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The Biggest Loser makeovers boosts audience as primetime cricket trumps the X Factor

Media Watch slams changes to TV code favouring advertisers, dubs ACMA a ‘watchpuss’ 7

Nils Leonard warns agencies lack drive of management consultant challengers 6

Morning Update: How Peace for Paris sketch was born; Twitter trials more emojis; Pat Fallon’s greatest work; tweets for Paris

SMI: Ten gets revenue boost from Bachelorette while agency bookings up 3.7% for October 4

Chris Mitchell eyes exit from The Australian with it ‘close to being profitable again’ 3

Junkee’s Steph Harmon and former Hoopla editor Lucy Clark to join The Guardian 2

James Bond’s SPECTRE takes more than $11.3m to post fourth highest opening of year

Jungleboys drops ‘boys’ from its name claiming ‘lack of female directors on roster bothers us’ 4

Leo Burnett staffer tells freelancer she lost a job for sharing story about agency on Facebook 26

Coles and Woolworths create similar Christmas TV ads focussing on typical Aussie festivities 1

Taxi industry was briefed on #YourTaxis campaign strategy at conference in September 13

Tesco Clubcard creator named as keynote of first Mumbrella Retail Marketing Summit

Paris attacks drive viewers to news as Ten’s Princess Mary telemovie pulls 929,000 4

Cummins & Partners buys New York creative agency dc3 as it pushes for scale in the US 2

Morning Update: Paris attacks claim lives of three industry vets; Publishers underwhelmed with Apple News app; More Christmas ads

Freeview switches tack with new ‘Meet the Freemans’ campaign for FreeviewPlus 4

Virgin Mobile suspends Twitter campaign featuring gunsight after Paris shootings

Ricky Gervais is back in the bath for his laziest ad yet in latest effort for Optus

Gizmodo’s Luke Hopewell joins Twitter to lead roll out of new Moments feature 1

The Australian names Darren Davidson as media editor replacing Sharri Markson 14

Telco Amaysim unveils David Hasselhoff campaign which duped international press 9

Tropfest questioned by NSW Department of Fair Trading over competition entry fees 1

Leo Burnett Sydney breaks silence saying it hired all-male creative team because ‘they were the best’ after storm of criticism 58

Unfkable women’s network launches ‘same tools’ campaign amid Leo Burnett controversy 8

CEO Julian Clarke departs News Corp for second time: ‘the company is in good hands’

Nine confirms talks with SCA amid speculation of merger ahead of media reform 2

VCCP boss warns ‘we’re in danger of getting the targeting bulls in front of brand building cart’ 1

Wallace & Gromit animators bring Myer’s Christmas campaign about a worried elf to life 50

Gogglebox tops the demos as Nine’s RBT most-watched non-news show of the night

Leo Burnett’s all male announcement sends all the wrong signals warns Grey creative leader 12

Victorian Taxi Association admits defeat and sacks PR agency responsible for #YourTaxis 30

Morning Update: New Mog book penned for Sainsbury’s Christmas ad; Essena O’Neil lashes fake online couples 2

ABCs: Sensationalist celebrity editors are ‘on crack’ says analyst, as circulations plummet 6

ABCs: Fairfax’s digital subscribers drop while print subscriptions continue downward trajectory 8

Insurance Australia Group rebrands as IAG and turns logo purple to be more approachable 9

Australian opinion site The Big Smoke expands to the US, covering American election 2

Cycling, swimming and crossed legs amongst latest afflictions facing Bonds’ talking testicles 2

Streaming service Presto offers to salvage Tropfest after sponsors left ‘disappointed’ 6

KFC found authenticity ‘accidentally’ with HCG campaign that connected with consumers 6

Gruen finale pulls in 948,000 for ABC as Nine wins night with reality program The Block

Mondelēz global media innovations director Pete Mitchell departs after two years in the role

Morning Update: Bloomingdales apologises for ‘date rape’ ad; Facebook’s new news app; Frank Underwood spruiks Alibaba

‘Disaster’ as short film festival Tropfest is axed owing to ‘terrible’ financial mismanagement 20

Reid shifts from editorial to corporate affairs as News Corp restructures editorial reporting lines 6

Bieber blackout on Foxtel’s music channels amid stoush with record labels over royalties 6

‘What the fuck are u thinking?’: Cindy Gallop blasts Leo Burnett Sydney’s white male hires 161

Jason Lonsdale leaves Saatchi & Saatchi for NY role with independent agency Mekanism 4

X Factor beats The Block with 1.031m but Nine wins across the key demographics in prime time 1

Seven of top ten news sites see audiences fall with Yahoo7 audience jumping 11 per cent 4

New Zealand hopes to melt Aussie hearts with ‘Inspired by Wellington’ Gelato Messina flavour 4

NewsLifeMedia’s Delicious launches first stand-alone website as it eyes off television pilot 3

Morning Update: Sony finally kills Betamax; Alibaba throws variety show; Big Mac jingle

Seven delivers blow to Prime Media board amid further warnings of ad revenue declines

Rules around weekend alcohol ads on TV altered paving way for new revenues for broadcasters

Sportsbet urges heavy punters to ‘Take a Break’ from gambling in new TV campaign 4

Christmas ad wrap: Festive efforts from David Jones, Bonds, KMart, Aldi, Big W and Salvos

Pitch Watch: New agencies for iNova, Ubank, Heineken and VisitCanberra; Optus goes quiet 1

The Block wins the night beating X Factor 3

Radio Ratings: 2DayFM hits new low; Melbourne market settles down; Mix dominates Adelaide; Shock jock growth stalls in Brisbane 15

Media’s biggest names pay tribute to retiring Nine CEO David Gyngell’s contribution to Nine 1

One Green Bean creates Crowd Atlas platform to allow it to hunt for relevant social influencers 8

Morning Update: Tinder valued at US$3bn; Facebook publisher traffic plummets; Star Wars Battlefront trailer; Cats dressed up for Xmas

The Dressmaker keeps top spot in box office ahead of release of new Bond film this week

Mumbrella360 video: The Great Convergence

Co-founder of direct marketing giant Salmat Phil Salter dies after long battle with illness

Seven claims total people win for the year but Nine dominates Sunday evening

David Gyngell quits Nine after eight years as CEO to be replaced by Hugh Marks

Pandora’s first Australian TV campaign asks listeners and artists for their musical firsts 4

Morning Update: John Lewis Christmas ad and Darth Vader parody; Pandora double its number of relevant ads; Copyranter on terrible taglines

AANA launches paper on wagering but denies it is attempt to head off push on live betting 2

Brands urged to plan ‘sensitive’ creative amid rise of digital signage at sporting venues

Jonathan Brown and Sam Pang to join Chrissie Swan on Nova100 hosting breakfast in 2016 7

Helen McCabe: ‘Audiences are alive to the sanitised, talent-approved version of events’ 13

Canberra Times appoints deputy editor Grant Newton as editor, succeeding James Joyce

Google Australia and NZ communications and public affairs manager departs for Hong Kong

Woolworths apologises for Michelle Bridges ‘soil eating’ video, saying ‘intention was never to upset anyone’ 36

Tara Lordsmith moves on from Myer, relaunches consultancy Lordsmith & Co 1

Woolworths customers react angrily to ‘freak’ label in Michelle Bridges soil eating video 26

Qantas unveils one of Neil Lawrence’s last works, the second stage of It Feels Like Home 4

Mauboy’s Melbourne Cup Shoe crisis building as a PR ‘how not to’ case study 16

Annick Perrin departs Starcom for Macquarie Radio, Toby Barbour promoted to MD 7

Edelman leadership shakeup: CEO Tim Riches resigns as Matthew Gain takes Audible role 3

News dominates as David Warner’s effort with the bat draws late cricket audience

New decline in print advertising revenues for Fairfax Media and News Corp 2

VB to promote inspiring Aussies as cricket campaign moves away from gadgets

Michelle Bridges pokes fun at ‘health freaks’ in new videos for Woolworths from Emotive 19

Brian Walsh takes aim at Nine over launch of 9Life as Foxtel unveils its 2016 lineup 1