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Arnie wants to buy Sydney’s CBD in latest realestate.com.au ad 2

Village Roadshow admits ‘mistake’ in holding back Lego Movie, as ISPs disagree on piracy 8

Three agencies in pitch battle for General Pants Christmas campaign 2

Video and contactless commerce two big winners with Apple annoucements say experts 1

Cummins & Partners work with the ABC to promote ‘Mental As’ week of programming 10

STA Travel use Big Brother contestant Tully Smyth in social campaign promoting the UK 5

Radio body signals investment in new brand campaign

Jodi Lee Foundation uses installation to encourage Australians to screen for bowel cancer 1

Second outing of Big Brother sees audience fall to 924,000 3

GE showcase healthcare technology in branded film tracking the health of premature twins 1

Sanitarium launch new Up&Go product Oats2Go with firemen ad

Queensland University of Technology celebrate graduate success in new ads

Medibank creates dinosaur themed playground in the aim of encouraging kids to play outside 5

Live blog: Tuesday, September 9

Durex create ’30 Nights of Nookie’ programme to bring couples closer together 3

P&G in hunt for new marketing head after departure of Yasuhiko Iida

BMF creates animated ‘orange arm’ in next phase of Amaysim brand push

Choice targets disparities in cost of streaming content in Australia 19

Mondelēz innovation head Pete Mitchell: Media agencies need to ‘grow up’ and stop arbitrage 12

Coach tour firm Trafalgar to make social media the ‘heartbeat’ of the brand

ASB rules Devondale ad showing Asian man struggling to herd cows was ‘demeaning’ 13

Virgin Australia puts staff at centre stage as it takes brand battle to Qantas 21

Quit Victoria’s new campaign encourages smokers to identify their triggers 1

Microsoft unveils new default homepage for its Australian products with new MSN offering 3

Clemenger BBDO Sydney raids Google for new role of head of creative technology 2

Optus rescues Josh Thomas from dull party before putting him in a shark cage in new ads 11

Betfair appoints Mario Garrido from Village Cinemas to head up marketing 1

Big Brother 2014 debuts with 1.067m audience, down on last year in later timeslot 3

Mortgage Choice focus on happy customers in new campaign

Mutant turtles and disasters top the weekend box office

ABC TV pick up eight AWGIE Awards

Live blog: Monday, September 8

Press Council censures The Weekend Australian over kangaroo hunt disclosure 3

JWT Melbourne pick up RACV creative account following pitch 2

ABC Friends says potential board seat for efficiency review author Peter Lewis ‘highly inappropriate’ 8

Victoria targets ice use in drug awareness campaign 3

Brand New Media hires Lisa Hudson and confirms new IPTV food channel 2

Mumbrella nominated in two categories at 2014 Australian Event Awards

Liquid Ideas picks up Fairfax events work and builds out content team

Bonds invites women to create their own ‘boobicons’ in latest phase of BOOBS campaign 2

Powershop portrays rivals as ‘greedy and plain old evil’ Darth Vadar 3

Cost of Australian drama hitting networks as future of quotas called into question 9

Rugby bombs for Ten on Saturday as 60 Minutes Ashby interview can’t top Sunday Night 4

APN NZ beefs up senior management, including Myer’s general manager of online

NRMA Insurance introduces new positioning in first campaign from M&C Saatchi 35

Ten to run local version of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here in 2015 9

New RID insect repellent campaign asks for nomination to trek through Amazon in their undies 2

Mnet Australia gets Best in Show as Unilever dominates APAC Smarties awards

Presto boss: ‘Netflix in Australia will be an inferior product’ 18

Online betting comparison website Kruzey creates suggestive launch TVC 3

Melbourne Racing Club promotes Caulfield Cup Carnival with short film 9

Alzheimer’s Australia teams up with Ward6 for ‘simple and creative’ TV awareness drive 3

Live blog: Friday, September 5 1

Efficiency review author Peter Lewis tipped for the ABC board 1

Documentary to explore reasons behind box office slump of Australian movies 26

Wolf Blass returns to TV in move to ‘re-engage’ with consumers 2

Southern Cross Austereo launches advertising barter e-commerce platform My Local Auction 1

Turner Broadcasting boss says pay-TV challenged as millenials think content is free 2

Doritos brings back Crash the Super Bowl competition 1

Sunbeam uses neuro research to find men who cook are more appealing to women 3

Humans turn the tables on animals as The Bachelor beats Seven’s odd couples

AJF Partnership scoops top Effie award as Clems Melbourne grabs three Golds 6

ASTRA chair calls for ‘handbrake’ of media regulation to be removed

Journalist union withdraws copyright submission saying it was ‘never intended’ to support internet filter 3

Video Hangout with Pandora’s Steve Hogan 5

Peter Biggs retires as CEO of Clemenger BBDO Melbourne 8

Live blog: Thursday, September 4

Nick Worthington to be keynote speaker at next month’s BEfest, as draft program is revealed

Foxtel slashes prices and puts more premium content in basic package in bid to tackle threat of streaming rivals 35

Chrissy Blackburn departs The Leading Edge

Freeview boss concedes its HbbTV regional offering is ‘complex’ due to absence of Prime and WIN 1

Woolworths rapped over guerilla marketing on side of ABC Adelaide head office 12

News Corp’s Daily Telegraph raises price of eNewspaper app by 320 per cent 20

Fairfax gets all-clear for $50m acquisition of All Homes

Industry Superfunds target banks in new ad 1

The Bachelor continues to build for Ten but Extant finishes sixth in timeslot

Nielsen set to battle GfK to retain IAB online audience measurement contract

Motorcycle Grand Prix ad campaign switches focus to ‘risk-taking’ nature of sport 2

‘We used to mail every Australian, alive or dead, often’, says Amex digital marketing chief 3

Coles celebrates start of spring with Curtis Stone fronted ad

Live blog: Wednesday, September 3

PR agency won’t repeat journalist awards following complaint from recipient 27

New Idea warns rivals not to rip off exclusive Brangelina wedding snaps in legal letter 7

MLA hands lamb campaign to the Monkeys with future of ‘lambassador’ Sam Kekovich in doubt 2

Ford offers customers $200 to test drive Ranger in bid to claim customers from Toyota Hilux 5

Coles head of communications Jon Church to depart 1

Carat Sydney hires OMD’s Georgie Nichols as GM of Sydney 4

M&C Saatchi appoints Ogilvy & Mather’s Kate Smither as group strategy director 9