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Re above Vanessa post, it was taken down along with the others saying gifted and tagged. Aaand, it’s now back up! Comments still limited! Her daughter must be doing it.
 
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As a lawyer, Vanessa's daughter would be better placed than many to understand the ASA's guidelines, as they might apply to her family's social media content.

What the BBC thinks generally about its presenters directing their listeners to their own advertising platforms is yet another issue.
 
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As a lawyer, Vanessa's daughter would be better placed than many to understand the ASA's guidelines, as they might apply to her family's social media content.

What the BBC thinks generally about its presenters directing their listeners to their own advertising platforms is yet another issue.
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And yet, she puts #gifted on a few and not #AD. Wonder if those Irish purchases are #gifted as well. Gifted could be an effing Christmas or birthday present.

I looked back a few months on Jumoke’s account and she did not seem to have any adverts.
 
Re Vanessa, she now looks like she has had a lot of work done to her face, possibly even some sort of lift. She’s also lost a lot more weight. She’d be more attractive to clothes companies now too. It seems bloody obvious why she’s now on Instagram. Wonder how long she’s been getting gifted clothes?
 
Jason Rosam and Vanessa Feltz again spoke about their Instagram accounts during the show handover. Vanessa said many of her Radio 2 colleagues post videos of themselves dancing; Jason said that's probably on TikTok. Vanessa said she can't stop checking her Insta - is she gleefully counting the number of punters singing up, all eyeballs who'll see the companies she names who have #gifted her dresses?

What does the BBC think of their presenters doing this?
 
I checked Vanessa Feltz’s boyfriend’s account and found an ad she did there, labelled #AD and paid partnership. Could be him doing her new account as it’s obviously not her. Maybe she was happy to take part in his account but now realised that she ‘needs’ her own account. I bet the Daily Mail would love to cover this story. Best Magazine featured a lot on his account and is now on hers.
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I checked Vanessa Feltz’s boyfriend’s account and found an ad she did there, labelled #AD and paid partnership. Could be him doing her new account as it’s obviously not her. Maybe she was happy to take part in his account but now realised that she ‘needs’ her own account. I bet the Daily Mail would love to cover this story. Best Magazine featured a lot on his account and is now on hers.
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Handover with Eddie Nestor and she again talked about her Instagram. He said it was kinder than a Twitter and was a good place to learn to cook.
 
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Mustard said:
I checked Vanessa Feltz’s boyfriend’s account and found an ad she did there, labelled #AD and paid partnership. Could be him doing her new account as it’s obviously not her. Maybe she was happy to take part in his account but now realised that she ‘needs’ her own account. I bet the Daily Mail would love to cover this story. Best Magazine featured a lot on his account and is now on hers.View attachment 965891


Handover with Eddie Nestor and she again talked about her Instagram. He said it was kinder than a Twitter and was a good place to learn to cook.
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Yes, I hadn't thought it might be Ben running her socials. How weird he is advertising a medical monitor! At least he has put Ad, however the ASA say such disclosures should be at the start of a post / in the title of a YT video, so as to been seen before anyone clicks to view the full thing.

Even if Vanessa does learn to mark her ads correctly to satisfy the ASA, there is still the issue of whether she should be using the BBC to direct eyeballs to her ads, which are, in effect, online billboards.

As an example, if Vanessa Feltz or Jo Good were advertising a certain item in a full page magazine ad, would the BBC allow them to say, "have a look at me on page 25 of Wow magazine..." I am sure this would be forbidden.

They get away with it as they imply that they are sending listeners to the socials merely to look at their dog, or their busy life, their old mum, or a pretty sunset they snapped, but neglect to point out that advertising appears there too.
 
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VeeJayBee said:
Yes, I hadn't thought it might be Ben running her socials. How weird he is advertising a medical monitor! At least he has put Ad, however the ASA say such disclosures should be at the start of a post / in the title of a YT video, so as to been seen before anyone clicks to view the full thing.

Even if Vanessa does learn to mark her ads correctly to satisfy the ASA, there is still the issue of whether she should be using the BBC to direct eyeballs to her ads, which are, in effect, online billboards.

As an example, if Vanessa Feltz or Jo Good were advertising a certain item in a full page magazine ad, would the BBC allow them to say, "have a look at me on page 25 of Wow magazine..." I am sure this would be forbidden.

They get away with it as they imply that they are sending listeners to the socials merely to look at their dog, or their busy life, their old mum, or a pretty sunset they snapped, but neglect to point out that advertising appears there too.
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It was Vanessa advertising it! Go and watch it. She was using her experience as radio presenter during the pandemic to flog it. Obviously needed his account to flog it. This kind of thing is probably what convinced her to open her own account. Was only a few months after this advert. I do now think her daughter is running her account, mostly at least. What she posted today was cringing. Grandson and Ben play fighting in the kitchen. Looked like an obvious beg for more merch.
 
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She always seemed keen for publicity as she was frequently pictured at movie premieres etc. This is another level.
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I think good ol' V Feltz gives good value to the productions who give her press tickets, she shows up all dressed up, gives a soundbite, poses happily, mugs for the paps etc, all of which is the deal. Contrast this with Jo Good, who no-one wants to photograph and leaves in the interval.

I wouldn't care if VF, JG, or anyone else, wants to advertise a packet of tissues or a superyacht, as long as they are honest and transparent in compliantly indicating they are receiving fees, commissions, freebies, "gifts" etc.

However once a BBC presenter chooses to run their personal SM in a commercial way they should not be using the Beeb to push it. If they truly want to share a photo that might be of interest to listeners they should do it via the show's - or the station's - social media account, they all have them, usually Twitter. But we all know it's not the cute pics they want listeners to find, it's their ads on Insta or YouTube.

The radio presenters seem to get away with it as they would be less monitored, it's hard to imagine someone on the One Show, for example, sneaking in a line telling viewers to "if you watch my YouTube channel, it's @middleagedminx. or @vanessafeltzofficial...".
 
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I didn’t listen to VF this morning as I couldn’t bear to her getting excited about her IG account again.
 
I looked on Nicki Chapman’s insta account today, as she’s been on R2 a lot sitting in for Zoe and she’s been posting and tagging lots of coats and other clothes and tagging them. She seems to be claiming that the coats are all hers. It’s for a 25 days
of coatmas. She’s got almost 50k followers. @Nickichappers
 
Latest Vanessa dress is awful in my opinion. Doesn’t suit her. There are three pictures of it and only one is tagged. No advert or told if purchased by her.
 
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Latest Vanessa dress is awful in my opinion. Doesn’t suit her. There are three pictures of it and only one is tagged. No advert or told if purchased by her.
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Someone needs to straight-up ask her: "Hey V, great dress! Did you buy it yourself or was it gifted? Not sure if this is an ad."
 
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Someone needs to straight-up ask her: "Hey V, great dress! Did you buy it yourself or was it gifted? Not sure if this is an ad."
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Bet it’s an advert. I posted about it in the Father of Daughters thread as that company had gifted his wife one of their dresses when she was riding high as Mother of Daughters who then deleted her account after a racism row.

Do you have a burner account to leave a comment?
 
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