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Little Bird PR wins Kristin Ess account 2

Edward Bray joins education tech provider Instructure as APAC head of marketing

Hearts & Science hires Isabelle Dunn as Australian digital lead

Married At First Sight secures highest Wednesday night audience to date

Airbnb Australia PR manager joins Google-owned drone startup

Digital marketing agency Sparro wins AON, Brandenburg Orchestra and The Beauty Chef

AAMI launches Spotify location based driver safety campaign

OMD unveils new investment leadership structure

Guardian appoints West Australian’s Sarah Martin as chief political correspondent 1

AFR relaunches quarterly Luxury lift out with Lauren Sams as new editor 1

Take 5 editor Paul Merrill among first Pitch2Punchline stand-ups 1

Nine’s 9Honey overtakes News’ Whimn in Nielsen’s Digital Content Ratings 2

Terry White Chemmart moves creative from JWT Melbourne to VMLY&R

Nine’s Married at First Sight and Travel Guides top key advertising demographics on Tuesday night

PHD and Blue Ribbon use geo-location to target calorie conscious customers

Carat’s Laura Bartal joins Lacuna as partner 2

Angela Swayn becomes group media director at Maxmedialab

More changes to Foxtel’s marketing executive ranks as Brigitte Slattery departs 3

AFL releases 2019 Don’t Believe in Never campaign ahead of season launch 1

Diversity of denim celebrated in latest AJF campaign for Target

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment appointed to Australian Olympic Committee

Perth radio ratings: Mix extends lead over Nova on strong breakfast showing

Agency behind Inner West Council rebrand refutes similarities to Droga5 work 7

Adelaide radio ratings: Nova closes in on Mix while Hit’s breakfast changes pay off 2

Marcel Sydney wins Yellow Tail’s global creative account

Sydney radio ratings: Nova sees big fall in first radio ratings for 2019 while Alan Jones slides 7

Melbourne radio ratings: SCA’s Fox FM regains its lead in drive 1

Brisbane radio ratings: Triple M’s Greg Martin, Robin Bailey and Nick Cody lose top breakfast spot 2

WPP’s Pulse Communications rebrands to Pulse

Former Weber Shandwick MD Ava Lawler launches holding company and consulting firm 3

Digital ad spend jumped 11.6% last year, claims IAB and PWC

Federal government moves to act on Wicked Campers ‘misogynistic’ and ‘vulgar’ signage 2

Captain Marvel storms the box office, taking $13.6m on opening weekend

Compare the Market goes zen on health insurance in latest meerkat campaign 1

Daily Mail sees reversal of fortunes in February Digital Content Ratings 5

Ten and Nine walk away from Boss trademark dispute 2

Ten’s Sunday Night Takeaway loses more viewers as channel share drops to 7.2% 9

Australian Rugby Union refused ownership of wallabies.com.au 3

Family breakups feature in Westpac’s latest ‘help’ campaign 8

Nine announces partnership with Adgile Media, led by director of effectiveness Jonathan Fox

Ten remains behind ABC as Nine wins fourth consecutive offical ratings week

Home Beautiful secures partnership with real estate agency group Century 21

BHP’s Simon Corrigan joins Cannings Purple in director role

Ten and Fox Sports secure rights to 2019 Rugby World Cup

Bonds embraces diversity in campaign fronted by transgender model Andreja Pejic 5

Cricket Australia makes world record bid in International Women’s Day campaign 1

Ooh Media group revenue director Phil Eastwood exits as part of wider restructure 1

Oporto enlists motocross stuntman for ‘Feed Your Adventure’ campaign

Gogglebox delivers Ten a much needed win on Thursday night

Dentsu shakes up regional structure but leaves Australia untouched

The Ideas Business and a live Mumbrellacast recording set the final program for Mumbrella Audioland 1

Unilever marketing boss calls on WPP to improve creative offering

‘Consider an alternative to cardiac arrest’ says Neptune Bio-Innovations for salt awareness week 1

Singapore Tourism rolls out interactive out-of-home campaign

Australian Traveller media names Katie Carlin as digital editor-in-chief

Momentum Energy pulls ‘culturally insensitive’ ad and apologises to Mexican community 9

Mountain Goat launches new ‘Goat’ craft beer by creating call centre 13GOAT 3

APN Outdoor’s Mark Fairhurst becomes GM of QMS Sydney

The Monkeys’ head of production, Thea Carone departs after 13 years

Ten’s most watched Wednesday TV program attracts 375,000 viewers 6

B.B.E wins spot on Holden’s roster as social media agency 7

Lion Dairy & Drinks assigns Hardhat to digital account

The Guardian calls for new programmatic advertising regime in ACCC response 5

Ten names astrophysicist as 2019’s bachelor 3

Ex-Marie Claire editors launch new women’s publication, Primer

The Lifestyle Suite launches quarterly digital publication The Suite Life

The Age appoints Jewel Topsfield as Melbourne editor

Streaming service dedicated to current affairs and documentaries iwonder launches

John Casey joins Foxtel as group director of marketing 7

Gymnast Emma Nedov stars in Running Bare’s International Womens Day inspired ad

Startup agency LaunchVic encourages Victorians to ‘scale up’ their careers

NRL introduces ‘new era’ to address last seasons’ ‘missed opportunities’ in major ad campaign 7

‘We would never say we do Australian property alone’: Domain hits out at REA in campaign 10

Artline assigns Reprise to creative and digital accounts 1

Facebook slams ACCC recommendations as as ‘unprecedented’ in digital platforms response 1

Peters Drumstick assigns SDWM to creative roster 1

Spark Foundry absorbs Blue 449 brand as agencies merge 18

Paper Stone Scissors opens its doors in Sydney

Polkadot Communications wins Athena Home Loans’ PR account

VMLY&R Brisbane has hired Mignon van Weeren as director of broadcast and content

Month in a Minute: February’s biggest agency stories

Caspar Schlickum joins Accenture Interactive Operations as regional MD for APAC

Koala’s ‘NÖFNIDEÄ’ billboard targeting IKEA cleared by Ad Standards

Junkee Media appoints Buzzfeed’s Nick Arnold as video news director 1

Post production company Heckler hires Luca Ionescu as ECD 1

Southern Cross Austereo appoints Gemma Fordham and Mike Fitzpatrick to national content roles

Ten’s Dancing With The Stars attracts 492,000 metro viewers, bringing audience share behind ABC 2

A Dog’s Way Home doesn’t manage to beat Alita: Battle Angel on its debut