Pirate Bay founder and Adblock maker offer web users a way to pay publishers
Two of the digital industry’s biggest bugbears unite to launch Flattr Plus, which aims to get 10 million people paying $5 a month
TV networks battle new media threat as Facebook looms over ad war
Hulu, Vice and other new media services are preparing to gather in New York for this year’s NewFronts, as Facebook and Google watch ad dollars pour in
The profits and perils of drilling for crude data
Our online information is the raw resource of the digital age, yet mining it can be risky for the new industrial giants
Publishers ‘feeding on scraps from Facebook’, says Bloomberg Media boss
Justin Smith says social network makes far more money from ads in its news feed than news organisations do from linked traffic
Paramount sued by Chinese company for failed Transformers product placement
A tourism firm is taking the studio to court for $27m, claiming that a promised use of its logo in 2014’s Age of Extinction film never took place
Almost half of those planning to use an adblocker say they just don’t like ads
KPMG report also finds that 44% of UK adults are planning to block ads within the next six months
UK ad market booms but newspapers lose £155m in print advertising
Total market grows at 7.5% to £20bn in 2015 but national press reports 11% fall to £1.2bn and slowdown in digital ads
How Facebook plans to take over the world
Social network went from digital directory for college kids to communications behemoth – and it’s planning for prosperity with its global takeover
Watch X-Men’s Evan Peters and Green Lantern’s Ryan Reynolds star in TV ads
It’s clash of the superheroes as the Quicksilver star backs Sky and the Canadian hunk sends up his Deadpool role for BT
Adblocking is helping the digital sharks eat the minnows – what’s the solution?
If no one finds a better way to moderate the conflict between advertisers and net users the likes of Mark Zuckerberg will get richer as small sites are crushed
Adblocking could be the best thing for the advertising industry
It’s time for creative industries to connect with people in a meaningful way, not serve up irrelevant ads. But what’s holding us back?
Brave move at Advertising Week Europe’s adblocking event
Mozilla founder Brendan Eich is put on a panel with News UK’s Chris Duncan – whose parent company is suing him
Have charity shock ads lost their power to disturb?
Images such as Barnardos’ heroin baby have come to define charity advertising – but now some agencies are trying a more subtle tack
Fears of adblocking ‘epidemic’ as report forecasts almost 15m UK users next year
Report suggests nearly 30% of British web users will have installed software to strip advertising from web pages by end of next year
Google claims YouTube ads are more effective than TV
Television industry reacts angrily to report suggesting that in 80% of cases adverts on video website are better in driving sales