Identity & Authority: Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) | Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) | Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP)

(https://www.asa.org.uk) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 21, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
11 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
73% Reputation

The primary authority gap is technical rather than semantic. The schema_json is null across all pages, which represents a technical credibility gap for an organization claiming to monitor modern advertising. While authorities like Tim Duffy and Jenny Biggam are named, they lack accompanying Person schema or sameAs links to verify their digital footprint within the structured data.

There is no disconnect because the site does not make performance claims in a marketing sense; it reports historical actions. Every claim about an ad being ‘Upheld’ or ‘Upheld in Part’ is supported by a detailed case summary. The marketing tone is replaced by a formal regulatory tone, which demonstrates high credibility.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage — no schema detected (entity gap)
/codes-and-rulings/rulings.html — no schema detected (entity gap)
/advice-and-resources/news.html — no schema detected (entity gap)
/advice-and-resources/training-and-events.html — no schema detected (entity gap)
/newsletter.html — no schema detected (entity gap)
/issues-and-topics.html — no schema detected (entity gap)
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
31Review mentions (all pages)
6External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 7 1
/codes-and-rulings/rulings.html 4 1
/advice-and-resources/news.html 8 1
/advice-and-resources/training-and-events.html 4 1
/newsletter.html 4 1
/issues-and-topics.html 4 1
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