Snapchat ‘will be bigger than Twitter, Yahoo and AOL with advertisers’

Messaging app forecast to attract revenues of $3bn a year by 2019 by attracting hard-to-reach youth market

Google’s bad week: YouTube loses millions as advertising row reaches US

Major brands including Verizon and Walmart pulled their ads after they were found to be appearing next to videos promoting extremist views or hate speech

YouTube and Google boycott spreads to US as AT&T and Verizon pull ads

Major phone networks express concern over video sharing site and parent company’s inability to guarantee money won’t flow to extremism

Google’s extremism apology came after UK pressure – minister

Government ‘read the riot act’ to the firm, which must do more to tackle far-right videos on YouTube

Google to overhaul advertising policies after growing boycott

‘We deeply apologise,’ says company’s CBO Philipp Schindler as he announces tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content

‘I can’t trust YouTube any more’: creators speak out in Google advertising row

Inconsistencies behind the company’s ability to police advertising on controversial content are coming to light

Australian advertising industry holds talks to protect brands against extremist content

Australian Association of National Advertisers says digital media supply chain needs to be cleaned up

Head of Google Europe apologises over ads on extremist content

Matt Brittin says company ‘needs to do more’ but declines to say whether it will actively seek out inappropriate material

Google braces for questions as more big-name firms pull adverts

Vodafone and trio of high street banks take action as industry and UK government ask how their ads became attached to extremist material

Google is ‘profiting from hatred’ say MPs in row over adverts

Social media companies could face regulation as Google advertisers pull out in protest over extremist content

Extremists made £250,000 from ads for UK brands on Google, say experts

Wagdi Ghoneim among those said to have earned significant ad revenue from household names and government departments

Google ad controversy: what the row is all about

What is programmatic advertising, how does it work and why did big brands appear next to inappropriate material? We explain

French advertising giant pulls out of Google and YouTube

Havas becomes first major global marketing company to pull entire ad spend after talks with tech company break down

Google summoned by ministers as government pulls ads over extremist content

British advertisers urge company overhaul after adverts from several big organisations appear next to inappropriate material