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.

ADVERTISING MATTERS 02.07.21

/ July 2nd 2021 /
Industry News

JOIN US AT UK HOUSE NEXT WEEK

Join us next week when we open the doors of UK House at Cannes Lions on July 8 & 9 for a very special two days of creative inspiration.

It is FREE to attend and is your chance to meet and hear from amazing speakers from companies including Cannes Lions winners Aardman Studios, adam&eveDDB and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

UK House will then go on a country-by-country tour – meeting up with some of the world’s biggest markets for creative services – from China to USA to India. It builds on the UK’s success at Cannes Lions and is part of the UK Advertising Export Group‘s ‘UK Advertising, Made Global’ campaign and most importantly the UK Government’s GREAT campaign. UK House will provide more British businesses than ever with the chance to promote their services on the world stage.

DCMS Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage said: “I’m delighted to once again see the great success of the UK’s creative industries recognised at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Our brilliant advertising industry is something to be proud of and will continue to make important contributions to our economy as we build back better from the pandemic.”

Check out the full line-up of speakers and book your free seat here. You can also read more in Campaign Magazine here and on our website here.

TAKE YOUR BUSINESS GLOBAL

The UK Advertising Exports Group (UKAEG) wants to encourage businesses from right across the UK to go global.

The Going Global Masterclass is a free online session at UK House, Friday 9th July at 11am. Our expert panellists will be in conversation with Gideon Spanier, UK Editor in Chief, Campaign to discuss their experiences of working globally, the challenges and opportunities and why we work together to drive the success of our vibrant and exciting sector.

If you are a global business or considering expanding internationally, we would love you to join us next Friday at UK House. Save your seat here.

YOUNG LIONS LIVE AWARD

At Cannes Lions last week the June edition of its Young Lions Live Award was launched. As the official UK representative, we are calling all UK creatives aged 18-30 – if you want to test your creative skills against your peers, answer a world changing brief and get your work judged by the best of the best in the industry, then the Young Lions Live Award is for you. It is open to students and working professionals. Read more, find the briefing pack and start your entry here.

You can also view all the winning work from this year’s Young Lions competition here – huge congratulations to all involved!

#CHANGETHEBRIEF

On July 13 the Purpose Disruptors will be launching the #ChangingTheBrief Alliance – a partnership between agencies of every size and type – media, creative, design, PR – and their clients and media owners, learning and acting together to directly address the challenge of the climate crisis by promoting sustainable lifestyles via every channel available to them.

Our very own Chief Executive, Stephen Woodford, will be speaking at the event alongside UNEP, Purpose Disruptors and founding members. Together they will share how the Alliance can help to achieve the ambitions of Ad Net Zero Action 5 and how you can join too and commit to embedding sustainability thinking in the output you create.

Read more and register here.

THIS WEEK: UK ADVERTISING IN THE MEDIA

In our weekly series we are pulling together, in one place, a selection of must-reads from across our industry media.

Click here to check it out!

AD OF THE WEEK

You’ve made it this far – why not treat yourself and watch our ad of the week?

Want the full edition to land in your inbox every Friday? Drop us an email on aa@adassoc.org.uk and quote ‘Ad Matters’.