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The Age editor Mark Forbes suspended over harassment claim

Hamish and Andy to leave radio to focus on TV careers 6

Virgin Australia reins in agency budgets and adds in-house creative 3

Junkee Media acquires The Vine, taps former owner to lead new social video product 1

Trillions lost due to sales and marketing chasm, claims study 3

Pitch Watch: Jacob’s Creek reviews creative; Sunsuper appoints media agency; drone company taps media agency

Daily Mail Australian businesses post $30m in revenue

JWT takes Tourism Queensland to the world with first campaign 2

ESPN surges to second in Australian online sports market with one million new users 1

Home and Away most watched non-news show as Seven wins the night

OMD chief digital officer Stuart Bailey moves across to PHD

Seven West Media opens voluntary redundancy program

Fairfax Media promotes WA Today deputy editor to editor

Morning Update: Mumbrella Asia editor admits scam defeat; 2016’s most viral ads; influencer marketing five ways

Agency founder launches SnackableTV network for brands targeting millennials

Aldi builds on its enthusiastic Americans campaign for Christmas 7

Wotif views holidays through the eyes of children in new campaign 1

News Corp acquires Sky News

Guzman y Gomez CMO Anna Jones departs

Is it the viewer or advertisers TV is putting first, asks Youi marketing boss 5

Return of Westpac’s Air Rescue helps Seven win the night 1

Cadreon appoints Clement Tsang as head of consulting

‘It drives me insane’: Telstra CMO lashes industry for separation of media and creative 8

303 MullenLowe restructures creative team, appoints new CDs and group creative head of Audi 2

Great Northern Brewing partners with Outback Wrangler in new campaign celebrating the outdoors

Forty Winks sells $1 bed bases in new Serta campaign

Ronan Keating re-creates Christmas hit for Air NZ with rising Kiwi actor 4

New York Times hunting for journalist to open bureau in Australia 2

Media reform passes lower house

Morning Update: Netflix enables downloading; best marketing campaigns of 2016; Instagram ‘will have more ads than Twitter in 2017’

ThinkTV recreates UK ThinkBox ad in first campaign aimed at demonstrating the power of TV

Coding error costs First Contact top 20 place in overnight ratings 2

Volkswagen brings back 1% campaign and reveals a Mad Max ute in new ad onslaught

Bauer Media axes Dolly print edition 6

Quickflix pivots focus to Hollywood blockbusters as it emerges from administration 3

Seven boss admits TV has been a ‘bit off’ with content 3

McDonald’s, Unilever, Luxottica and Jeanswest CMOs the latest speakers to join Retail Marketing Summit

Seven secures easy Tuesday win as First Dates UK improves

Pitch Watch: Oroton moves creative; Cash Converters switches media; Cook Islands Tourism names digital agency 1

FMCG online spending growth continues as IAB challenges Think TV claims 2

One third of marketers plan product launches in three months, research reveals

Pacific Magazines promotes two editors-in-chief to GM roles

RadioApp officially launches with rhyming consumer campaign 4

GroupM launches data insights tool mPlatform to provide ‘accountability’ across media 4

Morning Update: Accenture to buy Kamarama; Pixoneye scans your photos for insights; Ikea’s sad dads; cartoonists and Castro

AAMI creates outdoor campaign that changes with the weather 3

Research claims 70% of marketers believe their content is ‘limited, basic or inconsistent’ 1

Real Wholesome Blend seeks real authentic feedback in launch campaign

IPG Mediabrands promotes Ensemble GM Harry Preston to MD role 1

Ex-Initiative MD Stephen Fisher joins Hatched Media 1

Screen Australia announces funding for 15 new film and TV projects

Industry should stop ‘being surprised’ audiences are ‘changing how they watch TV’, says ThinkBox chair Tess Alps 1

Edge agency joins independent Global Content Marketing Network

Optus launches service offering freebies for customers to watch ads 9

ABC’s Back Roads gains popularity as non-ratings period kicks in 1

Fitzy & Wippa commentate on mundane home videos for KFC’s new cricket campaign

Haystac appoints Jason Carnew as national GM 1

Ogilvy PR appoints Adam Vincenzini as MD of Melbourne office 2

Morning Update: Best mags, TV & digital of 2016; how native ads are paying off for Conde Nast; Snapchat video ads average 3sec views

Macca’s doco ‘The Founder’ debuts at #2 at weekend box office; Fantastic Beasts reigns supreme

Pitch Watch: Beam Suntory realigns creative; The Carole King Musical taps media agency; Recognise appoints creative 2

Ad Wrap: Target’s Christmas comes together; Optus Sport’s summer of cricket; VB’s best cricket moments; Bakers Delight means ‘fresh’

Behavioural science needs a data-led fusion, says to Deakin University Associate Professor

New Think TV research claims some digital channels lead to short term losses for FMCG brands 3

Australia’s early victory in third test shakes up Sunday ratings

ABC News bumps Nine.com.au and SMH.com.au into third and fourth place in Nielsen Digital news rankings 1

Young women launch craft brewery brand to ‘Sparkke’ social change 4

Morning Update: Meet adland’s richest; Keith Hernandez leaves Slate; ad-tech ‘annoying if you ask me’

Sunrise clings on to beat Today by average of just 4000 metro viewers across the ratings year 2

Seven wins the marathon, Nine takes the final sprint and Ten has best run in five years 1

Jack Daniel’s and Vice partner for native content cooking series

Resurgent Australian cricket team bats on for Nine but undies hero a help for Sunrise

Cadbury delivers its Christmas campaign with Joy

‘Chocolate covered broccoli’ destroying games as brands try to capture consumers 1

Village Cinemas and Mattel partner to create interactive cinema for kids

M&C Saatchi’s chief creative officer Andy DiLallo in shock exit after less than two years

Companies need to switch ‘from marketing to mattering’, says Direction First MD

E-commerce trends are putting consumers first, says former Sportsbet COO

Enero sees departure of second major client in two days

More men likely to seek help after seeing ABC’s ‘Man Up’ series, research finds

Man who smashed ‘advertising’s cartel’ warns ‘Find who’s stealing from you and kill ’em off’ 10

KFC’s ’90 Ways To Say $1 Chips’ picks up Grand Prix at MSIX Awards

Day one of third Test under 1 million but still a winner for Nine

Nick Andrews joins Lavender after eight years at DDB

ABC Radio National staff pass no-confidence motion against management 1

Morning Update: Star Wars sends art blog global; why ageism is adland’s next frontier; OOH targetting with brand-owned data

Advertising is failing because it is a ‘lawless game of chance’ says market research boss 9

Ad Wrap: Mortein protects meals from mozzies; Bulla’s unfakeable taste of summer; lose weight the Isowhey way