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Playing For Keeps pulls 221,000 metro viewers for its second episode

Veriu Group appoints ID Collective to its PR account

Amazon set to reach US$400bn in brand value in the next five years, as Interbrand reveals its 2019 Best Global Brands Report

VMLY&R Brisbane wins the Queensland Government’s Translink account 5

John Preston to step down as Publicis ANZ chair to focus on combating climate change 15

‘Weak, tired and a string of failures’: Seven CEO James Warburton gives scathing assessment of his network’s recent performance 17

Seven in 2020: Big Brother, Mega Mini Golf, Gary Mehigan and Matt Preston, and a rebrand for 7Flix 16

Seven announces new buying platform and contextual ad placement service as it promises a ‘content-led growth strategy’ 10

13Cabs positions itself as simpler and faster than Uber in campaign via Thinkerbell 40

Mediacom defends Rob Moore court case: Mars ‘unequivocally disliked Rob’ 80

325,000 metro viewers tune in to Ten for the premiere of One Born Every Minute Australia

MLA appoints Wunderman Thompson to overhaul its shopper experience

Citipower, Powercor and United Energy shine a light on the ‘lineys’ who maintain Victoria’s power 1

McKenzie Partners wins creative for Sumo Salad and Thr1ve

The Core Agency wins creative for Beem It and launches new campaign 1

Magic Box Wines celebrates ‘magic hour’ with its first brand campaign

‘Smartbank’ 86 400 launches its first OOH campaign 2

Verizon Media signs deal with Apple for programmatic native ads in UK, Australia and Canada 1

CHE Proximity launches augmented reality arm, led by Charlotte Bruton 8

Kate Lyons appointed Pacific editor for The Guardian Australia

An unstoppable Joker adds another $4.4m to its box office total, beats Maleficent and Zombieland sequels

Amazon vice president of global comms Craig Berman moves to chatbot company Live Person

Online abuse against women journalists is a workplace health and safety issue, says new report

Ben and Liam to host breakfast in Adelaide on Nova 91.9 5

Triple J Breakfast hosts Ben and Liam to finish up with Sally Coleman and Erica Mallet to take over in 2020 2

Atomic 212 and Barry O’Brien sue former CEO Jason Dooris for fraud, kickback and bribery claims 31

Ten wins the night as 1.372m metro viewers tune in for final reveal of The Masked Singer

News.com.au still Australia’s most popular news website, despite gains from Seven, ABC and Nine 7

Actor David Wenham stars in ad for investment management business Pendal 4

James Warburton on Nine’s proposed media buying platform: ‘If that’s the solution, we’ll 100% back it’ 3

Mumbrella CommsCon to return in 2020 with new interactive stream, pitching workshop and exclusive brand research

Mumbrella CommsCon Awards entries now open

Henry Tajer calls ‘bullshit’ on Toby Barbour’s take on the pitch problem, says DAN isn’t ‘the most desperate’ network 19

Adam Ireland leaves Athletes Voice for Universal Music Australia’s creative agency Bring

Natalie Pennisi departs Bank Vic to join MLC Life Insurance as senior consultant of internal communications 1

Adam Lang to leave Macquarie Media at end of the week 9

CEO Brendon Hill is confident the ACCC will approve Bauer’s Pacific Magazines acquisition, says there are no current plans to cull titles 5

Alt/Shift adds St Kilda’s Prince Public Bar to its client list

Financial services PR and marketing firm Blue Chip Communication wins five new clients 1

Flight Centre pays $252,000 fine for allegedly misleading more than 35,000 customers with promo ads

The City of Perth appoints 303 Mullen Lowe Perth to its agency roster

M&C Saatchi creates trainable AI athlete to promote new Puma range

Former 303 Mullen Lowe and Fox Sports exec launches comms consultancy Istories

Triple M Brisbane promotes Scott Menz to content director

Former VMLY&R regional head of retail, Danny Lattouf, joins The General Store as chief strategy officer 1

Newspapers unite with redacted front covers for first time because Australians have a ‘right to know’ about government secrecy 13

Nine takes an easy Sunday night win as The Block soars past 1m metro viewers

Seven West Media agrees to sell Pacific to Bauer Media for $40m 20

Kieran Gilbert named Sky News’ first chief news anchor 1

Mediacom chief strategy officer Mike Deane departs to start consultancy

KPMG elevates Amanda Hicks to national managing partner for brand and marketing 1

Finalists for the 2019 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism announced

The Daily Telegraph breached Press Council standards for transphobic article on axe attacker Evie Amati 3

Women’s BBL pulls 218,000 metro viewers on quiet Friday night

Nine wins the week to remain just ahead of Seven in yearly ratings battle

Jonesy and Amanda crowned FM’s best on-air team at ACRAs

Sportsbet moves media account from Spark Foundry to Chris Nolan’s Principle Media Group 3

Kyle Sandilands says ‘it never entered his mind’ he might fail when ditching 2Day FM for Kiis 3

Australia Prospers stresses the need for businesses and universities to work together in campaign via The Hallway

News Corp Australia and Nova form strategic podcast partnership

Ten holds strong in key advertising demographics with Gogglebox and The Bachelorette

AFL star Max Gawn stars in launch of Di Di’s seven-seat ‘Max’ service

CRA partners with Google to make Australian stations easily discoverable on Nest devices

Lizzie McManus joins Bastion EBA as head of brand experience 1

ARN becomes exclusive Australian sales representative for IHeartPodcast network

CRA releases first monthly podcast ranking, with Hamish and Andy at the top 8

Mindshare and Bohemia dominate MFA Awards, while Volvo wins Grand Prix 14

Q&A appoints Erin Vincent as new EP

Seven West Media and Prime to merge 13

Playing for Keeps returns to Ten with 297,000 metro viewers 1

Tinder appoints Alley as its digital media agency

Sydney Kings launch 2019-20 season with campaign via the Dentsu Aegis Network

Silver Chef launches refreshed branding by Brisbane agency Nick Did This

Versa appoints Gavin McDonough as general manager in Sydney

ARN renews contracts for Kyle and Jackie O, Christian O’Connell, and Jonesy and Amanda 1

Nine creates Australia’s ‘most powerful data ecosystem’, changes costing model for 9Now 6

Nine in 2020: MAFS, Lego Masters, The Voice, Ninja Warrior and The Block all returning as network champions ‘pillars of proven consistency’ 4

Nimble rebrands and drops the man in the bunny suit from its ads 7

Tourism Tasmania invites Australians to ‘Come down for air’ in brand relaunch from BMF and Clems Sydney 5

Foxtel restructures sales and marketing departments, resulting in further redundancies 18

Former Allure Media CEO Jason Scott to head up MiQ 7

The Masked Singer double reveal draws 1m metro viewers to Ten

Mamamia in 2020: ‘You do you’, new podcasts and more parenting content 3

MSIX returns in 2020 to unpack marketing sciences: Call for submissions open

EVH wins the global communications account for Vida Glow

JC Decaux creates a face-reading billboard for Yoplait’s latest product launch 4

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne hires another duo from London, Jacob Gjelstrup Björdal and Jim Nilsson 2

Movember celebrates moustaches of all shapes and sizes in ‘Whatever you grow will save a bro’ campaign