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Mumbrellacast 1

Kyle Sandilands misses show for hospital health scare

South Australian Film Corporation invests in Emile Sherman’s Tracks 2

ABCs: Fairfax print decline accelerates as first audited digital numbers are released 23

ABCs: Zoo’s fall continues 8

McDonald’s gets grilled about McDonald’s Gets Grilled at Mumbrella360 6

South Australia in need of rebrand, says Premier, ‘people confuse us with South Africa and think Melbourne is our capital” 23

IGN Entertainment hires Ignite Media Brands James Whitehead as Australia boss 8

Young director looks to break into commercial world, ‘Australia’s film industry needs to become self sufficient’ 5

Best Australian blogger is Eden Riley; People’s choice is TV Tonight 3

Queensland ‘co-operative marketing agency’ launches 6

Reality TV struggles on Wednesday night 5

Starcom Melbourne appoints Peter Toone as GM 7

Vizeum launches Melbourne office using Mitchells staff and clients 6

Lynx unleashes world’s first invisible ad 43

Hoyts appoints Crispin Tristram as chief digital and marketing officer

Australian film-making duo bound for Sundance Institute lab

Sydney launches ‘Love every second’ positioning 13

Mumbrellacast goes live this Friday 1

Brand Desire to be debated by agency chiefs, Unilever marketing director and radio star Wippa 2

Five Aussie films to get world premieres at Sydney Film Festival

MEC becomes ‘The Real-Time Agency’, boss: “we need to stand out in a commodity industry” 3

‘Infinite stories’ the focus for 2012 Sydney Film Festival 3

Two year LAFHA reprieve for overseas agency staff already in place 73

SBS gets $158m budget windfall to launch FTA indigenous channel 4

Biggest Loser lumbers to 1.4m for finale 1

‘UnFordlike’ squashed cane toad video is not scam, says Ford marketing director 22

Vitek Vodka: distilled by peasants, drunk by royalty 10

Global Mail announces Attard’s exit, replaced by Jane Nicholls 22

Filmworks and Pandemonium acquires David Rollins’ Vin Cooper series 4

Tooheys New: supporting mateship

Peter Cornelius and Ross Howarth join media consultancy Kinesis Media

Former magazine editors launch e-commerce site Bellaloopa 3

Attard moved out of role as Global Mail editor 5

After Banksy, Art Series hotels turn to Warhol fakes 2

My Thai Bride wins at Hot Docs

Haymarket launches IT website aimed at small businesses

The Avengers takes $8m, Wish You Were Here stays in top ten 2

Kyle and Jackie O go ad-free for an hour 19

Jonathan M Shiff Productions wraps Reef Doctors; begins Mako Mermaids

Superannuation brand admits it’s superboring 4

Brisbane radio ratings: ARN’s 97.3FM wins as Nova closes gap and regains breakfast 2

Bevan Lee and John Holmes to share story of Packed To The Rafters at Mumbrella360

British Council’s Realise Your Dreams contest features Vivienne Westwood, Noel Fielding and Stephen Fry

Sydney radio ratings: Triple M boss: ‘The work day got caned’ 19

Smith’s puts $4.5m behind Extra Crunchy ads 6

Perth radio ratings: Mix 94.5 records 100th straight win despite ratings tumble 3

DMG turns to ‘advertising genius’ Ted Horton for smoothfm launch 13

Adelaide radio ratings: Mix102.3 loses market lead to 5AA 1

Melbourne overtakes Sydney as the largest radio market

Melbourne radio ratings: ABC takes hit, 3AW cements market lead 3

Westpac launches ‘The Art of Money’ in-store campaign 5

MasterChef creeps above 1m on first weeknight outing 5

Woolies choice of Ricki-Lee Coulter for schools program is ‘odd’ says sexploitation campaigner 14

Yarra Trams wins Postcard of the Year 5

Leggo’s launches One Pan campaign 1

MasterChef hits back at hashtag hijackers 3

Ricki-Lee Coulter fronts Woolies schools program 22

Postcard of the Year Awards event scrapped 3

Exclusive: Communications Council set to open up to PR agencies 13

APN wins Adelaide outdoor advertising contract

Cadbury’s launches next phase of Joyville campaign 5

MasterChef Twitter hashtag swamped with spammers 5

Mumbrella360 to support drive to attract students into comms industry 8

Sony consolidates Australian media into Omnicom Media Group, OMG avoids conflict with Apple and HP

BlackBerry Wake Up campaign switches to targeting people who ‘mean business’ 39

Nando’s: ‘Eat interesting’ 23

NRL players recite poetry for Mother’s Day ad 19

Bondi Rescue claims Google+ Hangouts ‘world first’ 8

MasterChef return rates 1.368m, beaten by The Block 5

The Star: There will be stories 25

Media Alliance warns of press freedom promises slipping away 1

James Hardie mini-series wraps a day after high court judgement 3

3000 women Run the Night at Nike’s first Australian event 23

The Monkey’s win Gold Siren for f(bleeping) Ikea ad 2

BlackBerry’s ‘Wake Up’ campaign strategy labelled ‘pre-digital age’ 23

Cane toad fatally underestimates the Ford Falcon EcoBoost 7

Young Lions finalists revealed 1

Nando’s hires media agency ahead of marketing push around MasterChef 1

Ten to air FremantleMedia murder mystery drama Mr & Mrs Murder 5

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Peter Fitzhardinge promoted to MD at Whybins Sydney 3

Metro Trains urges footy fans to swap road for rail 1

Call for entries: April’s Ad of the Month

Wake Up! Central Sydney hostel sees four-fold jump in web traffic after ‘Wake Up’ campaign 9

Sunrise and Today run close again 7

Animal Kingdom’s David Michod looks to Robert Pattinson for The Rover

Complaint against ‘gender biased’ anti-pokies ad thrown out by ad watchdog 6