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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.

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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.

Google Ad Grants Partnership with Samaritans

/ January 9th 2020

Samaritans was founded in 1953 and has a mission to reduce the number of people who die by suicide and, as part of this vital aim, they run a free 24/7 emotional support helpline which people in need can ring when they need advice or someone to talk to. Conversations happen on the phone, by email and face-to-face in 201 branches in the UK and Ireland and the service is supported by 20,000 volunteers.

As the charity has grown, they have worked to become more digital to increase awareness of the helpline (which is already being used once every 6 seconds), to increase donations, and grow the number of new volunteers. To help with these goals, Samaritans partnered with Google to measure the impact of their Ad Grants campaign by way of conversion tracking with Google Analytics to help Samaritans plan digital spend for their biggest marketing campaigns. Google awards not-for-profit organisations with free Search ads, as part of its Google Ad Grants programme, to help to connect them with people in need of support as well as the wider community.