Gannett Co. is acquiring social-media marketing firm Blinq Media to help build out its digital marketing services for brands and agencies. New York-based Blinq … Read the whole story

Microsoft is rolling out a series of new ad units to support the more than $8.4 billion marketers spend quarterly on online media ads. … Read the whole story

In its latest privacy initiative, mobile ad network Jumptap is teaming with Evidon to roll out a standardized icon in mobile and in-app ads … Read the whole story

CPG giant Reckitt Benckiser has tapped Syncapse Corp. to manage the company's global social media presence. Under the deal, Syncapse will use its platform … Read the whole story

With three months to go until the U.S. presidential elections, political ad spending has already exceeded $500 million, as political candidates rush to target … Read the whole story

A coalition of advocates will file Federal Trade Commission complaints on Wednesday alleging that five companies with Web sites aimed at kids are violating … Read the whole story

A Wall Street firm noted that U.S. ad spending in the April-June period was below the first quarter, suggesting that the ad market had … Read the whole story