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Foxtel prepares to shut down illegal streaming of Jeff Horn and Terence Crawford boxing match 3

TV viewers opt for AFL over NRL on Friday night

Vikki Campion drops privacy complaint against The Daily Telegraph

Bauer Media consolidates automotive content under one roof with launch of WhichCar Network 1

Jasmine Zwiebel exits Coles for comms role at RACV 1

NSW government ramps up ‘Yeah Nah’ road safety campaign

Brisbane to get new $12m television and film studio to help position Queensland as ‘film-friendly’ state

Jonesy & Amanda ‘doubled’ in WSFM promotion

Government seeks to rebrand Australia, kicks off $3m creative tender 4

BizCover tries to gross out viewers with ad so they stop watching and buy insurance instead 64

Ten’s entertainment shows lead the key ad demographics, but Seven wins the night

Seb Rennie reappears at GroupM as Canada’s chief investment officer

Cricketer Mark Taylor stars as ‘fu-jitsu’ master in Fujitsu’s winter campaign 2

Racing Victoria appoints Bohemia as new media agency, moving account from Vizeum 1

Changing world of agencies to be debated in final session announced for Mumbrella360 program

‘Highly sexualised’ night club advertising banned from public arcade 7

Wendell Sailor, Luke Hodge and Damien Fleming have a fling with football in Hyundai’s FIFA World Cup campaign

Digital agency Inlight hires Mark Oliver as CEO

Bowel bemoans that no-one’s listening in campaign which urges Aussies to ‘Give a $#*!’ about cancer

Programmatic often over promises, but patience is the key to success, say BBC advertising boss

Hardie Grant Media opens PR and events agency ‘Tide.pr.’ led by ex-David Jones communications manager 2

The Natural Confectionary Company’s dinosaurs replace humans as the stars of lolly ads 2

Imagination’s Bim Ricketson joins GPJ as executive creative director

WPP opens consumer insights and behaviour offering Research Profile to service Qantas’ Red Planet

First State of Origin clash brings 2.353m metro viewers to Nine

13CABS becomes ’13cabs’ in brand refresh as business undergoes ‘significant changes’ 22

Australian MPs threaten to summon Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to Australia

The Facebook status you need to hear, plus Vice, Bauer, Allure, Junkee, Conversant and more at Mumbrella’s Publish 3

Owner of Melbourne and Sydney’s Child magazines, Copeland Publishing, goes into liquidation 4

Seven Adelaide director of news Graham Archer steps down

WPP AUNZ drops Ogilvy name from PR operation, reveals ‘Opr’ after global restructure

Anna Vergaki appointed performance director at Bohemia

XXXX Gold drops the Xs in show of support for Queensland Maroons in State of Origin

Pacific Magazines confirms six jobs to go in latest restructure 2

Nine’s Buying Blind premieres with 608,000 metro viewers, finishes behind ABC’s Back in Time for Dinner 4

Jenny Craig fined by ACCC for Mel B ’10kg for $10′ campaign 1

Ogilvy ditches founder’s signature as part of ‘re-founding’ 4

Stan sets sights on 2m subscribers as it signs deals with MGM and Starz 4

ABC Radio appoints station managers for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart

SBS launches We All Speak Football campaign ahead of FIFA World Cup

AAP to cut up to 25 positions as demand for services reduces

UFC fighter Tyson Pedro promotes ‘calculated risks’ in Unibet content series

Burson-Marsteller’s CEO Margaret Key joins Zeno as chief executive

Google and Uber spend up on Australian TV advertising, global study claims 2

Bauer Media acquires Inside Out, Country Style and HomeLife from News Corp 4

Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation recovers to 653,000 metro viewers 5

Brisbane radio ratings: Nova claws back top spot in breakfast, ties with 97.3FM for overall highest share 1

Adelaide radio ratings: Afternoons and mornings drag Mix 102.3 down, but it maintains first position

Melbourne radio ratings: Gold 104.3 overtakes Fox as most popular FM station

Sydney radio ratings: 2Day FM has highest overall result since defection of Kyle & Jackie O 9

Perth radio ratings: SCA’s Mix 94.5 lands highest drive-time audience share in Australia

APN Outdoor locks in new contract with Roads and Maritime Services

Zenith’s chief digital officer Geraldine McDonagh resigns 1

Terry Hansen to exit Brisbane’s 97.3FM breakfast after 14 years citing ‘debilitating fatigue’

DJE Holdings wins Amazon’s retail PR pitch, with Revere to lead account

Telstra and AFL launch platform for players to create content 2

DDB Sydney appoints Priya Patel as managing director

Rachael Lonergan quits Foundation to focus on cancer support app 2

Deadpool 2 returns to the top of the weekend box office, earning a further $3.569m

TBWA releases first work for Amazon in A-Z ‘easy az’ campaign 5

Sun-Herald criticised by Press Council for distressing family in report about student’s death 2

Officeworks says ‘EOFYthing’ could be tax deductible in end of financial year campaign

Adhesive PR wins TripAdvisor’s comms account

Budget Direct employee cleans up after Insurer of the Year celebrations

Victoria Police ‘You’re More Suited Than You Might Think’ recruitment campaign promotes policing careers 1

Press Council clears Piers Akerman calling Yassmin Abdel-Magied an ‘idiot’ as necessary ‘vigorous public debate’ 13

Former Mastercard marketer Anthony Dumont surfaces at Fairfax Media

Despite Barnaby disappointment, Seven narrowly wins Sunday night ratings 5

Communications minister blasts ABC for repeating ‘Labor lies’ 7

Clemenger Melbourne creates ‘Deadly Questions’ site to discuss Indigenous issues 5

Peter Wiltshire named new CEO of Medical Media as Nazar Musa steps down

McCann appoints Robert Stone as head of talent

Masterchef helps Ten close the ratings gap in last week’s TV ratings 1

Grant Denyer to host Ten’s Ellen DeGeneres’ Game of Games spinoff 1

Christian O’Connell gets explainers on Melbourne life ahead of Gold104.3 breakfast launch 1

Jaguar to show off its progressive side in Australian produced campaign 2

Podcasting platform Whooshkaa adds top US programs to its roster

Facebook shuts down Australian Trending News feature

Press watchdog lambasts The Maitland Mercury for letter to the editor published day before election

Commonwealth Games drove April’s ‘perfect advertising storm’, SMI claims 2

ABC plans further redundancies to fund content and digital platform investment

Vijay Solanki exits IAB after less than two years 5

Community TV stations celebrate as Federal government grants another reprieve 1

Kiss FM’s Will and Woody initiate coffee making intervention for Harris campaign 1

Redundancies set to occur as Pacific Magazines restructures New Idea and Who 6

The Queensland University of Technology opens agency tender 1

Todd Sampson’s Body Hack 2.0 premieres with 537,000 metro viewers

Spinach Advertising wins Federal Department of Health project