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.

AdGreen

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AdGreen was launched in September 2020 with two clear aims: to measure advertising production carbon footprints allowing project teams to understand which activities have the biggest impact, and to empower the industry to reduce emissions and move to zero carbon / zero waste. Provided free at the point of use, the project comprises of training and renewable energy and offsetting schemes, with a carbon calculator and certification scheme following later in 2021.

AdGreen has launched in the UK but with global ambition to enable the industry, wherever the activity is, to act for a sustainable future.

More information on AdGreen can be found here: www.weareadgreen.org