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Colgate launches design your own toothbrush contest through MCN 20

Suzuki ad banned for promoting reckless driving, but not for sexism 8

Sealy ‘sex scene’ ad cleared by watchdog 3

Green activists play tag with Harvey Norman 21

Marketing consultant goes on ice cream truck tour to support gay marriage 7

Meat & Livestock Australia urges consumers to ‘chuck a Sunday’ 5

SPAA Conference moves to Melbourne 3

Australian Directors Guild announces ADG Award nominees

Vevo launches in Australia through MCM Media

Honda invites consumers to make music from Civic sounds

Dare Iced Coffee buys entire ad break on Nine for content series 6

Olympian Duncan Armstrong joins Mumbrella360 for session on sports sponsorship 3

SBS TWO splits into regional ad sales markets 1

Ben and Jerry’s random acts of kindness ‘moovement’ 1

Man crashes car to gets closer to Miroslav underpants 9

Lego launches festival of play to celebrate 50th year in Australia 2

Sandilands labelled a misogynist during Hamish & Andy show 12

Hamish Blake wins Gold Logie as ABC is top network 10

Herald Sun editor claims Google accessed unpublished story which led to Logies leak 28

Southern Cross Austereo moves national digital sales director Adam Furness to ‘best city in Australia’ 14

Ogilvy Earth appoints Andrew Ure from Department of Climate Change as MD 2

Amanda Keller and Ray Meagher among immortalised celebs at Madam Tussauds Sydney 2

Massive ratings night sees The Voice blast through 2m for Nine 1

ClimateWorks launches ad to demystify low-carbon growth plan

Naked reproduces Stanley Milgram obedience experiments for WorkSafe Victoria 18

Big Splash Media launches customer fashion magazine The Iconic

Sami Lukis is the new voice on Mix106.5 drive as Becks quits Ant & Becks show 7

ABC to launch Paper Giants sequel 1

Swerve due for June debut, US release delayed 1

ACP offloads Snowboarding and Inside Cricket magazines to Nextmedia 1

Cheil installs Roy Faulkner as creative director, relaunches as ‘truly Aussie agency’ 10

Screen Queensland proposes low-budget feature program 2

Only three shows beat 1m on another miserable Thursday night for TV ratings

Jeans for Genes appoints new agencies ahead of marketing push 6

Mumbrellacast: Dan Ilic on viral video | Droga5 brings cool to Woolies | The Rafters vs Hollywood | Sexy train travel | Blue Tongue Collective in Sundance 1

Simplot launches ‘Thanks Lean Cuisine’ campaign 8

Ten announces ‘bold, irreverent, fresh, innovative and noisy’ reality series 5

Georgie McCourt-Abay appointed deputy editor of Harper’s Bazaar 2

Matchbox Pictures sells The Straits across Europe 3

Ex-Sensis GM Mark Shaw resurfaces as boss of Spotify/Rdio rival DMD 2

March’s Ad of the Month shortlist revealed 7

Jenny Parkes joins News Australia Sales from DMG Radio

Strategists thrown marketing problems in quickfire session at Mumbrella360 5

Le Coq Sportif adopts local non-sport positioning 4

Luke Waldren promoted to CEO of Grey Australia 3

Distributor of Life in Movement questions the film’s ROI 7

Marketing agency staffer Heath James charged with $318,000 fraud

One Direction and Vegemite toast spitting incident helps Sunrise trounce Today 8

Foxtel hires Bruce Meagher from SBS as director of corporate affairs 1

Bait 3D secures US distribution deal 6

Kleenex green toilet roll launches ‘Aussie first’ Pinterest mum blogger meet 1

Unilever campaign sees soup dispensed from billboards 7

Sydney Writers’ Festival ad asks ‘what is personal?’ 2

Mix106.5 Rosso & Claire show hunts for Sydney’s best bridesmaid 1

Ten’s first half results: revenue falls 10.6%, EBITDA down 39.7% 9

Why side projects are essential on agenda at Mumbrella360 3

One year after earthquake, Christchurch begins agency search to bring Australians back 2

Vodka O launches short film competition for budding film-makers 9

Woolies launches own-label ad offensive, Droga5 makes Woolies debut 64

New business market does a ‘Lazarus act’ in Q1 2012 1

Alex Proyas to direct Robert A Heinlein adaptation in Australia 1

Darwin Tomlinson leaves The White Agency to join DDB Sydney as integrated deputy ECD 10

Sirens finalists announced, client to go with winning creatives to Cannes

American Pie: Reunion takes the cake at the Easter box office 1

Susan Andrews quits Edelman to launch new agency

Kebab chain seeks to ditch image of ‘refuge for drunks’ with new agency hires 10

Nine’s Big Bang Theory wins non-news Tuesday with 996,000

Sydney worst hit in ‘patchy’ Australian radio advertising market 8

Red Agency hired to make Queensland rail ‘sexy’ for younger travelers 13

Rachel Griffiths and Anthony LaPaglia cast in Julian Assange story

Perisher launches its search for the ‘ultimate skibum’ 2

Hamish McLennan appointed board chairman of REA Group

Morrison Media strategic review sees four titles close and two launch 2

Cheeky Drop bids to revive the Friday drinks tradition 17

AnalogFolk hires 14 staff in six months 6

Rdio engages Perfeckt 1

Craig McLachlan cast in new ABC series 3

Digital Chameleon hires Matthew Bates as commercial director 6

Foxtel-Austar merger gets green light

The Biggest Loser takes 1m in Monday ratings

Tonight app launches promo video 2

Whybins expands planning department with new hire Joel Pearson 7

APC announces new structure and funding

My Kitchen Rules’ US rights sold

Sydney designer wins global Heineken design competition 4

Comms Council forms anti-sexism body 16

Wild Turkey searches for Australia’s worst sporting teams 4

Audi Q3: for the ‘forward-thinking driver’