Faking it: headline-making viral video hoaxes were funded by Screen Australia
Over two years, eight videos from Melbourne’s the Woolshed Company were viewed more than 205m times, partly thanks to $100,000 in taxpayer funding
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie inadvertently charts the death of top-down celebrity
Eddy and Pats – plus the 60 stars eager to supply cameos – herald the demise of a glittering cultural hegemony. Fashionistas and PRs are now slaves to public taste, their slogans drowned out by public opinion
Watch Jonah Hill in a Palace x Reebok ad and Ryan Reynolds plug BT
See the Wolf of Wall Street star in a spoof celebrity endorsement for the sneaker collab and the Green Lantern actor push broadband
Race, politics, travel plans: things Facebook’s algorithm can’t get right
There’s a whole class of information that Facebook thinks it knows about me and is willing to sell – the problem is their data isn’t entirely accurate
Google’s My Activity reveals just how much it knows about you
Search company launches new opt-in ad service for non-Google sites and tools that show how it tracks your internet activity
Media Monkey: Jeremy Paxman, Robert Peston and Brexit
ITV’s political editor feels a bit of a tweet, TV referendum banana skins round-up, and Mail Online has a huge float for Cannes Lions
Charging money to go ad-free? The New York Times meets the BBC
Former corporation man Mark Thompson has hit on a new, yet strikingly familiar, formula for revenues in the digital age
Refugee rescue app pulled from App Store after it is outed as fake
The I Sea app claimed to help people call lifeboats to refugees by locating their vessels, but actually showed static images of the sea
The Lad Bible hires Weber Shandwick’s digital chief ahead of Cannes ad push
Adam Clyne, who joins as chief operating officer, will handle the day-to-day running of the youth media company
I’m being chased around the internet by a shed
I’m more than happy to be advertised to – but products pursuing you from site to site can feel like a nagging puppy tugging on your trouser leg
Ken Loach comes clean about his McDonald’s job
The veteran leftwing film director remains embarrassed about the commercial he made for the fast-food chain
Tesco Mobile offers to cut users’ bills by £3 if they watch extra ads
Launch of Xtras app showing adverts when users unlock their phones comes as rival Three prepares to trial ad blocking
‘Bible of trends’ for the media industry charts more famine than feast
From adblocking to a slowdown in mobile phone sales, investment company’s slide deck indicates the end of growth
Which? calls for curbs on super-fast broadband ads as 15m homes miss out
Sky, BT and other companies can advertise super-fast broadband claims even if they are only available to 10% of their customers
Rose McGowan criticises violent X-Men poster as ‘offensive and, frankly, stupid’
Billboard displayed in Los Angeles and New York features Jennifer Lawrence’s character being strangled, with the words ‘only the strong will survive’