007: licensed to place product

The new James Bond film, Skyfall, will see the secret agent turning his back on martinis in favour of a well-known Dutch beer

Mobile ad spend soars to £203m

App stores and tablets helped drive 157% year-on-year growth in 2011, according to IAB/PricewaterhouseCoopers report. By Mark Sweney

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: the face of 2012

With the M&S and Burberry accounts already in the bag, an LA pad and a Hollywood boyfriend, the girl who grew up on a Devon farm has come a long way, says Jess Cartner-Morley

Why Wes Anderson’s car ads are sellouts

Chris Michael: Fellini, Lynch and Bergman have all made adverts, so why shouldn't Anderson? Maybe because he's ended up making The Royal Tenenbaums with none of the plot or pathos

Chocolate: all round your Facebook

Once, when a chocolate bar was discontinued, that was the end; nowadays it's the start of a social media campaign to bring it back. What would you like to see revived?

WTF, QR Codes?

Craig Villamor and Brad Frost: Most people have no idea what QR codes are, and yet, as our Tumblr project shows, advertisers are putting them everywhere

The advert that can tell who you are

It's like something out of the sci-fi film Minority Report – London is to hoast an advertising hoarding that can 'read' passers-by and customise its content to suit them