YouTube’s mobile advertising takes off
Google's video service may have generated as much as £226m from mobile ads in the first quarter of 2013 alone. By Stuart Dredge
Channel 4 second-screen app 4Now to allow real-time viewer interaction
Advertisers will be able to target ads, with app tapping into popularity of viewers using social media while watching shows. By John Plunkett
Google Adword: beware copycat websites in paid-for search results
Web search results reveal scores of 'rogue websites' tricking the unwary into paying too much for government services
Heineken launches The Hangover-style online reality TV series
Beer brand's 'social experiment' will record people's reactions when they are dropped into bizarre, unpredictable situations. By Mark Sweney
Xbox One checking if you’re watching ads? Less ‘gee-whiz’, more WTF
Arwa Mahdawi: Microsoft's patented solution to people not paying attention: bribery. Maybe companies should just make better adverts
Google advertising under investigation in US
US federal trade commission looking into allegations that company's DoubleClick has illegally promoted Google products
Shazam redesigns its iPad app with television-tagging in mind
Auto-tagging feature runs in the background to identify shows, ads and music on the second screen. By Stuart Dredge
Who dares to dodge Google’s information tax?
McKenzie Wark: In exchange for giving up our personal data, we get to watch each other's cat videos, while Google becomes the new state
The west’s hidden propaganda machine
Eliane Glaser: Overt public manipulation is disavowed in the west, unlike in North Korea, but citizens are still 'nudged' – increasingly by social media
Google, there’s no such thing as ‘the perfect map’
Jerry Brotton: The corporation should be honest about its cartographic ethos: its Google Maps app is partly a tool for delivering ads
YouTube bans ad for porn website aimed at disabled people
Jason Stone: Come4 trailer was narrated by rights campaigner Asta Philpot, who argues that disabled people have a right to a sex life
Junk foods avoid ad ban by targeting children online
Campaign claims regulator failing to protect children from aggressive online marketing and child-friendly internet games
New York Times to introduce a cheaper digital package to lure subscribers
Chief executive Mark Thompson outlines his strategy to reinvigorate online subscriptions as advertising declines. By Mark Sweney
Advertisers should slash newspaper and magazine budgets, says WPP boss
FT Digital Media Conference: Sir Martin Sorrell says WPP finds huge disparity between advertising outlay and time consumers spend reading publications. By Mark Sweney
Forbes Media’s Lewis DVorkin: ‘I’m not a geek, I just like doing new things’
The chief product officer on paying contributors according to traffic and getting advertisers to pay for editorial, writes Lisa O'Carroll