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New Zealand film The Breaker Upperers premieres with $717,564

PPR appoints Snezna Kerekovic as business director

#MeToo campaign group Now Australia call for agency help 1

Trimantium GrowthOps closes in on Asia Pacific Digital acquisition

John Stanley second casualty of Macquarie Sports Radio breakfast 43

Y&R Brisbane picks up Amart Furniture’s creative account 1

Sheridan hands creative account to TBWA Sydney

Airbnb appoints Daniel Gervais to lead ANZ marketing

Former NAB marketer Michael Nearhos joins Virgin Australia as marketing director

Seven’s The Real Full Monty strip show tops one million viewers 8

Bakers Delight appoints The Royals to content account

OzTAM and Nielsen to roll out ‘total TV’ database from next year 3

Fairfax and Nine’s audience mix a ‘compelling’ offer for advertisers says sales boss 2

Eleven wins Mastercard’s PR account

KPMG buys customer experience agency UDKU 2

Joe Pollard departs Telstra, with CMO role to be split across business units 22

House Rules helps Seven top the ratings week

Nine says Hello World to new travel show

Ten content boss: Pilot Week reporting was saddening because of the women behind the scenes 5

Geelong Advertiser should not have told readers about man threatening to jump off car park, rules press watchdog

Nandos and Chris’ Foods appoint BWM Dentsu to creative accounts

Crocmedia acquires AFL match-day publication, Record

Nine nabs a Thursday ratings win on day of proposed merger with Fairfax

Unlockd founder Matt Berriman slams Google for ‘unlawful’ behaviour 9

Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney launches Sydney Doesn’t Suck campaign advocating for plastic straws ban 6

Dr Susan Carland and live version of Go Back To Where You Came From among new SBS lineup

Paul Keating unleashes vitriolic attack on Nine’s takeover of Fairfax 7

Media buyers welcome Nine and Fairfax merger 1

Investors punish Nine after Fairfax deal announcement

Facebook stocks plunge on flat user numbers

Minister applauds Fairfax-Nine merger, while ACCC flags review 2

Journalists warn of culture differences and conflicts in reaction to Nine Fairfax merger 3

Westpac supports those grieving in heartfelt campaign 23

Mumbrella Entertainment Marketing Awards incorporating the BEFEST Awards launches

Seven’s The Single Wives falls out of top 20 in Wednesday’s TV ratings 1

Nine and Fairfax Media to merge businesses 29

Nine, News Corp and the NRL join Mumbrella Publish conference lineup

The Royal Institution of Australia to take over Cosmos Magazine 1

Starts at 60 appoints new COO and commercial director for travel

News Corp sells majority share in Diakrit after two years

Undergraduates challenged to create a high-impact campaign for Nestle in IAA Big Idea contest

How Bitcoin led Fred Schebesta to see the future of marketing 9

Beau Ryan exits Macquarie Sports Radio after three months 7

Brand loyalty is dead, says WE Buchan’s general manager 3

Banks won’t have any young customers in 10 years unless they transform their marketing: Mediacom 8

Banks shouldn’t expect love from customers says Volt Bank co-founder

Vanessa Ballauff joins Our Friends Electric as brand director

Weight-loss company pulls The Bachelor ad deal 3

Andrew Howie exiting Westpac to join Amazon as head of brand 4

BWM Melbourne’s executive planning director Catherine Heath exits

New season of ABC’s War on Waste returns with 669,000 metro viewers 2

Embattled Australian Domain Authority CEO labels critics hypocrites 1

David Lee appointed Initiative’s national head of digital partnerships 1

Finance marketers could be perpetuating gender myths and imbalances: study 2

Beyond Intent appointed reseller of cognitive AI marketing platform, Sqreem 1

PlayersVoice launches first national campaign for Headspace 1

Former Maxus head of search launches data visualisation platform Nugit in Australia 1

Lee Liversedge exits Imagination for role at The Labs

News Corp-backed One Big Switch fined by ACCC for misleading campaign

News Corp’s head of sales in Victoria, Ash Sheard, departs 2

RSVP pushes its mobile dating credentials, urging singles to start their next chapter

‘Reconnect with the world’: National Hearing Care promotes free hearing tests in ad campaign

Bomb-defusing Sportsbet ad deemed safe by ad watchdog

Sky News boss Angelos Frangopoulos to depart to become CEO of Sky News Arabia 2

Stav, Abby and Matt to host Hit105 breakfast in Brisbane for additional two years 1

Ten’s new game show Pointless premieres with 493,000 22

Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins’ season of The Bachelor to premiere on 15 August with four new sponsors 11

Liquid Ideas wins Universal Sony Home Entertainment and makes six new appointments 4

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again beats original movie on opening weekend by $474,000 3

American Express creates small business Ideas Exchange campaign with Shark Tank star Andrew Banks

Neighbourhood Paper suspended as publisher restructures business 2

ACCC fines NBN provider MyRepublic for ads about internet speeds 1

Nine’s Future Women site rolls out soft launch

Ten’s Family Feud comes to an end with 213,000 metro viewers 7

Bankwest attempts to recapture the ‘fun’ in its brand with animated campaigns for payment rings and credit cards 2

The Monkeys’ first Australia Post ad showcases caring posties and community support 29

Lynx takes aim at Aussie ball-tampering scandal in campaign starring Julian Dennison 1

Broadcasters unite for development of media briefing portal

Eight male media personalities to front Ten’s Pilot Week 17

Seven narrowly beats Nine to weekly ratings win

Bonds positions women as warriors in latest jungle themed campaign 1

Allison Lee resurfaces as director of media at NSW Department of Industry

Writers Eliza and Hanna Reilly launch ‘Sheilas’ web series promoting women in history 2

Communications Collective opens event series Collectivity Talks

Ovolo Hotels appoints two PR agencies

Yoghurt Digital wins R.M. Williams’ digital account 13

Mango Communications Melbourne promotes Jessica Allison to general manager

Instagram story promoting drinking app banned by ad watchdog 1