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News.com.au tumbles to sixth in ranking of Australia’s most popular websites, as ABC maintains lead 7

King Media launches newspaper to fill the gap in NSW’s Southern Highlands

Communications agency PDPR announces new clients including the National Association of Women in Construction

Royal Hospital for Women campaigns for essential funding in Heart for Her spot

BCF provides questionable tax deduction advice in WFH end of financial year campaign

Gold Coast campaign says the region is ‘ready to play’ as debate rages about opening borders

ASX asks Seven West Media to explain climbing share price 2

Australian actors and film makers recite original poem ‘Stories’ in support of the Sydney Film Festival

Domino’s brings the ‘taste of New York’ to Australian living rooms

GSK Consumer Healthcare’s Nick Boyden moves into global marketing role for Centrum

Domino’s CMO Melody Livingstone appointed CEO of Moo Goo

Chaos in America: How Australia’s newspapers are covering Trump vs the people 10

Press Council clears Daily Telegraph over pill testing reporting

Showpony hires Rory Kennett-Lister as creative director

Toyota says the AFL community will ‘bounce back’ in lead up to its return

Christine Isaac and Dario Bulfone open creative shop 2

Suzuki names its cars ‘the best in the universe’ in new campaign

Havas Australia helps marketers with their COVID-19 side hustles

McDonald’s Jenni Dill joins Arnott’s as CMO

Grant Broadcasters to restructure digital business under new GM 1

BMF and Ogilvy the latest to be analysed in Mumbrella Pro’s Agency Report Card

Tourism Western Australia begins marketing push for intrastate travel

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne continues leadership team shake-up with new hires 1

SMI data shows ad spend fell 35% in first full month of COVID-19

Ten axes Celebrity Name Game 1

Wunderman Thompson CEO John Gutteridge departs with Lee Leggett taking the helm 2

Job cuts at Vice Australia as it shrinks local offices and closes Virtue 2

News Corp closes women’s content network Whimn 9

Australian Survivor competitor sues Endemol Shine for negligence following ankle injury

Nova and Smooth FM launch ‘Thank You’ concert for essential workers 2

Hasbro appoints Access PR to the public relations account for its games portfolio

DDB Melbourne’s Kate Sterling moves to Live Person as ANZ client director

SATC chosen for Steller and Wagstaff partnership, #LoveWhereYouLive

Fred Hollows Foundation launches first campaign in two years with track from Tim Minchin and Missy Higgins

Media outlets lose defamation appeal over liability for readers’ Facebook comments 4

Vegemite seeks ‘cultural ambassador of Australia’ 3

Foxtel’s new streaming service Binge appoints The Hallway to creative and media strategy 1

DDB Sydney’s Carl Ratcliff launches creative consultancy This Is The Day 3

Wine label Innocent Bystander appoints McCann Melbourne as lead creative agency

ViacomCBS restructures sales team with Melbourne sales director Damon Jackson exiting

Google’s Mel Silva slams publishers’ ‘inaccurate numbers and unfounded assertions’, claims news searches only worth $10m 8

Joe Hockey joins Sky News as US political contributor 1

Regional town launches community radio to connect listeners during COVID-19 1

Atomic 212’s case against former CEO Jason Dooris heads to court after his house is searched 15

The first NRL game of 2020 brings 619,000 metro viewers to Nine 1

Dentsu Aegis Network allows team to work remotely for rest of the year 6

A-League broadcast deal hangs in the balance as Fox Sports continues to hold out

Ooh Media restructures, merging Junkee into its marketing and creative team 4

Nine and Foxtel sign revised broadcast deal with NRL

Drink Wise radio campaign from The Monkeys takes out 2020 Gold Siren Award

Kraft Heinz adds Society to agency roster

Dairy Farmers praises generations of farmers in new campaign

Spoke Corporate opens Sydney office led by Samantha Zoratto

GSK and Novartis fined $4.5 million over marketing of Voltaren 1

Tourism New Zealand sends message of hope to Australians in light of possible tourism bubble

UFC invites fans to a pre-match staredown with star fighters on new platform

Masterchef jumps above 1m metro viewers, making Ten the most-watched channel on Wednesday night

Ad Standards CEO Fiona Jolly departs after 15 years 1

Energizer appoints UM as global media agency of record 1

Research finds 60% of financial journalists concerned about job security

News Corp closes over 100 print papers, with 14 titles to disappear completely 52

Travel and Lifestyle brand Wayfarer launches bi-monthly digital magazine 1

AFP won’t lay charges against News Corp’s Annika Smethurst after last year’s raid

Vinnies calls on marketing and media professionals to join online CEO Sleepout 1

TAB pushes for punters to download Government’s COVID Safe app 5

IMAA adds nine new indie media agencies to membership base

Tourism Whitsundays begins domestic tourism push targeting friends and family

The Voice has double the audience of House Rules: High Stakes on Tuesday night 4

Spotlight appoints PHD to media account 12

NSW Government’s Place Management appoints White Grey to its creative account

Local publisher launches new title to fill hole left by ACM closure 1

4 Pines Brewing Company hands creative account to Monster Children Creative 1

Daylight Agency wins three new clients

Ampol reveals new visual identity ahead of Caltex rebrand 8

Carat’s Couch-ella expands to become annual event

Industry body welcomes $17m plan for PacificAus TV, but critics question value 1

Media outlets face contempt of court charges over George Pell reporting 2

The Voice dips below 1m metro viewers for its second outing 1

Kraft Heinz appoints 72 and Sunny as creative partner for Golden Circle

10 Play rolls out new experiences for users and advertisers across Telstra TV 2

Facebook’s Creative Shop hires Jay Morgan, Stefanie DiGianvincenzo and Oliver Beeston

Special Group and Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney added to Mumbrella Pro’s Agency Report Card

Yancy Murillo, Saatchi & Saatchi’s head of studio, passes away 2

Music and entertainment PR agency Daydream Nation launches 2

Vue de Monde and CUB’s Actual Vodka Seltzer added to 3 Degrees Marketing’s client roster

AFL stars remind ‘benched’ Australians to take it easy after isolation in Drink Wise campaign

Qualitative research platform Sympler launches in Australia with Karen Dwyer as partner

Nicki Williams promoted to director of sales APAC at Buzzfeed 3