Google Contributor: can I really pay to remove ads?
Google’s new Contributor service is an experiment to see if users paying up to $3 a month for content can replace adverts on websites
Future Publishing cuts more than 400 jobs as part of restructure
Total Film publisher reports £35.4m loss in year to end of September, with digital making up 63% of total ad revenue
Johnston Press, Newsquest, Local World take on Facebook and Google
Regional newspaper publishers pool ad space to compete with tech companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google
From Nike to Benetton: 10 powerful adverts that changed the way we think
Great advertising goes beyond selling physical objects to help us view societal issues in a new light
Ad break: the 12 ads of Christmas
Jason Stone: The annual deluge of festive ads this year includes Sainsbury’s sharing message, Marks & Sparks’ magic and of course, Monty
Who gets the best return on stock-market investments? Not finance professionals
Is financial expertise overrated? A new study from the ‘Yelp of investing’ shows that finance professionals make less money in the stock markets than people in other industries – perhaps because banking experts know it pays to be wary
Facebook squeezes ‘overly promotional page posts’ out of news feeds
But social network promises its latest algorithm tweak ‘will not increase the number of ads’ that its users see. By Stuart Dredge
Study reveals how Twitter grabs your attention
Neuro Insight shows how Twitter excels at making users feel personal connections to the service. By Alex Hern
Facebook sets sights on Youtube’s video crown
YouTube may be the dominant video sharing platform, but Facebook is positioning itself to compete
Tesco aims to light up its fortunes with sparkly Christmas TV ad
UK’s biggest retailer joins £1.5bn battle of the supermarkets for share of crucial seasonal spending – which will see social media targeted heavily as well as TV and print, write Sarah Butler and Mark Sweney
Christmas repeats for @johnlewis
Media Monkey: As the retailer launches its festive ad, a certain tweeter in the US can expect to be trending … again
Digital must be applied at the core of business to be truly effective
The transformative power of new technology will only work when assumptions of the past are forgotten, argues Tom Goodwin
John Lewis unveils Christmas ad starring Monty the penguin
£1m festive ad features a young boy playing with a CGI animated penguin to the tune of John Lennon’s Real Love
Copywriting is dead? Don’t tell the journalists
Content marketing has brought new talent into the advertising industry, but these are different beasts to the traditional copywriter
Twitter: why #SoggyFries make for a tasty future in big-data revenue
But advertising still key to social network’s growth: ‘In terms of billion-dollar revenue ad businesses, we’re the fastest growing’. By Stuart Dredge