Live blog: Friday June 27 – Vodafone | Fairfax | TAC | SPC | Aldi | Interns | Masterchef | Guns
Welcome to Mumbrella’s live blog, our daily roundup of what’s happening in media and marketing.
Top stories:
- Masterchef’s Whyalla wipeout
- Fairfax to close two NZ presses and give print contract to APN
- TAC resumes How Safe is Your Car campaign
- Opinion: Australia’s communications problem: ‘Ownable’ trumps relevance and insight stands no chance
- Mumbo: The ads must go on
- Mumbo: All you need is head
5.15pm – This looks like foreshadowing… two years ago, Vodafone gave its business to Ogilvy, which today declined to repitch for it.
Here’s what commenter “Fail” had to say at the time when Host also parted ways after two years (Thanks to commenter JayCee for the heads-up)…