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.

#ThankYouThursday

/ April 14th 2020

Spotify has repositioned two of its most popular playlists to show its support for the NHS: Throwback Thursday, which has been rebranded to Thank You Thursday, and Monday Motivation, which will also be dedicated to the NHS. Spotify is celebrating NHS staff in the playlist covers and distributing NHS hero messaging via the playlist descriptions, changing each week as well as having bespoke ads promoting the #clapforcarers campaign.

Listen to this week’s #ThankYouThursday playlist here.