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The Royals appoint Droga5 strategy director Michaela Futcher as planning director 6

CarsGuide targets CarSales in new campaign from BWM Dentsu 10

Shine Australia head of communications Charlotte McLauchlan joins Mediaworks

Marketing scientist to head new centre to help brands unravel mysteries of video content 3

Durex use animated cat-like animal to represent toy range in new campaign 1

Hamilton Island unveils 3D virtual reality tour as tourism marketing ‘goes to next level’ 1

Online web series The Horizon secures pilot funding from Screen Australia

Nine urges viewers to hold judgement on 60 Minutes Belle Gibson interview 4

Masterchef most-watched show with 1.221m metro viewers

Morning Update: Automobile Association celebrates its 110-year history in TV campaign

M&C Saatchi picks up more awards for Optus’s Clever Buoy campaign 5

Latest ads: KFC, Custom Plates, McDonald’s, Energy Australia, Kmart 1

Editor of Illawarra Mercury steps down ahead of expected Fairfax restructure announcement 1

Senate defeats proposed legislation to allow SBS to double advertising in prime time 8

SMH experiments with new brands including The Optimist, Celsius and Science Is Golden 7

ACMA hands gambling probe to Federal Police amid restrictions of investigative powers 3

Publicis Mojo CFO Stephen Meares moves to Mediacom as commercial director 1

Sydney Morning Herald editor working on plan to bring production back in-house 18

Google urges travel firms to step up mobile focus or risk losing business to competitors

Endemol Shine International sales director Lisa Higginson joins Village Roadshow 2

ABC’s The Killing Season wraps up with 979,000 2

Queensland urges residents to practice fire escape plan in new campaign

Cricket legends join together to promote osteoarthritis tablets for Chemist Warehouse 5

Morning Update: Snapchat Joins Daily Mail and WPP Agency to launch Truffle Pig; Volvo Trucks’ ‘Epic Split’ wins at Cannes

Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney pick up Silver Lion for effectiveness for OPSM’s Penny the Pirate

Huckleberry loses its biggest client as Medibank moves $20m account to sister agency Carat 2

Julia Gillard: News Corp and Fairfax Media are like elderly, sniping neighbours 23

Netflix wins the streaming battle with 1m users – ten times more than rivals Presto and Stan 52

ASTRA predicts piracy traffic could halve after new laws despite ‘concern’ over VPN loophole 31

We Magazines to cease publishing Birdee just months after closing The Hoopla 2

BBC launch new content marketing agency locally called BBC StoryWorks 3

ABC admits ‘error in judgement’ in allowing former terrorism suspect to join Q&A audience 34

Reno Rumble and Married at First Sight dominate with both shows cracking 1m viewers

HM Communications retains $10.5m Coty cosmetics media account

Morning update: Apple backs down after Taylor Swift threat; McDonald’s takeout for cyclists

M&C Saatchi’s Clever Buoy campaign for Optus picks up Gold Lion in Cannes 7

Senate passes anti-piracy measures which allow rights holders to block copyright infringing sites 8

News Corp veteran Jerry Harris steps down in latest shake-up of senior management 1

Jurassic World passes $30m at Australian box office while Minions opens strongly

MFA engages PwC to advise on transparency 2

Destination NSW and Sydney Opera House rapped for flouting govt advertising policies 2

Beyondblue talk to ‘blue-collar’ workers with tradie Davo in new Man Therapy campaign 3

Schweppes Australia pitches creative, claiming retainer model is not producing results 9

Lisa Walsh joins IAB as director of research

Media agency churn at 33.2 per cent as MFA moves to ‘regrettable loss’ turnover measure 2

Global Internet advertising spend closing in on TV as marketers continue to switch focus

Sterling Publishing launches new title Fintech Business

KFC joins Snapchat to ‘create a dialogue’ with younger audiences and stay on ‘front foot’ 5

Woolworths pushes pre-paid mobile product with Beau Ryan campaign 1

Press Council dismisses Royal ‘GILF’ complaint but warns publications over sexualising children 2

Ten’s CSI: Cyber slips on second outing as Masterchef most-watched non-news show 2

J. Walter Thompson and GPY&R picks up Cannes Health gongs

Morning Update: George Clooney’s tequila goes old-school with new campaign

Kia rolls out Super Bowl spot starring Pierce Brosnan locally 3

Fetch TV creates new ratings app but downplays potential to challenge to Oztam 3

Ad Standards Board rules ad saying ‘Hearing aids can be UGLY’ is discriminatory 1

Crazy Domains recruits Flight of the Conchords’ Rhys Darby to front re-launch campaign

Media agency will ‘enable us to make more intelligent decisions’, says new Wotif marketer

Bingle uses magician’s assistant to demonstrate how easy it is to get a quote in new campaign 2

RaboDirect targets ‘shonky savers’ in new campaign from Whybin\TBWA Sydney 2

Ex-Mediacom CEO Mark Pejic to join IPG Mediabrands as Melbourne chairman 7

Masterchef ties with Nine News to be the most-watched show as Ten beats Nine in share 5

Peter Tonagh and Michael Miller to lead News Corp as Ciaran Davis steps up at APN

Morning Update: Walnuts use K-pop to talk to Chinese students; Twitter’s ‘top secret’ project Lightning 1

Asian investment fund takes 5% stake in Nine Entertainment Co 2

Matthew Melhuish signs up to lead Enero for another four years 7

Jamie Oliver pushes Woolworths winter savings in new campaign

Modern marketing world a ‘dog’s breakfast’, says eBay as brands urged to put focus online 3

Job site Indeed hands local creative account to 303Lowe

Mastercard emerges as key backer of international body behind anti-RBA campaign 2

Ashley Madison zombie ad ruled too violent 7

Bupa marketing boss John Moore: ‘Innovation departments is where innovation goes to die’ 4

PR Report founder Glen Frost looks to launch new industry body catering to lobbyists 2

Vizeum to handle Wotif and lastminute media buying following competitive pitch

Travis Johnson promoted to Mediabrands global head of mobile, Scott Player to step up 16

Presto hands creative account to Whybin\TBWA as it renews marketing push

State of Origin II dominates ratings as 2.615m watch NSW beat Queensland

Morning Update: Ogilvy CEO Miles Young to step down next year; Google links mobile ads to desktop purchases 2

Saatchi & Saatchi releases final campaign for Big W highlighting its ‘total toy domination’ sale 7

Credit card companies Visa, Eftpos distance themselves from interchange fee campaign 4

Press watchdog finds Financial Review guilty of inaccuracy in gender gap reporting 2

Fetch TV to launch major Game of Thrones outdoor campaign on the back of HBO deal 10

New Barnardos campaign seeks to highlight realities of child abuse in Australia

Fairfax says image archive digitisation is back on track after legal battle for return of pictures

Cooking, renovations and politics dominate Tuesday night’s television ratings 5

Foxtel to boost investment in Australian content 4

Woolworths CEO Grant O’Brien to step down as supermarket continues to struggle 13

Morning Update: Top Gear names Clarkson replacement; Twitter unleashes autoplay video; 21st Century confirms Murdoch to step down