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Australiasian Professional Services Marketing Association rebrands to ICON

MediaCom promotes chief digital officer Willie Pang to chief operating officer

Media competitors need to become frenemies in a time of anaemic growth: PwC

Magnum Opus Partners and Wildlife Victoria raise awareness for World Environment Day

Former Mambo CEO Angus Kingsmill becomes co-owner of Sydney Digital Marketing

Choice Hotels encourages bored workers to take a break in new commercial

iSelect compares lifetime health cover loading to disease in new campaign

NAB showcases the lives of Agribusiness customers in ongoing ‘More than money’ campaign

House Rules wins the night giving Seven a narrow win over Nine

Toyota promotes its new-look Toyota Yaris in new ads

The Project Factory takes on parent company name Way to Blue and launches full-service offering

Kleenex proclaims puppy will remain as brand ambassador 1

Australian TV networks tear up schedules to cover London terror attacks 1

Seven wins the week despite Nine’s State of Origin

Seven wins Friday night ratings with a 24.7% audience share

Marcel Sydney’s head of social Alex Sol Watts departs

PHD hires M&C Saatchi’s Anna Cherry as head of strategy 5

Today Show’s Karl Stefanovic calls for boycott of Daily Mail 7

NewsMediaWorks appoints Adstream’s Peter Miller as CEO 1

News programs dominate Thursday night but Ten’s Masterchef wins across the key demos

Sam Geer to replace Sophie Price as UM’s national head of strategy 3

Clemenger BBDO bolsters senior team with two new hires, Sabrina Riedel and Natalie Taylor

Network Ten signs deal to broadcast Hyundai A-League and Caltex Socceroos 3

McDonald’s officially launches ‘Mix it up’ Chicken Big Mac in new campaign 3

Leo Burnett’s Stuart Capel joins Blue 449 to lead 20th Century Fox account

Maxus and MEC to merge as GroupM reduces media agency portfolio to three 3

Concrete Playground partners with Mazda3, launches search tool to create personalised activities

The Australian says it will boycott Australian Press Council decisions by new member Carla McGrath 12

Em Rusciano tells listeners: I’m not sure I’m ready but I’ll be back on Monday and we’ll figure it out together

Sophie Price departs UM to become M&C Saatchi’s group head of strategy 7

Contiki celebrates 55th birthday with throwback to ads from 1970s

Lion Dairy & Drinks launches campaign to make milk matter again 2

Kim Feitelberg joins VCCP Sydney as executive planning director

Westpac CMO Martine Jager to share bank’s 200-year story at Mumbrella Finance Marketing Summit

Creative and production agencies ‘don’t understand mobile’, says GroupM’s head of mobile 2

First State of Origin clash sheds 360,000 viewers but still easily wins night 7

Aldi releases new ad reminding Australians not to waste their life in the supermarket 2

Adam Ferrier, Jim Ingram and Ben Couzens launch new agency Thinkerbell 55

Myer launches ‘Six-Second Sale’, offering 5% better discounts online than in store

GetUp urges Turnbull to free those on Manus Island in mobile billboard campaign

Carnival Australia appoints FleishmanHillard to PR account 1

Key Media to consolidate Human Resources news brands under HRD

Broadcast and newspaper executives show support for Media Reform package in Canberra

Ross Raeburn departs UM to take up CEO role at Ansible Australia 1

Junkee Media officially launches Punkee 1

Sportsbet releases new ad featuring weightlifter who ‘knows a fair bit about performance enhancement’

The Hallway wins creative for ANZ Bank’s Cards

Brand safety and measurement concerns fail to stem rise of programmatic spend 1

Starlight Foundation creates new branding for Healthier Future Initiative

Toyota LandCruiser focuses on the country people behind the wheel in new campaign

Tooheys and Nathan Hindmarsh try to promote NSW pride in new content series 1

House Rules gains more than 200,000 viewers to win Tuesday night

Magnum & Co launches influencer marketing offering Magnetic

The Brand Pool appoints John McLean as head of digital

The Core Agency unveils invisible art installation for The Fred Hollows Foundation

Dentsu Mitchell lands UNIQLO media business as retailer looks to digital 1

‘You don’t have to be famous to be brilliant’: Škoda recruits co-inventor of WiFi to challenge conventional car choices 3

With Collective expands to New Zealand with ASB Bank as foundation client

Outdoor Media Association downgrades revenue figures after reporting error 2

Tonic Health Media acquires Torch Media’s digital pharmacy network

Former Facebook MD Stephen Scheeler joins PwC to drive mobile strategy

Nielsen says digital news rankings for April were wrong, and Guardian didn’t beat Daily Mail after all 8

Seven’s House Rules tops Monday night as Masterchef and The Voice slip

Former Dentsu Aegis chief strategist Matthew Crook to join Admatic

Zespri Kiwifruits bring stone people to life in first campaign from Loud

Sling & Stone wins six new clients

Former One Green Bean digital strategist Matt Kendall launches new venture Fromm 4

Diageo head of communications Elizabeth Greene departs

Cirrus Media sells Money Management and Super Review to UK’s Financial Express

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales earns $5.885m over the weekend

Winemakers’ fingerprints demonstrate ‘it takes a village’ message for Peter Lehmann Wines

Kate Burleigh, leader of Intel brand in Australia, calls time after 20 years 2

EON Sports Radio axed live on air 6

Hahn SuperDry launches content series ‘Beer With An Entrepreneur’ 12

Imagination and Ford launch Vivid activation

Schapelle Corby’s return to Australia takes Seven News to a Sunday night win 2

Deloitte appoints Ten’s Matt McGrath as chief marketing officer 8

Nine turns to Chopper and actor Aaron Jeffery for next ‘Underbelly’ installment 2

Seven rules the week with House Rules

Salvos door-knock ads offer ‘Hope where it’s needed most’ 4

News Corp takes aim at Queensland with united media buying offer after ARM deal

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne dominates at AWARD as M&C Saatchi’s Tom McFarlane enters Hall of Fame 1

KFC explains the real reason why its food is ‘finger lickin’ good’ in new rhyme

Reckitt Benckiser appoints new PR firm, Dec PR, following biggest fine in Australian consumer law history

Ten denies leak is behind new share price plunge 4

Lexus launches public installation to promote new model

303 MullenLowe combines with MullenLowe Mediahub in Australia as Livingston takes charge 2

Isuzu and Shane ‘Dunny Man’ Jacobson are ‘ready to work’ in campaign push