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A gory video meant to shock teenagers into avoiding pregnancy by showing a girl giving birth on a school field is capturing plenty of attention on the Web.

A lawsuit filed by the film director against American Apparel over a billboard was quickly settled on Monday morning for $5 million.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says that Craigslist is getting rid of its "erotic services" ads and will create a new adult category that Web site employees will review.

Although many retailers are reducing their online marketing budgets, spending on social media is falling at a slower rate than spending in other online marketing channels.

Newspaper circulation declined at an accelerated pace in the six months through March, adding to the industry's advertising woes.

Why are studios slowly but surely cutting back on their print ad budgets?

Twitter is most interested in striking distribution partnerships with big Internet and media companies, not in being acquired or striking an advertising deal, says company director Fred Wilson.

More on NewspapersTerry Widener has been selling newspaper ads for 35 years. But until last fall, Ms. Widener, a 53-year-old saleswoman at The Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tenn., had never sold an Internet ad.

Then in a two-week sales "blitz" intended to test an innovative partnership between newspapers and Yahoo, she persuaded advertisers to buy $200,000 in online ads that ran on the paper's Web site and on Yahoo. That represented about a seventh of the amount she typically sells in an entire year.

The Oscars have lost some of their luster this year -- at least when it comes to advertising.

There are over 150 million users but the economic crisis is taking and effect on Facebook. The source of all its revenue is from web ads, which and with the global financial crisis web advertising has been hit hard. Because of this "it's not wildly profitable even if it is profitable at all."