The Advertising Association promotes the role and rights of responsible advertising and its value to people, society, businesses and the economy. We represent UK advertisers, agencies, media owners and tech companies on behalf of the entire industry, acting as the connection between industry professionals and the politicians and policy-makers.

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The Advertising Association focuses on major industry and policy areas that have huge ramifications on UK advertising. This section contains our work around public health, gambling advertising, data and e-privacy, trust, the digital economy and more.

Credos is the advertising industry’s independent think tank. It produces research, evidence and reports into the impact and effectiveness of and public and political response to advertising on behalf of UK advertisers in order to enable the industry to make informed decisions.

Front Foot is our industry’s member network of over 90 businesses across UK advertising. It aims to promote the role of responsible advertising and its value to people, society and the economy through a coalition of senior leaders from advertisers, agencies and media owners.

We run a number of events throughout the year, from our annual LEAD summit to the Media Business Course and regular breakfast briefings for our members. We are also the official UK representative for the world’s biggest festival of creativity – Cannes Lions.

Journalism Matters

/ March 2nd 2020

The NMA’s Journalism Matters campaign highlights the vital role trusted news media journalism plays in our democratic society. By campaigning on behalf of their readers, independent news media can make a real difference to people’s lives and bring about change for the better.

The campaign runs for a week every year, featuring the ‘Making a Difference’ Award where the public vote for their favourite newspaper campaign.

The 2020 campaign saw the industry issue a unified message to Government about the vital role journalism plays in our society, and the increased importance of this during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Queen sent a message of support to NMA members: “The Covid-19 pandemic has once again demonstrated what an important public service the established news media provides, both nationally and regionally. As our world has changed dramatically, having trusted, reliable sources of information, particularly at a time when there are so many sources competing for our attention, is vital.”

Among others, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, Minister of State for Media and Data John Whittingdale, and Shadow Culture Secretary Jo Stevens also pledged their support.