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A sieve that does hold a little water – gambling advertising and protection of the vulnerable in the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

Julia Hörnle  and
Malgorzata A Carran
Julia Hörnle*
Affiliation:
Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Malgorzata A Carran
Affiliation:
City Law School, City University of London, London, UK
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The internet, social media and online profiling have fundamentally changed advertising, and the regulation of gambling advertising has not yet managed to address the challenges and opportunities arising from this technological shift. Furthermore, the regulation of gambling does not take into account sufficiently the needs of children and vulnerable persons. We review the empirical research on the impact of gambling advertising and show how regulatory standards firmly adhere to the transmission theory of communication that prioritises the communicative intent of the advertiser over how the advertising message is received by or impacts on vulnerable people. This article reviews the law on gambling advertising and argues that for gambling, the restrictions imposed by the largely co-regulatory system only have limited effect. We compare the regulation of gambling advertising, by way of analogy, to a sieve that holds only a little water, and make recommendations for legal reform.

Keywords

advertisinggamblingmedia regulationinternet regulationprotection of children and vulnerable personsAdvertising Codesco-regulation
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Research Article
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Legal Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 529 - 548
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Copyright © The Society of Legal Scholars 2018 

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40 In the sense that the ASA/CAP system of self-regulation is seen as the primary enforcement mechanism, supplemented by legal regulation and referrals.

41 Acknowledged in the Enterprise Act 2002, Explanatory Notes, para 526.

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48 GA 2005, s 330.

49 Discussed below.

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51 GA 2005, s 327.

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59 CAP Code, Intro I (h).

60 GA 2005, s 45.

61 Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, Recital 11.

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66 GA 2005, s 46(3).

67 GA 2005, s 330(6).

68 See below n 114.

69 Only a criminal case before the courts could bring clarity as to the mens rea and defences contained in the Act. The wording of Rule 16.3.13 and that of s 46 are different.

70 See below.

71 GA 2005, s 46(5)(b).

72 Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 12.

73 Industry Code, above n 35, para 39.

74 Industry Code, above n 35, para 41.

75 Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 12.

76 See, for example, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/advertising/gambling-bill-threatened-by-concerns-over-surge-in-prewatershed-adverts-seen-by-children-9162398.html.

77 See also DCMS ‘Call for evidence review of gaming machines and social responsibility measures’ Question 7 (24 October 2016) and ‘Gambling adverts face ban from daytime TV’ (The Times, 7 October 2016) pp 1, 4.

78 In force 2014.

79 Amendment 3 moved by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch Hansard HL Deb, vol 752, 4 March 2014.

80 Industry Code, above n 35.

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82 Industry Code, above n 35, para 31.

83 Industry Code, above n 35, para 33.

84 Industry Code, above n 35, para 34.

85 Industry Code, above n 35, para 33.

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87 See CAP ‘Placement of advertising in video-on-demand services: advertising guidance’, available at https://www.asa.org.uk/asset/C3BC565D-C4C9-457C-A59C14B88300ADC2/.

88 Discussion with ASA and the authors in May 2014.

89 Excluding lottery and scratch cards but including actual gambling broadcast on night-time TV.

90 Ofcom ‘Trends in advertising activity – gambling’ (November 2013) p 13.

91 Ibid.

92 Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 13.

93 BCAP Code, rules 32.2.2, 32.2.3 and 32.4.1–32.4.5.

94 BCAP ‘Guidance on the rules for gambling advertisements’ (January 2016), available at https://www.asa.org.uk/resource/gambling.html.

95 Ibid, paras 1.5, 1.6.

96 For new or one-off programmes, ibid, paras 14.1 and 14.2.

97 Ibid, paras 1.7, 4.2.

98 Ibid, para 4.3.

99 The equation is: percentage of the relevant age category watching the programme/percentage of the total population watching the programme x 100, see ibid.

100 Ibid, para 2.3.

101 Ibid, para 6.1: this is a small exception saving specialist, small channels the expense and burden of audience indexing.

102 See, for example, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/31/gambling-industry-third-party-companies-online-casinos.

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104 CAP Code, 16.3.13, 17.14 (under 16 for lotteries; football pools, equal chance gaming, prize gaming or Category D gaming machines).

105 Available at https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6018017?hl=en#apply.

106 Ibid.

107 Ibid.

108 ‘Gambling adverts face ban from daytime TV’ (The Times, 7 October 2016) pp 1, 4.

109 Above n 103.

110 ASA ruling, 5 March 2014, available at http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2014/3/FremantleMedia-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_250656.aspx.

111 ASA compliance survey ‘Children and advertising on social media websites’ (July 2013) at 9, available at https://www.asa.org.uk/resource/Children-and-advertising-on-social-media-reports-and-surveys.html.

112 Facebook, Stardoll, Twitter, Spotify and YouTube.

113 ASA compliance survey, above n 111. In this small scale study 42% of children (10 out of 24) registered as 18 or over and consequently received advertising for age-inappropriate products, including gambling (17 gambling ads); 83% of children had registered a false age (20 out of 24).

114 ASA ruling, 23 September 2015, available at https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2015/9/Apollo-Entertainment-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_307308.aspx#.Vm2tmEMrGUk.

115 Children should be protected even when they pose as adults; self-certification should never be recognised as age verification.

116 Ipsos ‘The prevalence of underage gambling’ (November 2015) at 13: 11% played free practice games in 2015, 9% (of those who have played an online gambling style game) played demo games on gambling websites (78 minors in the past seven days).

117 CAP News ‘Particularly appealing guidance for gambling operators, not children’ (27 October 2017), available at https://www.asa.org.uk/news/particularly-appealing-guidance-for-gambling-operators-not-children.html.

118 ASA ruling, 2 March 2016, available at https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2016/3/FanBet/SHP_ADJ_329591.aspx#.VzBtK0aYGDM.

119 J Parke and J Rigbye ‘Self-exclusion as a gambling harm minimisation measure in Great Britain’, Report for the Responsible Gambling Trust, July 2014, p 17.

120 In a 2014 qualitative, indicative and small-scale survey of treatment providers, treatment providers mentioned marketing and advertising as a problem for self-excluded gamblers: Table 2 in Parke and Rigbye, above n 119.

121 The Gambling Commission has fined a gambling operator, 888, a record fine of £7.8 million after it failed to protect vulnerable consumers, including letting self-excluded customers play. This reflects the importance of self-exclusion in the eye of the regulator, see above n 102.

122 Binde, above n 15, at 17; Binde, P ‘Exploring the impact of gambling advertising: an interview study of problem gamblers’ (2009) 7(4) International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction 541 at 545–547CrossRefGoogle Scholar (qualitative study based on interview with 25 past or current problem gamblers in Sweden; just over 70% reported marginal or significant impact of gambling advertising, the self-reported negative impact was triggering impulses to gamble); and G Valentine and K Hughes ‘New forms of participation: problem internet gambling and the role of the family’ (Leeds: University of Leeds, 2010) (based on interviews with 26 self-identified problem internet gamblers, providing data as to why people gamble or continue to gamble); Derevensky, J et al. ‘An empirical study examining the impact of gambling ads on adolescent gambling attitudes and behaviors’ (2010) 8(1) International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction 21CrossRefGoogle Scholar (review of literature and marketing strategies); Planzer and Wardle, above n 12, 55–61.

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124 LCCP SRP 3.5.3; Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 43.

125 LCCP SRC 3.5.3(3) (remote) and SRC 3.5.1(3) (non-remote).

126 LCCP SRC 3.5.3(6)(a) (remote).

127 LCCP OCP 3.5.4(5)(g) (remote) and OCP 3.2.2(7)(f) (non-remote).

128 See above n 102.

129 Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 41(d).

130 Monaghan, Dervensky and Sklar, above n 19, at 258–259.

131 Above n 108.

132 The statutory basis for this is the Communications Act 2003, Sch 11A, para 6(2)(f) as amended.

133 Ofcom Broadcasting Code, Section 9 ‘Commercial references in TV programming’.

134 Ibid, 9.13(c).

135 Ibid, 9.15–9.25.

136 See above, nn 33 and 34.

137 11 May 2011–16 April 2016 (search performed 4 May 2016).

138 ASA rulings are available at https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications.aspx?SortBy=Decision&SearchTerms=gambling&Type=1#adj.

139 CAP Code, 16.3.1 and 17.1; BCAP Code, 17.3.1 and 18.2.1.

140 CAP Code, 16.3.3 and 17.2; BCAP Code, 17.3.2 and 18.2.2; Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 41(e).

141 CAP Code, 16.3.4 and 17.3; BCAP Code, 17.3.3 and 18.2.3; Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 41(f).

142 CAP Code 16.3.5 and 17.4; BCAP Code, 17.3.4 and 18.2.4.

143 CAP Code, 16.3.6 and 17.6; BCAP Code, 17.3.6 and 18.2.6; Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 41(d).

144 CAP Code, 16.3.11 and 17.10; BCAP Code, 17.3.10 and 18.2.10.

145 CAP Code, 16.3.16 and 17.18; BCAP Code, 17.4.2 and 18.9.

146 CAP Code, 16.3.17 and 17.19; BCAP Code, 17.4.3 and 18.10.

147 ASA ruling, 5 June 2013, available at http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2013/6/Betway-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_224966.aspx.

148 ASA ruling, 18 November 2009.

149 ASA ruling, 19 December 2012, available at http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2012/12/The-Health-Lottery-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_205595.aspx.

150 ASA ruling, 2 March 2016, above n 118.

151 CAP Code, 16.1 and Section 17 Principles; BCAP Code, Section 17 Principles and Section 18 Principles.

152 CAP Code, 16.3.2 and 17.12; BCAP Code, 17.4.4 and 18.4; Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 14(a).

153 CAP Code, 16.3.12 and 17.13; BCAP Code, 17.4.5 and 18.5; Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 14(c).

154 CAP Code, 16.3.14 (with the exception of young (sports-) person promoting a bet on a website or another place where the bet can actually be placed) and 17.15; BCAP Code, 17.4.6 and 18.6. The LCCP also make clear that this does not apply to point of sale advertising if the advertising depicts the sporting activity itself: see LCCP OCP 5.1.6(3); see Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 14(b).

155 CAP Code, 16.3.10 and 17.9; BCAP Code, 17.3.9 and 18.2.9; Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 14(d).

156 ASA ruling, 16 September 2009.

157 ASA ruling, 28 October 2015, available at https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/petfre-gibraltar-ltd-a15-308914.html.

158 ASA ruling, 11 November 2015, available at https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2015/11/Ladbrokes-Betting-and-Gaming-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_313550.aspx#.VzB1I0aYGDM.

159 ASA ruling, 4 January 2012; LCCP OCP 5.1.6(3).

160 ASA ruling, 7 November 2012, available at http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2012/11/Trinity-Mirror-Plc/SHP_ADJ_207001.aspx.

161 ASA ruling, 8 January 2014, available at https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/metro-play-ltd-a13-246212.html.

162 ASA ruling, 10 July 2013, available at http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2013/7/Cassava-Enterprises-Gibraltar-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_227765.aspx.

163 ASA ruling, 9 December 2015, available at https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2015/12/Geo24-UK-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_311328.aspx#.VzBzHUaYGDM. See also CAP/BCAP Help Note, above n 62, at 5.

164 ASA ruling, 2 March 2016, available at https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2016/3/FanBet/SHP_ADJ_329591.aspx#.VzBtK0aYGDM.

165 ASA ruling, 31 October 2011, available at http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2012/10/Profitable-Play-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_205246.aspx.

166 CAP Code, 16.3.7 and 17.5; BCAP Code, 17.3.5 and 18.2.5; Recommendation 2014/478/EU, above n 36, para 41(c).

167 CAP Code, 16.3.8 and 17.7; BCAP Code, 17.3.7 and 18.2.7.

168 CAP Code, 16.3.9 and 17.8; BCAP Code, 17.3.8 and 18.2.8.

169 CAP Code, 16.3.16 and 17.17; BCAP Code 17.4.1 and 18.8.

170 ASA ruling, 30 May 2012, available at http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2012/5/Netplay-TV-Group-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_190783.aspx.

171 ASA ruling, 13 April 2016.

172 ASA ruling, 11 March 2015.

173 CAP/BCAP Help Note, above n 62, at 8.

174 J Kelly ‘Responsible gambling messaging’ (London: Harm Minimisation in Gambling: Progress and Prospects, December 2015).