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Facebook comms head admits hiring PR agencies to discredit critics as horror year continues

Visit Victoria searches for creative agency

CJZ co-founder slams ‘arsehole’ business affairs departments at TV networks 6

Alison Tilling departs BMF to take on strategy role at VMLY&R 6

Doctor Who marketer sold ‘the sizzle and not the sausage’ to reposition new series 6

Seven wins Wednesday night despite prominence of ABC programming

OMD Melbourne’s MD Dianne Richardson steps down after less than a year 16

Torstar wins PR account for Victoria’s Secret, Steve Madden and Flower Beauty

Hypetap launches image scraping AI tool pairing brands with influencers

Mumbrella launches Melbourne Automotive Marketing Summit with Renault, Repco and more confirmed 1

Google launches Asia-Pacific innovation challenge offering up to $300,000 for publishers’ projects

Publicis.Sapient appoints Sarah Adam-Gedge as Australia MD

SBS ‘can’t afford’ comedy programs 2

Stan will invest in local content – but only if it appeals to international markets 1

Ian Rowden becomes non-executive director of Enero Group

Former Kiis FM star John Caldwell accuses ARN of ‘bullying’ and ‘discrimination due to him being gay’

‘Don’t pitch us dating or cooking shows’: Ten 3

Free TV chairman Harold Mitchell resigns 4

Seven responds to ‘false suggestions’ relating to Tennis Australia court case 1

Ten Boss achieves higher share than SBS thanks to Tim Cahill’s last Socceroos match

Facebook safety and terrorism exec rejects claims users are turning away from the service

Four new ‘slow’ programs, Mastermind and a new brand positioning for SBS in 2019 4

The Works’ Adam Donnelley appointed RXP strategy boss in brand overhaul

Group M promotes Nicole Turley to client consultant at Finecast Australia 1

Controversial cartoonist Larry Pickering dies aged 76 3

Netflix and Stan need local content quotas: Senator Sarah Hanson-Young 11

Adshel boss Mike Tyquin to depart in Ooh Media management shakeup 1

Coles rewrites ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland’ in ad featuring Curtis Stone cameo 5

Aussie programmatic ad spend to pass $1.6bn next year, predicts Zenith 1

‘I was fired’: Naked’s ECD Jon Burden exits 25

Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention most watched Monday entertainment show 3

Leading Irish PR mind joins BMF, Red Agency, Finder and Klick Communications speaking at Mumbrella CommsCon

BMW’s GM of corporate communications Lenore Fletcher set to depart

ASIC alleges Harold Mitchell told Seven details of Ten’s interest in 2013 tennis rights 5

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald soars to the top of the weekend box office

Stockland tells Australians to pay it forward this Christmas 2

OMD wins Suncorp’s media account 16

Gruen, Utopia and Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell to return as ABC reveals 2019 TV plans 2

Bastion EBA nabs The Projects’ global chief operating officer Matt McCann as general manager

Alt/Shift Sydney hires Andie Crawford as general manager

Seven’s All Together Now is most watched non-news program for Sunday night TV

Fairfax Media shareholders approve Nine merger 1

ASIC launches action against ex-Tennis Australia directors Harold Mitchell and Steve Healy over 2013 tennis rights 2

Leading global banking exec, 86 400’s Anthony Thomson, to speak at Mumbrella360 plus Samsung and Kraft Heinz confirmed

Former Domain CEO Antony Catalano makes play for Fairfax Media 7

Culture consultancy Ministry of Culture launches in Sydney

ABC beats Ten in weekly ratings share despite finale of The Bachelorette

White Magazine shuts as advertisers withdraw due to same-sex marriage dispute 20

UNSW promotes global credentials in ad targeting postgraduate students

Seven wins Friday TV with help from Better Homes and Gardens 1

Domino’s uses Summer fail compilation as part of ‘Official Pizza of Summer’ ad

Chivas Regal and Blue 449 launch ‘Success is a Blend’ campaign in Australia

RAMS tells Australians to ‘Walk Like a Ram’ in latest campaign iteration 2

Facebook’s top executives under siege after NY Times alleges PR dirty tricks

Kate Smither promoted to Publicis Communications’ chief strategy integration officer

REA Group’s corporate affairs and comms boss Natalie Cerny exits

Canberra students win 2018 IAA Big Idea challenge 3

Ten inducted into UnLtd ‘Hall of Good’

High Court rejects Rebel Wilson’s defamation case appeal 2

Momentum Media launches new media platform, Space Connect

The Daily Telegraph’s Sharri Markson blasts claims her Barnaby Joyce story had been broken earlier 9

The Bachelorette concludes with 926,000 viewers, down 44% on last season

NRMA calls on busy working parents to put the phone down this Christmas 9

PHD wins H&R Block’s $4m media account

Cummins & Partners Sydney wins Pernod Ricard’s creative account 1

72andSunny Sydney makes six new hires including strategy director Joel Pearson 3

Marketing startup Playground XYZ makes Deloitte’s rising technology star list 4

Jeep’s outdoor campaign transforms from day to night 2

Matt Peverell joins Adhesive PR as head of B2B and corporate communications 1

‘We aren’t from the west, we are the west’ claims Western Sydney Wanderers’ ad

Rebecca Supanovich departs Soap Creative as GM following Isobar merger 2

ABC pulls larger audience than Ten’s penultimate Bachelorette episode 5

Nine ‘very interested’ in Macquarie Media talent opportunities

Men’s Health appoints Scott Henderson as editor and content director 1

REA boss Tracey Fellows to step down for global role at News Corp 1

JWT Melbourne announces two senior appointments after making six staff redundant 6

Children tell parents not to let them drink in ‘Alcohol Think Again’ campaign 2

Lexus Australia releases ad for its first car created by a female designer 9

Dentsu Aegis Network’s CEO Jerry Buhlmann to step down after nine years 1

Bonds brings a ‘White Christmas Down Under’ in its Christmas campaign

Cannings Purple bolsters digital team with three hires

The Wired Agency wins Assembly Label’s digital account

Honey Birdette accused of ‘soft porn’ as three ads deemed too sexual 7

WhiteGrey Melbourne’s MD Claudia McInerney resigns 2

Seven’s Diane Ho named Ten’s Sydney sales director

Seven wins Tuesday night with help from Bride and Prejudice scandal

Bastion Collective acquires production agency Bengar Films

Dan Ingall departs Cummins & Partners Sydney as Kirsty Muddle becomes MD 4