Amazon, Google, Facebook and YouTube are amongst the top 12 brands favoured by the UK’s ‘Generation Y’ of 16 to 34 year olds, according to a new survey.

Google has filed a patent letting users pull a silly face instead of entering a password to unlock their Android phones or tablets.

Yandex is letting brands add interactive functions into its search results, such as hotel bookings or flight check-ins, as the Russian firm looks to expand its ad revenues.

Andrew Barnett, MD at Ubiquitous discusses the arrival of Wi-Fi in the black taxi, something to be hailed by passengers and marketers alike.

As digital media evolves at a rapid place, ad metrics are changing too- and advertisers need to adapt fast to ensure they are getting return on their investment. Jerry Wright, Global President of the IFABC on the future of global digital measurement standards.

Plans to send warning letters to UK web users suspected of committing piracy offences have been delayed until late 2015.

RadiumOne has expanded its programmatic advertising solutions with the introduction of its Enterprise and Self-Service Platforms for brands, agencies and trading desks.

Is a sleeping giant awakening in the online ad industry? Amazon’s ad sales remain a tiny portion of its overall revenues, but this looks set to change, with the retailer announcing ambitions to ramp up targeting and bring in $800m in ad revenue this year, overtaking Twitter in the process.

The majority of online video spend in the last 12 months is coming from budgets previously reserved for TV advertising, according to a recent worldwide study.

The UK ad market will grow by £3bn to £17bn in 2017, driven by strong internet advertising growth, according to a PwC report.