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Tumblr founder criticises rivals’ publishing of performance stats

David Karp says his micro-blogging service is best place to try out creative innovation. By John Reynolds

YouTube to offer facilities and experts to help 100 advertisers to build content

Pilot, which includes American Express and PepsiCo, is set to try to lure major companies away from TV ads. By Mark Sweney

Second-screen TV heats up for Viacom, Twitter, Shazam and Gracenote

New attempts to reach smartphone and tablet-using viewers, and measure their engagement too. By Stuart Dredge

Films made in 3D are a marketing gimmick, says director Alan Parker

Great Gatsby was only made in 3D to get the money back on a $120m movie, Bugsy Malone director tells Kirsty Wark. By Mark Sweney

Conan O’Brien: Twitter and Facebook were vital in launching my TBS show

Comedian and presenter says social media helped him rebuild an audience after he was fired from NBC's Tonight Show. By John Reynolds

NSA Prism programme a game changer on web privacy, says Sir Martin Sorrell

WPP chief, along with Jimmy Wales and Vivienne Westwood, raise concerns over extend of data collection program. By Mark Sweney

Facebook has 1m advertisers, but they’ll have to wait for video ads

Social network says 61% of its monthly active UK users have Liked at least one local business page. By Stuart Dredge

Facebook executive: advertisers need to control consumer data

Cannes Lions: Chief engineer says companies still target myth of 'captive' audience and fail to embrace digital. By Mark Sweney

YouTube network Fullscreen raises new funding round for expansion

Chernin Group, WPP Digital and Comcast Ventures chip in to rumoured $30m round for the MCN with 2.5bn monthly views. By Stuart Dredge

Jack Black plans online comedy series

Cannes Lions: Actor planning web content possibly including Tenacious D animated series. By John Reynolds

Could AppNexus’s digital ads be the unlikely saviour of our newspapers?

The advertising technology company hopes digital ads will continue to fund great journalism. By James Silver

Google Adword victory – ‘no’ to Esta copycats

As our campaign bites, Google at last takes action on US travel permits to enforce its own rules

Google Adword: time to close the ‘rogue sites’ loophole

Our story last week on the wiles of copycat websites overcharging the unwary for government services prompted a flood of mail

WPP to offer Twitter data to clients

World's largest advertising company to integrate data from tweets into its media and analytical tools. By Mark Sweney

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  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
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  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
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  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
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  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
  • Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate

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