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.

LESSONS FROM Cannes

/ September 13th 2019 /
Cannes Lions Events

On  11 September we held an event at Channel 4 to celebrate our Creativity is GREAT campaign at Cannes Lions. Our CEO Stephen Woodford welcomed guests and highlighted the impressive growth in advertising services exports that the UK has seen over recent years and the country’s strong profile at this year’s Cannes Lions.

The audience was then treated to a fantastic Cannes Deconstructed presentation by Alex Jenkins, Editorial Director of Contagious. Alex led the guests through some of the standout award winners from this year’s Cannes Lions, highlighting that a key theme throughout this year’s festival was the importance of inclusivity. Adverts highlighted included those from brands such as Nike, Burger King, KFC, IKEA, Wendy’s and Microsoft.

AMV BBDO followed with a special focus on their multi-award winning work, Viva La Vulva, leading the audience through the concept behind the work, the development of the creative, the controversy it generated among some quarters and its success as a campaign. Many thanks to Channel 4 for hosting a great event!

Watch the latest showreel of everything we got up to in Cannes here.