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.

Case study: GroupM – Mission Zero

/ October 6th 2020
Action 1 Resources Ad Net Zero Climate Action UK Advertising’s Climate Action Showcase

Mission Zero at GroupM is a prime example of the collective action we are seeing emerge in the industry in response to the climate crisis.

It is a cross-agency . Together they share their sustainability experience and their individual agencies’ climate action initiatives to accelerate zero-carbon transition for the media network, their clients and their people.

Mission Zero and GroupM believe zero carbon transition is critical to fulfilling the media network’s stated purpose of being responsible for the next era of media where advertising works better for people.