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.

Oxford University Saïd Business School Paper

/ June 19th 2023
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University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School were commissioned by the Advertising Association, the IPA and ISBA, the founders of Ad Net Zero in the UK, to investigate the models of marketing attribution and carbon accounting to help the industry understand the challenge of allocating responsibilities for the emissions that result from the consumption of advertised goods and services and how to best tackle it at an industry-wide level.

The paper – Ad Net Zero: Conceptual Framework for Integrating Advertising and Advertised Emissions by Prof. Felipe Thomaz – was published in draft form for academic review in January 2023. A presentation on the paper was delivered by Thomaz at Cannes Lions in June 2023.

The industry is now encouraged to review the paper, and presentation, to help inform the next steps to be taken by the advertising industry to help efforts to tackle climate change.

Further presentations are planned. Please contact the Ad Net Zero team if you are interested in attending.