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Seven’s MKR finale pulls in 1.543m for winner announcement 2

Former Who editor Shane Sutton joins Bauer Media 2

303 MullenLowe creates first work for Crust Pizza with ‘live life on the Crust’

Seven wins ratings week with help from My Kitchen Rules

Ben Sharp exits ADMA after just two weeks 6

Shane Warne reminisces on his regrets in eBay’s latest campaign 2

Grant Williams joins NSW Police Force as executive director of public affairs

Seven’s House Rules and Purplebricks to auction off renovated property

Recycling Discover Hub creates VR experience to educate children about recycling

Stockland celebrates diversity by recognising ‘all those who mum’ in Mother’s Day ad 1

Asics Oceania creates travelling salesman mockumentary to launch new Wallabies Jersey 2

Shane McLeod joins Fifty Acres as media specialist

CBS to bring subscription video on demand service to Australia 4

DDI shifts design store Top3’s catalogue to glossy magazine

Amex lead strategist Ciarán Norris returns to Ireland for Facebook role 1

Bulldog Skincare appoints Men at Work to PR account

Three Aussie Farmers hold auditions to find the face of their brand

Cosmo editor Keshnee Kemp to take helm at WHO Magazine 8

Former media executive Bob Goodge resurfaces at Nine 5

ABC boss Michelle Guthrie ‘unreservedly’ apologises to Kevin Rudd following Cabinet Files coverage 1

Getup co-founder returns to Sydney to launch local agency office 1

Seven’s MKR leads Thursday with 800,000 more viewers than Ten’s Show Me The Movie 1

Red Cross aims to #beatloneliness in latest campaign 4

Radisson Hotel Group appoints Accenture as experience agency

Engage:BDR acquires app advertising platform AdCel

Ogilvy wins Wotif’s creative and PR account 1

Comedian Rhys Darby and NZ PM Jacinda Ardern lobby to #getNZonthemap in latest Tourism NZ campaign

Medibank calls out Google AdWords’ costs and policies in digital platforms inquiry 9

Programmatic trading in Australia to exceed global average this year: GroupM

Australian Avocados poke fun at ‘millennial mortgage woes’ in first campaign by Ikon Sydney 6

Revlon launches global media agency review 1

Cambridge Analytica protests its innocence as the company files for bankruptcy

The Royals and Blue449 win Australian Super’s creative and media account

Football Federation of Australia seeks media and creative agency 1

Contiki launches hunt for creative agency 2

My Kitchen Rules dominates key demographics, takes Seven to Wednesday night ratings win 1

Spotify sales boss says there’s still work to be done on educating agencies and brands about music streaming

Google, Autopact and agencies for Honda and QBE join the Automotive Marketing Summit

Holden sponsors Rachel Griffiths’ directing debut

Soap Creative merges into Isobar 1

Universal Magazines launches bespoke division for WellBeing

Starts at 60 ventures into e-commerce, launches members-only club 1

Fairfax Media reports an increase in site metrics following revamp 9

Social media ad spend increased 25.3%, while newspapers and magazines suffer significant digital decline 1

Fairfax finance manager Carla Webb-Sear to join Network Ten as CFO

Suncorp launches extension of ‘Money with Sunny’ expressing importance of sport

Ad agency HBT acquires Hardwire Agency

Red Cross is out for blood in NRL state of origin campaign

Facebook promises better user privacy controls and more advertiser tools at F8 conference

Seven’s My Kitchen Rules pulls ahead of Nine’s The Voice on Tuesday night

Host/Havas wins Chatime’s creative account

Comedian Paul Verhoeven stars as ‘Your Dick’ in Smiling Dick launch campaign 6

A leaner AdRoll looks to small businesses for Australian growth

The 10 most complained about ads in 20 years 10

Omnicom Media Group wins The Warehouse Group media account in New Zealand

AAMI features kids karate class gone wrong in spot promoting AAMI life insurance 4

ACMA censures ABC News over ‘judgemental and pejorative’ Tony Abbott report 9

One Club parodies Pulp Fiction, features creatives tied up for fighting over award 1

News Corp reveals content marketing agency Sudden.ly 10

Gaspar Kovacs joins Think HQ as art director

Seven axes esports and gaming channel ScreenPlay 10 months after launch 4

Optus retains Premier League rights, opens sports app to general public 4

BuzzFeed and Twitter launch new political show, OzPol Live 2

More than 750,000 tune in for Ten’s Bachelor in Paradise proposal finale

Vice and Durex launch three-part ‘Sexplanations’ series 2

TV production company Essential Quail Media acquired by Canada’s Kew Media Group

Publicis Queensland promotes Jane Young to general manager

Telstra appoints Attention + Influence and WPP to PR account 2

Frank PR wins Bethesda Softworks account

Tourism Fiji appoints three new PR agencies to roster 4

Newspaper inserted magazines suffer 26% ad spend blow as digital spend continues to rise

Ten announces Bachelor in Paradise star Ali Oetjen as next Bachelorette

WPP flags business review and debt reduction following a flat start to the year 2

Health insurer NIB consolidates media, social and SEO with Ikon, ending five-year relationship with Atomic 212 3

Avengers: Infinity War secures second-highest opening weekend in Australian box office history 3

‘Bucket. Why not?’ asks KFC in cheeky new outdoor ad 3

Facebook’s facial recognition used to help find missing people in WhiteGrey campaign 2

Extensive sponsorship lineup revealed for Masterchef’s 10th season 3

ABC to axe 20 metro newsroom jobs as it restructures to adapt to ‘modern media environment’ 5

Reputation Edge recruits Mario Falchoni as partner, wins four new clients

Medium Rare launches new magazine, The Farmer 5

Mumbrella360 program unveiled with keynotes from News Corp boss Michael Miller and ‘Fearless Girl’ marketer 1

Sky News to offer members-only content on website, launches new Foxtel channels 5

Tonic Health Media acquires health information site myDr.com.au

The Australian to syndicate content from the Harvard Business Review 1

Qantas appoints Clemenger Sydney to promote Australians’ love of travel in latest ad campaign 10

Less than 100,000 viewers now sit between Seven’s MKR and Nine’s The Voice

‘Australia’s sweetheart’ Sophie Monk latest celeb to feature in ‘Who’s in the Car?’ series for Youi