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Men slam violence against women in Fathers’ Day White Ribbon campaign 3

Mojo takes Toyota account lead Steve Anastasiadis from sibling Saatchi & Saatchi 2

Posterscope appoints Joe Copley MD, launches planned for Brisbane and Perth 1

Paralympics opening ceremony rates 347,000, Go Back grows audience on another quiet Thursday for TV 1

‘Fantabulous’ Psychic Expo ad cleared of sexualising young girl 16

WPP reveals steady profit for 2012 first half

dmg Radio’s digital boss Rebekah Horne moves to US to run social startup 6

Former JWT Australia boss Noel Magnus leaves Cowan Design after three months 4

Ikon Melbourne trading director Nathan Cook moves to Maxus 5

Tom Elliott to replace Derryn Hinch at 3AW 19

Carlton Draught parodies ’80s Hollywood car pursuits in ‘beer chase’ ad 48

Boxing Clever wins brief to raise profile of women’s soccer 1

Go Back To Where You Came From finds an audience for second night running 3

Mumbrella360 delivers 1,020 visitor attendances in industry first audit 2

Tourism Australia launches four-minute tribute to ‘Australia’s unofficial anthem’ 18

Call for entries: August’s TV ad of the month

Pizza Hut unveils metre-long pizza ‘The Plank’ 5

The Works appoints Tim Addington as comms director, Alex Hayes takes on editorship of B&T 3

Gruen tasks agencies to sell the carbon tax 4

Fnuky founders begin filming on debut feature Lemon Tree Passage 5

Girlfriend magazine launches self-esteem campaign, editor: ‘this is not a response to Cleo anti-airbrushing protest’ 3

MTV commissions first Australian-led pilot 3

Coles accused of ‘making money from cancer’ 64

Southern Cross Austereo post $100m profit 1

Comms Council launches PR arm, ‘We will not replace PRIA’ 7

Go Back To Where You Came From pulls in highest ratings of 2012 for SBS 12

Westpac awards creative account to DDB 3

Rupert Murdoch set to be next Aussie media mogul to get Howzat treatment 7

Anti-homophobia campaign launches 13

CRA, Fairfax and Southern Cross Austereo bosses on digital radio three years on 1

Bulla hires ‘dairy stalwart’ Briony Delaney as group marketing manager 10

Fuel VFX goes into administration 36

ABC to premiere new Doctor Who series online within an hour of international release 21

Total Recall remake takes $2.3m on opening weekend

Adelaide newspaper asks clients to create ads to promote South Australia after mining project scrapped 2

New Zealand Herald adopts opinion format for compact relaunch 1

Rowan Avis joins DDB from Neo@Ogilvy as digital planning director 1

Ten’s The Shire falls out of top 50 3

3AW presenter Derryn Hinch fired 15

Salsa’s woos women with ‘sexy Mexi’ posters 2

Subway: ‘the official training restaurant of athletes’ 6

Red Bull combines art with sport to launch new variants 1

Prostate Cancer Foundation launches Big Aussie Barbie campaign 7

Fairfax links all finance titles to create new business ad network 6

10 launches in Australia with former ACP team reunited 5

Invisalign asks Sydneysiders to learn to smile again

Icon’s Mark Gooder joins The Weinstein Company

Energy Australia launches new brand identity 7

MCM repositions, boss warns brands: ‘write off music, risk becoming irrelevant’ 1

The Strand Arcade goes to India for ‘Art of Authenticity’ campaign 11

Packer’s War dominates ratings 13

Cancer Council: What will you do today to help beat cancer?

Dame Edna Everage fronts campaign for Jarrah 4

David Gaines joins research outfit Edentify, ‘we’re not trying to be a media agency’ 2

Ten slumps to 10.3% weekly share as I Will Survive repeats drive away Saturday audience 12

GetUp! Australia’s gay marriage ad to run in US for elections push 3

Taxi Film launches ‘You do good, we do bad’ campaign in aid of National Heart Foundation 3

Ecco attempts to break record for world’s longest catwalk

The Avengers star Chris Hemsworth fronts Foxtel rebrand campaign 2

NAB introduces ‘The Stand Ins’ for grand final day 6

Bohemia staffs up to service Vodafone 4

Bendon launches ‘Selfies with Besties’ outdoor campaign 10

Rekorderlig: embrace your ‘inner Swedishness’ 1

The Australian media editor: ‘Twitter could go the way of CB radio’ 15

SBS set to pick up doco on Indian honour killings

Media agency bosses: Mott’s departure ‘not surprising given Ten’s failures’, Adam Boland replacing Mott ‘makes sense’ 13

Google removes ‘ad tax’ with new mobile video ad platform

Fairfax Media shares plummet to 46c 7

Breville turns coffee into art using live data 9

Ten’s programming chief David Mott departs 30

Big Brother dominates advertising demos for Nine, Ten’s top rater is a repeat of Modern Family 6

Canberra tourism creates the ‘world’s first human brochure’

Telstra, Tourism Oz, VW and Opera House battle for marketing crown 8

Opportunities for agencies to win business falls 11% in last quarter 1

Hahn gets branded content show on Nine 2

Southern Cross Austereo appoints Guy Dobson as chief content officer 1

David Gaines departs Maxus 4

Campaign to stop Cleo airbrushing girls takes to social media, Cleo editor: check your facts before criticising us 25

Fairfax posts $2.7bn loss, media agency boss: ‘the newspaper sector is eating a massive shit sandwich’ 28

Gardening Australia presenter Colin Campbell dies 4

Hungry Jack’s Barramundi: the burger colonial men write poems about 9

Brisbane Broncos players invite fans to party via interactive campaign 1

Government launches Indigenous work program for screen and print 1

I Will Survive fails to lift, Farmer Wants A Wife picks up 14

Revealed: The Mumbrella Awards teams doing battle to be named bravest, cleverest and most innovative

Tourism Australia extends DDB Sydney’s contract, latest There’s Nothing Like Australia ad ‘most successful ever’ 5

Government health service searches for ad agency 1

Cox steps up at Sun-Herald as Feneley moves to writing role 6