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AFL’s Dale Thomas and Adam Goodes in ad for Coles and Cadbury Super Team

The Expendables 2 opens strongly; The Sapphires now just shy of $10m

Realestate.com.au goes tactical around speculation that Mick Malthouse will be new Carlton coach 2

Victorian government retains Mitchells and ZO after year-long review

Screen Australia’s Matthew Deaner to head up SPAA 3

ABC appoints Phil Craig as head of factual

News ‘set to review paywall strategy’ 9

Arnott’s releases how-to video for camouflaging packets of Tim Tams 11

David McGrath appointed CMO of cloud company ASE

Dr Who delivers online ratings record for ABC 8

Kim Williams tops the Encore E List of the industry’s 200 most powerful 2

Encore – free September iPad edition now live 6

Nick Tabakoff returns to The Australian media section as editor

Freeview launches campaign: The Best Things in Life Are Free 9

Australia’s favourite TV show, film and ad to be revealed at Mumbrella Awards 6

House Husbands wins night for Nine but Big Brother fades 3

Carlton Draught ‘Beer chase’ ad goes viral 19

Government launches campaign to deter asylum seekers from arriving by boat 7

Heggen’s small package takedown on Aiston becomes Ten’s first video to hit 10m views 5

Murdoch buys other half of DMG Radio for $100m 4

Conroy watched cricket, Formula One and tennis on TV networks as he gave them multi-million dollar fee discounts 8

Cadbury Joyville focus switches to Mousse 2

Fairfax Media exits the $1bn club as APN loses a quarter of its value in a day 5

Australian short film Rain joins The Sapphires in Telluride line up

Storm Surfers3D comes off tour into general release 3

Honda awards creative account to Leo Burnett 3

Cleo bows to pressure over retouching policy with ‘open discussion’ online 12

GetUp! crowd-funds ad to stop super trawler Margiris 8

What advertising can learn from sport, why there are haters on marketing blogs, Melbourne – the new Adelaide

ACCC launches short film on cartels 10

NAB attempts Big Brother house break to promote ‘no lock in’ home loans, Nine questions stunt’s ‘safety risk’ 28

Mumbrella Question Time: which is Australia’s most exciting medium? 4

Sydney Morning Herald media writer Julian Lee accepts redundancy 1

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