Welcome to the future of advertising, where the word digital is redundant

In a world where everything is digital, our obsession with the divide between non-digital and digital media is limiting marketers thinking

A view to a sell: will Spectre’s brands get the traditional Bond boost?

Steve Rose: Product placement in 007 films is nothing new, but it’s not always the big deals, such as Heineken’s in Skyfall and now Belvedere vodka for Spectre, that pay the biggest dividends

The Apple Christmas TV ad may be sweet, but it leaves a bad taste

The ad for Apple’s Macbook Air and iPad mini 3 is emotionally charged, but is it as benign as it seems?

From Mary Berry to Xbox Studios, the big winners and losers of 2014

Boris Johnson and Nick Clegg helped LBC to go national, and BBC3 prepared to fall off the TV schedules

Nearly 25% of ‘people’ viewing online video ads are robots used by fraudsters

Big-name companies being scammed by hackers and traffic figures inflated by robots will cost advertisers $6.3bn in 2015

The future of marketing depends on ideas, not tinkering with technology

Drones that deliver parcels? Tweeting house plants? An over-reliance on digital strategists and creatives in marketing means we are losing focus

Google and Facebook will have more than half of UK digital ad market

Advertising on websites, smartphones, video and social media will see UK operations make £4.1bn in 2015, according to report

UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital

More than 50% of £15.7bn advertiser spend will go on digital and online media in 2015 beating print, cinema, buses, billboards, TV and radio combined

Europe’s next privacy war is with websites silently tracking users

European data protection watchdogs publish guidance on web tracking using device fingerprinting that could result in more ‘I agree’ forms

Instagram users turn flash into cash, as companies eye new advertising market

Growing number of users making career of photo-sharing hobby as brands see app as gateway to younger audience

Serial podcast: why is sponsor MailChimp getting so much attention?

The advert for the true-crime podcast has become a hit with fans – and much parodied – but what exactly is MailChimp?

Vloggers must clearly tell fans when they’re getting paid by advertisers, ASA rules

Advertising Standards Authority rules that video paid for by Oreos brand that featured YouTube stars broke advertising code

Sony told to refund customers after running ‘misleading’ Vita adverts

The US Federal Trade Commission has ruled that early adverts for the handheld console were misleading about its features

YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos

Advertising watchdog rules that videos where British stars took part in ‘Oreo Lick Race’ on their channels did not clearly state they were adverts

Ad break: Aldi goes Aussie, biting satire from Canal Digital and homely stuff from Airbnb

This week’s roundup features Aldi helping to win round some suspicious Scandinavians, the dangers of missing cult series and how home is where the heart is