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Reprise appoints Andrew Copeland to lead Brisbane office, while Claudeen Martinez joins Sydney team

Rebel Wilson suffers setback in recovering Bauer defamation costs 1

John Sintras returns to Australia as SBS’ chief audience and content officer 13

Menulog promotes Lisa Brown to head of PR and communications

Travel brands ‘should employ interns’ to plot the technological marketing future 3

Programmatic platform Index Exchange appoints former Rubicon Project boss to lead Australian office

Commonwealth Games gives Seven a Wednesday night win with 1.199m viewers

Publishers call for new probe into collapse of media agency Hammond & Thackeray 34

Hunter & Coastal Lifestyle Magazine on the market after 15 years 1

OMD Melbourne awards managing partner titles in executive restructure 5

Vice appoints Rachel Tuffery as head of production

Xinja, Teacher’s Mutual, Spaceship, HiveEx.com and more confirmed for the Mumbrella Finance Marketing Summit 1

HT&E rejects Ooh Media bid to buy Adshel 4

Crikey successfully completes journalism crowdfunding campaign

Hardhat wins health fund Bupa’s content account

AFR big winner at Citi Journalism Awards for Excellence 2

Skins’ Jaimie Fuller, Collingwood’s Georgie Parker and Rugby Australia to speak at Mumbrella’s Sports Marketing Summit

ABC documentary Employable Me Australia edges towards Ten’s Hughesy We Have a Problem

IKEA promotes storage solutions with toy robot in latest spot

The Urban List launches chat-bot led scavenger hunt for Jaguar

UK-based digital agency WMA launches in Australia

Andrew Denton says Seven’s new interview program will not rely on the success of Enough Rope 2

Zuckerberg stands by Facebook’s ad-supported business model during congressional hearing

Holden appoints Kristian Aquilina as marketing director, replacing Mark Harland 5

JWT Melbourne parts ways with RACV as CHE Proximity wins account

AFL features a new CEO to promote its Sunday Funday family games 1

Amazon readying for Prime launch, but has a ‘long way to go’ in Australia

FutureBrand hires Nerida Murphy as creative director 2

Samsonite Australia appoints Alt/Shift as PR agency of record

Filtered Media launches social enterprise division led by Louisa Sampson

Elevate Communication wins five new accounts including Crime Stoppers Queensland

Volkswagen uses technology to resolve argument between couple in ‘more than just a car’ ad 8

Australia Post supports small businesses in latest campaign 2

Queensland Health appoints PublicisQ to handle obesity campaign

Seven’s Commonwealth Games swells to more than 1.3m, Young Sheldon and Bachelor in Paradise slide

‘We did not hack Facebook’, claims Cambridge Analytica 5

Google appoints McDonald’s digital boss Mark Wheeler as head of large customer marketing 5

Brake N Auto Parts radio ad pulled from air for ‘offensive’ and ‘aggressive’ language 1

Australian domain administrator crisis deepens as members push to fire CEO and directors 3

ASX listed influencer platform Engage:BDR sacks sales team, sees profit rise

The Studio at SCA launches first ever TV ad for OVO

KAYAK unveils its first Australian TV commercial

The Works and RXP open content agency Daresay, with former King Content staffers and clients 3

Emily Blunt’s A Quiet Place unable to beat Peter Rabbit as it earns $2.42m in first weekend at box office 3

Media agency model ‘in crisis’ 5

McDonald’s claims ‘world’s most exclusive beef’ in campaign for Wagyu burger

Aussie-founded tech company YuuZoo raided by Singapore police in securities probe

Landor Melbourne hunts for new managing partner following Nick Davis’ exit

Live Life + Travel Expo ad censured for appearing to breach Australian road rules

Social Soup nabs Pacific Magazines’ group sales manager Cara Norris

‘What’s the future of football?’ asks NAB in latest sporting push 4

KFC celebrates 50 years of ‘Finger lickin’ good’ with a throw back to 1968 6

Sharni Layton fronts ‘The Ad I was Supposed to Make’ for Samsung after not playing in Commonwealth Games

Daily Telegraph lawyers accused of treating Geoffrey Rush litigation ‘like a game’

Facebook clamps down on page managers and political advertising with Twitter to follow 1

Ad watchdog upholds complaints against ‘highly sexualised’ and ‘violent’ 50 Shades Freed trailer 1

Howcroft on ‘shit real leaders say’ and more confirmed for Mumbrella360 as earlybird tickets wind up

Seven’s Commonwealth Games coverage delivers big audiences as official ratings period returns

Ogilvy CommonHealth Australia promotes Kristina Luburic to general manager

AFR’s Rich List editor John Stensholt heads to The Australian

Bauer Media’s Take 5 launches monthly edition, with weekly mag continuing to run 2

Radio Alive attempts to ‘grab marketers by the ears’ as it pushes advertising on radio

Commonwealth Games coverage sees Seven soar to a weekly win

Julia Zemiro to host Seven’s new singing show All Together Now 2

Westpac reflects on historical moments when Australians needed a ‘helping hand’ 41

Mercedes-Benz and JC Decaux showcase NGV waterwall through windscreen wipers

Global GroupM chairman Irwin Gotlieb steps down

Consumedia wins Maurice Blackburn media account

Elastoplast and Richards Rose tell Australians to ‘get up again’ after a fall 2

Donna Hay ends affiliation with News Corp and removes magazine from news-stands 3

Tim Whitfield departs GroupM 23

Publishers support algorithm changes, says Facebook’s ANZ head of news and partnerships

Fairfax appoints HuffPost’s Tory Maguire as national editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age 3

Seven dominates as Commonwealth Games competition kicks off 2

Vice launches video series to help millennials improve their mental strength

Domain’s GM of Victorian operations Trent Casson departs in restructure as company makes a ‘small number’ of redundancies

Smooth FM drops Michael Bublé for Sam Smith in new brand campaign 5

Australian privacy regulator launches investigation into Facebook

Pharma regulator opens public consultations to update its industry marketing code

Courier Mail’s article on Queensland prawn prices misleading, rules watchdog

Allure Media’s chief revenue officer Sarah Wyse departs to launch women’s network 6

‘Stuck in the Fifield Triangle’: Greens and Labor hit back over government media fund claims 3

Officeworks extends ‘Make Bigger Things Happen’ campaign with ad focused on creativity

Seven pulls more than two million viewers for Comm Games opening ceremony

New wedding magazine for LGBTQI community launches

Ad Standards launches copy advice service for advertisers

Blitz Publications goes into liquidation 4

Up to 311,127 Australian Facebook users may have had harvested data passed on to Cambridge Analytica 4