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American Express launches ‘shop small’, showcasing Australian small businesses

Big W kicks off Christmas ad season with ‘bring the magic’ campaign 1

Outdoor the only major media to report double digit growth as newspaper spend falls 3

Rush defamation trial takes late twist as Daily Telegraph seeks to produce ‘vital’ evidence from ‘Miss X’

New York Times bureau chief blasts Australian government transparency

Vivid Sydney opens pitch for PR agencies with a ‘creative edge’ 1

Outsiders loses another host as Sky News dumps Ross Cameron after racist comments 57

Magnum & Co bolsters team with brand leader and senior earned specialist 2

Simon Ryan joins Carsales as MD of commercial 4

Caltex hires Richard Baker as head of corporate communications

Work with great agencies who love you, and kill average agencies, argues CMO 17

7mate achieves higher share than SBS thanks to Die Hard 4

Yvette Mayer set to depart OMD Sydney as MD to focus on essential oil business 4

Adtech startup Unlockd drops Google legal case ahead of winding up proceedings

Ikon wins ad industry test case with former client ordered to pay $939,000 15

Junkee’s Inthemix brand disappears after 18 years 1

Scripted Ink, Screentime and Nine reveal winners of drama program

AANA extends kids’ beverage code to all advertisers

Dentsu Aegis Network CEO Simon Ryan resigns to take on ‘senior role outside the network’ 1

Dieter Lehmann joins Coles as head of corporate communications

Rush touched actress on stage, says King Lear co-star, as expert warns of #MeToo ‘ferocity’

Lean operations and broad reach behind the Your Money joint venture 1

VMLY&R’s Ideaworks reveals first campaign for Petbarn’s Leaps & Bounds 2

Starcom Melbourne wins OpenCorp’s media account 1

Grill’d unveils ‘Motherloving’ brand platform in first campaign from The Royals 7

ABC leads Wednesday night entertainment as reality TV wanes 2

SCA’s Sam Cavanagh joins Thinkerbell as head of production 11

UK brand experience agency Amplify launches in Australia

Remedy Kombucha tells sugar to ‘get fruct’ in outdoor ad 4

Facebook launches ‘Today In’ local news service in Australia 1

JC Decaux announces new leadership lineup, making three APN Outdoor executives redundant 7

Triple M confirms breakfast host Matty Johns’ exit 1

Former Allure Media sales director David Boldeman to join The Urban List 5

Melissa Matheson named editor of Nova’s youth website Goat 2

Ten reveals first major rebrand in 27 years: Peach, Boss and 10 News First 104

Ten unveils new sales proposition and increases focus on under 50s 5

Ten in 2019: Four Pilot Week programs, including Trial By Kyle, to return, along with SVOD service and new audio arm

NRMA Blue launches with campaign championing services beyond road-side assistance and motoring 1

Emma Kirkaldy exits Polkadot Communications with Anna MacIntosh taking on general manager role 2

Creative agency Ugly shuts 5

‘Your honour, I am not lying’ insists actress, as lawyer dismisses ‘ludicrous’ allegation 8

Myer appoints Tourism Australia’s Geoff Ikin as chief customer officer 5

Nunn Media takes stake in global media agency network Local Planet 5

Volkswagen’s ‘too powerful for TV’ ad breaches road rules and deemed unsafe by Ad Standards 3

Volkswagen’s ‘impressive, original and disruptive’ car ad wins Mumbrella’s October Ad of the Month

Seven’s US drama The Good Doctor leads Tuesday evening entertainment 1

Facebook revenues jump 33% despite no user growth in US and Europe

UK government floats Digital Services Tax plan, pointing way for an Australian online platforms levy 1

Film and TV production spending slumps as foreign productions dry up

Pureprofile reports increased revenues and reduced costs in first quarter trading update 2

UnLtd launches ‘Hall of Good’ award

Women’s NBL big winner to date in federal government’s $30m Foxtel sports deal 2

Actress at centre of Rush allegations tells court she felt ‘threatened, panicked’ and ‘unsafe’ 2

APN Outdoor’s top marketer Charlotte Valente departs in wake of JC Decaux merger

Grill’d appoints The Royals to creative account 1

Children reveal horror of chemotherapy in Kids’ Cancer Project campaign

Family Food Fight gets just 411,000 on premiere, with ABC beating both Nine and Ten 1

MercerBell promotes Julie Dormand to CEO as Nick Mercer takes chairman role 2

Former Ten boss Hamish McLennan named HT&E chairman

7news.com.au will be number one within six months: Clive Dickens 8

Hamish and Andy star alongside Lleyton Hewitt in latest celebrity Uber Eats push 1

Seven execs: There is a place for a fourth multi-channel

OMA launches school mapping tool to prevent promotion of alcohol to minors

Halloween earns $2.777m at weekend box office, but is unable to topple A Star Is Born

Officeworks shines a light on what happens ‘out the back’ of businesses 1

Vaalia creates court room drama to ‘prove’ it is both tasty and ‘good’ 4

Police escort, drones and dog help deliver forgotten gift as Target begins Christmas push 1

Oakwood assigns DPR&Co to digital and creative accounts

Rush’s co-star Robyn Nevin denies telling actress: ‘Oh, I thought Geoffrey had stopped that’

Mumbrella360 2019 session submissions open as FCB Ulka India and Dollar Shave Club join line-up

Bastion Collective takes majority stake in ad agency Banjo

Velocity ‘converts marketing budget’ into frequent flyer points 4

The Block’s final moments get 2.021m viewers for Nine 1

News Corp appoints The Works as lead creative agency across metro and regional titles

John Sintras departs SBS 5

The Sunday Telegraph issues apology for incorrect Jake O’Sullivan drug overdose claim 1

The Block helps Nine edge in front of Seven in weekly ratings battle

Ten’s Pointless struggles on Friday night with just 202,000 viewers

Family Food Fight season two to kick off on Monday 1

Y&R’s David Fanning joins Next Thursday as head of studio

Ride-sharing business Ola shakes up marketing and agency arrangements 2

Revlon shares stories of women in the bush during drought 1

Allure Media’s former chief revenue officer Sarah Wyse joins AFL 5

Movie director Fred Schepisi says stigma will remain even if Rush wins defamation case

‘Tonight makes tomorrow’ Sheridan says in first work from TBWA 2

Brands need to ditch their fear of emotions to make branded content work says BBC Storyworks head 1

NSW Government unlikely to receive $300,000 Kontented loan repayment, agency in liquidation 1

Northern Territory Government prepares to recruit media agency for $20m account