Association website. The association's corporate website typically explains the association's aims and objectives, promotes the association's products and services, explains the benefits of membership to prospective members, and promotes members' businesses (for example, by means of an online listing of members and description of their businesses).
Members newsletters or magazines. Whether produced in print or online, association newsletters and magazines contain news about the activities of the association, industry news and editorial features on topical issues. Some are exclusively distributed to members, while others are used to lobby lawmakers and regulators, and some are used to promote members' businesses to potential new customers.
Printed membership directories and yearbooks. Larger trade associations publish membership directories and yearbooks to promote their association to opinion formers, lawmakers, regulators and other stakeholders. Such publications also help to promote members' businesses both to each other and to a wider audience. A typical membership directory contains profiles of each association member, a products and services guide, advertising from members, and editorial articles about the aims, objectives and activities of the association. The emphasis of association yearbooks on the other hand is on editorial features about the association itself and the association's industry.
Almost all trade associations are heavily involved in publishing activities in print and online. The main media published by trade associations are as follows:
The opportunity to be promoted in such media (whether by editorial or advertising) is often an important reason why companies join a trade association in the first place.
Examples of larger trade associations that publish a comprehensive range of media include European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
IFPI
Recording Industry Association of America
(MPA) represents the film industry in the United States
Motion Picture Association
(AJA), a group consisting of small to medium-sized intellectual property companies
The Association of Japanese Animations
(BSA) promotes the intellectual property of software developers
Business Software Alliance
(ESA) promotes the intellectual property of game developers in the United States
Entertainment Software Association
(BPI), UK music industry association. Founded the BRIT Awards, and give Gold, Silver and Platinum disks for UK-based sales
British Phonographic Industry
(FACT) is the main UK anti-copyright infringement organization, mainly for films
Federation Against Copyright Theft
(ARIA), oversees the collection, administration and distribution of music licenses and royalties in Australia
Australian Recording Industry Association
(JASRAC)
Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers
(RIAJ)
Recording Industry Association of Japan
(ROMS) organization on collective management of rights of authors and other rightholders in multimedia, digital networks and visual arts
Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems
(AVPAS) for anime
Anti Video Piracy Association of Singapore
society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights in Germany
GEMA
China Council for the Promotion of International Trade
Commodity checkoff program
Conestoga Foundrymen's Association
Guild
Inter-professional association
List of food industry trade associations
Professional association
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(Federal Trade Commission) – responsible for supervising trade associations established for each industry