Study highlights ‘predatory marketing practices’ of companies who target people at high risk of gambling or alcohol-related harmFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVulnerable Australians at high risk of gambling and alcohol problems are being “force fed” Facebook ads for that...

Advertising Standards Authority censures posts on Instagram and Facebook for trips from London to Amsterdam and BrusselsCross-channel train operator Eurostar has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for exaggerating the number of £39 seats on sale.The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that Eurostar ads across Instagram and Facebook...

TV chef, who has signed up for bakery chain’s first ever festive advert, says she is a fan of its sausage rollsNigella Lawson has issued an impassioned paean to the Greggs sausage roll, amid reports of a banger-based dust-up that threatened to cast a shadow over her appearance in the bakery chain’s first ever Christmas advert.Greggs confirmed on Sunday...

Sky Media will have to recompense business partners after discovering it had miscalculated what it owed themSky is facing a bill for hundreds of millions of pounds after a blunder that meant it accidentally underpaid its advertising partners, it has emerged.The broadcaster’s advertising sales arm, Sky Media, will have to recompense business partners...

The candidates have raised an extraordinary amount of money in an election awash with cash on an unprecedented scaleIt was one of the most striking images of the final full week of the presidential election campaign: a giant projection of Kamala Harris’s face on the 516ft-wide, 366ft-tall Las Vegas Sphere.At a reported $450,000 a day for what is believed...

TV, radio and mailboxes in Saginaw, Michigan, and any place likely to decide next week’s election, are being bombardedThere is almost no escape. One minute, you’re watching the spin of a wheel on a game show and a few seconds later, Jeffrey Epstein is staring out of the screen with a youthful Donald Trump at his side.What follows is yet another of the...