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.

Speakers include

Rory Sutherland

Vice Chairman, Ogilvy

David Wilding

Director of Planning, Twitter

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Karen Stacey

CEO, Digital Cinema Media

Karen Blackett OBE

UK Country Manager, WPP & UK CEO GroupM

Trevor Johnson

Head of Global Business Marketing, EUI, TikTok

Clare Peters

Client Strategy & Comms Partner, Channel 4

Nick Hurrell

Chief Executive, AKA Advertising

Liam Mullins

Managing Partner, the7stars

Kat Bozicevich

Managing Director, MG OMD

Sally Keane

Head of Sales for Northern Europe, Spotify

David Grainger

Chief Strategy Officer, iProspect

Davina Barker

Sales Director, Digital Cinema Media

Simon Daglish OBE

Deputy MD of Commercial, ITV plc

Bhavesh Patel

Head of Media, Sky

Demi Abiola

Investment Business Director, mSix @ Partners

Zoe Cadman

Commercial Agency Director, Global

Jehan Shah

Senior Industry Head, Google

Patrice Harvey

Head of Sales Strategy, YouTube

Kevin Chesters

Owner & Strategy Partner, Harbour

Dominic Grant

Director of Sales, Spotify

Katie Bowden

Director of Commercial Audio, Global

Dara Nasr

Managing Director, Twitter UK

Dino Myers-Lamptey

Founder, The Barber Shop

Vicky Fox

Chief Planning Officer, OMG

Naren Patel

Founder, Media For All

Kate Williams

Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Publicis Groupe

Richard Huntington

Chief Strategy Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi

Jen Smith

Co-founder, Craft

Jane Wolfson

Chief Commercial Officer, Hearst Solutions

Collette Philip

Founder/Managing Director, Brand By Me

Emma Dibben

Head of Partner Engagement, Wavemaker UK

Kenya Hunt

Editor-in-Chief, ELLE UK

Enyi Nwosu

Chief Strategy Officer, UM London

Natalie Hollands

Client Partner for Retail & Telecoms, Clear Channel UK

Euan Hudghton

Chief Brand & Experience Officer, PHD UK

TESTIMONIALS FROM THE MEDIA BUSINESS COURSE 2019

I just wanted to say how amazing the MBC course was from start to finish. I genuinely don’t think I’ll go on a course as good as MBC for the rest of my career so for that I can only say thank you to the AA and everyone involved. An unforgettable experience!

James Beesley, MediaCom

It was an awesome, awesome experience and one I will never forget. The line-up of speakers was so inspiring, and all of the syndicate leaders were great also. I will 100% be recommending this to everyone internally!

Christian Hanson, Mail Metro Media

Thank you for the opportunity! I thoroughly enjoyed MBC and have already been recommending it to others at Initiative.

Rebecca Markham, Initiative

Huge thank you to you and team for organising such a fantastic event. All of the speakers were amazing and I’ve learnt so much from the week that I’m sure will stay with me for the rest of my career.

Nicola Fox, JCDecaux