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Gold Logie winner Samuel Johnson to present keynote at Mumbrella Entertainment Marketing Summit and host BEFEST Awards

‘Everything great starts somewhere’ McDonalds says in latest ad

Ex-CBA brand general manager Stuart Tucker joins hipages as CCO 2

Virgin Australia Voyeur launches bilingual guide

Thomas Woodgate promoted to TV Week editor 3

Sydney digital agency Vivant acquired by IBM

​Creative agency Bolster and Laneway Festival launch indy music site 1

Pacific Magazines, Punkee, Vice and Momentum Media execs complete Publish conference line up

Big brands have ‘wasted’ cash on unproven digital advertising, warns Ehrenberg-Bass Institute 11

Getty Images takes stand against photoshopped bodies in stock photos

Kate Dinon PR rebrands to Character 2

Captain Risky gets stuck in the desert in latest Budget Direct spot

Brisbane Airport teams together to return Teddy to its owner 2

Creina Chapman to join Southern Cross Austereo’s leadership team

Screen Australia behind NITV documentary exploring Indigenous drag queen pageant 1

Soccer team celebrates defeat with KFC’s 9 for $9.95 Tuesdays 2

Sportsbet combats slow walkers in ‘Fast Lane’ campaign for NRL grand final 1

BMW Group retains Vizeum 3

NBC Universal restructures management, Jo McAlister to depart

Y&R creates ‘Hot Seats’ in Melbourne to promote 2018 Commonwealth Games

Wella appoints Mango as PR agency of record

Brands come on board for ARIA awards

Nine’s The Big Bang Theory hits a million viewers 1

Columbus wins HIA, Coffee Club and AON Australia

Havas CEO Anthony Gregorio steps down as Host and Havas merge 6

Fairfax Media highlights its heritage in new ‘Always’ campaign 4

APN Outdoor opts out of Yarra Trams tender, re-appointed to Melbourne’s Metro Trains 3

Mediaweek to close print edition at end of the year

Right wing agitator Milo Yiannopoulos ‘talks a lot of sense’, says Troll Academy tour publicist Max Markson 22

Google ditches First Click Free as part of publisher tools revamp

Seven’s Manhunt fails to crack top 20 for its Sunday night premiere 1

CUB moves from Mediacom after 17 years as AB InBev switches to PHD 8

Coalition for Marriage aims to raise $400,000, launches ‘so there’s no consequences’ ad 6

NRL tops Sunday TV, fails to knock AFL off the top spot 2

Former Virgin Australia chief customer officer Mark Hassell joins KPMG

Ten announces Bachelor In Paradise is coming in 2018

AFL grand final beats State of Origin to 2017’s most-watched sports show 10

Seven wins Friday night TV thanks to Better Homes and Gardens and The Chase

The Royals, KIIS 101.1 and Samsung launch activation in Melbourne 2

The Bachelorette beats Game of Thrones finale in online catch-up records 3

Kennards Hire completes ‘any job, small to big’ in 70th birthday celebration

Virgin Australia launches first major campaign since appointing creative agency DDB 10

Ferrero Australia’s interactive game criticised by ASB for promoting junk food to children 1

Ten loses Formula One TV rights to Foxtel, keeps Australian Grand Prix 51

Rural agency C7EVEN launches nationwide sheep worming campaign

Watchdog finds Lonsdale sportsware ad guilty of sexualisation 3

Men At Work Communications expands into the US

Lion Beer creates new marketing head role, making two positions redundant 1

Travel site Luxury Escapes to launch new print magazine

SBS marketing boss Amanda McGregor departs

Ten wins across key demos, but doesn’t beat Nine and Seven in overall TV ratings 1

Music streaming firm Deezer targets local football fans with new content

Red Agency rebrands to Pink Agency to support breast cancer awareness

‘There’s an enormous lack of trust’: Agencies need to clean up their acts, warns former Carat boss 6

Samsung launches interactive TV art gallery pop-up

Screen Australia and ABC fund new series exploring world of child prodigies

Carlton Draught features beer keg-wielding basketballers in first ad for five years 3

News Corp set to extend anti ad blocking trial to other metro news sites 4

Oracle Data Cloud launches service for Australian marketers

Nutella’s latest out of home campaign reads shoppers’ faces

Marketers need to rise above stereotyping single women, says Dentsu’s Louise Veyret

Deloitte raids McCann Melbourne for top talent to launch its creative and media offering 7

News Corp appoints new editors for The Advertiser and Gold Coast Bulletin

Pedestrian.TV rebrands to Ped-Yes-trian for postal vote

Wendell Sailor joins Youi’s ‘Who’s In the Car’ series 1

Seven’s Cannonball fails to make a dent in The Block 2

Belle Gibson fined $410,000 for building business off bogus cancer claims 8

Geronimo acquires Digital Media Group

Google and Facebook continue to dominate global digital ad spend says Forrester

Cannes reeling again as WPP threatens to walk away from 2018 festival 6

Publishers ‘are going to have to make a leap’ says Dow Jones’ Jonathan Wright 3

NRL revamps digital properties, offers fans a personalised service

Equality campaign reminds Australians ‘this is about fairness’ in latest Yes spot 2

Let’s work together to secure the future of advertising, urges OMG Australia’s boss

The Block helps Nine to top Tuesday spot yet again

Photographer Murray Fredericks fronts Richards Rose campaign for Colorbond 3

Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei will take on the west’s technology players and win, predicts Sorrell

‘Frenemies’ no more; Now Google and Facebook are ‘flexible friends’, says WPP’s Sorrell 1

OMD and The Pure Agency inspired by potential of animals in Allan Gray campaign

Brand safety worries mean marketers are missing out on podcasting’s potential, marketers told 1

Good Game co-creator Jeremy ‘Junglist’ Ray joins Fandom as Australia’s managing editor 2

Twitter to test longer tweets 2

WPP’s Sorrell: Agencies are obsessed with winning business just for the trade press headlines 10

Instagram promises a ‘kinder community’ as it passes 800 million users 2

Mamamia MD Kylie Rogers to join AFL as commercial director 13

IAB digital quiz highlights industry’s knowledge gap in mobile advertising 3

ABC News cited by regulator for lack of impartiality in abuse story 2

The Marketing Group rapped by NASDAQ as the past comes back to haunt agency network