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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.

Ocean Rescue #PassThePlastic

/ January 9th 2020

Sky set out the goal of helping to reduce the amount of plastics that pollute oceans by drawing attention to the impact that plastic pollution can have. Sky itself announced that by 2020 it would remove all single use plastics from its supply lines and operations.

The campaign featured an exclusive 45-minute TV documentary, as well as promotions at events, celebrity endorsements, and the hashtag #PassOnPlastic was used to spread the message over social media. Sky and Ocean Rescue also partnered with different sports entities to spread their message.

In 2017, Sky partnered with the Kia Oval cricket stadium to distribute 20,000 limited-edition re-usable plastic bottles while England played South Africa and Sky also teamed up with the Premier League to encourage football clubs to stop using plastics by 2020. Sky also announced that they would invest £25 million to the Ocean Rescue Innovation Fund, developed to find innovative ways to reduce plastic waste in the oceans.