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.

Advertising Matters 17.01.20

/ January 17th 2020 /
Advertising Matters

LEAD 2020

There’s only a few tickets remaining for our flagship event LEAD on 30 January at the QEII Centre in Westminster!

LEAD 2020 will be the launchpad for our brand new report – Advertising Pays 8: UK Advertising’s Social Contribution, and will also feature the Rt Hon John Bercow giving his thoughts on the future of our politics; Keith Weed in conversation with Google’s Ronan Harris on trust in advertising; a panel on responsible leadership made up of Channel 4’s Alex Mahon, Diageo’s Syl Saller, Nicola Mendelsohn of Facebook and News UK’s David Dinsmore; and much, much more! Book your ticket before they’re all gone!

You can find out more and book here.

BREAKFAST OF (COMMS) CHAMPIONS

On Wednesday morning we held our twice-yearly Communications Leaders Breakfast, where communications leads from across our membership join together at AA towers to hear all about key AA comms activity during the final half of 2019, our leading areas of focus and campaigns for H1 2020, and how members can get involved in our plans from a communications perspective.

The meeting included discussions around what to expect at LEAD 2020, the latest on Advertising Pays 8 and an overview of the key issues affecting our industry – from the General Election and Brexit to how we aim to promote UK advertising on the world stage and boost exports through our new UK Advertising Exports Group.

Thanks to all who came and if you’d like to know more about our comms meetings please contact matthew.evans@adassoc.org.uk.

DAWG

Our Digital Advertising Working Group met yesterday to discuss the ICO’s Adtech Report and the AA’s draft response which includes an industry Action Plan. We will be consulting members further on this in the next two weeks to firm up the position ahead of Simon McDougall’s speech at LEAD and with a view to finalising the document in February. Simon has today published a blog on the ICO’s latest thinking and the reform of real time bidding, which you can read here.

The group also discussed the CMA’s interim report on online platforms and digital advertising. The deadline for the CMA consultation is 12 February.

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