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Family pig stars in Suzuki ad 2

‘Does branded content jeopardise the integrity of the media?’ 1

Spreets removes skinny image used in ‘Like slim?’ promotion 9

Aussie social media firm launches Twitter search tool 3

Domino’s hires ad agency – three months after taking advertising inhouse 11

Telstra’s Olympics ad wins Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month 9

Big Brother rates below 1m for first time since debut 16

News Limited pushes on with ‘superdesk’ restructure in Victoria and makes photographic redundancies 3

Agency brews beer to win beer account 17

Communications Council releases guidelines for social media best practice 5

Sing-a-long with The Sapphires app

Ten rips up schedule in face of Everybody Dance Now ratings disaster 21

Earphone Bully wins next round of Sirens radio awards

Protest group urges Cleo magazine to stop using digitally altered images of girls 8

Hooroo launches ATL push, ‘We’re all travellers’ 6

Roadshow Films creates online game to promote The Expendables 2 3

Shake it Up Foundation re-enacts symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease with coffee shop stunt 10

Schwarzkopf mocks infomercials, ads created by media agency MEC 12

Telstra: ‘We believe that Australia is a clever country’ 3

Puberty Blues debuts with under a million but wins over younger demos 8

Tim and Eric film to get Australian premiere at Sydney Underground Film Festival 1

Bonds stages battle of the undies dance-offs 12

Ten sales boss O’Brien: We need just one hit to turn it around 25

Clark Rubber dusts off 1970’s ‘Better than a beach’ jingle 5

Two Australian films join Toronto International Film Festival line up

Angostura launches ‘Rediscovered’ campaign, parts ways with Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara 5

Queensland Police pins crims on Pinterest 5

Schmackos creates encyclopaedia of dog tricks 3

Everybody Dance Now fails to recover 8

Melbourne Water wins postcard of the month 1

GI Cancer Institute wants kids to take The Gutsy Challenge

Sydney University targets MBA students with ‘Me, first’ campaign 3

JWT Melbourne hires creatives Brendon Guthrie and Tim Holmes from rival DDB 2

Target’s ‘trampy’ togs slammed by Facebook community 25

Kakadu or bust in latest Inspiring Journeys campaign 3

David Angell replaces Wendy Gower as MD of UM Melbourne 10

Melbourne Metro offers rides for brides 5

Gravox Gravy launches ‘save a seagull’ campaign 21

Big Brother return rates 1.6m for Nine while Everybody Dance Now plummets to 304,000 for Ten 28

Two advertising execs enter Big Brother house 19

Fnuky sells to THEM

Tassie government department wipes out car registrations 8

PR exec Robert Marson joins experiential agency Liveworks 6

The most complained about ad of 2011 is back 10

Paul Cox casts David Wenham in Force of Destiny, launches doco The Dinner Party

Lore wins audience award at Locaro Film Festival

The Sapphires claims biggest box office opening weekend of the year for an Aussie film 14

NAB calls media review 1

‘Melbourne is the new Adelaide because we lost focus’ 13

Host wins former BMF client Ella Baché

Nutella celebrates morning rituals with first campaign by BMF 18

WorkSafe Victoria urges businesses to sign up for free health checks

ING Direct: spend your life well 9

Everybody Dance Now rates just 598,000 24

SMH’s Kate McClymont tops the Kennedy Awards 2

Government anti-obesity campaign ‘less effective than expected’ 12

Triple J and Tom Ballard apologise for holocaust ovens joke 60

Kyle & Jackie O lie detector test to feature in new play 2

Doug Pitt thanks Virgin Mobile for making him a star 6

BMF loses CommBank 5

Regulator rules Sandilands ‘grossly insensitive’ over disabled baby but did not breach rules 20

Nine’s Olympics average highest ratings since second day 2

Something to talk about: Getting publicity from radio stunts 1

Rdio and dmg launch music streaming joint venture 2

Save Your Legs! goes for slow build 8

BWM founders buy back the agency for $7.5m 7

Olympic efforts among the contenders for Mumbrella’s ad of the month 6

Mumbrella Media Agency Review to be published on tablet

Triumph tells women: it’s your right to express your opinion 2

ABCs: Tele doubles SMH sales as Fairfax accuses News Limited of boosting giveaways 7

ABCs: ACP Magazines’ two worst performers pulled from audit; Zoo continues fall 3

ABCs: Masterchef goes off the boil 5

Australia’s plastic surgeons use talking bras in TV ads to promote breast surgery service

Industry rallies round UM staffer’s organ donation campaign 3

McDonald’s uses Sam Kekovich to launch its first Aussie lamb burger 8

Facebook search for new Australian boss hits six month anniversary 6

Major brands’ ads feature on racist Aboriginal meme page 10

Newspaperman Mitchell Murphy takes senior role at The Newspaper Works

The Shire down 160,000 viewers on last week 12

Content of racist Aboriginal meme Facebook page deleted 15

Human Rights Commission to investigate racist Aboriginal memes Facebook page 10

Agencies lend weight to ex-staffer’s campaign for increased organ donation 29

Sydney presenters dominate radio awards’ Best On Air category 1

Ten releases preview of first Puberty Blues episode exclusively for Facebook fans 12

Lessons for marketers from CommBank and Tourism Australia

New Idea ad draws complaints for religious insensitivity 27

Scott McClellan steps down as CEO of AANA

AMI’s longer lasting sex ad returns to Sydney despite ban 17