George Clooney engaged? Retiring the playboy act is his best move in years
Ryan Gilbey: How the actor stopped the slide into Jack Nicholson territory
Britain’s ad spend to hit £20bn a year
UK ad spend rose to £17.9bn last year and recovery is set to continue with a 5.5% increase this year and a 6.5% uplift in 2015
Print is not the future, but it’s not the past either
Peter Preston: The latest US figures on newspaper decline may be sobering, but pundits and managers alike are starting to despair of digital
Boot up: Sony’s self-washing robots and Google Maps Game of Thrones
Samuel Gibbs: Plus end-to-end Gmail encryption, apps going the way of consoles, Facebook going all out on ads, and more
Gmail does scan all emails, new Google terms clarify
Search giant modifies terms of service to specifically state ‘automated systems analyse your content’. By Samuel Gibbs
Google increased its UK advertising spending by 50% to £45m in 2013
Tech firm 31st in list of top UK advertisers, with £15m spent on TV adverts despite 'digital first' approach to marketing
Apple bans music app Bloom.fm from running ads on its iAd network
'We're amused by this rather than frustrated. It's just pretty funny,' says streaming music startup. By Stuart Dredge
Newspaper publishers use e-commerce technology on website photos
Telegraph and Mirror experiment with Kiosked innovation
Local TV operators say they can cut the mustard and avoid a repeat of history
Tara Conlan: London Live, Mustard TV and Estuary TV have launched, with 47 to come, and believe a new approach will lead to success
Twitter stakes its claim as TV’s ‘synchronised social soundtrack’
Chief media scientist Deb Roy tells MIPTV conference ‘Twitter makes television better’ for viewers and advertisers alike. By Stuart Dredge
Alan Partridge set for Alpha Papa sequel, says Baby Cow’s Henry Normal
Advertising Week Europe: Steve Coogan will return as the Norfolk DJ in his second big screen outing and in a new series on Sky Atlantic. By John Plunkett
Forget suing filesharers: in 2014, anti-piracy efforts follow the money
Infringing Website List is latest attempt by creative industries to squeeze ad revenues of piracy sites. By Stuart Dredge
News Corp boss brands Washington Post journalists ‘high priests’
Chief executive Robert Thomson says paper's journalists have failed to embrace transition to digital. By Mark Sweney
Microsoft launches programmatic video advertising network in the UK
Advertisers will be able to buy ads across 350 third-party websites as US tech firm takes on rivals Google and AOL. By John Reynolds
Mail Online ad revenue up 51%
Website close to £5m a month rate set by Daily Mail & General Trust to meet financial year goal of £60m. By Mark Sweney