Mumbrella live blog: Thursday, June 19
Welcome to Mumbrella’s live blog, your rolling diary for all the media and marketing news. Refresh the page for the latest updates.
Top stories:
- Over 2.5 million viewers watch NSW win the State of Origin
- Domain squatting mummy blogger: ‘This was one of the worst days of my life’
- Kia challenges viewers to save famous World Cup goals
- Vogue’s Sigourney Cantelo departs to run her own site
- Fairfax tells journalists it wants to cut out of hours pay
- Ten shares slump as it warns of lower revenues
4:08pm – Along with all the Aussie agencies picking up metal at the Cannes Lions advertising festival is expat and co-founder of Not Impossible Labs in Venice Beach, California, Elliot Kotek. He picked up a Gold Lion in the product design category for Project Daniel.
2:59pm – Victoria Bitter, sponsor of the NSW Blues, has been celebrating the NSW Origin victory with a tactical ad in the Daily Telegraph.
2:09pm – The owner of a Queensland blog at the centre of a row about the domain squatting of rival sites has posted a video apology, claiming that she had been given bad advice.
11:39pm – Coles has been found guilty over misleading shoppers with claims that bread products were “baked today” or “freshly baked in-store” by the Federal Court.
9:57am – It was a night of victory for NSW in the State of Origin which saw more than 2.5m metro viewers tune in for the second match.
6:55am – Welcome along. Plenty of metal was handed out in Cannes overnight, but precious little for Australia. However, some top notch speakers including Jared Leto, Sheryl Sandberg, Steven Moffat and Ralph Fiennes weighed in with some interesting views.