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.

Whatever the Weather, Homeless People Deserve Better

/ January 22nd 2020

Cold and wintery weather can be very dangerous for rough sleepers. To raise awareness and public donations, the Mayor of London’s Office and Clear Channel UK set up over 130 digital billboards across London. The billboards displayed dynamic and real-time weather forecasts, designed to show pedestrians the difficult weather conditions that homeless people might have to face. To help increase donations, the billboards featured contactless payment tap-points that allow people to donate to homeless services.