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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

Clemenger Melbourne bolsters creative team hiring Nicole Sykes

‘It’s about the quality and experience’: Pacific Mags revamps marieclaire.com.au 4

Amazon looms as Australian businesses fall behind, warns Interbrand’s global survey 1

‘What’s a lady like me doing in an ad like this?’ The Monkeys release first work for CrownBet 5

AFL Brownlow Medal count hands Seven a Monday night win

RACQ launches RACQ Bank offering ‘more for members’ 1

OMD Sydney shares eHarmony success stories in ‘The Little Things’ campaign 4

Nicole Taylor promoted to DDB Sydney CEO 13

‘Murky’ digital ad chain holding industry back, warns Unilever CMO Keith Weed 6

Instagram passes two million active advertisers 1

Yes and No campaigns slammed as ‘grubby second-hand car dealers’ 6

YouTube steps up competition with TV as Google launches new advertising tools 1

Audible Australia appoints Jesse Cox as head of original content

Kingsman: The Golden Circle kicks IT off top spot at weekend box office

‘It doesn’t take long for ice to cause damage’: Federal Government launches schoolies anti-drug campaign

Red Bull sponsorship elevates esports to ‘mainstream entertainment’, event organisers claim 1

Sainsbury interview delivers for 60 Minutes as Nine cleans up Sunday night 1

Telstra’s big bet on sports streaming

Nine wins the ratings week despite Seven’s Little Big Shots and Ten’s Bachelorette success

Sportsbet brings back Ben Johnson in ‘Puntmas’ ad as Spring Carnivals start 1

ABC News websites close in on News.com.au thanks to 11% climb, Nielsen rankings report 8

Reckitt Benckiser ad cleared for showing ‘animated human faeces in the shape of donuts’ 1

Royal Caribbean tells Australians ‘this is not a cruise’

M.J. Bale takes weatherman to hottest places on Earth promoting its ‘coolest suit on the planet’

303 MullenLowe creates ‘hand table dance’ in new TV campaign for P&N Bank 2

Push Collective appoints Mark Hobart as strategy director

‘Show us your scars’: Ugly debuts with a skating and surfing fail compilation for Ozmosis 2

Fairfax to shrink by more than half after Domain Group split 3

Cricket Australia invokes the 1970s for this summer’s Women’s Ashes Series

Tony Faure appointed chairman of Ooh Media 1

Domain Group to expand services with insurance offering 1

Wil Anderson to return to radio on Triple M’s Hot Breakfast 1

The Bachelorette tops Thursday night with almost 1m viewers

Tom Rankin joins 303 MullenLowe as general manager of media 2

Zenith’s Sydney managing director Karen Halligan to depart

Adventures group takes Trade-A-Boat off Bauer Media, promising to make it the ‘buying and selling bible’

Optus recruits Cuba Gooding Jnr to highlight latest mobile products 1

Sydney adlanders attempt to raise over $150,000 for mental health 2

Fairfax profits fall as Domain costs increase 3

NSW government restructures media planning and buying, appointing new roster of agencies to $80m account 2

‘I love that your grandpa gets in on the action,’ Friendsurance promotes friends with benefits 1

Blue 449 COO James Simmons set to depart after a decade 1

Nine’s chief digital officer Alex Parsons to depart, while Helen McCabe is promoted 3

Eharmony’s marketing director Nicole McInnes departs for Woolworths’ digital arm 1

AANA tightens rules around using sexual appeal in advertising 2

M&C Saatchi S&E appoints Havas’s Peter Pippen as senior strategist 5

The Australian launches Chinese-language site

‘You Can’t Ask That’ commissioned by ABC for third series following Rose d’Or win 3

Sophie Monk gives Ten’s The Bachelorette its highest premiere yet

Up your taco game: Goodman Fielder channels Run-DMC in ‘One Night in Mexico’ ad 2

SBS gives reasons why you should work for them in new campaign 1