Ad Watchdog Condemns National Lottery's Slight At Bingo Industry

9 Jul, 2008 / GamblingCompliance Ltd. / Dan Townend

TV watchdogs have banned an advert for the UK National Lottery after ruling it unfairly insulted Britain's bingo industry. Lottery bosses Camelot were found guilty of "denigration" after it portrayed the rival game as a dying pastime in a bid to promote its own bingo-based scratchcard game.