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Seven wins 2018 main channel ratings battle while Nine takes out 25-54 demographic 3

Melina Cruickshank switches to top marketing job at REA Group from rival Domain 25

Blake Miseries for Seven as Craig McLachlan fans stay away 106

Brett McCarthy steps down as editor of The West 3

Nine’s Paramedics outguns Ten’s ambos

303 MullenLowe’s Mediahub wins iNova’s media account 2

Hywood: Arrogance and entitlement drove advertisers away 6

Y&R exiles Henry Innis and Matt Farrugia launch marketing consultancy Mutiny 7

Niche Marketing Group’s April Rose wins $1,000 from Mumbrella’s State of the Industry survey

YouTube launches stories for creators with over 10,000 subscribers

TBWA Melbourne’s executive partner Katie Firth joins WhiteGrey as national MD 1

Geelong Advertiser editor Liam Houlihan to depart

Bauer Trader Media’s Ged Bulmer to leave business 1

Ad watchdog disapproves of Wicked Campers glamorising the illegal ‘cannabis use, distribution and possession’ 1

Isentia appoints Jen Marshall as chief product officer 1

Santa Claus envious of digital radio station gifts in CRA campaign

WhiteGrey’s ECD Anthony Moss departs to replace DDB Melbourne’s outgoing group ECD Stu Turner 1

QMS Media to merge NZ division with MediaWorks

Nine’s 2018 ARIA Awards manages half a million viewers, but falls short of ABC’s Hard Quiz 1

Publicis Groupe hires Helge Gruettke as chief client officer

Australian mobile ad spending passes billion dollar mark as digital advertising grows 13%, says IAB and PWC 1

Handyman magazine closes after 17 years 11

Federal Court penalises Sydney publisher for sacking journalist

Don Smallgoods appoints Nick Hickford as marketing and innovation director 3

Skye Lambley becomes MD of N2N Communications 1

Trimantium GrowthOps rebrands with ‘fresh’ visual identity 7

Sydney philanthropist Judith Neilson launches $100m journalism fund 5

MCN promises to learn from Seven and Nine’s ‘mistakes’ in addressable TV 3

VB calls on Australians to re-create iconic ad for 50th birthday 1

Gareth Pask joins Clemenger BBDO as group business director

‘Offensive’ and ‘explicit’ Wicked Campers van banned 10

Massive adfraud network exposed by Google and security researchers

Brisbane City Council votes to approve Adshel street furniture contract

TV execs defend Australian shows: ‘Quality is in the eye of the beholder’ 3

Former Vodafone comms staffer launches AI-powered PR service for startups 6

Howorth rebrands to convey ‘momentum and forward movement’ 1

Seven’s Take Me Out bows out with 394,000 metro viewers 1

US giant Cox Automotive launches Autotrader in Australia

The Monkeys’ Tara Jaijee joins 72andSunny as business development director

Daylight Agency joins global network Worldwide Partners Inc

Nine and Fairfax Media conquer final hurdle, merger cleared 1

Tamara Pannett to replace Ben Dixon as Nova’s head of agency in Melbourne 2

PR and creative agency Tropicool launches in Sydney

Coca-Cola partners with Salvation Army for ‘it feels good to give’ Christmas campaign 2

Grand finale of Seven’s Bride and Prejudice pulls 699,000 metro viewers 1

Publicis Media’s Kasey Doran joins OMD Queensland as head of strategy and product 1

CJZ co-founder hits out at Screen Australia board, the government and Austrade 1

JWT and Wunderman merge to form Wunderman Thompson 10

Opening weekends for The Nutcracker, Widows and Robin Hood can’t beat Fantastic Beasts

Mark Latham to pay costs and damages to journalist Osman Faruqi in defamation settlement 4

Regional Victorian papers censured over domestic violence ‘joke’

ARN’s Anthony Xydis: ‘Not keeping pace’ is the biggest risk to radio, not podcasts

Seven’s All Together Now finale pulls in 717,000 7

Fairfax Media and Ten go to court over ’10 Boss’ name 5

Target, Cotton On, Simplot and more to speak at the Mumbrella Retail Marketing Summit

EMMA to incorporate Nielsen Digital Content Ratings from January

Jonathan Munschi appointed Seven’s Sydney head of digital sales 2

Sunita Gloster leaves PwC to join WPP AUNZ as chief customer officer 8

Bega appoints Thinkerbell to run media and creative accounts 13

Have You Been Paying Attention? tops week’s TV entertainment for Ten 2

News dominates Friday night ratings as viewers drift off on a quiet TV evening 2

Nine to launch renovation show online spin off, The Block 365

Bundaberg Brewed Drinks coaxes founder onto screens for global 50 year anniversary campaign 5

Justin Milne’s Project Jetstream glides towards an unlamented end at the ABC

AANA tightens rules on advertisers’ portrayal of body images 1

Jennifer Kirk joins Cannings Purple as associate director of government relations

Seven ‘regrets’ passing on Ninja Warrior 4

Bastion Collective acquires social research company Stable Research

Paramedics tops the demos and helps Nine to a Thursday night win

News Corp’s John Buchan joins Junkee as sales director

Festival marketers agree: Chatbots aren’t for them

The Conversation receives Victorian Government funding lifeline

Michel de Rijk leaves WPP to take on APAC CEO role for Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital 1

Walkley Foundation announces first round of journalism grants, appoints new chair

‘Bundle of Joyce’, The Don Burke investigation and Teacher’s Pet scoop The Walkley Awards

Emotive wins big at the Mumbrella Entertainment Marketing Awards

Innocean hires Ian Davidson as head of events and sponsorship 1

Facebook comms head admits hiring PR agencies to discredit critics as horror year continues

Visit Victoria searches for creative agency

CJZ co-founder slams ‘arsehole’ business affairs departments at TV networks 6

Alison Tilling departs BMF to take on strategy role at VMLY&R 6

Doctor Who marketer sold ‘the sizzle and not the sausage’ to reposition new series 6

Seven wins Wednesday night despite prominence of ABC programming

OMD Melbourne’s MD Dianne Richardson steps down after less than a year 16

Torstar wins PR account for Victoria’s Secret, Steve Madden and Flower Beauty

Hypetap launches image scraping AI tool pairing brands with influencers

Mumbrella launches Melbourne Automotive Marketing Summit with Renault, Repco and more confirmed 1

Google launches Asia-Pacific innovation challenge offering up to $300,000 for publishers’ projects