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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.

All Together

/ March 16th 2021

Team Nation – the first-ever alliance between rival news industry publishers and OmniGOV – was born to help the government amplify critical coronavirus messaging to the nation.

This saw the launch of the largest news brand content partnership the UK has ever seen. More than 600 national and local newspapers wrapped their papers, some for the first time, and took over their websites with the unified message: “Stay at home for the NHS, your family, your neighbours, your nation, the world and life itself.”

Team Nation runs the ‘All Together’ campaign with the pace, agility and rigour of a newsroom delivering vital information to readers in a compassionate tone they can relate to. Through continuous phases of branded content, the campaign deepens public awareness and is highly effective in reaching high risk audiences.

Initially launched as a three-month partnership, the campaign is now entering its eleventh month having published 35,000 pages of hope, inspiration and advice, while delivering the results that matter.  

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