Gary Lineker shows off team colours for BBC Sport

BBC Sport is to promote multiplatform services with an ad featuring Gary Lineker squeezing into more than 80 football shirts. By Mark Sweney

Google reintroduces gambling ads

Google is to relax its global ban on gambling advertising by allowing companies to target web users in England, Scotland and Wales. By Mark Sweney

Your help please: Why does Phorm concern you?

After all this time, BT still doesn't understand why people are worried about the rollout of Phorm's webwise technology. How can we get the message across to them?

Asus aims for the ‘gorgeous’ market

Asus has embarked on a global branding campaign with a fashion show to accompany its latest new notebook launch. By Jack Schofield

Obama burns out

The presidential hopeful makes an unexpected appearance in Criterion's open-world racer...

MySpace has high hopes for MyAds

New cost-per-click advertising system available to all MySpace users goes live today

Junk food ads shifting from television to wider media

Cartoon characters such as Tony the Tiger are disappearing from TV advertisements but appearing more frequently in press, radio and the internet, according to a report. By Mark Sweney

Google brings AdSense to games

Is that the sound of floodgates opening?

Baz Luhrmann shoots Tourism Australia ad

Tourism Australia has dropped its controversial 'Where the bloody hell are you?' campaign and hired Baz Luhrmann to direct a lavish TV ad. By Mark Sweney

Google begins wider testing of in-game AdSense system

Google is hoping to take advantage of in-game ads' strong growth with its new AdSense for Games system, the company announced in a post on its blog.

Web ad spend helps hold off advertising downturn

Internet advertising spend is 'propping up' traditional media, according to a report, surging to £1.68bn in the first six months of 2008. By Mark Sweney

Little Britain’s Fat Pat stars in Ask.com ad campaign

Ask.com is to launch an international TV campaign in a bid to challenge Google. By Mark Sweney

BT in £11m push against pay-TV rivals

BT is launching a TV campaign attacking the cost of rival pay-TV packages on BSkyB and Virgin Media. By Mark Sweney

Key senator finds Google-Yahoo deal deserves scrutiny, stops short of blocking it

Even if the Department of Justice says Google's search ad pact with Yahoo clears its antitrust hurdles, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), chair of the antitrust subcommittee, says that it will still require close monitoring to ensure it doesn't threaten the online ad industry, Reuters reported.

Outrage as new Phorm trial begins

BT begins new test of advertising system that records every site visited by every web surfer