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.

LEAD North 2025: Companies attending

/ April 9th 2025

Please see the companies attending to date below

All Response Media * APA * Arla Foods * Asda Stores Limited * Bauer Media

Outdoor * Bloom * Channel 4 * Clearcast * Co-op * Credos * Daily Mail *

Department for Business and Trade * Digital Cinema Media * DCMS * Dentsu

Creative * DMG Ventures * Drummond Central * EssenceMediacom *

Fentimans * Firm Decisions Limited * giffgaff  * Global * Global Street Art &

Havas Media Manchester * Infinite Content Ltd * Ingenuity+ * Invested *

iProspect * ISBA * ITV * JCDecaux * Kepler * Kinesso UK&I * Leith Agency *

Lewis Silkin * Liverpool Echo * LS Productions * Mail Metro Media *

Manchester Evening News * mFuse * News UK * Newsworks * Ninety Degrees

North * Ocean Outdoor * Open Media * Ozone * Pearl & Dean * PHD

Manchester * Pinterest * Prolific North * Reach PLC * Republic of Media *

Seedtag * Sky Media * Skyrise * Tesco Media * The Behaviours Agency

* The Guardian * The i Paper * The Telegraph * The Times * Wavemaker

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