Patrick De Pelsmacker presents readers with a comprehensive examination of the new media landscape and the changes that have come to advertising with the emergence of digital and other new formats in media. The editor has organized the seventeen selections that make up the main body of the text in three parts devoted to the changing universe of advertising, advertising in a digitally connected world, and the hidden but paid for world of branded content and content marketing. De Pelsmacker is a faculty member of the University of Antwerp in Belgium.