News

Morning update – David Frost dies; Brands and GIFs; Syria; Twitter buys Trendrr

Mi9 confirms Australia to get Xbox One alongside US in November 4

Clarke unveils News Corp restructure 4

Who should be on The E-List?

Yahoo!7 commercial director Damon Scarr to depart 3

Australian Nespresso drinkers front first local campaign 16

Huggies ups the hug factor

Commercial Radio Australia talks advertising in new ads for brand campaign

APN CEO Miller: Industry needs more women in senior roles 3

Connect Hearing says ‘We’re All Ears’ in social media campaign

Australian Sex Party: We’re fucked without civil liberties 16

Dynamo casts a spell on Seven 4

Fairfax dominates PANPA Awards with The Age taking top title 1

Morning update – August 30: Rubio’s The Ocean, WPP on Publicis/Omnicom merger

Life of Australian pianist to be showcased in Blue Rose 3

News Corp hints at future strategy, while publishers push EMMA 5

‘What native advertising isn’t’ to be discussed at BE Festival

News Corp CEO: claims of anti-Labor bias are ‘baseless’ 14

Screen Australia’s Martha Coleman to join Goalpost Pictures

Anita Jacoby to run ITV Studios 1

Map brand Melway launches new ‘What a legend’ tagline 7

Gruen Nation and The Hamster Decides deliver for ABC1 1

Morning update – August 29: Facebook competition rules shakeup; An advertising epic; What is native advertising? 1

Radio 2UE denies Breakfast with Dicko and Sarah will be axed 15

Get Up! launches ad attack on News Corp with paper used to dispose of dog excrement 20

Labor stunt creates fake brand Abbott’s Internet: The slow broadband plan of the future 33

Facebook to talk TV at the Festival of Branded Content and Entertainment

Bike courier chooses a car in new Mitsubishi ad 5

DDB launches ‘make it famous’ campaign for graduate program

Myer boss Bernie Brookes to be involved in creative pitch as retailer begins hunt for new marketing boss 10

Act for Kids launches lullaby campaign

UM wins NSW government media buying account from Mediacom 8

The Spice Agency delivers first masterbrand work to refresh ‘old fashioned’ Jim Beam 4

Recipe to Riches debut falls flat for Ten 24

First look at full trailer for Tim Winton’s The Turning 5

The Catch Up – August 28: One Direction perfume campaign, Twitter moves into shopping, NYT attacked 1

Chris Walton departs Quantium

Telstra removes Droga5 from retainer

Ikea designs Ruddik and Abbut kitchens fit for a PM 3

Ford Focus – the car for secret karaoke lovers 6

ADMA boss: Labor telephone campaign will hurt marketers 3

Hello to fresh in new Wrigley Eclipse ad 2

KFC says it with chicken again: Thank you for erasing my browser history

Labor targets overseas voters in Asia 12

X Factor live decider draws 1.43m to Seven

Cheese-crazed golfer and yogurt-obsessed doctor feature in new Aldi campaign 3

Navy pushes submarine jobs with ‘The Deep Elite’ 5

While You Were Sleeping – August 27: Miley memes and the worst site takeover ever? 2

Nova kicks off Fitzy & Wippa TV ad push 1

BE Awards jury revealed as entry deadline is extended to end of week

MediaCom Melbourne retains Specsavers account 4

Labor and Liberal go negative for week four of the campaign

Mumbrella360 Recap: Winning the online gold rush

Online monitoring tool suggests public think Guardian and Fairfax headlines are more biased than News Corp and ABC 14

R U OK? Day campaign aims to start quirky conversations

hockingstuart brand refresh pokes fun at real estate marketing language 2

Target stands firm against homophobic Gok Wan complaints 114

ASB rules against ‘F*** me I’m famous’ Guetta poster 3

Nine secures The Ashes TV rights

Mindshare wins Origin Energy account

Julian Assange dons mullet for You’re The Voice remake 9

X Factor sees off Australia’s Got Talent in the ratings for third week running

Ten launches commercial creative division Generate headed by Kylie Rogers 4

Telegraph journalist Jonathan Moran: Bloggers haven’t earned their place 20

BWS appoints DDB as its creative agency 2

Paywalls fail to dent audiences for News and Fairfax 25

APN announces redundancies at sub-hub 1

Fairfax launches new position – Independent. Always. 14

Fifi Box – the new me with Atkins

Bear onesie takes centre stage in new IGA ad 1

Sub-million night for Thursday TV viewers 1

WWF launches election ads highlighting climate change 5

Mumbrella360 Recap: The inside story of the Virgin Australia rebrand 5

Enero reveals profits slump 1

News Corp global ad exchange raises questions over publishers’ local joint effort

TV make-up artist slams Rudd’s ‘rudeness’ following leaders debate 20

Australian boss of metric giant ComScore to step down 1

iSentia buys social media agency Two Social 3

Seven West Media profits drop

Jungleboys get big US break for A Moody Christmas 5

Fairfax posts $16.4m loss and gives first look at paywall takeup 15

News Corp Australia appoints Peter Tonagh as COO 3

Wonderland wins for Ten while Gruen performs for ABC 11

ABC hires SMH’s Linton Besser as part of expansion of reporting team

McDonald’s launches Big Mac Chant Challenge 12

Greenpeace continues anti-Coke campaign with parody website

Mel Doyle third in 4pm timeslot, beaten by Ten’s Totally Wild 2

Deirdre Brennan returns to ABC as controller of children’s TV 7