PPA works closely together with a number of related organisations:
The APA is the customer publishing arm of PPA, committed to establishing codes and standards of practice and expanding the boundaries of the UK customer publishing industry. The APA is the representative body for member agencies who produce effective editorial content for client brands. That content can be anything from entire websites and magazines to smaller brochures and one-shot publications, produced to engage with a target audience and create a customer relationship of enviable quality. It is estimated that the customer publishing industry is currently worth around £904 million and is projected to be worth around £1 billion by 2011 (Mintel). Central to this phenomenal growth is the work of the APA. As standard bearers for the industry, the APA commissions vital research into the medium, launches and develops high profile initiatives designed to drive new business for member agencies, and organise industry awards showcasing its effectiveness. Formed in 1993, the APA now has 46 full members, 22 affiliate members and 7 overseas members. For more information about the APA and customer publishing, visit apa.co.uk.
AOP is wholly owned by PPA and represents digital publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content. AOP champions the interests of media owners from diverse backgrounds including newspaper and magazine publishing, TV and radio broadcasting, and pure online media. AOP formed in 2002, in response to the growth of the internet as a publishing medium, with the pace of change creating its own challenges: how are publishers to position themselves in the digital age? How will the users (readers, viewers, listeners, contributors) of the future want to find and use content? Will they be creating it themselves? AOP publishes original research and hosts forums, awards and conferences, covering a range of topics from managing online communities and adapting content for mobile, through to optimising partnership opportunities, SEO best practice, behavioural targeting and audience measurement. For more information about AOP, visit ukaop.org.uk.
DPA promotes and protects the interests of companies operating in the UK directory and data publishing and search sector. This is a sector which today contributes well over £1 billion to the UK economy. DPA's membership includes mainstream data providers with household names such as Yell and Reed Elsevier, but also a host of organisations of all sizes who provide services and products to the sector, such as printers, software solution providers, and contract directory publishers. Based in PPA's offices in London, DPA advances best practice and offers members a comprehensive and diverse range of services. For more information about DPA, visit dpa.org.uk.
FIPP, the international magazine trade body, works for the benefit of consumer, business media and customer magazine publishers around the world. FIPP’s mission is to promote - nationally and internationally - the common editorial, cultural and economic interests of magazine publishers, in print, digital and mobile media. FIPP supports freedom of the press, intellectual property, information provision, freedom to advertise, freedom of distribution and environmental protection. PPA is a member of FIPP. For more information about FIPP, visit fipp.com.
FAEP represents the interests of the national associations of periodical press publishers and corporate publishing members in Europe. FAEP's mission is to promote and protect the interests of publishers of the periodical press within the European Union (EU), ensuring the long-term survival and prosperity of a plural, diverse and economically successful magazine publishing industry in the EU. FAEP represents over 15,000 publishers throughout Europe (the vast majority being small and medium-sized enterprises) publishing over 50,000 magazine titles, reaching around 80% of European adults. With combined annual revenues in excess of €40 billion, European magazine publishers employ more than 300,000 EU citizens and a multiple of that figure is involved in the related advertising, distribution, printing, design and paper manufacturing industries. For more information about FAEP, visit faep.org.