Microsoft have restarted their "Scroogled" advertising campaign against Google, hitting out at them over their privacy violations regarding the Play Store, claiming Google gives out sensitive info. More...

Mozilla's latest project, the 'Collusion' addon for Firefox, builds up an almost-scary picture of how you're connected to the Internet, and how you can be tied across different websites unknowingly. More...

Analytics firm eMarketer have forecast that Twitter may generate up to $1 billion in 2014 through advertising revenue. With an IPO likely approaching and a growing user base, will forecasts be met? More...

Reddit are introducing the ability to up vote, or down vote ads depending on their relevancy to you. If an advert is unsuitable, Reddit will hide it if you down vote the ad. More...

Apple and Microsoft have introduced many new products over the years and we have compared each of their advertising efforts to highlight how each company promotes new products. More...

Microsoft is continuing its advertising push for its numerous products and services with a new commercial for SkyDrive and Office 365 featuring Aubrey Plaza of "Parks and Recreation." More...

Despite previously saying it would wind down the Scroogled marketing campaign against Google, Microsoft apparently has no plans on abandoning the campaign anytime soon. More...

Facebook is looking for new, and more inventive, ways of monetizing their 1 billion users, but they could come at the cost of the advertisers who provide Facebook with the majority of their money. More...

Microsoft has released a new 30-second commercial advertising its new Office 365 Home Premium service. The commercial touts the cloud storage and syncing capabilities of the service. More...

Facebook is planning to enter the video advertising game, offering video advertising space to ad agencies, with those adverts being played dynamically on users news feeds. More...

The FBI has confirmed the arrest of 10 people over the Butterfly Botnet; a botnet that, peaking at more than 11 million machines infected, harvesting details on bank accounts and passwords. More...

To promote its new mobile operating system, Microsoft is launching an outdoor ad campaign in the UK today that will allow people to design personalized start screens on outdoor ads. More...

Microsoft is on a roll when it comes to advertising, and they just got a huge boost in Europe by bringing Windows 8 and its Live Tiles to the front and center of the MTV European Music Awards. More...

A video showing how the Surface commercial made has been released. The video focuses on how the dancers worked together in their group movements and how they came up with ideas. More...

Microsoft's Surface TV spot is apparently the most effective tablet-only advert of the year, scoring highly in analysis performed by Ace Metrix and beating all iPad and Galaxy Note ads More...

Microsoft is showing off how a number of high profile Windows 8 apps will include in-app advertising features, including videos and interactive elements from companies like Delta and Jeep. More...

Conservative UK politician Grant Shapps, or Michael Green as he identifies himself online, has been found to have been exploiting Google's AdSense system through selling SEO spamming software online. More...

An approved patent application reveals Sony plans to get you to shout at your TV or play an interactive game with it in order to skip through the commercials more quickly. More...

Is nothing sacred any more? Microsoft has filed a patent that would take advertising in e-books to a whole new level by bringing contextual, targeted advertisments to your favorite literature. More...

Google has changed the developer policies for their Play Store to aid buyers and users. They have made it harder to push fake apps, and finally killed the frustrating AirPush advertisement platform. More...

A claim from a company advertising on Facebook suggests that the company was seeking to exploit them for profit. They allege most of the ad clicks coming from cash-hungry Facebook bots. More...

Facebook posts content to your friends' news feeds whether you would like them to or not, and it isn't a bug either. We observe what causes these posts. More...

Microsoft has confirmed it has laid off a number of its team members in its advertising and marketing divisions, although it is not clear how many people have been affected. More...

A class-action lawsuit has beaten Facebook into allowing users to opt out of Sponsored Stories, and could also cause significant financial ramifications for the site as well. More...

After disputes with Australia's competition watchdog, Apple and the ACCC have not reached an agreement over the iPad WiFi + 4G model, despite it being incompatible with Australian 4G networks. More...

A hotel chain has now said it has stopped two of its hotels from putting in hidden ad code in its free WiFi services, claiming it did not know about the practice. More...

At least one hotel in New York City uses its free WiFi connection to place some hidden code inside the web sites that are visited by its guests who use the wireless network. More...

There's a ton of great apps for kids on mobile devices, but they're being plagued by inappropriate ads, urging kids to do everything from meeting up with 'hot women' to becoming a Scientologist. More...

In a move obviously destined for the world of social media, Microsoft has trademarked the term 'People Powered Stories', which could form the backbone to a future advertising campaign. More...

It appears Facebook is trying to justify the "sponsored stories" that will hit your newsfeed next year by asking if users actually understand how Facebook makes money. Do they actually care? More...

A report by Smaato shows that Microsoft's Windows Phone platform has the highest click through rate of any mobile platform; this is the third consecutive quarter for Windows Phone to be on top. More...

Since the Nokia Lumia phones were announced last week, Nokia has launched a full scale advertising assault across TV, billboards and on the internet in the UK. A good sign for the future of WP7. More...

The UK Advertising Standards Authority has ruled in favour of Apple's iPhone 4 in a dispute with Samsung over which company can lay claim to having the worlds thinnest smartphone. More...

AOL's top advertising executive will be leaving the company, the chief executive confirmed to employees on Monday. The president of the company's global marketing and strategy, Jeff Levick, will be leaving the company after a... More...

Yell on Tuesday announced plans to form a new strategic alliance with Microsoft in an aim to offer a more innovative online advertising and business solutions to small and medium sized businesses. According to RTTNews Yell... More...

Microsoft is breaking new ground with Kinect. The platform from Microsoft, first deployed for the Xbox 360, is a revolutionary device, not because of its gaming potential but because of what it can do outside... More...

Microsoft has launched a new Canadian-based online advertising campaign aimed at trying to convince consumers that they should once again choose a Windows PC over a Mac. According to The Inquirer, the campaign is entitled “Do... More...

Ever felt like you missed your friend Timmy's third check-in of the day at Starbucks on Facebook? Probably not. But Facebook sure thinks you have, and they have now found a way to monetize that... More...

Well known for their sentimental, heart-warming and very visually appealing Christmas (and even year round) advertising, Coca-Cola's 2010 ads, are as usual, a sight to behold This year however,... More...

In a move that will have more than a few people shaking their heads, Google has renamed text advertising that appears next to search results to simply ''Ads''. Previously, the AdWords listings were referred to... More...

Opera software, creators of the popular mobile-browser Opera Mini, announced today that they will start advertising their mobile browser using a new service which they call the "Open Mobile Ad Exchange". Similar to Ericsson's Admarket,... More...

Apple’s release of the iAd advertising solution with iOS 4 was bound to shake things up in the mobile advertising industry. According to Bloomberg, it absolutely did. The new numbers show all the big players... More...

When Apple entered the advertising market, many wondered how it would compete against Google on its home turf. The answer is simple, they won’t. At AllthingsD conference Steve Jobs promised to open up... More...

After a long and successful run of advertising the Mac and Justin Long, the "I'm a Mac", Apple marketing series has been discontinued, according to Mac Rumors. The long-running campaign featured various conversations between a... More...

Twitter wasn’t always as big as it is today. In fact, they were quite small for years before going mainstream, but one question has remained: How will this service be monetized? It’s not a shocker,... More...

Isn't it interesting how Google managed to get the Nexus One on all cell carriers in the US? Were it any other company, such a feat could have taken years. Google has accomplished it at... More...

Ever get the feeling you are being followed? Well Google has announced that they are ready to release a new method to display ads to customers. Google has been testing the system since... More...

On Sunday America unleashed Super Bowl XLIV, which was the most watched television program of the year. Attracting 80 to 90 million American viewers at any one point, the professional American football event is one... More...

Online advertising has overtaken TV advertising in the UK for the first time, with a record £1.75 billion spent on advertising in the first six months of 2009. Internet advertising in the UK now accounts... More...