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GoFundMe makes first Australian hire in Sling & Stone’s Nicola Britton 9

Nine to sell former Fairfax sports event business to Ironman Group

Ten Daily’s readership revealed in Nielsen’s April Digital Content Ratings

Marketing consultancy TrinityP3 expands footprint in northern hemisphere with new JV

Nicole McInnes to leave Ovo as company ditches CMO role 7

Baxter, Ferrier and Wilson to discuss legacy of Naked in special founders session at Mumbrella360 1

VB to shout Australians a beer to celebrate the end of the election 10

DEC PR wins PR account for InterContinental Sydney

UM retains Kmart account after competitive pitch 1

Chiquita King and Ant Melder to head up new creative agency Coffee Cocoa Gunpowder 6

The Voice returns for eighth season with 1.01m metro viewers

GSK and Novartis admit misleading arthritis marketing

Holden Heist ad taken off air because of dangerous turn 12

Ben Lilley among new investors in Cavalry Freelancing 4

Antony Catalano, Travis Day and Simon Kent launch property marketing agency, Today

Google introduces new ad units to mobile search, YouTube and its Discover application

Creative agency Pontoon 8 launches specialist offering Pontoon Property

Damian Eales elected to lead International News Media Association

Knect Digital rebrands as Australian Digital and appoints Rafael Cantó as managing director 1

Canva moves into stock photo market by buying image libraries

Lego Masters helps Nine to narrow weekly ratings win 1

ABC wins the election ratings while Ten slumps to 3.6% 5

Seven commissions ‘sizzling social experiment’ dating show Temptation Island

KPMG appoints Acuity’s Amanda Hicks to lead marketing practice after Paul Howes promotion 4

Parties share honours in the election social media battle

CommBank launches sci-fi style campaign to promote 24/7 fraud monitoring 2

Bold wins PR account for Quantcast and reveals new logo 2

Seven’s The Front Bar gets highest audience ever in absence of the AFL Footy Show 1

Mark Liney leaves M&C Saatchi’s Re to become principal at brand agency Design Studio

Sydney Star Observer goes into voluntary administration 3

The Presets release music video created through Adobe competition

News Corp Australia passes 500,000 paid digital subscribers 7

Red Agency rebrands to Red Havas

Gary Vaynerchuk owned agency, Vaynermedia, launches APAC office 9

Ooh Media boss stands firm in face of ad recession

TorchMedia adds Canberra Light Rail to its transit portfolio 1

Cummins & Partners hires Annie Little as strategist 1

Big Red Group appoints Charlotte Valente to lead B2B arm 1

Melbourne PR agency KDPO wins Peroni account amongst list of new clients

ABC’s Bluey renewed for second season after BVOD and international success 7

‘Because we’re family’: Dairy Farmers launches new campaign

Lost cowboys and outdated maps continue Kit Kat’s ‘Snap out of it’ platform

Ten’s Five Bedrooms premieres to 507,000 viewers, but Seven wins Wednesday night

Uber Eats and athlete generated media hit the spotlight at the Mumbrella Sports Marketing Summit

M&C Saatchi Australia chairman Tom Dery announces retirement 1

News Corp joins Boomtown regional media sales campaign

VMLY&R boosts Melbourne leadership team

Ellis Jones rebrands to become a social impact agency

Hardie Grant reveals new editorial team for Virgin Australia Magazine 2

Telstra extends TV service beyond broadband subscribers 2

Digilante gets scooped up by brand and content agency, Chello 2

‘Hisense, How Good?’ campaign showcases smart home devices 1

Suzuki gets its skates on in latest campaign from Deloitte 2

CHE Proximity snares Ben Shepherd as chief media officer 14

‘Prolific disruptor’: Founders farewell Naked

Ex-Adshel sales director David Roddick joins MCN as chief sales officer 1

Mumbrella’s B2B Marketing Summit returns with IBM Watson marketing expert Loren McDonald as global keynote

1.49m metro viewers tune in to see the winner of Lego Masters revealed

Enero to merge Precinct comms agency into Hotwire as part of group reshuffle

Hunter Communications announces slew of new wins, including Coles, Oporto and Keystart

Screen Australia announces Indigenous teams for James Cook right of reply project

BBC research shows 45% of Australians trust brands associated with platforms they respect

Tribe names Keith Weed, former Unilever CMO, as investor

McCain launches steamy campaign for its new frozen vegetable line 3

The Haus appoints David Coupland as group strategy director 1

LGBTQI+ influencer marketplace Joocd unveiled

P&O Cruises appoints Yoghurt Digital to its SEO account

Naked and BMF to merge 7

Gavin Selkirk named APAC vice president of CX platform Medallia

UnLtd launches media campaign for Whitelion after raising over $165,000

Ikon wins Lindt media account 1

Wavemaker promotes Jonathan Orchard and Jake Whitten to sharpen precision marketing focus 2

Ten’s Celebrity Name Game premieres to 314,000 metro viewers 5

Liberal Democrats senator calls for abolition of election advertising black out 2

MCN in the spotlight as Foxtel battles sliding revenues 9

Pokémon Detective Pikachu takes over $5m during its first outing at weekend box office 4

MiQ grows Sydney team with two new sales appointments

Inside Out PR announces new client wins Care Dent and Busi Soft AV

Goannas, cane toads and giant mud crabs wreak havoc in Queensland in Suncorp Insurance campaign 10

Ebay Australia launches its first print and online catalogue

Campaign Lab wins PR account for Fiji Airways in Australia and New Zealand

Radio ad revenue drops in March quarter, with CRA citing election and softening market conditions 1

Cummins & Partners launches election-themed work for Pernod Ricard wine label, I Am George 2

Mediacom Melbourne GM Rob Moore departs

Bauer Media announces new ‘action-packed’ television show to air on 10 Bold 2

Lego Masters bursts into final week with 1.126m metro viewers 1

Publicis Sapient, Leo Burnett and She Says create #WeToo to address workplace harassment

CHE Proximity takes double gold at One Show awards 2