News

2012 – The year in TV 2

Australian Financial Review gives digital content away for free in summer subscription drive 3

AAMI unveils Rhonda and Ketut romance remix 1

Alan Jones boycott tops Change.org list of ten most signed petitions 8

Top screening rooms

Snowtown producers’ new film accepted to Sundance

Global Mail restructures Australian team and axes overseas journalists 13

The biggest TV flops of 2012 24

Screen Australia’s drama fund runs dry 2

Quit Victoria targets smokers who disguise gory health warnings on new cigarette packets 10

Nuns turn to advertising for ‘Heavenly care’ Monastique cosmetics range 2

Mosquitos waltz to their death in ad for Gecko 3

The Rocket and Satellite Boy accepted to Berlin International Film Festival

Melbourne designer wins Kevin Rudd election T-shirt contest 13

Henry & Aaron create branded short film for Rottofest

News Limited revenues fall 11% 3

Three Aussies – Paul and Ben China and Natasha Pincus – make Hollywood list of top unmade scripts 3

ZO launches standardised Facebook reporting 9

The Great Gatsby screenwriter to adapt Joan of Arc story for TV

The Guardian’s Oz edition to be led by deputy editor Kath Viner 2

Boffswana founder Robert Stock leaves to start content company Mohobo

ASTRA appoints Andrew Maiden as CEO as Petra Buchanan steps down 2

Sean Cummins: Adelaide hasn’t seen a new agency of our stature for 20 years; we’d launch in New York before Sydney 26

McDonald’s receives warning from media watchdog for ‘send to friends’ spamming 12

Aegis Media promotes Matthew Crook to chief digital officer 2

TAC invites Victorians to send personalised ‘get home safe’ ads to loved ones over Christmas 9

Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Call Me Maybe’ was Australia’s most streamed music video this year 4

Rise of the Guardians debut can’t stop Bond at box office 1

The most complained about ads of 2012 8

Hopscotch Films releases first look at Drift 1

Mark Stevens quits Herald Sun after 14 years to join Seven News

Peters calls advertising review, Mojo not invited 7

Batman beats The Avengers in survey of most popular DVDs released in Australia this year 2

Mumbrella’s Meet The Marketers event returns to Sydney and launches in Melbourne next year

Return to the Devil’s Playground among Screen Australia funding recipients

Youth charity Ladder launches ‘Homepage for the homeless’ 3

ABC director of TV Kim Dalton departs

Coca-Cola brings the beach to cricket in summer promo 4

Real men named James Bond in ‘The Other Fellow’ doco 7

Shine confirms move into drama with INXS mini-series 3

Government calls on production sector to comment on ‘documentary’ definition

Muslim group tackles confusion over the meaning of Jihad 7

Giaan Rooney to present the weather over Christmas for Melbourne’s Seven News 3

Rebellion Bay Spiced Rum embarks on ‘world’s longest transit campaign’ 20

Toshiba ends five-year ties with Maxus, appoints Match Media 1

PR agency ‘fires’ client Qatar Airways 31

Cricket Australia positions one day series as the summer’s biggest dress-up party 2

Quickflix boss Stephen Langsford: we welcome competitors

Directors frustrated over ignored call for reality TV directing category at ‘compromised’ new AACTA awards

Coles Status Quo ‘Down, down’ pips banned Lynx ‘clean you balls’ to the most Googled ad of 2012 4

20th Century Fox releases Wolverine motion poster 1

OMD adopts new trading structure, defines traditional media as screen or off-screen 4

Jennifer Hawkins X 6 in ad for Mount Franklin Lightly Sparkling 5

AMP lights up rooftop logo on Sydney skyscraper 9

A Cautionary Tail and The Captain among Flickerfest’s World Premieres

Ikon’s national trading director Nicole Turley leaves after nine years to join Starcom 4

Wish You Were Here film-makers among Screen Australia recipents for Memorial Day

Graeme Russell appointed CEO of Media Super

Inspiring Journeys launches ‘Kakadu Cab’ webisodes 2

Harbour Trust confirms review of Cockatoo Island Film Festival 1

Salmat restructures, goes on $100m acquisition drive 5

Sydney Thunder launches new mascot for KFC Big Bash League 10

Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Jacki Weaver all nominated at Screen Actors’ Guild Awards

Media watchdog ACMA fast tracks investigation into Royal prank call

Saatchi & Saatchi launches Christmas campaign for RSPCA 5

Aurora goes ad free for Christmas

Patts looks to Y&R Indonesia for new Sydney boss after seven month search 6

Home & Away is the most Googled TV show in Australia in 2012, Gangnam Style is the top trending search 1

Naked Melbourne wins creative and strategic duties for Adidas

Cockatoo Island Film Festival future ‘bleak’ 1

Riders welcome report on motorcycle safety, which asks TAC to avoid creating ‘negatives stereotypes’ of riders in its advertising 10

Publicis Mojo restructures creative department as Craig Davis exits 27

Joe Hildebrand’s Australia: Mediocre and Proud receives Screen Australia funding 3

Melbourne’s Luna Park celebrates ‘100 years of fun’ 2

BMF ECD Shane Bradnick leaves for DDB New Zealand 1

Ikon Melbourne looks to L’Oreal and JetStar for new staff 4

Metro Trains’ Dumb Ways To Die wins November ad of the month 3

ABC News 24 starts streaming live on social media sites 1

Happy Feet writer’s Tango Underpants among films in ScreenWest’s crowd-funding initiative

NITV launches on free to air 2

Announcing the Mumbrella Social Media Academy 27

IAB CEO resigns to take role at Nielsen 3

First Look: Iloura’s visual effects work on M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth 2

Organisers declare victory and end Alan Jones advertising boycott 37

Naked Sydney hires Catherine Donnelly from Hausmann to head up PR 6

Facebook reveals top mentions, songs and check-ins in Australia this year 1

Southern Cross Austereo to donate 19 days profits from Sydney station 2Day FM to dead nurse’s family as ads resume 17

Jungleboys seeks comedy writers for new ABC sketch series 1