Beauty Brand Busted for Employee Product Reviews
Can employees post product reviews? As online marketing attorneys, we hear the question a lot — bu [...]
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Online Marketing Law: Degeneres and Bullock Sue A Slew of Affiliate Marketers
Thousands of websites purposefully designed to resemble legitimate news outlets use fake celebrity e [...]
Would The FTC Consider Your App a Stalking App? A Cautionary App Development Tale
Last year, a hacker sent a journalist a tip: Someone uncovered an exploit in a “stalking app” an [...]
FTC Slams Match Group over Supposedly Shady Tactics
The FTC sued online dating behemoth The Match Group for allegedly ignoring fraudulent bots that sedu [...]
TINA Goes After Ryan’s Toy Review. Don’t Let it Happen to You!
The Federal Trade Commission may ground popular kidfluencer Ryan Kaji. TINA, a consumer activist gro [...]
Four Legal Considerations before Partnering with an Influencer
Over 80% of brands use social media influencers to promote products. But leagues of those companies [...]
Fyre Festival Influencers Land Themselves a Lawsuit
In Fyre’s calamitous wake, trustees are clawing back money that Billy McFarland and crew sunk into [...]
The FTC let Zuck Off the Hook
Facebook’s legal tango with the FTC has come to an end, for now. After the 16-month investigat [...]
The Legal Consequences of Trafficking in Fake Likes and Follows
It’s a jungle out there. With marketing saturation at peak capacity, gaining exposure — whether [...]