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San Remo banks on emotions around family and ancestors in festive season ad

Ten caves and renames ’10 Boss’ as ’10 Bold’ 29

Nine and Fairfax sales staff come together, with Pippa Leary and Matt Rowley promoted 2

Adshel brand disappears as ‘Commute by Ooh’ is born 1

Junkee Media appoints The New York Times’ Meisha Hill as general manager

New Idea launches Royals mini magazine

‘Northsider’, magazine for Sydney’s lower north shore launched by former Pacific Magazine staffers 3

ACCC inquiry into tech giants: Increased regulation, notice of acquisitions and stricter privacy rules 1

Cricket continues to climb for Seven on Sunday night

Fetch TV to launch first ‘virtual channel’, Oxygen

Former Seven news director Chris Willis joins Sky News 2

Global leaders from Twitter, Microsoft and Initiative revealed for Mumbrella360, along with pilot who saved an A380 1

Give customers a winning feeling and they’ll part with their money, says I Fly Flat founder

News and medical emergency reign as TV enters summer period

Ten scores ex-Seven newsreader Chris Bath 4

First Test TV ratings remain steady for Seven on day two

Kayo campaign educates consumers about new sports streaming service

‘The really big threat to our industry is confidence’: Clemenger CEO Nick Garrett 1

Drummond Golf launches first campaign from JWT Melbourne 1

Travel marketers need to be aware of luxury guests’ changing tastes, says tourism boss

Nine prepares for trading with Fairfax assets from Monday, announces additional $15m cost savings 3

Nine to shake up AFL Footy Show plans in 2019 1

Canadian Club leverages Summer beer drinking in ‘Who Made Beer the Boss of Summer?’ ad 1

Hungry Jack’s recruits the Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen guy in spin off summer BBQ Whopper track 9

InsideOut PR wins Zomato, Chapayom and Tan Tootie accounts

Nick Cody to join Triple M Brisbane breakfast as Lawrence Mooney departs

Ed Kavalee, Grant Denyer and Ash London to return to 2Day FM

Leo Burnett Sydney wins APIA’s creative account

First Test between Australia and India averages 414,333 for Seven 1

Some ‘ratbag’ media agencies are eroding industry trust 4

Mumbrella NeXt winners revealed, with PHD talent taking home two awards 2

Karim Temsamani, former head of Australian operations, leaves Google 3

‘I will have to prove myself all over again’ — Piyush Pandey on becoming global CCO at Ogilvy

Studio 10 finds permanent Executive Producer and adds Natarsha Belling to line up 3

M&C Saatchi and Digitas handed Tourism Australia’s creative and digital accounts 8

Don’t get too close to Google and Facebook warns ABC News boss 1

CBS’ Christian Williams named director of Ten Interactive 6

Just 291,000 tune in to AACTA Awards coverage 1

WPP AUNZ opens analytics division to bolster consulting offering

Holding groups need to rethink their operating model, says PwC’s Megan Brownlow 16

SI Partners, Speed Agency, Richards Rose, The Leach Partnership and more confirmed to speak at Mumbrella SAGE

Sonia Jahshan promoted to executive producer of Kyle & Jackie O Show

Seventh Street Media axes roles as it moves to quarterly edition

Sian Whitaker named new commercial boss at Broadsheet Media 2

Today Show EP and Nine’s director of morning TV, Mark Calvert, steps down 2

ACCC launches deceptive advertising action against internet provider Activ8me

ABC Radio announces 2019 lineup with Loretta Ryan to join Brisbane breakfast 4

Roll’d launches summer campaign promoting fresh ingredients ‘all roll’d up’ 3

Nine scores Bondi Vet from Ten with four new vets 1

Provocative organ donation ad banned for insensitivity and ‘making light’ of Jesus’ crucifixion 21

Medical emergency shows prove the top entertainment TV shows on quiet Tuesday night 1

Pacific Magazines appoints Andrew Brain as director of digital sales 5

Banks and tech top Australia’s most tweeted brands in year dominated by #auspol

Eyewear company Luxottica hands global media account to Zenith 2

DDB Sydney’s managing partner Chiquita King set to join 6AM Agency as CEO 4

Taubmans stands the test of weather in ‘forces of nature’ ad

Sorrell’s S4 Capital gains first Australian foothold with MightyHive purchase 6

Shaun Menegola appointed Seven Melbourne’s news director

Gareth Allsopp joins Mahlab as head of creative

Anthony De Ceglie named senior editor of West Australian Newspapers 1

Dairy products company Lactalis appoints Zenith to global media account

Dry July appoints Speed and m2m to media account 2

HT&E to focus on efficiencies within ARN before acquisitions

Industry executives Paul Fenton and Joshua Hunt launch new creative agency, Loyal 1

Over half of the media and marketing industry shows symptoms of depression 1

Expedia’s Amanda Behre joins Gumtree Australia as head of marketing

Nine’s Family Food Fight achieves highest rating episode of season 1

Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital confirms discussions to acquire MightyHive programmatic platform

International comms experts from Philip Morris International and FleishmanHillard to speak at Mumbrella CommsCon 1

10 officially launches All Access video on demand service 13

303 MullenLowe’s managing partner of comms and MD of Creature Lee Robson departs 1

Creed II knocks Fantastic Beasts off the top spot at weekend box office

Federal government’s publishers’ innovation fund still yet to launch 1

P&O softens the blow when delivery bad news in ‘Good News’ campaign 5

Ad spend declines across every major media for the first time since SMI records began

GroupM and Zenith release their global and Australian ad spend predictions

Jane Hutton joins Thrive PR as communications and marketing director

WE Buchan wins Jenny Craig’s PR account

Optus promises no hostages in ad featuring prisoner walking out of jail 15

Blue Planet II and Love Actually most-watched entertainment shows on Sunday night

Mumbrella’s Travel Marketing Summit and Awards return with the South Australian Tourism Commission, FutureBrand and more

Nine names new leadership team, fewer than 100 staff affected by redundancies 9

Blue 449 appoints PHD’s Anna Cherry as head of strategy 1

Trivago faces millions in ACCC fines after admitting misleading conduct 4

ARN CEO Rob Atkinson to depart as HT&E streamlines leadership

Peter van Onselen to lead Ten’s political coverage 6

‘We’ll be nicer to Australia’ pledge in Air New Zealand Christmas ad

Bauer reveals merged teams and new editors for Elle and Harper’s Bazaar 2