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Continental Sensations launches new brand platform via Bastion Creative

Testing expanded for Google’s Privacy Sandbox

ABC signs heads of agreement for Parramatta office in western Sydney

AMEX ANZ appoints Adam Slattery as director of brand & member experience

AGL to stay with UM after demerger dramas; creative undecided

Mumbrella Publish’s full program is out, including leaders from Are Media, The Conversation and The Brag Media

Meta’s decade-long revenue streak comes to a crashing halt as company slows hiring

Shadowboxer brings in ex-Isobar GM for second venture, web studio Southpaw

Travel Associates launches new brand positioning via BCM Group

Gruen takes entertainment crown; Nine wins Wednesday

Forethought welcomes three new senior team members

Journos vote to take industrial action against Nine with help of the MEAA

Ogilvy leads the noms at the Effie Awards; BMF, Richards Rose follow

VÖOST’s new 3D audio partnership with Mamamia via Starcom

Lindt Australia launches first local TVC in over five years via Richards Rose

Content team changes over at KIIS network

James McManus elevated to Pedestrian Group executive creative director

Google introduces new tool to expose hidden ad tech fees

Edge adds Hearing Australia to media client roster

MILKRUN explains unexplainably fast delivery via in-house creative production

Coles shelves others, carries on with Omnicom, brings in Deloitte for bespoke agency ‘Smith St’ 10

Updated: KFC CMO Kristi Woolrych promoted; Sally Spriggs steps into acting role

Ten’s Hunted tops entertainment; Nine takes Tuesday

Roy Morgan: More Australians are aware of Afterpay than PayPal and BPay

Engineers Australia’s first major national brand campaign via Bastion Creative

Cheuk Chiang back in Australian fold with Dentsu Creative APAC role 1

Four retired Queens roadtrip The South West Edge in new content series via 303 Mullenlowe and Mediahub

Alphabet Q2 earnings miss Wall Street expectations, with fallen profits reflecting a slowing ad market

Guardian Australia launches first brand campaign via Howatson+Co

VMO lands exclusive ad deal with Sydney’s Market City

IMAA welcomes Government’s new procurement rules, encourages states and territories to follow suit

Submissions for the 2022 IAA Big Idea challenge is now open

Richard Morgan exits AnalogFolk; joint CDs appointed 2

Initiative Perth gets crafty with new business model and leadership team

Honest Fox rebrands to help challenger brands navigate tricky martech landscape

Ten dominates Seven in overall network share; Nine wins the Monday

Deloitte Digital Creative welcomes Annabel Acton as strategy director 1

IGA spotlights community roots in latest campaign via The Core Agency

OOH creative containing distinctive brand codes delivers 13% uplift: JCDecaux NZ

Uber Eats becomes a real Livewire in the gaming market

Melior hires DDB Sydney’s Sigrid Westhoff Pike as account director

‘Demos are still number one for clients’: IAB’s Le Roy and Omnicom’s CIO

Monday markets: S4 Capital slumps, social media stocks drop

NBN eyes connection in $30m-plus media pitch; places focus on digital

Ekaterra’s media account goes to PHD in new global appointment

The Aunties launches second phase as 100 female creative leaders join senior mentor program

UM hits the streets, partnering with Clean Up Australia for Impact Day

This Is Your Life with Ian Thorpe topped entertainment; Seven wins night and ratings week

Empathy the new key in consumer-brand relationship: The Lab

Tourism Whitsundays hands PR account to Verve Communications

GroupM’s partnership with Good-Loop is part of Alpha, its new sustainability strategy in Australia 1

Emotive sticks it with second Revlon campaign starring Delta Goodrem

RCJ hopes to park SsangYong Australia in customers’ minds with media account win

Uber Eats’ Paris Irwin campaign adds 3D billboard and other executions 1

‘You have to find the edges of your brand’: Lion’s Sahasrabuddhe on bringing consumers on the culture journey

‘Progress over perfection’: leading industry women on gender biases in the marketing industry

IPG announces Q2 2022 results, with notably slower growth but strong revenues

FleishmanHillard ANZ makes four new senior leadership hires 1

Imogen Hewitt’s future talent fix: a university in the metaverse

The Dog House wins primetime entertainment slot; Nine takes Thursday

IHAC chair: ‘If you push against it, and don’t want to work with internal agencies, you’ll lose’

‘It’s not the 80s’ says Nine’s Stephenson on overnights; Netflix will ‘lose money’ with ad model in Australia 2

‘Fragmentation is not slowing down,’ says ABC’s Emma Turner on how Australians consume media

Seven News takes top 3 spots on VOZ Week 28 report

Thinkerbell enlists senior talent from Havas and Special, bolstering people and product

‘If I talk to everyone, no one listens’: ARN finds 6 neuroscientific triggers for effective audio ads

Nine appoints Jamie Gilbert-Smith as director of trade marketing

Publicis H1 22 results at ‘all time high’, with new global business wins driving organic growth

‘Creative capital’ – not creativity – flourishes in long-term partnerships, finds Spark Foundry

How to ‘date’ an NGO: L’Occitane talks making the most of your NGO partnership

Beauty and the Geek takes entertainment; Nine takes Wednesday

BBC’s James Stirling: ‘I’m not really interested in nostalgia – we want to use contemporary talent to frame history’ 2

Talkwalker study: embracing digital disruption to the finance and payments ecosystem

Tourism Fiji sends cheeky holiday invite to NZ’s COVID chief, via Special PR

Vectra AI strengthens leadership team with CMO Tommy Jenkins

Crimtan partners with automotive media publishers Haymarket Automotive and Autovia

Campaign Review: Aldi versus Ampol

Business Chicks names ex-head of Hit Network as CEO

Dentsu International appoints Rob Gilby as its APAC CEO

Butterfly Foundation enlists QMS to spotlight eating disorders

‘You have to have a brand that you trust,’ says Dr Norman Swan

Hunted wins entertainment, Nine and Seven tie for total share

The Mint Partners bolsters leadership team; Genevieve Taubman takes on CEO role

‘Less bad results’: Netflix loses 1M subscribers and reports total revenue of $11.5bn in Q2 2022

Gretchen Carlson addresses Mumbrella360, endorses Trinity P3 initiative

Netflix to boost its animation capabilities with Animal Logic acquisition

Omnicom Q2 results indicate double-digit revenue growth despite slowed Asia Pacific growth

VMO appoints Sabarish Chirakkal as programmatic director