Associations & support

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• Associations & support

  Organisations supporting paid media professionals, their careers and wellbeing.

• 4As Foundation

  Creates routes into advertising and marketing through practical experience, mentorship and professional development.

• Advertising Benevolent Fund South Africa

  A reference profile for an industry relief fund historically supporting advertising colleagues and their families through financial hardship.

• Ad Council

  Brings advertisers, media partners and other organisations together to create public service campaigns addressing social issues.

• Ad Relief of Greater Los Angeles

  A volunteer-led organisation helping advertising and promotions colleagues in Greater Los Angeles through serious personal crises.

• ADCOLOR

  Connects and recognises talent across creative industries, with development programmes for different career stages.

• Advertising Alliance for Mental Health

  An initiative launched in 2023 to promote mental wellbeing resources for advertising and creative professionals. Current programme availability is unconfirmed.

• Digital Analytics Association

  A historical profile of the analytics professional body that ceased operations on 1 May 2024.

• DMA Talent

  Introduces emerging marketers to the connection between responsible data use, creative thinking and real campaign work.

• The Finishing School Foundation

  Removes practical barriers that can prevent young people from entering advertising, marketing and creative work.

• The Marketing Academy Foundation

  Helps young people from low-income backgrounds begin a marketing career with application coaching and support in their first role.

• Media Trust

  Connects media expertise with charities and under-represented talent to strengthen communications and widen access to the industry.

• NABS Canada

  A support network for Canadian advertising and media professionals, combining career resources with wellbeing and financial assistance programmes.

• NABS UK

  Support for the people behind advertising, marketing and media, from work pressures to career changes and difficult personal circumstances.

• Never Not Creative

  Research and community initiatives focused on better mental wellbeing and fairer working lives in creative, media and marketing businesses.

• Paid Media Pros

  A practical paid media education resource with video tutorials across advertising platforms and analytics.

• Paid Search Association

  A dedicated home for paid search practitioners to exchange knowledge, build connections and keep learning throughout their careers.

• PPC Live

  Anu Adegbola’s practitioner network brings paid search people together for candid campaign discussions and in-person learning.

• SEMPO

  A historical search marketing organisation absorbed into the Digital Analytics Association in 2020.

• The SEO Community

  An SEO peer network built around sharing knowledge, meeting other practitioners and helping one another solve problems.

• Tech SEO Connect

  A technical search gathering combining a focused conference programme with time to discuss difficult problems with peers.

• UnLtd

  Connects the advertising industry’s skills, reach and resources with charities addressing disadvantage among children and young people.

• Women in Tech SEO

  A global network centering people of marginalised genders in SEO, marketing and tech, with opportunities to learn, connect and gain visibility.