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Amazon Australia expected to launch in time for Black Friday

Hypetap hires Unruly’s Nick Robson as commercial director

Red Agency expands remit with The Whiddon Group

IMPACT Communications rebrands to The IMPACT Agency 1

Keep Left wins home appliance company NEFF

The New Daily launches specialist ‘Health’ newsletter

Officeworks asks ‘what if’ in Christmas campaign 2

RadiumOne MD Adam Furness makes move to Singapore as RhythmOne relocates APAC hub from Sydney

Santa’s big night ends with the perfect gift in Arnott’s Christmas ad

Lego creates a lost Santa animated ad for Christmas

Press council rules car crash victim had reasonable expectation to privacy

Andrew Da Silva departs MediaCom as head of the travel team

Social Soup launches voucher app to encourage Australians to promote Sunbites Snack Crackers

Yahoo7 plans for life after Plus7 2

Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention wins the demos, only non-news program in top 10 shows

Sydney University law ad falls foul of watchdog

Telstra aims to ‘bring everyone closer this Christmas’

Bonds features dancers to ‘light it up this Christmas’

Finalists of LinkedIn Agency Influencer 2017 program revealed

Seven discontinues Murder Uncovered, Studio Ten axes Robert McKnight

Dentsu Mitchell drops ‘Mitchell’ legacy, rebrands to dentsu X 13

Stevie Rooney departs QBE as manager of brand and marketing communications

Justice League cracks $8m in first weekend at box office

Ten confirms Multi Channel Network will retain the network’s sales contract 3

Yarra Trams introduces ‘Tram Coach’ to promote safe travelling behaviour 2

Gatorade creates ‘the Bolt rate’ for fastest cricketer 1

Mediacom CEO Sean Seamer exits to join Supercars 5

The Fordham Company to work with Ellen DeGeneres Show

Jo & Lehmo to leave Melbourne’s Gold 104.3 FM breakfast show 4

SBS Radio axes 12 languages and discontinues World News in broadcasting revamp 1

Susannah George joins Ogilvy as its first head of film and content production

Nine’s 60 Minutes North Korea episode dominates the demos, but Seven wins Sunday’s overall TV ratings

Allan Dib joins PPR as its first director of planning and insights

Simon Veksner exits Hungry Beast, takes creative helm at BuzzFeed Australia 4

Royal Life Saving Society Australia warns parents of the dangers of drowning 3

Parents urged to donate adult childrens’ board money in Kids Under Cover campaign

Seven collects another weekly win despite Nine’s strong Socceroos performance

Vice showcases new music talent in series with Budweiser

Australia vs Samoa RLWC quarter-final hands Seven Friday night win

Banjo asks music festival fans to pee in cup in NSW Health campaign

Free TV opens discussions on gambling ad restrictions during live sport 2

Celebrity Cruises invites Australians to ‘Sail Beyond’

ABC data leak exposes trove of sensitive commercial information

Toyota launches Prado model with ‘luxury can go anywhere’ brand campaign 1

Younger audiences enjoy Ten’s Gogglebox but Seven’s Good Doctor attracts biggest audience

UberEats recruits various celebrities in first Australian brand campaign 4

10-year radio careers may not exist anymore, warns former breakfast radio host 2

Hotwire wins sales software company Seismic

Commercial TV networks ‘can’t be trusted’ with scripted comedy

Domain has strong stock market debut following Fairfax split 6

CBS completes acquisition of Ten Network

6AM Agency recruits first ever executive creative director Nitin Mistry

Virgin Australia’s CMO Inese Kingsmill set to depart after less than a year 10

News Corp remains viable but its publications are struggling in the digital world, says Murdoch 1

New creative agency DO launches 1

M&C Saatchi S&E recruits Jon Kelly as creative director

AJF Partnership set to be acquired by soon to list group, Trimantium 8

Carmela Soares joins Clemenger BBDO Melbourne as ECD 1

Socceroos World Cup Qualifier kicks goals with 1.160m tuning in and largest 9Now streaming audience ever 1

Global retail leader Jon Bird to keynote Mumbrella Retail Marketing Summit

Spinach wins Bushman account

Rob Dougan promoted to head of planning at Clemenger Sydney

Publicis Media launches internship program

Children’s TV system ‘broken’: TV heads 3

Record retail slump drags Australian ad spend down 2

Influencer agency Hoozu hires Nadine Livesey as commercial manager

Media companies react to marriage equality ‘Yes’ vote 1

Ten CEO flags changes to Bachelor and Bachelorette franchises 2

Edge adds ME Banks and Satterley to client roster 1

The University of Southern Queensland says ‘you’ve got this’ in latest spot

Ad industry bodies enter alliance to develop ‘best practice’ brand safety and digital transparency standards

Anti marriage equality campaigners vow to fight on despite ‘media bias’ 22

Australians love and trust the invaluable ABC, chairman tells screen producers 1

Foxtel’s marketing director Rob Farmer departs 1

Seven’s The Good Doctor and Instant Hotel clean up Tuesday’s TV advertising demographics

A mendicant model threatens to hold back the Australian screen industry, says SPA boss 1

Publicis Groupe commits to 2019 Cannes but will focus on Paris next year

Woolworths asks Australians to share the spirit of Christmas 1

Audi showcases Australia’s best drives in new Seven show

TV networks should ‘hand licences back’ if they aren’t producing local content 3

Foxtel Now Box promises ‘simplicity’ in new campaign 5

Myer launches Christmas campaign featuring Elf’s struggle to find more tasteful decorations

AnalogFolk launches in Shanghai

Essential Media hires Kate Brady as commercial director

Australian Community Media boss John Angilley departs Fairfax Media after ten years 3

Third advertiser found guilty of promoting horror movie during family television time

SBS adds French Open, five new dramas and renews The Handmaid’s Tale for 2018

ABC to restructure around news, local and specialist content