Ad Standards Organizations
INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC:
Association of Canadian Advertisers (ACA)
The Association of Canadian Advertisers is Canada’s go-to organization for client marketers, helping our members maximize their MarCom and brand ROI
Beer Canada members are brewers who collectively account for 90% of the beer brewed in Canada. Beer Canada champions a strong domestic brewing industry and a healthy regulatory environment.
Canadian Bankers Association (CBA)
The voice of more than 60 domestic and foregin banks that help drive Canada's growth and prosperity.
The Canadian beverage industry has a successful track record of leading voluntary initiatives. They include Balance Calories, restricting marketing to children, eliminating full-calorie soft drinks from schools, and implementing front-of-pack calorie labeling.
Consumer Health Products Canada (CHPC)
To create and shape a competitive operating environment that fosters innovation and growth.
Food and Consumer Products of Canada
To create and shape a competitive operating environment that fosters innovation and growth.
We provide invaluable research and insights, advocacy on key issues, industry news, networking and trade events, and programs to keep you competitive. Our members also benefit from thousands of dollars in exclusive savings and discounts.
Retail Council of Canada (RCC)
As a member of RCC, you gain the advantage of having a highly experienced team from coast to coast that is working to protect your retailer interests, safeguard your reputation, speak and lobby for you on municipal, provincial and federal issues and provide you with advice on retail-specific laws and regulations.
Founded on signature products of Canadian Whisky and Canadian Rye Whisky, the Canadian Distilled Spirits Industry today produces a full range of spirits products including Rum, Gin, Liqueurs, Vodka, Whisky and ready-to-drink Cocktails and Coolers.
The Advertising Club of Toronto is a not-for-profit organization that serves the advertising industry and all its related services, including media, creative, production, advertising and marketing.
ADVERTISING INDUSTRY:
Allied Beauty Association (ABA)
Mission is to act as one national voice representing all Canadian beauty professionals.
Association of Creative Communication Agencies (A2C)
Mission is to ensure vitality and excellence within the communications industry in Quebec.
BBB is a non-profit that helps consumers find and recommend businesses they can trust.
We exist to ensure the voice, vision and talent of BIPOC professionals are fully and fairly present in Canadian Advertising and Marketing.
Sponsorship Marketing Council of Canada
Our mission is to help brand marketers, agency partners and sponsorship properties unleash the power of sponsorship marketing through education, collaboration and access to best practices in the industry.
Canadian Agencies Practicing Marketing Activation (CAPMA)
Canadian Marketing Association (CMA)
Provide opportunities for our members to build relationships, develop professionally, and influence the regulatory climate, to help marketing bolster business success.
Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association (CVMA)
Develops consensus-based public policy positions and undertakes advocacy to create a better understanding of the importance of a healthy and technologically innovative automotive industry to Canada's economic well-being and prosperity.
Direct Marketing Association of Canada (DMAC)
GAC advocates for sound public policy to support a competitive and sustainable Canadian automotive market.
Promotional Product Professionals of Canada Inc. (PPPC)
Canadian Association of Broadcasters
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) is the national voice of Canada’s private broadcasters, representing the vast majority of Canadian programming services, including private radio and television stations, networks, specialty, pay and pay-per-view services.
MEDIA ASSOCIATION:
BPA Worldwide is a not-for-profit organization that provides independent, third-party audits of audience claims
Canadian Media Directors’ Council (CMDC)
The Canadian Media Directors’ Council is an association of Canadian media agencies that stand together to ensure a fair and progressive marketplace on behalf of our clients, agencies and partners.
Interactive advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB)
The only organization fully-dedicated to the development and promotion of digital/interactive advertising in Canada.
Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA)
The Location Based Marketing Association is an international group dedicated to fostering research, education and collaborative innovation at the intersection of people, places and media.
News Media Canada provides relevant services to all member media organizations.
Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB)
Primary objective is to drive revenue growth through advocacy, providing the tools and resources to help the industry attract new sales talent to the medium and enhance industry professionalism through training and support.
ThinkTv is a marketing and research association dedicated to the advancement of commercial television.
MEDIA MEASUREMENTS/RESEARCH:
Broadcast Research Council (RBC)
Canadian Association of Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (CAPRA/ACPR)
The Canadian Association of Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (CAPRA) is a non-profit organization that serves the pharmaceutical, biologics, medical device, cosmetic and natural health product industries in Canada.
Canadian Out of Home Marketing and Measurement Bureau (COMMB)
COMMB is the national, not-for-profit, organization for the Canadian OOH industry of advertisers, advertising agencies and OOH companies.
Market Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA)
The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA) is a Canadian not-for-profit, member driven association representing all aspects of the market research and business intelligence industry.
Numeris provides broadcast measurement and consumer behaviour data, as well as industry-leading intelligence, to a membership and licensee base that includes Canadian broadcasters, advertisers and agencies, as well as other broadcast-related organizations.
Vividata is a not-for-profit, tripartite industry organization.
PHARMA/HEALTH/COSMETIC:
Association of Medical Advertising Agencies (AMMAA)
Agency that creates advertising and content spanning various mediums, including the sales representative, print, digital, online, radio, and TV.
We act as the voice of the industry with government and media, representing our members on a wide range of issues and interests.
Canadian Natural Products Association (CNPA)
The Canadian Natural Products Association (CNPA) regroups industry members in the field of Natural Products.
Club de Marketing Pharmaceutical du Québec (CMPQ)
The PMCQ’s mission is to facilitate lifelong learning, career development and networking for Pharma professionals.
Innovative Medicines Canada partners to champion policies that drive the discovery, development, and delivery of transformative medicines and vaccines to all Canadians to live longer and healthier lives.
Pharmaceutical Advertising Advisory Board (PAAB)
The Pharmaceutical Advertising Advisory Board (PAAB) is an independent not-for-profit organization funded on a fee-for-service model.
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION/UNION:
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)
ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) is the national union of over 27,000 professional performers working in English-language recorded media in Canada, including TV, film, radio and digital media.
Canadian Federation of Musicians (CFM)
The Canadian Federation of Musicians helps thousands of musicians who need assistance with any number of issues related to the recording and performing of their craft.
Commercial Production Association of Toronto (CPAT)
ACCP is the not-for-profit trade association for the television commercial production industry in Toronto. Members are engaged in the production of screen based digital advertising content for distribution on television and over the internet.
INDUSTRY CHARITY/CLUB:
Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC)
To inform and educate consumers on marketplace issues, to advocate for consumers with government and industry, and to work with government and industry to solve marketplace problems.
The Consumers Council of Canada, a non-profit, voluntary organization, is working towards an improved marketplace for consumers in Canada. It seeks an efficient, equitable, effective and safe marketplace in which consumers are able to exercise their rights and responsibilities.
National Advertising Benevolent Society (NABS)
Nabs is a unique charity specifically designed to support the health and well-being of all individuals in the media, marketing, and communications industry in Canada.
The Advertising and Design Club of Canada
The Advertising & Design Club of Canada is a non-profit, non-political group dedicated to encouraging excellence in Canadian advertising and design.
The Advertising Club of Toronto (AdClub)
The Advertising Club of Toronto is a not-for-profit organization that serves the advertising industry and all its related services, including media, creative, production, advertising and marketing.
INTERNATIONAL SELF REGULATORY ASSOCIATIONS:
International Council for Ad Self-Regulation (ICAS)
info@icas.global
The International Council for Advertising Self-Regulation (ICAS) is a global platform which promotes effective advertising self-regulation.
European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA)
EASA promotes responsible advertising in commercial communications by means of effective self-regulation, while being mindful of national differences in culture, as well as legal and commercial practice.