Digital advertising growth is continuing to make up for print advertising decline at the Daily Mail, according to an interim management statement from parent company Daily Mail and General Trust. DMG Media - which includes Mail Online, Metro and the Daily Mail titles - reported revenue for the quarter to 30 June of GBP196m, which was flat year on year on an underlying basis. Newspaper advertising revenue was down 7% year on year, but web advertising (mainly Mail Online) was up 41%. Print circulation revenue was down 3%.

Mirror Group Digital recorded an 11.7% month-on-month increase in online traffic to its websites for June according to figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The increase, from 26.2 million to 29.4 million, is the biggest percentage change in month-on-month traffic for all the UK newspaper websites included in the ABC report. The Guardian was the only other website to record positive growth with a month-on-month increase of 2.4%, to 84.9 million.

The number of reported privacy cases heard in court in the UK rose by 22 per cent in the last year, according new research. A study by legal information provider Sweet and Maxwell found that the number of recorded cases in the year to 31 May 2013 was 55, up from 45 in the 12 months before. And there were 40 recorded in the year before, between 2010 and 2011. The statistics, on cases reported in the High Court and above where a privacy argument was used, were based on research by Sweet and Maxwell's online services, Lawtel and Westlaw …

Business related social network LinkedIn is launching LinkedIn Sponsored Updates, giving brands a new way of building relationships with followers and non-followers. Sponsored Updates will enable companies to promote business content in the newsfeed of LinkedIn members, including videos, presentations and product news. Capgemini and Turkish Airlines are among the first brands to trial LinkedIn Sponsored Updates ahead of the general launch.

Popular politics blog Guido Fawkes claims to have initiated legal proceedings against anti-porn campaigner Claire Perry MP after conducting a readers' poll to sway the decision. The site published a two-sentence report on 23 July that the MP's website had been hacked and was hosting pornographic pictures. The piece signed off with the line "At least her website will be blocked when the new rules come into effect..." in typical Guido humour. The story prompted the Tory MP to take to Twitter to accuse Guido of sponsoring the hack.

Video advertisement expenditure is expected to increase by over 50% by 2016 in the UK, though the video ads aren't quite popular among UK consumers, a report from the eMarketer has stated. The rise will be driven by the digital ad spend growth in the country, that is expected to rise by 52.6% in 2013. A report, 2013 Consumer Survey from the QuickPlay Media revealed that about 43% of UK video viewers searched for an option to skip the ads, while about 22% respondents did not seem to be bothered by the ads until the ad interruption was short.

Monday 22 July saw 94 million visits made to news and media websites, following the news that Kate had gone into labour, with the baby boy born later that evening - up 29 million from the daily UK average. The research from Experian found that visits to the news and media category were up by 22% on Monday compared to the previous Monday, with tabloids received twice as much traffic as broadsheet websites.

Information search, management and governance firm Recommind is planning to integrate social media into its platform, most likely via a partnership with an as-yet-unnamed Australian ISV, CBR has learned. The news came in an interview with Recommind co-founder and GM of information management and governance, Derek Schueren. "It will help people see what's going on in social media with relation to their own company - it will enable people to analyse the streams of data out there," he said.

The launch of a new free smartphone-friendly version of The Guardian's website may have led to a drop-off in paid-for subscribers to the paper's iPhone app. The app, which costs GBP3.99 for six months, attracted just over 57,000 users in the year to March, down from 82,000 a year earlier. In November, The Guardian rolled out a new mobile version of the site using responsive design to optimise the reading experience on all mobile devices.

There is no question that children today find it much easier to view pornography than in the pre-internet era. David Meyer can certainly see why many people have a problem with this and want to see something done about it. The problem is, this is a bad way of going about it.