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.

Thinkbox Annual Review: A Year in TV

/ April 15th 2020

Our members from the world of TV including ITV, Channel 4 and Sky all feature in the new Thinkbox publication ‘A Year in TV’.  We’ve got an excerpt here where ISBA’s Head of Media Bobi Carley talks to Kelly Williams, Managing Director, Commercial at ITV, John Litster, Managing Director at Sky Media, and Jonathan Allan, Chief Operating Officer at Channel 4 about broadcaster collaboration, how technology is transforming the TV advertising landscape with addressability, and the emergence of a range of new data solutions and cross-media measurement.

Thinkbox’s ‘A Year in TV’ is now available to read online, filled with information on TV’s place in the changing media world, why TV continues to be such excellent value, what the future holds for TV advertising and its increasingly advanced capabilities, and how to maximise short-term advertising returns without sacrificing sustained growth. You can download a copy from thinkbox.tv here.