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Brands shouldn’t dump Facebook as users shrug off Cambridge Analytica scandal, researcher says 2

Press Council boss promises faster resolution of complaints as part of promoting quality journalism

Dentsu X opens Sydney office following global Jaguar Land Rover account win

David Jones starts hunt for new creative agency 2

AustralianSuper reviews media account 3

Healthdirect, VicHealth, WPP Health and Wellness and Sam Wood to speak at the Mumbrella Health Marketing Summit

Seven wins the night as MKR contestant controversy boosts audience to 1.6 million

AANA launches quarterly index on Australians’ attitudes to advertising

Champion launches first Australian campaign celebrating Australian artists

Content monitoring platform Newsroom.ly rebrands to incites.com

Boss Hunting and The Versatile Gent to unite under Luxity Media 1

Australian top level domain plan stalls after government calls out AuDA failings 2

Tommy Little shines light on youth homeless and calls bluff on social media in #beamodel campaign

Luxury Travel Media launches new website ‘Luxury Exclusives’

Boost Juice launches ‘Find the Fruit’ augmented reality app

iSeekplant launches comedy video ‘The Diver’ to promote its Uber-like app 1

AFTRS team with 72andSunny in creative entrepreneur program

FremantleMedia gives Tinder users chance to win a Take Me Out audition

Gidget Foundation Australia encourages those suffering from post natal depression to ‘Start Talking’ 1

Marcel added to Foxtel roster following TBWA’s resignation 4

Ridesharing service Ola appoints Natasha Daly as marketing director 2

Australian Tax Office appoints Porter Novelli to PR contract

Andrew Denton returns with 578,000 viewers for Interview 4

MEAA urges publishers to provide more support to reporters following Daily Mail incident 7

GroupM shakes up Xaxis leadership, appoints Imran Masood as managing director 2

TBWA Sydney resigns Foxtel account 5

Dan Ilic joins ABC comedy sketch show Tonightly as executive producer as show extended for second season 3

Overport wins Libra’s social media account

Oliver Shawyer appointed as Port Adelaide Football Club marketing manager 2

SCA shuffles TV sales team, with Nathan Soulsby promoted to head of Sydney and Kristen Budd moving to Central Coast office

‘Are you ready to money with Sunny?’ asks Suncorp in Thrift Shop music video homage 179

Managing director of Nova 93.7 Gary Roberts resigns after 16 years 5

Wellways launches campaign promoting its NDIS services

Alfa Romeo asks Australians to stop conforming and ‘start something’ in first work from Y&R 8

Merkle’s Columbus appoints Leonie Dawkins and Guy McGechan as group business directors

IPG Mediabrands’ general manager of investment Michael Bass announces departure

Aussie adtech firm Unlockd takes on Google in UK courts over app advertising 1

Melina Hamilton joins AnalogFolk as strategy director of experiences 2

Seven continues ratings winning streak thanks to My Kitchen Rules and Good Doctor

Naked Communications’ strategy director Craig Adams departs 2

Sports Marketing Awards entries close this Friday

Johanna Griggs and Seven claim they were never properly briefed on Comm Games Closing Ceremony broadcast plan 8

Telegraph’s bid to sue Sydney Theatre Company in Rush defamation proceedings labelled ‘absurd’

Cazbah Media launches magazine, Fodmapper, for people suffering from IBS 2

Host/Havas holds onto Defence Force Recruiting creative account for another year 3

Grazia Australia publisher Grace Publishing to launch luxury men’s magazine, Icon 2

New Dwayne Johnson film Rampage collects more than $3m in earnings on first weekend 3

M&C Saatchi Melbourne hires The Shannon Company’s Emma Hill as ECD

McCann Sydney integrates SMART into agency, appoints Leo Burnett’s Iggy Rodriguez and Justin Carew 5

InsideOut PR wins four new accounts

Daily Telegraph lawyers make case to launch cross claim against Sydney Theatre Company as Geoffrey Rush case continues

Leo Burnett’s Vince Lagana joins The Monkeys as ECD 1

iSelect debuts new ‘All Over It’ brand platform via The Royals 5

Australian Government returns master media account to UM 12

Tourism Australia begins creative pitch 3

Adshel to offer digital trading based on time, day and location

Rh7thm CEO Ross Dawson exits 1

Commonwealth Games organisers in damage control after closing ceremony broadcast outrage 13

Launch of The Voice season seven brought down by return of My Kitchen Rules

BWM Dentsu and Haystac give ALS patients their voice back with Project Revoice

Ten communications boss Neil Shoebridge resigns to open consultancy

Commonwealth Games provides Seven yet another weekly win

Seven’s Dr Blake Mysteries to go ahead without Craig McLachlan 459

Whooshkaa partners with Dirty John producer Wondery 5

AAMI and Edge highlight the difficulties of working with an injury 3

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell quits 11

‘You’re not even market ready, mate… let alone China ready’ warns Destination NSW CEO 3

Telstra launches pop culture-inspired digital and outdoor campaign from The Monkeys and R/GA 3

Foxtel and Seven lay out their strategies behind the cricket rights deal 3

Seven News wins international prizes for US reporting 1

Lifeline appoints Robyn&Leon to creative account

Tap into local Chinese community to win tourism, marketers urged 2

Danielle Uskovic moves on from Lenovo

Chris Kenny returns to Sky News with Sunday evening panel show 4

Emma Nolan becomes New Idea editor in chief 2

Candice Koffke promoted to group business director at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne 3

Conversant Media founder Zac Zavos exits 18 months after HT&E acquisition 3

Foxtel and Seven win cricket rights in deal which reshapes Australia’s broadcasting landscape 16

Commonwealth Games maintains Seven’s ratings dominance

Foxtel and Seven set to snatch cricket rights from Nine and Ten

Trafalgar wins Travel Brand of the Year at the Mumbrella Travel Marketing Awards

Another Australian streaming service ends as Dendy Direct winds up 5

Travel influencers with ‘no experience’ are getting paid by marketers to do the ‘best job in the world’ 8

Think HQ hires former Grey Worldwide MD Jane Emery as business development manager

Travel marketers told to rethink families, women and cyborgs

Nicole McInnes steps down as WooliesX marketing director 1

Spotify appoints Eleven to handle both PR and social accounts 1

‘It is not a debate about print or digital’: Travel marketers should be using both 1