A charity in Spain has revealed an advert that uses an optical illusion to deliver a hidden message to passing children, encouraging them to report potential abuse.

The channel, which launches tomorrow, will deliver 'extreme' reality TV audiences this side of the pond

Lunch with an advertising executive on Tuesday persuaded me that all was mostly well in the land of black rollnecks.

The service is being shut down, with Google giving users just over three months to set up their RSS feeds elsewhere

Advertising has crept into everyday life so subtly that we now forget to be outraged - this is a case of corporate identity replacing female identity

Investing in online and making television shows for other broadcasters is helping STV, the Scottish version of ITV, to grow  at a time when the traditional ad market is set to stay flat over the medium term.

Google cheered investors with news of better than expected earnings last night, with the Californian search giant reporting signs of stability in its advertising rates.

Hopes that the UK economy might avoid a triple-dip recession have received a boost as a survey showed marketing spend grew at its fastest rate for over a year, despite the tough economy.

Those loveable meerkats have beaten Vinny Jones...in the race to the most liked advert of 2012.

Someone said that the challenge for China is that it will grow old before it grows rich. The long-term consequence of the one-child policy is that the proportion of young people in the economy will soon shrink significantly, meaning the country has a far bigger problem supporting its soon-to-be-retired than we do.

The social networking site has introduced the fee in as trial which it insists is only for a "small number of people" and is initially being tested just in the US

The advertising giant has had an almighty bust-up with the broadcaster

God, it's annoying about Instagram. You pay them that monthly fee and then take all those brilliant photos of pieces of cheese and share them with your friends, and then, yesterday, you get hit with it: they're going to sell your pictures on to advertisers without giving you a penny or asking your permission. The cheek of it is astounding. The worst of it is: you can't escape. Once you're an Instagram user, there is simply no way to protect yourself from this cynical, greedy move by Facebook, a company that used only to be interested in making the world better through social networking.

There is in fact no such thing as a fundamental human right to awesome retro filters on Instagram. Surprising, I know