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Child swallowed coins after watching GoCompare ad featuring cash-eating monster

April 24, 2018 by eveningexpress Leave a Comment

News / UK by Press Association 25/04/2018, 12:02 am Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter A television ad for a comparison site featuring an animated cash-eating monster must no longer screen before 7.30pm after a young child copied it by swallowing coins. The GoCompare.com ad shows a woman shocked to find the small Monster Bill eating the cash from her neighbour’s purse. The neighbour explains that the monster was her home insurance bill, to which the woman exclaims: “It’s eating all your money.” A parent, who said their four-year-old child swallowed coins after watching the ad, complained that it could encourage emulation by younger children. GoCompare said that while there was a clear difference between swallowing coins and Monster Bill’s eating of fake paper money, it was concerned by the complainant’s experience and “would never wish for that to happen”. It said it would apply a restriction to prevent the ad from screening during or adjacent to programmes commissioned for, principally directed at or likely to appeal to children under 16. Ad clearance agency Clearcast said that while the eating of paper money was not to be recommended, any potential harm could not be compared to the swallowing of coins, adding that as eating paper was not especially harmful it did not see the need to impose a timing restriction on the ad. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it was concerned that the ad might encourage young children to attempt to… [Read full story]


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