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The Project hits Sunday night screens 4

Supercheap Auto and Bosch team up to launch auto service centres

Executive Media launches new magazine, Traces 3

ACCC boss slams ‘poor’ and ‘unacceptable’ NBN marketing 5

Optus locks in Tabcorp to drive English Premier League into venues 1

Annabelle: Creation beats off The Dark Tower to retain weekend box office top spot

Kathmandu appoints Keep Left to PR account

‘We don’t use data as a panacea for growth’ says APN Outdoor’s Richard Herring

Freeview targets bathroom catch-up TV viewers as Freemans return

Blue 449 wins media for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical

Pay-as-you-go news platform PressPatron launches in Australia, InDaily gets on board

NAB recruits mini legends dressed as AFL stars for its 2017 NAB Mini Legends campaign 20

Havas Media replaces Vizeum as World Vision shifts media focus to digital 4

Hell’s Kitchen holds steady at 543,000 metro viewers after move to later time slot

Failed merger cost APN Outdoor $3.38m, but revenue climbs

AANA appoints former Unilever CMO John Broome as CEO 3

Guardian Australia appoints Fairfax’s Tereza Alexandratos as commercial operations director 4

Google teams up with NY Times and FT for media subscription experiments, say reports

Posterscope appoints News Corp’s Michael Emmerson as head of investment

The Block delivers weekly win for Nine as Seven entertainment shows languish

Kate, Tim & Marty, Erin Molan, Ray Hadley and Hamish & Andy amongst ACRA 2017 finalists 1

AFL tops NRL in Friday night footy clash

Breakfast radio pioneer Gary O’Callaghan dies aged 83 13

Peter Vogel returns to Australia to head merged Maxus and MEC agency for Group M 4

BHP’s first ads in three decades start to pay dividends as next stage rolls out 1

Group M launches new global viewability standards 1

Vice partners with shops and bars to offer incentives for enrolling to vote 1

Foxtel backs Federal Court’s decision to block 127 domain names associated with piracy 5

Woolworths signs as supermarket and fresh food sponsor of Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games 3

Foxtel and Fox Sports confirm merger

M&C Saatchi sports arm picks up Audi sponsorship as parent continues to work on rival Lexus

Daily Telegraph criticised by Press Council for inaccuracies in ‘Green Moaners’ article 1

The Bachelor tops the demos, but NRL and news hand Nine a Thursday win

Shona Martyn returns to journalism, joins Fairfax as editor of Spectrum 2

Top marketers from GSK, iSelect, Garmin and Flordis join Mumbrella’s Health & Wellness Summit

Melanoma Institute Australia asks Australians to leave their hat on to tackle cancer 1

Government agrees to four more measures in media reform package to secure support of Nick Xenophon Team

Sophie Monk begins search for love in first full commercial for The Bachelorette

Ad watchdog says it’s not okay to lose your shit on a billboard

Foxtel adds BeIN Sports Connect app to sports subscription packages

Daily Mail apologises to John Ibrahim and withdraws drug syndicate claims

Bauer Media and ‘lo carb’ protein bars tell women to feel less guilty

Ad watchdog will ‘most likely’ not consider same-sex marriage ad complaints 4

Clemenger creates interactive website showing life in Sydney’s Tent City

WSFM locks in Jonesy & Amanda for an additional three years

David Dahan departs M&C Saatchi Melbourne for Ogilvy Singapore role 2

Ad fraud and transparency issues force a crack down on media agency management finds WFA 1

Doctor Doctor season two premiere attracts 758,000 metro viewers

Facebook hires Clemenger BBDO’s Daniel Walton and three others to its Creative Shop 1

Grill’d partners with RSPCA to ‘say no’ to battery cage eggs 5

Tourism Australia moves away from demographics-based marketing

Asia’s biggest parent publisher, The Guardian and Fairfax among Publish 2017 speakers

‘Rip it up and start again’: Fairfax unveils new commercial strategy, moves away from Facebook 6

Farmers Union Iced Coffee rebrands to celebrate Fathers Day

David Higgins returns to journalism, launches specialist business news platform 6

Fairfax unveils details of Domain performance as it looks to start separate trading in November 3

Bank of Queensland selects Dashing to build local branch marketing platform

Media spend dips again, according to latest SMI figures

Marketers need to ‘stop adapting overseas trends’ and ‘trampling creativity’ says Napoleon Perdis

Seven warns the days of big rights deals for sport are over after booking $745m loss 3

Luke McIlveen returns to the News fold as Fox Sports’ executive editor

Fairfax revenues down but profits up as Hywood thanks staff for being a ‘shining example’ of ‘innovation’ 12

Ooh Media launches The Upsider platform after Junkee acquisition 1

Nine dominates Tuesday television with The Block and Hamish & Andy’s True Story

Seven West Media reports net loss of $745m as Pacific Magazines’ revenue falls 16.5% 6

Amber Harrison launches GoFundMe campaign to pay Seven’s legal bills 11

PwC’s Sarah Peacock appointed CMO of True Local and Skip 2

Government reveals full extent of One Nation media reform deal

Facebook launches M suggestions in Messenger powered by AI 3

Adstream promotes Georgie Charlish to head Australian business 1

Holden and Whooshkaa partner with Wil Anderson and Charlie Clausen’s AFL podcast 1

Small businesses are still in the ‘letterbox marketing era’, says Salmat 6

Football Federation Australia restructures media team due to budget cuts

Government to undertake ‘competitive neutrality inquiry’ into ABC in exchange for One Nation’s support of media reforms 6

Online experimentation service Optimizely launches Australian office

Uber offers free rides to anyone named Sam 1

PublicisQ hires David Schaak as its first head of art

Blue 449 combines head strategy and planning roles under Zara Cobb

Barista Bros says ‘the deliciousness is in the detail’

NRL showcases success of School to Work program as it positions sport as a ‘power for change’ 1

Blockchain-powered film and video rights startup launches fundraising campaign

With Collective creates first enrolment ad for same-sex marriage postal vote 1

Dick Smith channels 1980s Grim Reaper AIDS ads with warning growth will destroy Australia 9

The Monkeys appoints JWT’s Jay Morgan as innovation director 3

Hell’s Kitchen continues to struggle, with more viewers tuning into Home & Away and The Chase Australia 2

Ooh Media reveals plans for coming year: ‘We’re rebuilding the way an out-of home company operates’

M&C Saatchi’s Jonny Berger joins Clemenger Melbourne as CUB GM

Narelle Craig joins Liquid Ideas as its first CEO as Stuart Gregor turns focus to his gin brand 9