Amazon has today announced its Amazon Mobile Ads API for developers, allowing them to offer display ads inside their apps.

By Anthony Wing Kosner.

A research study from Forrester, commissioned by the app-recommendation company Tapjoy, finds that mobile users find mobile ads annoying.

By Speider Schneider.

Once a month I go to a get-together of designers where we commiserate over clients and share horror stories. We laugh at the stories but it always strikes me how similar… sometimes exact the stories are. It’s almost as if there’s a guidebook for people wanting design work and what to say to designers to get cheap or free work.

By Alvaris Falcon.

You gotta admit that the world is ugly. Although World War II was more than 60 years ago, the world today is still filled with destruction, but in different forms such as deforestation, animal massacres and also the robbery of human rights. The good news is that when there is darkness, there is light.

We missed this one when it arrived in the world, but credit to Carol Soutar and Briain Wright for hitting the spot with this fun, self-referential print ad for Cadbury. Insert your own joke about aping existing work here.

Mediastreet went along to the Sunday Business Post’s National Digital Media and Marketing Summit (snappy!) in Croke Park last Wednesday, and jolly good it was too. More of that anon, but for now this shiny thing caught our eye. A handy little video infographic from Cybercom on Irish consumers and what they’re getting up to [...]