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Time to end the ‘calendar juggling nightmare’ of upfronts says agency boss 1

Toys ‘R’ Us ad campaign pushes ‘Join the fun’ message

Swift: I’ll dance a jig if Family Food Fight rates 800,000 1

Sophie Monk’s big Bachelorette moment pulls in 2.2m viewers – Ten’s biggest audience of 2017 1

The Urban List looks to expand through more travel coverage

Mindbox wins DHL Express account

Seven saves The Doctor Blake Mysteries from ABC axe 63

Isentia boss Croll insists he won’t resign over King Content acquisition as share price plummets 15

Australian Defence Force Recruiting set to pitch creative account

Penultimate Bachelorette episode cracks 1.1m metro viewers

University of Queensland targets donors with ‘Not If, When’ message

Mumbrella Retail Marketing Summit returns with focus on the customer journey, drone delivery and the role of experience

Isentia exits content marketing, downgrades profits and ends legal war with Meltwater 3

Brian Keenan joins Weber Shandwick in strategy role

Schwartz Media redesigns The Monthly

Courier-Mail and The Advertiser latest News sites to be redesigned

Telstra victorious against AOC as Federal Court rules on guerrilla ‘I go to Rio’ campaign

Australian Open launches bot targeting last-minute ticket buyers

Google, ABC News and Walkley Foundation expand journalism fellowship

News Corp appoints new editors for The Mercury and Townsville Bulletin

University graduates ‘unprepared for marketing world’ 19

Kraft Singles and Kraft Peanut Butter to return to Australia 7

Become a cancer researcher by downloading our app, Vodafone tells customers 10

Blackley points to podcasts, programmatic buying and data to boost SCA’s revenues

Final inspection episode of The Block helps Nine win Tuesday night’s ratings

Chris Hemsworth narrates moody Jacob’s Creek’s ‘Two Barrels, One Soul’ ad

Fairfax’s editorial director Sean Aylmer resigns 3

99Designs pivots to agencies and returns to its Melbourne roots

Qantas offers to pay for Americans’ passports if they travel to Australia 4

Clare Basire joins Thrive PR as business director

Tom Martin and Julian Schreiber exit Cummins & Partners for Special Group 14

Blue 449 restructures strategy team

MLA marketer Andrew Howie joins Westpac as head of advertising 6

Greg Brown departs as president of Dentsu Aegis’ media investment arm Amplifi

Re-edited Youfoodz ‘forking’ ad triggers fresh round of complaints 11

Nine’s The Block special defeats Ten’s Bachelor and Bachelorette All Star Family Feud

Prue Cox joins LinkedIn as marketing solutions boss

Red Agency wins renewable energy company Neoen 1

The Core Agency picks up creative account for Key Pharmaceuticals

Geostorm knocks Blade Runner 2049 off top spot at weekend box office

XXXX GOLD launches iBeacon equipped hats for Ashes cricket fans 9

96FM breakfast hosts Carmen & Fitzi depart as Paul & Lise return to Perth radio 87

James Greet departs Cummins & Partners 18

Pacific Magazines’ commercial director Prue Cox resigns

Telstra TV relaunches with free-to-air support and 4K streaming 4

Netflix removes Urban from agency roster

Ten’s share falls below 7% for Sunday night as Nine and Seven dominate 1

NRMA shows off its motoring services beyond roadside assistance 2

GQ Australia promotes Michael Christensen to editor

Yahoo7’s audience swells to 3m, makes top five news websites 2

Twitter renews Melbourne Cup deal and extends VRC and Channel Seven partnership

Flatliners trailer deemed too ‘violent’ for broad audiences by ad watchdog

Thinkerbell appoints Margie Reid as managing director 11

Seven set to be first to market with addressable advertising 10

Pedestrian and Smirnoff launch pop-up gym centre

Former Pandora sales boss Chris Freel to lead media industry foundation UnLtd as Paul Fisher heads overseas 3

Nine wins another ratings week as The Block again dominates 1

Dave Hughes promises to fix Australia’s problems in upcoming Ten series 1

News Corp pitches in to help The World’s Biggest Garage Sale

‘People are crying out for something different’: The business of satire 2

Better Homes and Gardens helps Seven to a Friday night ratings win

Lion relaunches 1970s Tooheys branding for summer beer campaign 1

Cam Blackley exits BMF to join M&C Saatchi as CCO 6

Finalists for the 2017 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism revealed 2

The Bachelorette collects biggest audience of season

GTB Mindshare and Ford Australia win MFA grand prix

Publicis Groupe third quarter revenue drops while APAC organic growth declines 1

Australia is failing to crack the Asian market, publishers told

Kim Norman joins SCA as PodcastOne sales boss 2

Publish Awards 2017: Bauer’s Take 5 grabs top award – ‘Print is in the ascendancy’ 2

Fairfax mulls removing ad inventory from third party exchanges, reveals boss Chris Janz 4

How Punkee created serial content which ‘ended up owning a Channel Ten show’ 1

Pac Mags CEO: ‘A crap story is a crap story, and it won’t be saved by the platform’

Print is ‘not dead’ as long as content is relevant 6

Ditch ‘campaign thinking’ to succeed at content marketing, says Isentia’s Todd Wheatland 1

Publishers need to flex their muscles in battle with tech giants, publishing panel warns

Fairfax and Dentsu Aegis Network launch Philips culinary experience

Honey Birdette’s ‘sexually explicit’ digital billboard condemned by ASB 1

The Wrong Girl finishes season with 408,000 viewers

Spark Foundry appoints Linda Fagerlund as head of strategy

Clemenger BBDO Sydney CEO Andy Pontin resigns 1

UK consultancy Transform launches in Australia

Yarra Trams returns to JC Decaux as it moves to single contract

Mumbrella leads marketing titles for web traffic as ‘technical issues’ are blamed for absence of B&T 1

Movie extras perform health care procedures in AHM’s ‘Get More From Your Extras’ campaign

Pedestrian recruits The Baha Men to launch Australia’s Biggest Pet Search

Dentsu shakes up media buying, with Ashley Earnshaw appointed chief investment officer of Amplifi 2

Domino’s investigates data leak after customers get spam emails 3