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Celebrity Name Game bumped as Ten turns to news to boost struggling early evening slate 70

Ten axes The Living Room, but promises its hosts will return to the network in 2020 17

News Corp names coverage team for Tokyo 2020 Olympics 1

Nothing’s changed but everything’s different in Brisbane, according to new campaign by VMLY&R and Ikon 5

Pepsi parodies The Matrix in reinventing its 1970s taste test challenge 4

Chris Bath quits ABC Radio 10

Mark Coad becomes CEO of IPG Mediabrands 6

Sammy J replaces Sami Shah and Jacinta Parsons in ABC Radio Melbourne breakfast slot 8

Mark Jarrett promoted to CEO of PHD as Mark Coad steps down after seven years 8

Red Havas changes leadership structure as Jackie Crossman steps down 1

OPR and Ikon target the painful process of expense tracking in campaign for Cabcharge 1

Edge expands its creative team with Will Bassett and Callum Foot

Red Balloon explores experience gifting in ‘Enrichmas’ Christmas campaign

David Attenborough and Elton John drive Nine to a Thursday night ratings win 1

Lawyer X reporting nabs the Gold at the 2019 Walkley Awards

Pureprofile says it will be more ‘agile’, but is still hampered by debt 4

Acast opens its doors to podcasts of all sizes with Acast Open

MercerBell and Performics to work together on a marketing strategy for Collective Wellness Group 1

Pizza Capers promises you’ll ‘need a safeword’ and to ‘father food babies’ in first campaign from BCM 3

Nine’s ARIA Awards coverage drops 16% from 2018 1

CBA appoints Rebecca Darley as GM of marketing and strategy for CommSec 1

Seven cancels more programs, including Sydney Weekender after 25 years 31

Accenture appoints Scott Hahn as its technology lead for Australia and New Zealand

Wunderman Thompson promotes Suzanne Sarkis to Melbourne partner

Lavazza moves its PR account from Kate & Co to Eleven

ADZ launches its first work for aged care business Blue Cross

Macquarie Media commercial boss Mark Noakes exits as Nine continues ‘aligning’ the two businesses 5

Carrington Brigham and Parnell Palme McGuinness launch new agency Agenda C

Remedy Drinks challenges the ‘glamour’ of sugary drinks in a bid to end their ‘domination of summer’ 5

ABC’s Osman Faruqi and Ruby Jones join Schwartz Media’s 7am podcast

Bupa moves $35m media account from Mindshare to Atomic 212 9

With Collective GM, Adam Parsons, exits a week after Isobar merger 8

MSIX to feature Mutiny founder Henry Innis on predicting ROI and Professor Gayle Kerr on the creativity impairment effect 3

Foxtel Media comms boss Sarah Tucker moves to LinkedIn 6

Nine takes a ratings win on a quiet Tuesday night in TV

‘Why can’t we stop cancer, Dad?’ asks boy in Cancer Council’s Christmas appeal 2

Cummins & Partners hires senior strategist Brad Hill

3 Phase Marketing hires Aaron Luxmoore as national commercial director

Simply Energy appoints AJF GrowthOps as its creative and Hardhat as digital experience 9

The Movember Foundation honours those with pash rash in final fundraising push 2

PR agency Comms House launches with Liv Flanagan and Stefanie Gidaro at the helm 2

News Corp’s Suddenly creates Kayla Itsines IGTV series 3

AKQA unveils new digital experience for Golf Australia 1

DAN’s CEO Henry Tajer is ousted after less than a year in the role, replaced by Angela Tangas 158

Seven launches ‘festive behind-the-scenes’ Home and Away series 6

ACE Radio founder Geoff Handbury passes away

Seven axes Today Tonight after 25 years 30

Ford V Ferrari and Last Christmas hold firm at the top of the Australian box office 2

870,000 metro viewers tune in for the 2019 finale of Have You Been Paying Attention? 2

IVE Group to acquire Salmat’s Australian catalogue business Salmat Marketing Solutions 2

Speed named lead media agency for skincare brand Palmer’s

Ovolo Hotels moves its fashion, art, music and travel PR from Kate & Co to Élysée Collective

‘It’s the most wonderful time for a beer’: Carlton Dry bemoans the drama of Christmas in reinvented carol 8

Katy Denis rebrands her PR agency to Extollo and launches product to raise profile of industry leaders 8

KK&O co-founder Rebbecca Davis departs for medical marketing agency Med Event

55% of Australia’s digital media this year was programmatic, but growth will be hindered by privacy and supply chain concerns

Cascade implores consumers to ‘make it amazing’ over summer with its range of mixers

Em Rusciano, Flex Mami and Ali Brigginshaw become The Body Shop’s Mrs Claus in activation by One Green Bean

Sky News’ Greg Byrnes joins Macquarie Media as head of content

GQ Australia names Jake Millar as acting editor following Mike Christensen’s resignation 1

Nine and Nick Cater to pay Wagners $3.6m after losing 60 Minutes defamation case 4

379,000 metro viewers tune in for final Sunday Night episode on Seven

PHD expands remit with Fitness Lifestyle Group to include Goodlife and Barry’s Bootcamp

M&C Saatchi Melbourne appoints Michael McEwan as MD after Andy Cairns’ departure 7

World Vision appoints new CMO Maryanne Tsiatsias

ID Collective hires Leah White as creative director

Nine signs content deal with NBC Universal to bolster 9Now platform 1

Kim Kardashian and Sharon Strzelecki star in Uber Eats’ latest local campaign 20

Nine leads the ratings year with just one week to go 4

Sonia Kruger to host Mega Mini Golf on Seven 1

Choice complains to ASIC about Aussie’s ‘dodgy’ home loan advertising 2

Sam Weir becomes editor of the Herald Sun as Damon Johnston moves to The Australian

Seven wins Friday night with news, cricket, and Better Homes and Gardens 1

CSU students win IAA Big Idea challenge with Coca-Cola sustainability project

First Test between Australia and Pakistan averages 358,000 metro viewers for Seven 1

P&O Cruises are ‘Like no place on Earth’, according to new campaign

Nova’s Kat Frost joins Foxtel Media as Brisbane sales director

Nine to extend NRL coverage in 2020 under ‘Your Footy, Your Way’ brand platform 1

Paper Moose joins the agency roster for Lion and launches alcoholic seltzer brand Quincy

Dentsu merges With Collective and Isobar 22

Landmark ruling entitles digital journalists to penalty rates and overtime under previously print-only Award

Gold Coast agency KK&O wins PR for Harbour Town Premium Outlets and Little Scholars School of Early Learning

Ad Standards gives its first ‘Kinder Conditions’ award to Booking.com 2

Chubb, Chemist Warehouse and CUB sign on as Australian Open partners 1

UNICEF asks people to share kids’ thoughts on global issues in honour of World Children’s Day

Rupert Murdoch dismisses claims News Corp is a climate change denier 13

Spark Foundry COO Duncan Parfitt to join Ian Perrin’s Speed as partner 7

72 and Sunny Sydney named as agency for Infigen Energy 4