Johnny Hornby: adland is failing to defeat digital fraud

Without an industry-wide response to fraudulent activity, advertisers risk damaging their relationship with consumers

BuzzFeed breaks UK ad rules over misleading advertorial

Dylon sponsored article titled ‘14 Laundry Fails’ did not make clear content was piece of marketing, advertising watchdog rules

Ignore the toys, look at the screens. What CES really means for marketers

It’s easy to be distracted by the abundance of the recent Consumer Electronics Show, but marketers should pay attention to what the rise of digital screens everywhere mean for advertising

AOL’s Tim Armstrong: ‘If there’s one law, it’s that nobody owns the future’

Chief executive on creating value, the impact of adblocking, and why HuffPo isn’t chasing profits

Ad-blocking and fraud pose big questions for online advertising

Threat of consumers taking to adblocking in huge numbers has become a preoccupation for publishers, ad agencies and advertisers

Make or break for the Sun and more consolidation

New editor Tony Gallagher must play digital catchup while industry wants advertisers to believe in quality over scale

Will 2016 be the year web advertisers realise we don’t want to be monitored?

Everyone hates web adverts – except those people developing intrusive technology to force them on us

A proxy war: Apple ad-blocking software scares publishers but rival Google is target

Apps that prevent ads making it to the screens of mobile phones are topping the charts. How will media firms react?

The best charity videos of 2015

As the year comes to an end, Zoe Amar looks at the charity videos that stood out from the rest over the past 12 months

Telegraph criticised by watchdog for ‘misleading’ Michelin advertorial

Advertising Standards Authority rules article and video on Telegraph.co.uk did not make it clear they had been paid for

US digital advertising in 2016: things will get better

Spending time on the web in 2015 was a charmless experience. Next year we’ll see a renewed focus on quality ads

2015 was the year that Adobe’s Flash finally began to die

The deathknell tolls for Flash as Google, Firefox, Amazon and other technology companies block it, while Adobe dumps the name from its own products

And the brands played on: how EDM can sell almost anything

Brands and advertisers are falling over themselves to tap in to the colossal success of dance music, and many of its stars are happy to help the marketing effort – with conditions

Hashtag backlash: marketing campaigns that turned into social media disasters

Guardian Australia looks back at some advertising efforts of 2015 that met with stinging criticism online, including Woolworths’ ill-fated Anzac Day campaign

‘Over a quarter’ of City AM readers turned off adblockers in trial

Financial freesheet to roll out pioneering anti-adblocking software by Christmas in move watched keenly by news publishers