold-Award....jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EASA-Representative-and-Ms.-Shweta-Purandare-on-receiving-the-Gold-Award...-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a>ASCI Secretary, Ms. Shweta Purandare representing ASCI at EASA\u2019s Best Practice Awards 2016 during their Biannual Meetings in Athens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Mumbai \/ Chennai, May 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017:<\/strong>The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has bagged the Gold Award for their Mobile App \u201cASCIonline\u201d to receive consumer complaints against false advertisement at the Global EASA Best Practice Awards 2016 held in Athens on 8<sup>th<\/sup>May 2017.The Indian self-regulatory body was awarded the prestigious prize forlaunching the best initiative globally providing \u201cPrompt and efficient complaint handling at no cost to the consumer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ms.-Shweta-Purandare-GS-ASCI-at-Global-EASA-Best-Practice-Awards-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5622\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5622 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ms.-Shweta-Purandare-GS-ASCI-at-Global-EASA-Best-Practice-Awards-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Ms. Shweta Purandare, GS, ASCI at Global EASA Best Practice Awards 2016\" width=\"452\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ms.-Shweta-Purandare-GS-ASCI-at-Global-EASA-Best-Practice-Awards-2016.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ms.-Shweta-Purandare-GS-ASCI-at-Global-EASA-Best-Practice-Awards-2016-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a>In June 2015 ASCI launched its Consumer Complaint Mobile App \u2013 ASCIonline to provide easy and convenient access for lodging complaints, increasing ASCI\u2019s reach across India. With a catchy slogan &#8216;SnapItandAppIt&#8217;, the App lets consumers\u2019 flag complaints against offensive\/misleading\/vulgar advertisements. For every complaint, they get real-time auto updates within the App every time the status of the complaint is changed as per progress of the complaint. Keeping the design and interface uncomplicated, clean and user-friendly, ASCI has ensured to rightly \u201cM(obile)\u2013Power\u201d consumers providing the utility to voice against misleading advertisements at their fingertips! This FREE App is available on android and iOS platforms, continues to contribute upto 10% in the total number of complaints received even today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Srinivasan K. Swamy, Chairman, ASCI<\/strong>, elated with this achievement said, \u201c<em>We are delighted to receive this esteemed honour from EASA for recognizing our efforts towards strengthening ASCI\u2019s role in self-regulation in the country. Continuing with the mission to protect consumers\u2019 interest, ASCI embraced technology to connect with the consumers and curb misleading advertisements. This path breaking initiative has spurred expand ASCI\u2019s reach significantly across many smaller cities and towns. The App was also referred to by Government Departments in India and appreciated for the pro-activeness of ASCI.After three successive wins in the past, acquiring another Gold has further provided cognisance for the SRO on an International platform as well.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the global recognitions, ASCI is now a part of the Executive Committee of International Council on Advertising Self-Regulation(ICAS), which unites global Self-Regulatory Organisations (SROs) and international Industry Associations to form a powerful body that will facilitate the establishment of new SROs in emerging markets, help empower them and provide a platform to discuss and work on solutions regarding the global challenges faced for self-regulation in advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) Global Best Practice Gold Award was presented to The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) at the EASA&#8217;s bi Annual meeting in Athens for the \u201cASCIonline\u201dMobile App. ASCI Secretary, Ms. Shweta Purandare representing ASCI at EASA\u2019s Best Practice Awards 2016 during their Biannual Meetings in Athens. \u00a0Mumbai \/ Chennai, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-hopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}