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New alcohol retail brand GoodDrop.com.au: enjoy the taste of a good deal

Chris Short to edit Weekend AFR

Jennifer Hawkins leaked as new host of Australia’s Next Top Model ahead of live announcement 1

‘Proudly supported by Westpac’ 10

Metro Trains ‘Dumb ways to die’ video goes viral 39

Claire Hooper ‘to quit Mix’ 8

Mumbrella named website of the year again 6

TAC marketing chief John Thompson quits after almost nine years of hard-hitting campaigns 13

Peugeot stages Fed Square dance comp to launch new 208 2

Host backs launch of creative agency Ilk 3

Ex-Clems boss Kurt Viertel launches Brisbane agency Brother & Co with GPY&R ECD Piet Human 3

SBS launches online doco Convenient Education

AAMI marketing chief Richard Riboni: social media – the secret to Rhonda campaign’s success this year 17

Melbourne’s Metro Trains launches ‘dumb ways to die’ campaign to curb preventable train-related deaths 53

M&C Saatchi launches Christmas campaign for Eftpos: ‘a little button can do a lot of good’ 6

Film about West Africans in Western Sydney wins DigiSPAA feature film award

Australasian Branded Entertainment Awards: shortlist revealed 2

Sony launches ‘Summertainment’ 1

Beauty and the Geek tops key ad demos for Seven

PayPal’s Kris Kringle site: It’s the lack of thought that counts 1

Banjo launches campaign for Crown Casino Perth 10

Nine appoints Sam Brennan as sports sales director 4

Fairfax looks to outsource image handling, redundancies to result 7

Paul Davey steps down as Aegis Media Pacific MD

Government to invest $20m in games industry; administered by Screen Australia 4

Droga launches print campaign for Sail & Anchor 8

Hopscotch’s Rachel Okine wins Natalie Miller Fellowship

Essential Media and Entertainment wins SPAA’s independent producer award 1

DDB restructures into one national office, Melbourne boss Andrew Little moves to Sydney 2

The Sapphires’ Wayne Blair signed by Jungleboys

Hooroo hunts for best kept travel secrets in Facebook campaign 3

Bonds is dreaming of a white Christmas 8

The Chaser: Hamster Wheel bows out on season low 14

Shannon Noll, horses, sexy blonde and whips in ad for Harness Racing NSW 9

HoMedics ad set to run in UK and US

Weekly Encore tablet edition to be powered by Reddo

Asbestos awareness charity: are you playing renovation roulette? 1

Cancer Council: ‘Shit Mates Don’t Say’ 5

Status Quo return for Coles Christmas party with Curtis Stone and Cathy Freeman 19

McDonald’s launches summer ad offensive 37

SPAA President: ‘Why am I cynical of foreign-owned TV networks’ allegiance to Australian content?’

Media and ad agencies await Travel Corporation review result

Aussie journalism student disciplined by US university after telling a source he did not have to be positive 8

Cricket Australia heralds ‘showtime’ as Big Bash League season approaches 4

CarAdvice.com.au launches first TV campaign 1

Fairfax sells US farming titles

Brand heavyweights to close Festival of Branded Entertainment as Phil Lloyd announced as awards host 1

92.9’s Keegan Bakker moves to Fox

Strong night for Seven led by X Factor and Winners & Losers

Sony lampoons clueless amateurs who buy camera equipment they can’t use 14

McCann Australia ‘remains focused’ after sacking of global CEO Nick Brien 2

Darrell Lea launches ads telling customers: We’re still here, and we’re still Australian 3

Bruno Bouchet takes marketing job at Casio 17

BMF nappy ad wins October ad of the month 6

Be your own secret Santa, says Vodafone

Ice Break pits guitar solo against drum solo in drag race 4

Big Brother’s Stacey Wren: ‘Every time I went to the diary room, I thought the show was being axed’ 10

Simon Lee’s Dream Racer wins at LA’s All Sports International Film Festival 6

The X Factor performance show rates 1.5m as Seven dominates Monday’s ratings

Mumbrella Question Time at Magazine Week this Friday

Westpac: Who drank Neville’s milk? 4

Sapient Nitro makes 15 redundant after Stockland Residential loss 5

Creatives to discuss how not to make ads

Crowdsourced film 11Eleven Project premieres around the world

Fairfax to insert weekend Domain into Friday AFR editions and drop weekday SMH insert

Jungleboys to create long form development team

Screen Oz funds another series of Redfern Now plus two films 1

Foxtel ‘outgifts’ Santa’s elves in Christmas campaign

Ben Lewin’s sex surrogate film The Sessions opens with $267,000 at box office as Housos breaks through $1m

Lindauer lampoons dependent men with tactical print buy

Media writer Amanda Meade to leave The Australian 3

Peroni welcomes ‘the beautiful season’ 24

Group buying market ‘is in a pickle’ 13

Hamish and Andy rate 1.338m as ABC1’s Devil’s Dust rates 679,000

McCann regional boss Charles Cadell: this time next year, we’ll be a top three agency 9

RSVP: Groundhog Dates 5

Mack Boots launches sexy puppy workout video 13

Clipsal 500 Adelaide V8 Supercar: the race that rocks

Yellow Brick Road rushes out home loans campaign after Macquarie Bank deal

Ten to axe Breakfast 60

Naked appoints Simon Veksner head of ideas

BBC boss quits after story disaster 1

ABC editor who published press release as article: ‘I still can’t see what’s wrong with it’ 23

Random House accused of sleaze for using #LestWeForget hashtag for marketing 8

US agency Gersh signs Jungleboys’ Trent O’Donnell and Phil Lloyd

Leo Burnett Melbourne launches its first work for Honda to launch the CR-V 9

Gatorade: the fuel behind the Aussie cricket team

Michael Christian moves to Hot30 as Matt Acton replaces Simon Baggott at SeaFM