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Finder teams with MKR’s Manu ahead of brand campaign launch

Seven Studios recruits BBC exec to run UK production venture

Australian Open men’s final watched by 1.589m

Nine wins the week as ratings battle heats up

ABC expands The Drum to take on commercial rivals 8

Seven wins Friday night, despite tennis semi-finals on Nine

1.171m tune in to watch Australian Open women’s final on Nine 2

McDonald’s capitalises on Australia Day by appealing to ‘Strayan’ slang 26

Chris Mitchell, Alan Kohler and Magda Szubanski among those honoured on Australia Day 1

Sydney Roosters take out billboards in US claiming they are ‘World champions of football’ ahead of Super Bowl 3

Hungry Jack’s takes off VB’s iconic ads in Facebook campaign 8

Traffik expands Sydney office with raft of new hires

UnLtd introduces female-only Big Clash cricket match, ‘Lady Ballers’

First Test between Australia and Sri Lanka averages 445,333 metro viewers for Seven

White Grey wins Hawaiian Airlines’ creative account

Buzzfeed to axe 15% of staff across the company 5

Mumbrella360 session submissions close on Wednesday

VMLY&R appoints creative director for Melbourne team 1

Tribe launches on-demand influencer content marketplace

Carnival launches ‘Fun Size Cruises’ social campaign 3

Smaller digital agencies are driving a booming Australian industry, claims Ibis World

New Zealand doubles down claiming it has the world’s best lamb in tourism campaign 5

Ikon’s Tamara Dorrington joins Superdream as digital marketing manager as agency wins Mirvac

Samuel Viney starts at Westpac as head of advertising 1

Ten’s I’m A Celebrity draws 712,000 viewers on Wednesday

Weber Shandwick’s Tom Horn joins PPR as associate director of corporate

Nova, Whooshkaa, PodcastOne and Amazon Alexa join the Mumbrella Audioland lineup

Metro commercial radio revenues creep up in 2018

Ex Fairfax CMO Michael Laxton joins Coles as GM of brand and media 2

Australians concerned news organisations focus on commercial objectives more than credibility, BBC study claims 4

Pedestrian Group reveals new MD and publisher 1

Pureprofile posts further declines in revenues and profits 2

Tom Tom, Navman and Garmin forced to remove ‘lifetime’ claims from advertising campaigns 1

The PR Team wins Hawaiian Airlines’ Australian and New Zealand PR account

Different Australians share how they eat Kellogg’s cereal in documentary-style ad 3

Narrowcast provider Swift Networks reports profit jump

Long-standing WS FM producer Laura Bouchet to join Triple M

Zenith wins Rio Tinto’s media account

Ash Barty’s loss at the Australian Open cracks 1m viewers for Nine

Nova’s Shane Lowe joins 96FM Perth

Clemenger BBDO Sydney wins government pitch to rebrand Australia 10

Dimmi appoints Kite Communications to spearhead rebrand to The Fork

Ten Daily promotes Chris Harrison to editor

Xcllusive Business Sales acquires Coast to Coast Australia

Macquarie Sports Radio tweaks lineup with Mark Levy and Mark Riddell to run national breakfast 4

Google fined €50m in scathing ruling by French privacy watchdog

Visa creates branded entertainment series ‘Urban Survivalist’ featuring Crazy Rich Asians’ Ronny Chieng

Nivea’s charity partner Sister2sister launches campaign to drive awareness 1

Banks’ brand values hit hard as reputation fallout continues to bite

Jack Phillips leaves GQ to set up video production studio, Köllectve

Avengers: Infinity War comes out on top of Australia’s 2018 box office takings

HBF encourages patients to ‘Get Well’

Original ‘lambassador’ Sam Kekovich ditches lamb in ‘Australian Made’ ad targeting tradies 2

Wagyu beef brand Westholme hands creative account to The Idea Shed

AFLW reveals ‘GenW’ brand positioning and showcases the sport’s diverse fan base 1

Initiative’s John Dawson relocates to Copenhagen 3

Serena Williams’ progression to quarter final averages 842,000 1

Atomic 212 wins media account for Charles Darwin University and opens Darwin office 6

Pedestrian launches two day ‘self-care’ festival 3

Cummins & Partners Sydney wins creative account for Hachette Australia

Publicis tops media agency wins for 2018, reports RECMA

Tinder hires Intel consumer marketer, Kristen Hardeman, as country manager 4

M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass enters weekend box office in pole position 1

Broadsheet Media appoints Ingrid Kesa as head of branded content

Camille Alarcon joins Publicis Media as marketing communications director

World’s Greatest Shave dumps ‘Bon Rurgundy’ and introduces superhero ‘Shaverhands’

Celestyal Cruises hires Gate 7 as PR agency

Dustin Martin walks alongside a tiger in Bonds ad

PHD scores AFL media account 1

Cameraman misses Australian Open shot as he orders Uber Eats in tennis themed campaign 6

Stefanos Tsitsipas’ triumph over Roger Federer assists Australian Open to audience of 1.036m

IPG Mediabrands hires IAG’s Ros Allison as head of group performance

Jon Faine to leave ABC Melbourne at year’s end

Sky News shuffles line up with new Outsiders and expanded role for Chris Kenny 15

Mumbrella Awards 2019 entries now open

Kiis FM celebrates five years with out-of-home push

‘Can’t even hang on to a Prime Minister’: MLA calls for a united New Zealand and Australia in summer campaign 11

Nine’s Matt Rowley becomes chair of IAB Australia Board

Henry Tajer named Dentsu Aegis Network’s CEO 35

Australian Open coverage secures clear weekly ratings win for Nine 2

Ten’s Five Bedrooms reveals lineup of actors 1

FIVEaa’s co-host Will Goodings joins Ten Adelaide as weekday sport presenter

Kia recruits Rafael Nadal to recreate car noises in ‘Get ready to Get Mean’ campaign 6

Experiential content agency Spinifex makes three hires

Rafael Nadal and Alex de Minaur’s match helps Australian Open secure 791,000 viewers

OMD joins list of businesses to waiver NDAs in wake of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces 4

Uncle Tobys recruits successful men and women to talk about before they were ‘great’

Storyful moves Hong Kong operations to Sydney office in business restructure