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Morning Update: Incisive Media bans ad blocker users; Christoph Waltz and James Corden glorify gamer stories; Top Gear EP departs

The Chaser Quarterly ‘trades’ integrity to offer brands native ads in magazine and online

The Hallway experiments with swapping freelancers desk space for services rendered 4

Razorfish names new Australia ECD as global creative head warns of rise of consultancies 3

Xtra Research hired to provide consistent data with new regional radio surveys contract 1

Fast Starter company Jack Media opens Sydney office hiring Matt Bateman to head operation 1

Big Bash continues to perform well as Love Actually helps Seven win the night 1

Rise of regional Australia, end of ‘cotton wool’ parenting and ‘golden age of BS’ named as key public relations issues for 2016

Morning Update: Miss Universe blunder a publicity stunt?; Facebook’s ‘duty of care’; Mashable for sale; Star Wars running routes

Clemenger left red faced after staffer hid image of a penis in university campaign poster 35

Star Wars: The Force Awakens smashes Aussie box office records on opening weekend

Royal hoax call DJ Mel Greig returns to radio as Wave FM’s breakfast host in 2016

Viewers ignore some of Foxtel’s biggest shows as pay-TV platform pushes its catch-up service 2

Incoming ABC MD signals desire to look at ‘all options’ for monetising content 10

WA Today censured by Press Council for unfair ‘Bong claims Santa Maria teacher’s job’ headline

ABC names Google executive Michelle Guthrie as managing director

Carols in the Domain sheds 198,000 metro viewers as Ten’s Big Bash dominates weekend 3

Roy Morgan wins legal fight after being locked out of Melbourne offices at weekend 6

Community TV station TVS goes off-air but aims to relaunch with video on demand service 144

NSW Government’s Stoner Sloth campaign cops social backlash a month after launch 22

Morning Update: Walmart crushes holiday video views; Netflix invents socks that pause TV; Star Wars: The Force Awakens shatters box office records

GetUp claims Nine is refusing to play its ad attacking Woolworths over pokie machines 6

Network Seven set to launch new high definition simulcast channel for its main channel 55

‘Kill Bills’ billboard for Powershop featuring a plug socket banned for being derogatory towards Asians 11

Head of digital Ciaran Norris leaves Yahoo7 for regional marketing consultancy role at AMEX 1

Top Citi media analyst Justin Diddams to depart

David Nobay to set up Sydney branch of Publicis Groupe creative shop Marcel 29

News Corp moves Townsville Bulletin editor Lachlan Heywood to top Courier-Mail role 5

Newly appointed L’Officiel Australia editor Damien Woolnough quits after one month

Westpac taps Junkee Media to launch money, career and wellbeing website The Cusp 1

Pitch Watch: BWM lands first Toyota work while Frucor is pitch that ruined Christmas 3

RECOGNISE campaign starts pitch for agency to carry on Neil Lawrence’s creative flame

Sydney derby helps Big Bash to best season opening yet helping Ten win the night

Former NRL commercial boss Paul Kind launches sports marketing agency joint venture 7

Rdio confirms closure from December 23

Morning Update: Homer Simpson saves business with Youtube; BBC’s clever crime trailer; Facebook starts brand streaming 3

Ad agency Clemenger Group paid the same tax as Google in 2013-14 according to tax office 5

GetUp ‘hijacks’ Woolworths Christmas ad in latest pokie machines campaign 7

Watchdog clears AbbottLovesAnal Q&A slip and sweary Four Corners show of standards breach 4

Key Southern Cross Austereo commercial exec Karen Halligan departs broadcaster for ZO 2

Loan company Moneyme aims to make brand more likeable with ads on customers’ cars 2

Pitch Watch: Creative appointments for Tourism Tasmania, Open and Monash Universities 5

Charlie Pickering special outrated by Seven’s Better Homes and Gardens Christmas show

Morning Update: Netflix hijacks presidential debate; Best US TV shows of 2015; Star Wars debuts; Facebook lets you hail an Uber

Rugby swells its purse in record broadcast deal with Fox Sports and Ten 3

BT Financial Group chief marketer departs after company splits digital from his remit 3

SpotX APAC MD and commercial director depart programmatic player 2

Ten board questioned over independent directors as it restates need for media reform 3

Fairfax takes New Yorker online editor Amelia Lester as new editor for Good Weekend 4

Coles shuffles executives bringing in new CMO with no direct experience in marketing 4

Media agency spend set to pass $8bn mark by end of year with outdoor leading growth 1

Red Agency acquires Jackie Crossman’s PR agency Crossman Communications

Aussie and Kiwi ads stand strong in Youtube’s most watched ads of the year

Big Bang Theory delivers easy win for Nine as Great Australian Bake Off finishes strongly

Host co-executive creative director Julian Watt heads to UK as agency decides on replacement

Morning Update: Apple users angry at better iPhone ad; Google turns phones into lightsabers; Best student ad ever?

Mike Connaghan tries to dispel STW staff fears of job losses and mergers with memo 12

Bauer Media CEO David Goodchild to return to London, Andreas Schoo named interim CEO 1

Animal Protection League Australia teams up with Purina for the 12 Pets of Christmas

Former Kellogg chief marketer John Broome takes vacant chief marketer position at Unilever 2

Pitch Watch: RACQ appoints new creative agency while Kellogg taps into technology and Jemana finishes review 1

Top marketers among first speakers announced for second Mumbrella Travel Marketing Summit

Back Roads most watched non-news program as ABC performs well on a quiet Monday night 4

Radio ratings: Rove and Sam fail to lift 2DayFM; Hamish & Andy lose ground; Fox tops TripleM in Melbourne; Mix clings on in Adelaide 22

Toy car gets stopped by the cops for dangerous driving in first TV ad for Sydney Airport Parking

Morning Update: Department store comes out; Best and worst mag covers; Tinder organ donors; Reese’s Xmas tree shaming 1

Cinemas experience quiet box office weekend ahead of release of new Star Wars film 4

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell says new STW/WPP entity will be $1bn business, but not with Asia 1

Pandora hires Fairfax’s Chris Freel as commercial director 5

Nurofen forced to pull pain specific products, claims it did not set out to mislead consumers 8

Mamamia editor-in-chief Jamila Rizvi steps back with Kate DeBrito taking the reins 2

Most complained about ads 2015: Holden’s ‘Bloody Caravaners’ beats out Ashley Madison 4

Early end to first test sees slump in Channel Nine’s audience share on Sunday

WPP takes controlling 61 per cent share in STW creating Australia’s biggest marketing group 15

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Morning Update: Santa got Hacked; Alibaba buys South China Morning Post; Star Wars Ice Cream; Google on Augmented Reality

Too many ex-journos and not enough techies in management, warns former ACP boss 2

Dianomi takes advertising sales duties for the ASX website from Yahoo7

Optus media pitch looks set to stall as telco’s top marketer Vicki Brady defects to Telstra 7

McDonald’s chief marketing officer Mark Lollback named CEO of GroupM 9

Retiring Chris Mitchell expects The Australian to be ‘back to the black’ by end of financial year 7

Melbourne-based media sees biggest boost in online traffic in sport-driven November

STW Communications enters trading halt with WPP poised to finally complete takeover 16

First Test draws most watched entertainment show of the night as Air Rescue slips back

CEO Chris Mort to depart The Media Store and be replaced by senior Toyota exec Craig Jepsen 13

Ethical behaviour, virtual reality and the demise of the website among Hotwire’s 2016 trends 3

Morning Update: Ali v Ali in new Porsche ad; Streaming services dominate Golden Globe noms; Serial launches second series

APIA looks at ageing through younger eyes and to highlight that discrimination is real 5