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Brisbane Times unveils new website, locks in partnerships with Commonwealth Games and Brisbane Festival 8

Australia’s top LinkedIn marketing profiles for 2017 4

‘OK to Say No’ campaign attempts to pressure agencies to withdraw marriage equality support 72

Podcast network Earbuds launches in Melbourne

TransferWise targets ‘fake rate’ currency transfers offered by banks 2

PwC takes minority stake in creative agency Thinkerbell 10

Seven’s decision to delay Little Big Shots pays off, with 1.67m metro viewers tuning in 2

QMS Media revenue climbs more than 50% 3

CBS Corporation to buy Network Ten 23

Momentum Energy offers ‘big fat zero’ 3

Isobar creates bad tempered chatbot to promote American Assassin movie 2

Content doesn’t need to be free argues Digiday editor-in-chief Brian Morrissey

Acast appoints Henrik Isaksson as Australian country manager

Westpac invents ‘the missing wallet dance’ to promote cardless cash 6

Nine wins ratings for seventh week in a row

Hawthorn-Bulldogs AFL clash sees Seven dominate ratings in Melbourne

Foxtel and Facebook prepare to shut down rogue Mayweather-McGregor fight streams 4

FFA locks in first commercial radio deal

SCA may charge advertisers more to be in podcasts than on radio says Blackley 1

Mad Mex appoints Men At Work to PR account

The Bachelor tops key demographics and pulls 736,000 Thursday metro viewers

How the Rubicon Project plans to become the supermarket of programmatic advertising

WPP grows local revenues 3

Olympics and cost cutting help Prime Media Group to profits growth

Agency turns postal plebiscite into retro computer game to vote ‘yes’

Paul McMillan to be CEO of The Monkeys’ new Melbourne office 4

Nine boss Hugh Marks signals new approach to sports rights 1

Automative marketers should embrace their data and stop wasting money, urges expert

Data the differentiator in mature automotive market says Google 1

‘We are complicating the shit out of it’, Spotify MD on engaging customers

Enero profits drop 26% in ‘difficult trading year’ 11

Cull your agencies and stop appealing to ‘every fucker with a thumb’, Spinach founder advises 2

Dentsu Aegis appoints acquisition specialist Victoria Gehrig 1

Modern Teaching Aids targets parents and teachers who want to go the extra mile

‘Significantly inaccurate and misleading’: Canberra Times article about Centrelink debt ‘debacle’ breached Press Council codes 1

Isuzu’s shifts search for growth outside traditional customer base

Stop worrying about likes, comments and shares, says Facebook ANZ’s head of automotive 11

Holden unveils plan for marketing in age of the shared driverless electric car

R U Ok? campaign reminds peers to talk in any setting

Heinz seeks new creative agency

Nine net profits rise but dragged down by TV licence writedowns

SCA profits up 40.7% with regional affiliate agreements driving revenue gains

Murdoch and Gordon’s joint bid for Ten given go-ahead by ACCC 4

HT&E posts mixed results as soft radio market drags on revenue

Nine dominates Wednesday night TV despite strong performance from The Bachelor and ABC

Matt Kemp joins Clemenger BBDO Melbourne as senior planner

Global theatre pioneer and Aussie music industry icon headline Mumbrella Entertainment Marketing Summit

Marques that worked for the last 100 years won’t work for the next, warns Ford boss

Oriel ad blocking management technology launches for Australian publishers 3

‘There was nobody else left’: Publishers desert AMAA magazine audit 2

Gourmet Traveller enters podcast space, refreshes magazine 1

WPP warns ad industry ‘in danger of losing the plot’ over discounting as revenue growth slows 4

‘Get rid of the loop of pain’: Automotive marketers warned they’re forgetting about the customer 1

An ‘old man’s brand’: How Bentley Motors is attempting to change perceptions 1

‘It’s easy to reduce everything down to cup holders’: What the auto industry needs to know about women 2

Ben Sampson joins The Monkeys as creative director 1

CarAdvice and Facebook team up in new auto marketplace

Cummins & Partners explains why all different people need health cover in first work for HBF 1

‘We don’t see a problem’: Ultra Tune marketer argues ads empower women 7

The Athlete’s Foot rebrands with ‘MyFit’ campaign

Matthew Hayden and Alinta Energy customers say ‘Flick Them’ to high energy rates

Ad Standards board raps burger bar for ‘extremely offensive’ Facebook post 8

Nine’s True Story with Hamish & Andy pulls lowest ever audience figures 4

Fairfax’s general manager of events, Sarah Pohlman departs 2

Automotive advertisers underpin Australian media as other advertisers fall away data reveals

Pedestrian.TV launches new teen website ‘Pez’ and three new channels 2

Twitter celebrates hashtags turning ten

ABC News websites bump Nine to third in latest Nielsen rankings 3

Vice, Broadsheet, Pedestrian.TV, Junkee and FBi radio agree to enrolment blackout 7

‘Completely illegal activity’ causes ad watchdog to reprimand eHarmony 1

Isentia reports ‘disappointing’ loss after King Content write downs 1

Mitsubishi takes drivers off road to promote its Pajero Sports model 5

Volkswagen shows what an extra 18 kilowatts can do

Hungry Jacks says ‘keep it real’ in action film spin off campaign 2

Deliveroo alters logo to promote marriage equality 4

Planet Broadcasting locks in partnership with MVMT across all Australian podcasts

‘Loosen’ constraints on domestic media instead of holding back Google and Facebook, Ritson tells Senators

Google rejects Senator’s allegations of ‘misusing market power’

Kerri-Anne Kennerley shows her moves in musical Healthy Care ad 11

Ansible global boss Travis Johnson out of Mediabrands as fallout from Tajer departure spreads 14

Seven names Brisbane sales director Natalie Harvey as head of Sydney sales

Ogilvy PR Melbourne’s MD Adam Vincenzini departs to join Icon Agency Melbourne

Air New Zealand and Commonwealth Bank trial customer service robot ‘Chip’

Fairfax renames NZ business to Stuff and appoints Sinead Boucher as CEO

McCain Foods appoints Cummins & Partners Melbourne to creative account 1

ABCs: Half yearly circulation audit sees many newspapers suffer 10% declines while Sunday Telegraph falls below 400,000 12

ABC’s line-up of 7.30, Australian Story and Four Corners beats Hell’s Kitchen and Australian Survivor 2

Fergus Halliday takes reins as editor of PC World Australia and New Zealand, replacing Nick Ross 1