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Optus hands World Cup games back to SBS after #Floptus streaming debacle 3

Google gives users greater control over advertising settings in GDPR push

Sally Williams quits Brand Power to stand for sustainable products 4

Ovo’s Nicole McInnes: The digital age has killed the ‘colouring-in rockstar’ CMO 3

Socceroos stars write thank you letters to mentors in Hyundai Australia’s ‘Letters’ campaign

Your chatbot sucks because ‘it’s just not very good’ 2

Optus struggles with World Cup streaming fallout as Prime Minister enters the fray 1

Suncorp introduces ‘Sunny’s Truth Bombs’ on owning a home and giving up lattes costing $200 a month 23

The Voice finale sheds 300,000 viewers from year prior, lowest finale to date

Government denies ABC privatisation is on the agenda 2

Nine looks to a summer without sport after Australian Open deal with Seven falls through 2

Initiative wins Western Australia Government’s media account services contract

Hien Pham joins Haystac as head of social 1

Socceroos World Cup game attracts 1.653m viewers topping weekly ratings ladder

QV1 launches ‘Harry’ ATM to vend various surprises

NRMA uses Socceroos star Mark Bresciano to tell ‘A Story of Help’ 3

Lions entries fall after Publicis boycott

Rebecca Piercy joins CommBank as executive manager of public affairs and comms, institutional and business banking

Content marketing agency Virtual Connexion rebrands to Enthral 1

1116 SEN launches weekly show ‘The Odd Couples’

SBS and Australian screen agencies launch diversity initiative 2

Phil McDonald resurfaces as partner of BCM 5

The NRL starts a #BetterStateDebate drawing on NSW and Queensland rivalry

Macquarie Media, ABC and Crocmedia lock in six year cricket radio rights deal 3

Big W creates ‘Toy Mania’ in latest campaign 4

Maxmedialab wins social media accounts for Škoda Australia and Volkswagen

News.com.au’s same-sex marriage ‘violent clash’ piece inaccurate and misleading, rules press watchdog 1

Trimantium GrowthOps launches stock market bid for Singapore based agency group 2

Uber Eats driver and soccer player Marcel Desailly persuades Andrea Pirlo to support Australia in World Cup 3

Hidden Characters merges with M&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment 1

Consumers would like to see Foxtel, banks and insurers disrupted, survey finds 9

Minister defends ABC funding freeze and efficiency reviews 2

Vice’s Maddison Connaughton named new editor of The Saturday Paper

Seven wins Thursday night with help of news, sport and Home and Away

Rebel Wilson vows to fight judgement slashing her Bauer defamation payout 5

Publicis Groupe’s Zenith and Saatchi & Saatchi wins ride share company DiDi

Fairfax’s third-party native advertising platform ban has had no discernible impact on traffic 8

News Corp’s acquisition ambitions could be hindered by ACCC: Michael Miller 2

Australia ‘seriously underperforms’ creatively and it’s ‘not good enough’: Nick Garrett 1

Big agencies are missing out on business due to inflexibility, argues OFX CMO 7

If you pull back the covers of advertising ‘there’s a horse’s head’

Cricket Australia threw its ‘players to the wolves’ and should have owned up to cheating: crisis comms panel 1

Football Federation of Australia appoints Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom 2

Isentia CMO Richard Spencer departs

Love Island’s YouTube views pass 50m mark, but Nine still struggling with CPM on the platform

Nine wins Wednesday night TV, but Masterchef tops key demos

Online advertising’s trust issues have ‘blackened the entire industry’, says PwC’s Brownlow 5

WPP faces shareholder discord at AGM

Rebel Wilson’s Bauer defamation payout slashed from $4.5m to $600,000 13

Toyota Australia CMO Wayne Gabriel to keynote the Mumbrella Automotive Marketing Summit 1

Mahlab launches website for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia 2

Bauer Media to launch influencer network and new Women’s Weekly Food website 10

Herald Sun falls foul of press watchdog for use of words ‘gun lobby’ in trolling accusations 2

Elizabeth Colman named new editor at the Wentworth Courier 6

Chief customer officers are a fast track to homogeneity, says Thinkerbell’s Adam Ferrier 17

SCA’s The Studio recreates 1980s SPC jingle for new campaign

Adland’s leaders admit to suffering from imposter syndrome 2

SCA ‘integrates’ metro and regional operations, with head of regional media Rick Lenarcic to depart

New leader for AADL and ADMA as Stephen Porges becomes CEO

Land Rover supports rugby ‘Wherever it starts, however it ends’ in campaign starring Wallabies captain 5

Facebook rejects SCA boss’ accusation of misleading small business advertisers 3

Ten’s Masterchef Australia and Shark Tank boost channel to second place for Tuesday night

How Åkestam Holst got people to fall in love with ‘unlikeable’ IKEA products

Twitter extends video ads to all advertisers

Home Beautiful magazine launches 24-part content series to take viewers on an ‘incredible adventure’

UBank, Westpac, Zenith and Facebook to speak at the Mumbrella Finance Marketing Summit

Ocean’s 8 cracks $5m on first box office weekend

Brandscreen founder Julian Tol re-emerges as CEO of Startup Muster 1

Adtech startup Unlockd goes into administration following Google threats 15

Media agency veteran Jonathan Chadwick returns as CEO of Carat APAC 1

Former top Suncorp marketer Mark Reinke joins PwC CMO Advisory board

Tigerair launches new brand platform ‘Go for it’ encouraging Australians to travel for things that matter

Dominic Walsh departs Landor as managing director

Emotive’s chief strategy officer Lucielle Vardy departs for head of strategy role at Naked 2

Lenovo promotes Aussie marketer Nick Reynolds to run global digital channels

News Corp’s marketing boss Tony Phillips to depart 2

PwC predicts huge swells in podcasting and subscription video spend over next five years

Ten’s Masterchef Australia beats Seven’s House Rules despite a 75,000 increase in viewers

Have You Been Paying Attention’s Tom Gleisner among Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2

Bill Shorten vows to undo ABC’s $83.7m budget cuts should Labor be elected 7

The year’s biggest crises so far to be put under the PR microscope at Mumbrella360

Bohemia wins Employsure media account

House Rules sheds 87,000 viewers, but remains on top of Sunday night TV

Disgraced cricketer David Warner joins Nine’s commentary team 13

Rise of streaming services and podcasting drives revamp of Fairfax’s The Guide

Tonightly host Tom Ballard denies sexual assault allegation 13

Ronan Keating joins cast of Seven’s upcoming All Together Now 4

State of Origin helps Nine to weekly TV ratings win 1