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iHeartPodcast’s Stuff You Should Know soars to the top of Australia’s Podcast Ranker as international titles join the mix

Uber Eats’ Australian Open campaign catches the attention of industry watchdog after a complaint is lodged over ‘indistinguishable’ advertising 5

Adhesive hired by De’Longhi Group Australia for influencer engagement and social media management

Uber hires new head of communications Peta Fitzgerald

Bauer Media acquires The High Tea Party, moving into ticketed consumer events

Marie Claire reimagines retro ads to ‘right past wrongs’

Lexus moves its lifestyle PR from EVH to Kate & Co PR

Starcom appoints Red Rooster’s Nick Keenan as CEO 8

BBC Studios and ITV announce joint SVOD venture Britbox will launch in Australia 4

ACMA rules Seven News Queensland misled viewers 2

Initiative wins pitch for Pernod Ricard media account 2

Cannings Purple appoints Jenn Morris as national director of strategy

Pringles reveals its new mystery flavour in ‘WTF: What’s the Flavour?’ campaign 2

Walkley Foundation opens up $110,000 grant pool for public interest journalism

Yoghurt brand Danone signs nine Olympic ambassadors including Ash Barty, Kyle Chalmers and Brandon Starc

Young boys capitalise on the tooth fairy’s generosity in campaign from health insurer GMHBA

ANZ advertisement pulled by industry watchdog for depicting a child at risk of SIDS 2

OMD employee cleared of coronavirus as agency returns to ‘business as usual’ 1

Survivor’s Locky Gilbert to be Ten’s next Bachelor

Hot Wheels puts its toy cars on the menu of hatted restaurants in Melbourne to reward well-behaved children 3

The Australian Grand Prix Corporation appoints The Monkeys as lead creative agency 1

Man of Many names Nick Hall as digital editor

Ad spend market starts the year down 8.2%, with retail back 27.9%

Google cancels biggest event of the year, I/O 2020, as coronavirus impacts continue 1

L’Occitane appoints Stark Matthews to its public relations account

CCO Stephen de Wolf to depart Clemenger BBDO Melbourne for BBH London

Nova’s Brisbane GM Jay Walkerden under internal investigation

Cost-cutting and automation paying off: Isentia CEO 1

Free TV uses closure of AAP to call for end to content quotas and advertising restrictions 5

NRL revives its Tina Turner ‘Simply the Best’ campaign with polarising updated rendition 2

Cummins & Partners reappointed to Jeep, Fiat and Alfa Romeo creative accounts 2

Facebook and Twitter cancel SXSW plans as coronavirus crisis rolls on

Australian Associated Press to close in June 25

Orchard wins creative account for The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Content quotas should bind streaming platforms, not be abolished for commercial networks, says union 3

SCA acquires two more WA radio stations following Redwave Media acquisition

The Invisible Man opens to $2.527m, toppling Sonic the Hedgehog at the weekend box office

Married At First Sight pulls 1.087m metro viewers, while My Kitchen Rules sits at 451,000

Cinema claims to be bucking the trend, with 6.5% growth in 2020 1

Nick Unger rejoins SCA as Sydney’s head of TV sales after almost a decade with Nine 1

Jim Carroll, SBS director of news and current affairs, announces retirement 2

Polkadot Communications wins four new clients including Trip.com and Nomo

‘Ditch the pitch’ debate and crisis comms trivia join completed Mumbrella CommsCon program 1

Pureprofile posts $5.37m loss in half-year results and notes ‘ongoing challenges’ with ad market 1

Percentage of women in media agency management positions rises to 44% in latest MFA census 3

Clemenger BBDO Sydney wins the creative account for Blue Ribbon Ice Cream

Powerade encourages Aussies to ‘Sweat it Out’ in latest ads, with Dylan Alcott and Sam Kerr fronting the OOH executions

Vic Health’s This Girl Can campaign returns with message about not comparing oneself to #Fitspo images on social media

Nine wins third official ratings week of the year

Sonia Kruger and Kyle Sandilands join Seven’s Australia’s Got Talent judging panel 1

Compare the Market appoints Christopher Catchpoole as CMO, and notes the meerkats aren’t going anywhere 3

Former Bachelorette Angie Kent fronts campaign for dog vitamins brand Daily Dog

Facebook files lawsuit against data analytics company One Audience

Victorian Government takes $101m master media account to tender 8

Atomic 212 wins media account for container deposit not-for-profit, Exchange for Change

News Corp unveils cost-per-completed-view solution for programmatic video 11

‘Hello Possums’: Dame Edna Everage comes to the rescue of Compare the Market’s meerkats Aleksandr and Sergei

Connect PR rebrands to The Connect Agency, introducing talent and creative arms 1

Melanoma Institute Australia campaign shows the importance of putting one foot in front of the other 1

Health insurer HBF launches its new extras products with research-based campaign 1

Former Starcom MD Patrick Doble becomes APAC GM for ad tech company Cartelux

Sunday’s Married At First Sight pulls 1.184m metro viewers 1

Hisense becomes naming rights partner for NRL’s Thursday Night Football

The Courier Mail’s breakup message from Charlotte revealed to be ad for telco Circles Life

Kayo shows that ‘Nowhere is safe from footy’ this winter in first campaign by Special Group 1

Creative agency Paper Stone Scissors works on branding and launch campaign of lingerie brand Underline

Brother & Co and Tribal NZ reveal new brand identity and website for Maven Dental

Online advertising market grows 5.6% to $9.3bn

What ‘Sounds like Triple M’? A giraffe named Bruce dancing in his living room, according to new campaign 8

Cody Simpson stars in ‘We Gots You’ Bonds campaign promoting ‘ethically made’ organics range

Advertisers’ investigation into murky programmatic chain ready to report after fight for data 1

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras brings 275,000 metro viewers to SBS

Andy Lee joins Seven for The Front Bar

AFL State of Origin returns to 607,000 metro viewers 1

Mark Lollback’s big regret as McDonald’s CMO: Flushing ‘$3m down the toilet’ on Salesforce 10

Virgin Australia and Delta send Nick Cody from Bris-Vegas to Las Vegas in new content series

Nine shakes up management, with Chris Janz and Alexi Baker promoted 4

Industry raises $160,000 for bushfire relief at UnLtd Big Clash cricket matches 1

OMD closes Sydney office over coronavirus fears 12

ABC won’t appeal Federal Court decision about the AFP’s raid

Air New Zealand releases safety video to highlight the country’s biodiversity crisis

TV executives defend VOZ over claims it’s been ‘oversold’, noting the soft ad market is ‘not an excuse’ 3

Supercars appoints Innocean as creative partner 1

Bastion Effect’s Richard Chapman and Roxanne Millar take on additional CEO and GM roles for Bastion China

A $26 basic subscription at Foxtel is ‘not a great experience’: CEO Patrick Delany 7

OzTAM’s Lillian Zrim joins PHD as head of research

Popcorn is a ‘guilt-free’ snack in AJF GrowthOps’ campaign for Cobs 2

Acast launches Acast Marketplace, giving advertisers access to podcast titles on a global basis