Advertising & Creative Arts (ACA)

Name

Advertising & Creative Arts (ACA)

Website

https://aca-forum.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Advertising & Creative Arts (ACA) is a Japan-based non-profit industry forum, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, serving the advertising and creative arts sector with approximately 80 staff. Its public website (aca-forum.com) currently redirects without disclosing programs, membership, or services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Advertising Industry Association

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (541810), Advertising Agencies (54181), Public Relations Agencies (54182)

SIC

Services-Advertising (7310), Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Integrated Full-Service Creative Agencies (MPAAAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Integrated Advertising (Brand + Performance + Media) (BPAFAAAA)

Keywords

• Advertising industry association
• Creative arts forum
• Industry membership services
• Marketing trade association
• Advertising networking

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Advertising & Creative Arts (ACA) is a non-profit industry forum/association serving the advertising and creative arts community in Japan. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, the organization with approximately 80 employees operates as a convening body for advertising and creative professionals. The website at https://www.aca-forum.com/ serves as the organization's online presence for the industry forum.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Industry Forum Membership

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Technology focussed No

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Broad incumbents

• Art Directors Club (ADC): Global creative club honoring excellence in design and advertising. Comparable to ACA as a creative industry forum with awards and community programming, though ADC operates globally and emphasizes craft.
• The One Club for Creativity: US-based non-profit serving the advertising creative community through awards, education, and professional development. Strong analogue to ACA as a non-profit creative industry body, with a comparable mission around elevating creative craft and representing creative professionals.
• Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity: World's premier advertising creativity festival and awards program. Comparable as the dominant global industry forum for creative advertising, against which regional bodies like ACA position themselves for member value.
• D&AD: UK-based global creative awards and education body serving the advertising and design industry. Comparable as an industry forum/association that elevates creative standards; ACA operates in a similar role domestically in Japan.
• International Advertising Association (IAA): Global trade association for the advertising industry with chapters in many countries including Japan. Comparable as a peer industry forum representing agencies across markets, though IAA's scope is international while ACA's is Japan-focused.
• Japan Advertising Agencies Association (JIAA): Japan's main trade association for advertising agencies. Directly comparable as a domestic industry body serving Japanese agencies, though JIAA is larger and more established. ACA likely competes or partners with JIAA for agency membership and policy influence.
• Advertising Standards Authority (ASA, Japan): Japan's self-regulatory body for advertising. Comparable as a Japanese advertising industry organization with a similar member/forum structure; potential peer or partner for ACA given overlapping agency constituencies.
• Japan Association of Advertising Federations (JAAF): National federation of Japan's advertising industry associations. Highly comparable peer given overlapping mission of representing Japanese advertising stakeholders through a federation model.

Direct peers

• Tokyo Ad Producers Association (TAPA): Tokyo-based industry group for advertising producers. Most directly comparable as a small, Tokyo-focused creative advertising forum, sharing member profile (agency professionals), geographic base, and non-profit structure with ACA.

Regional players

• Spikes Asia: Asia-Pacific creative advertising festival and awards. Comparable as a regional industry forum celebrating creative work, with partial geographic overlap with ACA's Japan focus.

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