FTC Updates Its FAQs For Endorsement Guides

The Federal Trade Commission has just updated its version of Frequently Asked Questions, or FAQs, that relate to the " Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising" that went into effect December 1, 2009. You can find the updated FTC website page right here "What People Are Asking."

If you are a loyal Legal Bytes' reader, you know we have been following this since as early as November 2008, when we posted Endorsements & Testimonials – FTC Broom Proposes Some Sweeping Changes, and numerous updates and informational pieces have graced these pages since then (now when we say "pages," we mean web pages). You can refer back to any or all of them, or you can check out any you may have missed right here: FTC Testimonial and Endorsement Guides Stimulate Industry Comment (March 2009); a presentation given at the University of Limerick on the subject entitled " Trust Me, I'm a Satisfied Customer: Testimonials & Endorsements in the United