TV Christmas adverts battle moves online as shops target social media

By the end of this week, all the main retailers will have launched their festive campaigns – but this year they're spending a lot more cash on the internet to mirror shopping habits

Financial Times reaches highest circulation in its 125-year history

FT's print sales are profitable for the first time

Marks & Spencer Christmas advert to be launched online

Glitzy promo featuring Helena Bonham Carter among its cast will first be shown on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter

British American Tobacco apologises for advertising e-cigarette in kids’ app

Ad for Vype is swiftly removed, but wider issues of appropriate targeting of ads within children's apps remains.

Xbox One takes on PS4 with Steven Gerrard ad

Microsoft also recruits Star Trek's Zachary Quinto for multimillion-dollar marketing battle against Sony's next gen console. By Mark Sweney

Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results

As price per web adverts falls, Google has begun to offer some advertisers more visibility for ads - going back on 2005 promise that it would 'never' show banner ads with search results. By Charles Arthur

Ad break: Honda, PS4, Call Of Duty: Ghosts, Doctor Who 50th anniversary

Watch a car ad where nothing is as it seems, plus adverts for Sony's next-gen console and Activision's blockbuster game. By Jason Stone

Facebook launches first video ads within its mobile apps

Feature is restricted for now to ads for other apps, giving developers a new way to show their apps off in the mobile news feed, but they won't auto-play. By Stuart Dredge

Another brick out of the editorial wall as journalists sell subscriptions

Magazine staff compete to sign up subscribers

Eating popcorn in the cinema makes people immune to advertising

Study by Cologne University concludes that chewing makes advertising ineffective

Google’s Gmail Android app adds mandatory adverts

Search company begins mobile advertising rollout within its Android Gmail app following a recent update. By Samuel Gibbs

Britons spend one in 12 waking minutes online, pushing ad spend to record high

Companies boost internet, smartphone and tablet advertising by 17.5% year on year to £3bn in the first half of the year. By Mark Sweney

Kevin Smith’s next horror film is based on … a Gumtree ad

The Clerks director warmed to a spoof UK ad requesting potential flatmates to wear a walrus suit in return for free rent, writes Ben Child

Google set to bring ads to Gmail Android app

Hints in the code of a recent Gmail Android app update indicate ads are coming to a phone near you. By Samuel Gibbs

Diana film poster taken down from Paris crash site

Advertisement for Princess of Wales biopic adjacent to Seine tunnel removed after raising hackles in the British media