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DMD taps Slingshot and Monty Noble as Songl gears up for launch 5

Nissan asks ‘what if’ in new brand campaign 7

Qantas launches social media-driven travel website Hooroo 11

Unilever: Our video titled ‘Lynx responds to Clean Your Balls controversy’ was in no way a response to the Ad Standards Lynx Clean Your Balls controversy 19

Qantas launches Minority Report style outdoor ads featuring faces of passers-by 7

Nine struggles with 15% audience share 2

Opera House launches Big Moments campaign 2

Mumbrella Question Time returns to Melbourne 4

Old media brands are the most successful on Facebook 2

Veteran broadcaster Lyal Richardson dies at 92 1

Studiocanal buys Hoyts Distribution

Marketers are motivated by ‘learning new things, not chasing the dollar’ – unlike retailers, finds survey 2

Better Homes & Gardens takes print edition to Pinterest 2

Lego appoints new creative agency Airborne – without informing existing agency 6

Hungry Jack’s Whopper: the burger you eat after being knighted 5

ASB: You can’t shear a scantily clad woman like she’s a sheep 10

Big Brother page hits 100,000 likes 9

Carefree ad offends viewers over use of the word ‘vagina’ 96

Lynx responds to ad ban with fake press conference boosting the double entendre 11

Lawson’s bread gives baby boomers tips on how to get their kids to move out 2

Shire debuts with 941,000 – second for the night in the 16-39 demo 32

Ten reveals I Will Survive sneak peak 5

Manu Feildel fronts campaign to help starving African children

Not Suitable For Children opens modestly at box office 7

R U OK? carries out survey of Australian workplace relationships

Seven West Media stops trading on ASX while it seeks to raise $440 million

DDB Melbourne appoints Darren Spiller as ECD to replace Grant Rutherford 1

Lynx ‘clean your balls’ ad banned 34

Redundancies at BMF 1

Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month shortlist revealed 6

Dean Capobianco joins CareerOne.com.au as interim CEO 3

Woolies appoints The Works for Everyday Rewards 1

60 Minutes show on Thomas Kelly draws 1.1m 8

Australia start-up integrates ethical e-commerce with Kiva in world first 4

ACP launches ‘growing category’ catalogue arm

Hunt on for new RIM marketing director as man behind BlackBerry ‘Wake Up’ moved to MD 6

2012 TV ratings halfway point: Seven winning all people; Nine leads key demos and Ten points to digital growth 3

Crikey hacked 11

Walkley winning journalist David Marr quits SMH 13

Protein One secures corporate sponsor for anti-bullying app 2

Paul Fenton leaves Arnold Furnace, Tom Spicer moves to ECD 2

Havas-Aegis deal rolls on

Nick Baker on why 23m people think they can do his job better than him, Tourism Australia’s new ad and the power of ‘Facebook jealousy’

Virgin Mobile launches ATL phase of campaign starring Brad Pitt’s brother 1

Australia’s first deals site for gays and lesbians launches 19

Holler gains foothold on Tourism Australia roster

SGIO Insurance makes a virtue of Friday 13th

MasterChef cooks up 1.363m, Desperate Housewives bows out 2

Charity Good beginnings makes TV advertising debut

Melbourne International Film Festival takes aim at Euro-trash film-makers in new TVC 5

Ten recommissions Offspring 12

Dentsu set to buy Aegis for $4.8bn

DDB Melbourne ECD Grant Rutherford departs 3

Leo Burnett breaks JWT’s historic hold on Kellogg’s with Be Natural win 3

DDB Sydney appoints Richard Morgan from Holler as creative director 2

Holden launches ‘electricity’ TV ad for green car Volt 5

Sodastream hires Markson Sparks for PR 2

Alex Proyas to direct graphic novel Joe Golem and the Drowning City

Not Suitable For Children director to direct feature version of Oscar-nominated short 1

Australian Mining ad banned for Olympics ambushing marketing breach 8

The Voice and Tricky Business slide for Nine 5

PacMags launches first iPad play with Men’s Health 3

P&G launches Olympics ad paying tribute to children and mums (not moms) 12

CatchOfTheDay launches deals site for mums – Mumgo 3

Red Rooster uses actor from old Nando’s ads in new campaign for Hawaiian Pack 82

The Shire revealed: ‘Would you want to be born with brains or looks?’ 43

P.J. Hogan’s Mental picked for MIFF closing night

AWGIES shortlist revealed

Creative duo designs posters to raise awareness of mental health among young men 6

Blindfolded sheep farmers in ad for Pfizer 1

SMH Readers’ Editor: Our standards will get worse before they get better 12

The Voice falls to 635,000 for Nine 7

Brit rockers Status Quo perform ‘Down, deeper and down’ for Coles 68

Ex-AdNews editor Danielle Long joins BMF

‘I love looking fake’: Ten introduces the surgically-enhanced stars of The Shire 41

Paspaley after Four Corners Facebook backlash: sorry for ‘inadvertently’ deleting comments 5

Robert Connolly steps down early from Screen Australia board 6

Sydney Aquarium becomes Sea Life Sydney 6

Rock chick transforming chicken ad cleared of discriminating against girls with tattoos 18

Ex-Qantas comms chief Justin Kelly appointed media director at Mercury Consulting 2

Val Morgan launches longest yet 3D ad for Nikon

Paspaley faces social media wrath after Four Corners show on death of pearl diver 6

Public trusts journos as much as taxi drivers, suggests survey

Sam Neill gets the chop by Meat & Livestock Australia 15

Aussie start-up Posse relaunches for second bite at social commerce cherry 3

Ted beats Spiderman with big box office haul 1

US version of The Voice has a quiet debut 10

Naked’s head of ideas Andy Pilkington joins 303Lowe as creative director 5