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Wavemaker Adelaide MD Royce Zygarlicki departs, joins News Corp

IAG moves CGU Insurance media account to Mindshare Australia

Tiger moves media account to Essence as agency opens in Melbourne 2

ComScore’s Lachlan Brahe joins Reprise Australia as GM 3

Foxtel CEO Peter Tonagh exits with Fox Sports’ Patrick Delany to take the helm 32

Big bank ‘fat cats’ target of Heritage Bank campaign 3

Hughesy, We Have a Problem premieres with 632,000 metro viewers 5

RSPCA creates The Surrender Portal to save unwanted pets 1

Hardhat wins creative account for egg supplier Pace Farm

Industry body Magazine Networks restructured as Pacific Mags, Bauer Media and NewsLifeMedia take control 2

Karen Dwyer joins DDB Melbourne as chief strategy officer

Microsoft hired to build Publicis Groupe’s AI platform Marcel 4

‘It’s a jungle out there’ says Dr Chris Brown in Canstar home loan push

Guardian Australia crowdfunds environmental journalism project 1

KFC, HotelsCombined, Youfoodz and Finder.com.au named as partners of Married at First Sight

Men behaving dangerously feature in Maximus campaign

Family Travel and Out & About With Kids to merge

Podcast One digital content director Jaime Chaux to join Commercial Radio Australia

Arnott’s gives away 13,500 packets of chilled Tim Tams in digital OOH campaign 1

Michael Bolton reworks Said I Loved You But I Lied for Audible campaign

Home & Away celebrates 30 years with 796,000 metro viewers

GSG Counsel rebrands to Reputation Edge 1

Vodafone becomes major partner of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Isobar launches Isobar Good division

I, Tonya cracks $2m on opening weekend following Margot Robbie’s Oscar nomination

Financial & Corporate Relations hires Michael Pollack as content manager

Fetch adds Discovery Channel and TLC to lineup with Nat Geo People to be removed 12

Magnum & Co wins shared office space company Christie Spaces

SAGE workshops finalised with sessions on business legalities and selling your agency

TBWA Sydney wins Macquarie University creative account

Sports social platform 20Four plans to list on ASX in reverse take over

BMF poaches Paul Coles to run Aldi account 2

Lisa Wilkinson’s Sunday Project debut attracts the show’s biggest audience to date 3

CGU Insurance highlights migrant-owned small businesses in latest campaign 8

Lorraine Murphy departs The Remarkables as Natalie Giddings takes sole ownership 2

Tennis player Bernard Tomic to join actors and sports stars in Ten’s ‘I’m a Celebrity…’

Australian Open wins Saturday and the week for Seven with cricket scoring for both Nine and Ten

Google to offer users mute button for annoying reminder ads

VB revamps its classic beer ads in Australia Day launch 3

Rolling Stone Australia’s future in doubt as local publisher liquidated

No Aussies in the Australian Open sees viewers switch to the Big Bash on Thursday night

Tracey Spicer and Village Roadshow’s Graham Burke among Australia Day gong winners 4

AdNews drops media agency award categories after Atomic 212 backlash 6

Southern Cross Austereo promotes Ally Bradley to GM of Tasmania

Vice launches co-branded content series ‘Are you ready to be 30?’

The Simpsons moves to Seven in new programming deal

Former Holler founder Mike Hill returns with social media startup, Curator.io

Failed ad agency Hammond & Thackeray continues to trade as liquidators look to claw back debts

Seven West Media cost cutting bites at The West Australian

Mumbrella Awards 2018 entries now open with new transparency initiative for winning entries

Editor of New Idea Frances Sheen resigns to focus on family 1

Lisa Wilkinson to start on Ten’s The Project on Sunday 1

News Corp blames ‘production error’ after APC requests re-print of controversial infographic ruling 2

Australia used as test market for Legendary: Game of Heroes ad campaign 1

Polkadot Communications wins five new accounts

Y&R’s David Joubert joins DDB Sydney as creative partner

UM promotes chief digital officer Maria Grivas to chief data and technology officer role 1

Qantas restructures executive team, with Olivia Wirth to lead Loyalty and Vanessa Hudson taking chief customer role

M+C Partners allege drug use and ‘erratic attendance’ in ongoing legal battle with former executive Asher Moses 10

QMS Australia promotes John O’Neill to CEO

AFL Women’s star Daisy Pearce to join SEN ahead of developing a women’s sport program

BuzzFeed launches ‘What They Don’t Teach You’ documentary series ahead of Australia Day 6

Mark Lawson joins Wavemaker as national head of performance

Ooh Media appoints Shelia Lines as CFO

Multi-award winning Swedish creatives behind edgy Ikea work to keynote at Mumbrella360 1

Weight Watchers magazine to be published by Edge following Bauer axe 2

Kiis FM begins publicity push for ‘Always Awkward’ Jase & PJ breakfast show 10

Ukulele-playing over 50s return to promote APIA health insurance 9

Perrycallan launches specialist rural division, Perrycallan ag

Seek launches eight-part TV series on Nine, ‘Dream Job’

First Followers appoints iD Collective to PR account

TAL partners with Royal Flying Doctor Service for ‘People Helping People’ campaign

Publicis Groupe appoints R/GA’s Nick Law as chief creative officer

GSK wins ‘misleading’ advertising case against Reckitt Benckiser’s Nurofen campaign 1

Former LinkedIn marketer Ben Eatwell joins Melbourne startup Weploy as CMO 1

Georgie Gardner’s first outing on Today pulls 256,000 metro viewers 6

CUB launches in-house digital agency 3

Rupert Murdoch calls for Facebook and Google to pay ‘carriage fees’ to publishers 5

IPG Mediabrands appoints Dr Grace Liu as CEO of Reprise Australia 2

Maze Runner: The Death Cure earns $3.4m at weekend box office

Ten’s award-winning newsreader Hugh Riminton joins ABC Radio National 2

AFL star Dustin Martin latest sportsman to front Bonds campaign

Lynx says it can even help Kiwis with women in first work from Emotive 6

Alfa Romeo appoints Y&R to creative account

DDB New Zealand releases first work for Up & Go Australia in trans-Tasman campaign 1

ABC News and The Guardian record big drops in digital audiences across December 1

Founder of new satire site Double Bay Today says comedy can beat Facebook’s news feed changes 6

Nick Kyrgios’ defeat proves a winner for Seven on Sunday night