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Nine dumps tanking Reno Rumble from primetime slot in favour of Married at First Sight 4

Brand New Media sells a third of its Singaporean business to publisher for more than $6m

Nine’s Reno Rumble flop hands Seven another ratings week as SBS beats Ten on Saturday

Netflix and Stan beat Foxtel for customer satisfaction and value for money in new poll 5

Seven West Media takes Pacific Magazines digital rights back in-house from Yahoo7

Travelodge hires Joel Creasey for ‘Lie Down Comedy’ series to promote brand refresh

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Domino’s CEO pushes GPS Driver Technology at the centre of lawsuit in new ad campaign 2

Scientology launches four month TV ad campaign across Melbourne and Sydney 36

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New global JWT CEO sets out diversity and change agenda during first public appearance

Sports host at centre of Chris Gayle sexism controversy Mel McLaughlin joins Seven 9

‘Since when has quantity got to do with quality?’: Greg Hywood defends Fairfax job cuts 14

PR agencies are ‘intimidated’ by technology and simple analytics claims Tribe founder Jules Lund 3

Tourism Australia looking for ways to spread user generated content push to China

Grazia to relaunch as digital-only product, three years after Bauer closed struggling magazine 3

Lost doll shoe proves making of another superhero dad in Toyota’s latest cinema ad

‘Sports marketing is stuck in the 1970s’: Iris launches new division to cater to millennials

M&C Saatchi CEO defends all male board saying adding female ‘isn’t going to change the world’ 13

Chris Savage: ‘Half of Australia’s independent PR agencies could close in the next five years’ 12

ABC restructures TV division with Rebecca Heap charged with responsibility for all programming 2

Kellogg’s partners with YouTube influencer to push cereal as great start to the day 12

Nuffnang CEO: ‘There are people out there who lie about their stats and they get away with it’ 6

‘We stopped looking into the future’: Mattel boss on how the toy maker reinvented Barbie 3

Reno Rumble audience drops back below 400,000 as First Dates finishes up with 660,000 1

Founder Mike Hill departs Holler after a decade 7

Morning Update: McDonald’s goes anime; ‘Gender is a problem’ Sorrell; publishers push micropayments; Carat: ‘world’s best agency’ 1

Red Agency, Ogilvy PR and Atomic 212 win big at CommsCon Awards

News Corp Australia sells Eureka Report 7

Top blogger said she is ‘surprised’ no brand has ever asked for evidence of campaign reach 7

Data analytics is ‘no longer a specialist skill’ 1

Shabby client briefs are hampering agencies’ abilities to deliver effective PR 7

Madeleine McCann family PR advisor said he had to ‘think like a journalist’ to keep the story in press for nine years

Dentsu Aegis management shake-up continues: Mitchells & Vizeum CEO Kenny Stewart departs 4

Reno Rumble lifts slightly on debut but still only draws a third of my Kitchen Rules audience

Samsung tackles sport safety with development of concussion monitoring Brainband 1

‘Brands must disrupt themselves to keep customers’ says Rencher at Adobe Summit

Morning Update: French publishers target adblockers; Why people leave advertising; Facebook to flag if someone impersonates you

Adobe pushes into streaming wars and creates new ‘Co-op’ tracking tool to rival Facebook

WIN’s tax arrangements published as ATO continues transparency push 4

Kingsmill and Bateman leave Telstra following marketing shake-up, as network crashes again 10

Mediacom Sydney MD James Sneddon departs after just eight months in the role 18

Macquarie Media granted extension for sale of 2CH days after denying it needed one 2

ABC calls for contributors to pitch them podcast ideas as it launches first dedicated kids podcast 1

Reno Rumble halves on debut losing out to All Star Family Feud and ABC’s factual shows 9

Dentsu Aegis consolidates PR brands into two ‘super’ brands as part of BWM Dentsu 6

Morning Update: vending machine serves up ads; GroupM’s global survey tool; Visa’s Rio Olympics ad; where have the creatives gone?

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Zootopia tops weekend box office as Sacha Baron Cohen’s Grimsby falls to sixth place

Dogs beg for a Walk on the Wild Side as Subaru looks to reposition brand in Australia 7

Same sex kissing couples cleared by ad watchdog, but shooting wives joke not on 12

Early election raises the prospect that media reform will not pass in this term of parliament

Fairfax columnist Joe Aston labels colleagues’ strike action ‘unlawful’ after being called a scab 17

Gemba pushes into Europe and China as brands urged to think about entertainment platforms

Medium Rare appointed launch publisher of new David Jones magazine and app 5

‘Clients must move beyond click-through rate as a metric in online ads’ says Inskin Media boss 2

Australian Grand Prix F1 pulls in 864,000 for race as ABC’s Doc Martin tops Sunday night

M&C Saatchi’s Australasian and Asian operating profits slump 17% due to ‘currency headwinds’

Foxtel launches new push as streaming services continue to bite into subscriber base 6

Press Council sides with politician over ‘Hey Big Spender’ headline, censures Perth Now

Sky News revives Andrew Bolt’s The Bolt Report, moving it to five nights a week 52

Morning Update: Gawker to pay Hulk Hogan $115m; XBox slammed for go-go dancers; movie Presidents for Chrysler; is JWT Mad Men?

Chandon kicks off McLaren F1 sponsorship with a race through the vineyards

Morning update: Cookie Monster chats with Siri: Half China’s adspend heads online; Universal slammed for racial profiling Compton campaign

Ad wrap: Sportsbet’s Punters Club; Taking a road trip? Better have health cover; Supermarkets push Easter products

New NRL CEO Todd Greenberg highlights digital as a priority to get fans watching 2

Australian agency Matterhorn creates global VR first for Pfizer with Tron-like bike experience 9

NRL gives Nine ratings edge on quiet night where ABC’s Jack Irish was top non-news show 5

Telstra tipped to offload its Foxtel stake as Nine buys 9.9% of Southern Cross Austereo 2

Qantas set to push more marketing budget to virtual reality as a new channel for consumers 1

Morning Update: Heineken’s hilarious soccer prank; Guardian cuts 250 jobs; Indy hires writers to do native and content 1

JWT global CEO Gustavo Martinez quits amid racism and sexism lawsuit filed by comms lead 4

Fairfax Media management says strike is ‘unlawful’ and will dock striking journalists’ pay 20

Peter Tonagh to take over as Foxtel CEO as Richard Freudenstein departs pay-TV operator 10

Fairfax staff on strike until Monday, after company moves to sack 12.5% of news room 15

Foxtel and News Corp silent on speculation CEO Richard Freudenstein is set to depart 3

Optus unveils Premier League plan, strikes deal with SBS, launches 24/7 football channel 19

Fairfax Media to cut 120 editorial jobs at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age 40

Refugee lawyer Deng Adut joins Mumbrella360 line-up to discuss groundbreaking Western Sydney University rebrand 2

Marketers and the social responsibility department need to become ‘greatest allies’

Special Mumbrella Podcast: SXSW trends – VR, artifical intelligence and Obama on innovation

First Dates draws 738,000 for gay couple debut; Long Lost Family achieves 564,000

Heineken aims to break free from the six-pack as marketer promises big things in 2016 3

SurveyMonkey announces local expansion, signals challenge to market research firms 5

Morning Update: Olivia Wilde breaks barriers; buy a BMW online; MullenLowe’s creative head on disruption; M&C to launch Lida in NYC 1

Woolworths transformation officer Matt Stanton departs, destination unknown 9

Communications Minister Fifield calls on Labor and the Senate to pass media reform package 3

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