{"id":4752,"date":"2017-11-28T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2020-05-30T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T11:42:52","slug":"germany-product-placement-influencer-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/2017\/11\/germany-product-placement-influencer-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany \u2013 Product Placement and Influencer Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Influencer marketing is the trend in today\u2019s world of advertising. Even though it is obvious that influencer marketing must observe the framework of applicable statutory provisions, the <strong>market has long been uncertain about how influencer posts are to be drafted<\/strong> in order to be legally compliant. The current <strong>decision of Celle Higher Regional Court<\/strong> (June 08, 2017 \u2013 Case 13 U 53\/17) <strong>offers<\/strong> at least <strong>some clarity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The judgment was issued in relation to an action for injunction by the German Association for Social Competition (Verband Sozialer Wettbewerb) against a German drugstore chain. A 20-year-old Instagram star with 1.3 million followers had advertised the drugstore chain in one of her posts. The post was only marked as advertisement at the bottom with the hashtag \u201c#ad,\u201d which additionally only came second in a list of six hashtags.<\/p>\n<p>Celle Higher Regional Court adjudged that this type of marking was insufficient. The court requested that the <strong>commercial purpose of an Instagram post would have to be apparent at first sight<\/strong>. It did not consider use of the hashtag \u201c#ad\u201d in a \u201chashtag cloud\u201d to be sufficient to mark the post as advertising.<\/p>\n<p>The court left expressly open, <strong>however<\/strong>, whether <strong>the use of the hashtag \u201c#ad\u201d is generally suitable to mark advertising posts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The state media authorities (Landesmedienanstalten) already reacted to the judgment, however, and revised their joint guide on advertising issues in social media. It now reads: \u201cWhen marking a post as PROMOTION (Werbung) or ADVERTISING (Anzeige), you will be on the safe side \u2013 that much is certain. [&#8230;] At the current time, we cannot recommend marking posts as #ad, #sponsored by, or #powered by.\u201d In the future, <strong>Instagram itself intends to provide for more transparency on the platform by comprehensibly identifying advertising posts<\/strong>. It is currently testing the introduction of a branded content tool in Germany to make it easier for users to recognize posts as paid advertising.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Practical tip<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Advertising posts in social media should always be marked as \u201cpromotion\u201d or \u201cadvertising\u201d<\/strong> at the beginning of the posts unless their commercial purpose arises directly from the circumstances. Advertisers are also advised to obligate influencers contractually to such legally compliant marking of posts, since the influencers\u2019 behavior may be attributed to the company, as is clearly shown by the recent judgment of Celle Higher Regional Court against the drugstore chain.<\/p>\n<p><em>The author of this post is Ilja Czernik.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influencer marketing is the trend in today\u2019s world of advertising. Even though it is obvious that influencer marketing must observe the framework of applicable statutory provisions, the market has long been uncertain about how influencer posts are to be drafted in order to be legally compliant. The current decision of Celle Higher Regional Court (June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,2248,253],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contracts","category-media","category-trademark-and-patents","tag-germany"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16317,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions\/16317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalmondo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}