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.

This Girl Can

/ January 9th 2020

Developed by Sport England in 2015, the This Girl Can initiative aims to get more women and girls moving regardless of shape, size and ability. The initial 2015 campaign was designed to directly counter evidence that showed that female participation in sports had fallen in previous years (1.73 million fewer women were playing a sport versus men according to Jennie Price, CEO, Sport England). The 90-second video, which celebrates women being active, no matter their appearance or ability, was shown on TV, cinema, OOH, and social media.

You can watch the latest This Girl Can ad here.