Jaguar ‘villain’ ad banned for encouraging irresponsible driving

YouTube advert featured Thor star Tom Hiddleston explaining how to act like a villain and why British actors are so good at it. By Mark Sweney

Six of the best product placements in video games

Coca-Cola, Barack Obama and Subway have all used virtual worlds to promote their cause. And they're not the only ones

Ad break: Greyhound channels Spinal Tap, Stephen Merchant, Irn Bru

Jason Stone: Watch a rock band turn bus travel up to 11 and Ricky Gervais's sidekick tell Americans what's what in our advertising review

Google introduces block on porn advertising on AdWords

Search company extends bans on pornography ads across its network, while conservative US pressure groups claim credit. By Samuel Gibbs

Blinkx blames hostile Harvard blog for profit warning

Company's shares fell almost 45% on Tuesday as online advertising firm says industry-wide slowdown 'compounded by the lingering effects' of a disparaging Harvard Business School blog

Mobile advertising to overtake print

TV ad market also forecast to be overtaken by 2016 with UK mobile spend growing by 96% in 2014 to around £2.05bn. By Mark Sweney

As seen on TV: why product placement is bigger than ever

Steve Rose: TV and advertising have always existed side by side. But now that viewers can easily skip breaks, brands are having to find new ways to make sure customers get their message. Can you resist 'native advertising' and 'digital insertion'?

Vice Media: Time Warner deal will not be at expense of youth audience

Cannes Lions festival: Chief creative officer Eddy Moretti says company’s prime concern is to ‘protect the brand’. By Mark Sweney

Ralph Fiennes hits out at internet surveillance and loss of press freedom

Cannes Lions festival: Actor says lack of web privacy is ‘frightening’ and Russian media has had its ‘spine snapped’ over reporting on anti-gay measures. By Jane Martinson

ASA ruling on Outbrain link heightens ‘native advertising’ debate

Watchdog says link to content below article was not identifiable as marketing and should be labelled as promoted content. By Mark Sweney

National press ad revenue forecast to fall below £1bn in 2014

Total UK ad revenue set to increase by 5.4%, fuelled by football World Cup ITV broadcasts, says WPP’s GroupM. By Mark Sweney

How Twitter killed the official movie website

Ali Gray: Online promotion of films used to be so simple: a few gifs and a grainy clip and you were set. Today, hashtags and social media rule. But what have we lost in the process?

Newspapers’ decline not due to the rise of the internet, says professor

Assumptions about the net subject to false premises, he writes

3D printed prosthetics: long-term hope for amputees in Sudan

Much has been written about Project Daniel but is this open-source, brand-sponsored model sustainable?

Instagram adverts are coming to the UK – but do brands need them?

With the ad platform reserved for brands with large budgets, there are cheaper ways to use the network to drive engagement