You still have a shot at winning a trip to Cannes Lions, industry recognition, and the experience of a lifetime.

Good news for busy young media stars. So many of you asked for an extension to enter the Yahoo! Young Media Stars competition that we’ve decided to grant one. The new deadline is Sunday, May 5, at 11:59 p.m. PST. That means you have about six more days to get in your application, and if you’re really gung-ho, make an optional entry video too.

If you’ve already submitted an application, you can use this extension to make a video and include it in your entry. Email the link to your video to ymediastars@yahoo.com. If you’ve already submitted your application and video, you can relax—for a little while.

Videos will be now posted in the dedicated Young Media Stars section on the Yahoo! Advertising Facebook page on May 7. Encourage your colleagues, friends, and family members to vote for your video from May 7 to May 13. Remember, we’ll award 5 bonus points to the video that best demonstrates originality and creativity, and 5 bonus points to the video that receives the highest number of votes on our Facebook page. Winners will be announced May 22.

This Friday, we’re kicking off a global tour called Yahoo! On the Road, the world’s first mobile entertainment and innovation festival. It begins on May 3 with a 28-city tour throughout the U.S. featuring an all-star lineup of top bands and entertainers including John Legend, fun., Fall Out Boy, The Lumineers, Imagine Dragons, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. At every stop, we’ll also showcase many of our newly re-imagined products and experiences such as Weather, Mail, and Flickr.

Yahoo! On the Road is an exciting, high-profile way to personally engage consumers with our solutions and to build bigger audiences for brands and marketers. Driving cross-country from New York to San Francisco, the U.S. tour will stop in a different city every day. The Yahoo! On the Road website and Twitter page will share details on how fans can get free tickets, which will be handed out (while supplies last)at a designated bus stop at each city. On June 11, the tour will jump over to Europe for a seven-city jaunt that begins in Berlin and ends at the Yahoo! Wireless Festival in London from July 12-14.

“Hybrid Hunter” driving game builds on VW’s theme that this is the “first hybrid you’ll actually want to drive”

Hybrid vehicles are typically long on ecological benefits and short on driving fun. VW tackles that notion head-on with a custom expandable ad on Yahoo.com that features an addictive video game that keeps you glued to their page and soaking up their message that the new Turbo Jetta Hybrid is a blast to drive.

The ad’s “Hybrid Hunter” game is based on the ‘80s arcade hit “Spy Hunter” and features the same vertical scrolling format. You play the game right on the page, using your arrow keys to steer your Turbo Jetta Hybrid past slower traffic, pick up extra points, and generally have a good time. The game takes a cue from the recent Jetta commercial “Passing Lane.”

It’s not all fun and games in this dual user-initiated expandable ad. There’s also plenty of information on the hybrid’s engine, batteries, aerodynamics. There’s even a story about the modified version that set a land speed record for hybrids at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats.

Advertising is a business that’s powered by ideas. Even ones like these.

The light bulb is the go-to graphic symbol for a bright idea, born when Thomas Edison invented the first commercially practical light bulb in 1879, a very good idea indeed.

Advertising is a business of ideas, says our David T. Jones, and they come in all types—big, small, good, bad, and funny. In this week’s Ad Land cartoon, he draws up a dozen of the funny kind, each with their own special light bulb.

And while we’re on funny light bulbs, David sent along one of his favorite ad jokes.

Q: How many Art Directors does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Does it have to be a light bulb?

Here’s a bright idea. Check out the full cartoon after the jump.

There are 70 million tablet users in the U.S. This VivaKI study shares insights into what they do on them every day.

Editor’s note: “Mobile Matters” is our ongoing series where we look at top issues, challenges, and opportunities in the fast-moving world of mobile marketing. We recently shared findings from a major tablet study by VivaKI that revealed the three most effective ad formats for the device. Here we highlight the study’s insights into the online habits of tablet users, which marketers can use to connect with them.

There are 70 million tablet users in the U.S, according to a recent study by VivaKI, and they spend an average of 90 minutes a day on their devices. The rapid growth of tablet users has triggered a “seismic shift” in consumer behavior that marketers should understand and leverage, says the study, and it shares insights into their daily activities on their devices.

The 14-month study collected data from 26 companies (including Yahoo!) and 20 million consumers, or one-third of the total tablet market in the U.S. Here are some highlights on tablet usage from the study.

Hear The Lumineers play live at our NewFront presentation on April 29We’ll show off our new online video content to marketers at NYC event and present a live concert by The Lumineers

Next Monday kicks off the second annual Digital Content NewFronts, a weeklong event where Yahoo! and other leading online content companies will present their shows to marketing and ad agency executives in New York City. We’re one of six founding partners of the event, which last year showed the advertising world that digital entertainment had arrived. The message of this year’s event, says Erin McPherson, Yahoo! Vice President of Video Programming, is “digital entertainment is here to stay.”

Yahoo!’s all-in when it comes to original Web video content:

• We produce and distribute more than 50 original online shows
• They earn industry recognition. “Burning Love,” “Electric City” and “Cybergeddon” won Streamy awards this year. Four of our shows are nominated for Webby People’s Voice awards.
• They’re being picked up by TV. “Burning Love” premiered on E! in February and “Cybergeddon” will air in international markets.

We’re going all-out at our April 29 NewFront session. Our videos are daily habits for millions of viewers, and we’ll show advertisers how our new shows are aligned with those daily habits and present great opportunities for them. Monday’s session will wrap up with a special performance by The Lumineers. If you can't be there in person you can still catch the concert live from the Yahoo! stage in New York. We'll be streaming the show live on the Yahoo! Advertising Solutions site  on Monday, April 29, at 8 p.m. EST (5 p.m. PST).

An expert shares best practices on safeguarding your search ad accounts on the Yahoo! Bing Network

We have great security teams dedicated to preventing fraudulent activity on the Yahoo! Bing Network, but you can also help protect your search ad accounts by following the tips and best practices in this post by Bing Ads expert David Gottlieb.

These best practices can help you:

• Strengthen your computer’s defenses against intruders
• Protect yourself from phishing and downloading malicious software
• Safeguard company data and financial assets
• Create stronger passwords and password policies
• Take swift action to minimize possible damage if your account has been compromised