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WPP extends $420m debt facilities ahead of half year financial results

Australians watch twice as many ads as they think they do: Google and Kantar research 1

Google warns consumers ACCC code will create a ‘dramatically worse Google Search and Youtube’ 26

Tiktok explicitly bans deepfakes, updates policy in attempt to combat misinformation

Kevin Rudd and industry leaders speak up against The Oz’s ‘racist’ Kamala Harris cartoon 33

Ferrero media and communications manager, Michelle Hood, departs 1

Pink unicorn, pink lips, and pink dolphins star in Brookvale Union and Clemenger BBDO’s ‘State of Mouth’ campaign

A fitness session with a twist and another international speaker lined up for Mumbrella360: Reconnected 1

Final entries for the Mumbrella Publish Awards due this week

Schapelle Corby, Roxy Jacenko and Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins among first recruits for Seven’s SAS Australia 8

Mumbrella restructure brings journalists together into single team 10

Man of Many appoints Tim Fernandes as sales and partnerships manager 1

The Bachelor dips to 604,000 for its second night

Enero Group’s revenue and profit climb, despite small slump in Australia

Genea Fertility assigns CHE Proximity to its media and creative

The Inspired Unemployed returns to launch Tradie’s body wash

Seven renews Farmer Wants A Wife for 2021

Foxtel’s Amanda Laing adds content to her remit in latest restructure 2

News.com.au leaps back into second place in Nielsen digital top ten 2

VB launches perfume ‘Thirst’ in time for father’s day 4

DAN boosts Queensland client list and adds Toby Shaw to iProspect team

A second Audi campaign from The Monkeys launches, following appointment as lead creative agency 1

Celeste Barber sends sustainability message in Brita’s #GetYourJugsOut campaign 4

The Bachelor premieres to 681,000 metro viewers, tops key advertising demographics

Comms agency launches ‘pay what you can’ model for sectors hit by COVID-19

Vision Australia appoints Hardhat as lead creative agency

Finalists for the 2020 Australian Effie Awards announced

‘Don’t let a little habit turn into a big problem’, warns ad targeting lockdown drinkers 1

Annika Smethurst takes sabbatical from industry due to ‘heavy toll’ of AFP raid

Sleep Check app asks ‘Is there more to your snore’?

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne hires planning director Leigh Arbon

‘It was pretty hard news to cop’: Studio 10 responds to axing of stars including Kerri-Anne Kennerley 6

Twitch hires Sandeep Suvarna as head of marketing for APAC region 1

The Masked Singer jumps 14% on second outing, helping Ten to a rare win

Mumbrella Awards shortlist announced, CHE Proximity and Thinkerbell net 10 nominations each 3

Herd MSL managing director Jason Carnew to depart 2

Simonds Homes consolidates its digital media with Switch Digital

Pernod Ricard continues agency hiring spree with One Daydream coming on board

‘Disingenuous’ Coles slammed by industry body after ceasing catalogue delivery 12

ARN’s IHeartPodcast Network maintains top spot in podcast ranking

70 roles cut at Nova as broadcaster deals with COVID-19 impact

Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Natarsha Belling and Tim Bailey all axed as Ten cuts across the network 21

303 Mullen Lowe appoints a new ECD in Bart Pawlak 2

WPP AUNZ acquires Perth agency Meerkats 3

UnLtd releases survival guide to support adland during lockdown

Coles will no longer deliver catalogues, opting for new digital experience 12

Ten’s The Masked Singer drops 30% for the premiere of its second season

Elissa Ratliff returns to Mamamia as head of podcasts 2

Oakley reimagines Bob Marley’s ‘One Love’ with sports stars

Sportsbet takes aim at AFL’s grand final dilemma 

Enigma acquires creative agency Disciple 1

Tiktok hires director of communications, Claire Robinson 3

Marketers withholding budgets for the second half of the year: AANA and Ipsos

Stuart Pool joins Solstice Media as head of digital and partnerships after 16 years at News Corp

JC Decaux highlights ‘real life heroes’ ahead of Red Nose Day

REA’s profit slips 9%, with group thankful not to have been ‘catastrophically’ hit by COVID-19 1

Audi says it is ‘raised by racecars’ in first campaign from The Monkeys 4

Daily Mail apologises for and retracts Daniel Johns brothel story

Bonds addresses the ‘turtleneck’ vs ‘crewneck’ debate in ad for universally comfy underwear 7

‘You’ll never, ever know’: Osher Günsberg on how seriously the Bachelor franchise takes the mental health of contestants 3

Bachelor in Paradise’s final moments bring 480,000 metro viewers to Ten

AANA and Ad Standards to merge to reduce costs and complexity 1

International speakers from Microsoft, WE Communications and SI Partners to speak at Mumbrella360: Reconnected

Radio ramps up advertising push ahead of ratings return

Nine Upfronts move to virtual format in 2020

Fetch promises to be ‘far more active in the market’ with new $5m campaign 3

ABC’s head of specialist Aidan Laverty passes away, less than three weeks after leaving role 3

Thinkplace appoints first ever CEO, and revamps leadership structure

Facebook and Google ‘are not free; everything has a cost’: ACCC’s Rod Sims on new draft code, inquiries, and Google court cases

News Corp’s advertising revenue falls over 50% in fourth quarter, as company posts US$1.5bn loss

Pernod Ricard adds The Mint Partners to its agency roster for PR

Australia’s illiteracy problem exposed in mock film trailer from Emotive, Google and the UN

Viacom CBS to launch new streaming service, replacing 10 All Access

Bell & Bone appoints Savi Communications to its PR account

Global out-of-home industry says 2021 is ‘our second chance’

Simon Ryan’s Ryancap acquires Melbourne digital agency, reuniting collection of old DAN colleagues 6

‘If the music stops, then everything stops’: American Express implores Australians to continue backing the music industry

Mad As Hell returns for season 12 with 691,000 metro viewers tuning in

Alyssa Healy and Ashleigh Gardner star in ad for Asics’ women’s cricket shoe

QMS Sport rebranded to ‘Media Tech’, integrated into TLA

Bendigo Bank and Centre for Social Economics added to Mumbrella Finance Marketing Virtual Summit 1

Quaden Bayles and mother sue Miranda Devine and News Corp for defamation

ABC redundancies look to total 151, including 81 from news division, as consultation enters final phase

Nielsen launches sponsorship data platform Sponsorlab

Deloitte promotes Matt McGrath to global CMO, with Rochelle Tognetti taking on local role 2

New STEM publication, The Brilliant, launches

CJZ, Fremantle, Jungle and Roadshow receive screen grants from NSW Government

Instagram launches Tiktok competitor, Reels, in Australia 4