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.

Journeys

/ June 11th 2020

Journeys is Kinetic’s behavioural planning platform, which fuses multiple behavioural and attitudinal data sources with Route data to develop a detailed picture of audience activity.

Kinetic have been using Journeys to understand how audience movements outside of the home have changed since the government’s Covid-19 restrictions were introduced.

This week their report looks at UK footfall across the summer of 2020, as shopping areas being re opening in the next phase of government restriction easing. It looks at the behaviours of those coming out of their homes and what opportunities this brings. Read it here.