Australian Computer Society makes International Women’s Day about men

Theme ‘celebrate the male champions of change’ quickly became ‘celebrating diversity’ after public backlash

‘Nude scanner’ mobile app ad banned for being demeaning to women

Watchdog rules ad, featuring images of a naked woman, should not have aired during Hollyoaks, when children might see it. By Mark Sweney

Mashtags? Like, epic fail buddy. The social media marketing gone #wrong

Holly Baxter: There's a particularly smug form of schadenfreude I feel when a conglomerate like Birds Eye gets its pitch to 'the youth' wrong

Fashion magazines reap the benefit of print – but there have to be enough ads

David Hepworth: As new high-end glossy Porter launches, the appetite for digital versions of titles does not seem to have mass appeal

Facebook made my teenager into an ad. What parent would ever ‘like’ that?

Annie Leonard: A generation of ‘opt-in’ kids is being exploited, and someone needs to supervise the social network

News anchor seems to mistake Samuel L Jackson for Laurence Fishburne

KTLA's Sam Rubin apologises after RoboCop star delivers a righteous dressing down about 'other black guys' in TV adverts, writes Ben Child

Advertising sales could transform as programmatic trading takes off

Computer auction-based system is set to go beyond its roots in display sector but questions remain on transparency. By John Reynolds

The Lego Movie rebuilds ITV ad break

Warner Bros jumps on trend of remaking famous scenes with bricks by recreating ads for Premier Inn, BT and Confused.com. By Mark Sweney

New York Times slows ad revenue decline as more paying readers log on

Media giant continues to lose money from ads, but slows rate of decline and grows number of paying online subscribers

Newsquest increases circulation revenues as sales go down

US parent company Gannett reports 6% rise

Lidl launches kiss-scanning iPhone app in corny Valentine’s play

'First of its kind' kiss scanner app is worse than mistletoe at Christmas. By Samuel Gibbs

Why Google has 200m reasons to put engineers over designers

Google's engineer-led approach has sparked criticism of the company from designers, but it appears to be paying off. By Alex Hern

Web advertising: still a small net in a very large pond

Peter Preston: Internet ad revenues are growing fast. But, even now, they make up only 4.5% of the global whole

The Mr Big behind tax return, passport and health card copycat websites

As 'taxreturngateway' is suspended we try to find the elusive director behind the copycat sites charging over the odds for services that the government provides free