Affiliated associations and useful contacts
The DPA works with other leading organisations to further leverage the interests and needs of its members:
Advertising Association - www.adassoc.org.uk
The Advertising Association is a federation of 31 trade bodies and organisations representing the advertising and promotional marketing industries including advertisers, agencies, media and support services. It is the only body that speaks for all sides of an industry that is worth some £19billion, and is the largest of the UK's creative industries, which form 6.4% of the economy. The AA's remit concerns the mutual interests of the business as a whole.
It operates in a complementary way with the vested interests of its members who have specific roles for their individual sectors.
Committee of Advertising Practice - www.cap.org.uk/cap
The advertising codes are the responsibility of two industry Committees of Advertising Practice - CAP (Broadcast) and CAP (Non-broadcast) and are independently administered by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
Advertising Standards Board of Finance
ASBOF is the body set up by the advertising industry to fund the self-regulatory system of advertising control. It operates a levy of 0.1% on all display advertising (and includes cinema but not broadcast media).
Digital Content Forum - www.dcf.org.uk
The DCF forms a two-way conduit between industry and government to gather views and input into policy-making processes. It goes further to broker relationships, develop shared knowledge and undertake activities to promote innovation and excellence in the content sector.
It operates as a professionally managed network of members, to which it delivers value through representing their interests and views on a broader scale. By aligning complementary activities within the sector, it promotes co-operation amongst trade associations and businesses, enabling them to fulfill their own objectives.
Confederation of Information Communication Industries
CICI brings together the £50 billion UK information and contents industries on 'convergent' issues. Organises ad-hoc meetings and exchanges with MP's, ministers, regulators.
Joint Committee on Legal Deposit
The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 has started the process of extension of legal deposit into the non-print world. The Joint Committee on Legal Deposit (JCLD) has been formed to help guide this extension and to take on more formally the activities of the Joint Voluntary Committee on Legal Deposit. Specifically, the JCLD intends to continue the dialogue between publishers and trade associations, legal deposit librarians and Government.
Periodical Publishers Association - www.ppa.co.uk
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) is the organisation for magazine
and professional media publishers in the UK. PPA's role is to promote and
protect the interests of the industry in general, and member companies in
particular.
Trevor Fenwick attends the Government and Regulatory Affairs Committee meetings.
Skillset www.skillset.org
Skillset’s aim is to promote and improve education, training and development and to anticipate the industry's future skills needs. Skillset is guided and advised on all aspects of work with the sector by the Publishing Skills Council and employs a strategic approach to the skills needs of the publishing sector within UK industry. The council is made up of representatives from employers and relevant industry organisations from books, journals, directories & databases, magazines & business media and newspapers & news agencies.