Dear Car Counselor, I heard there are new rules regarding using customer testimonials in ads, but I can’t find them. Can you give me a little help?

Not new Rules, but rather new updated interpretations of old ones. At the end of last year, the Federal Trade Commission approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act. The notice incorporated several changes to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. On a side note, prior to this the Guides were last updated in 1980.