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Olympic gold medalist Michael Klim to speak at Mumbrella360, plus 360Fronts announced

Julie-anne Sprague named the new AFR Rich List editor to replace John Stensholt

Pfizer creates a ‘reverse intervention’ for smokers to launch World No Nagging Day 1

Nescafe reminds Australians to cherish special people in their lives 5

Trimantium GrowthOps appoints executive director Paul Mansfield as CEO 1

Andrew Knott to step down as NAB chief marketing officer in July 5

Australian brand launches first Japanese medicinal cannabis campaign 1

Snooze launches new brand platform encouraging Aussies to ‘Create your Comfortable’ 1

Australia’s outdoor advertising industry growth slows

Nine wins Wednesday night despite Seven and Ten’s strong entertainment lineup 3

Display, mobile and video advertising drive 2018 online ad spending, IAB finds 2

Balding men share their ‘turning points’ in latest campaign for Ashley & Martin 8

Nova’s youth website Goat on the hunt for an editor

Penelope Holloway resigns as managing director of Hill + Knowlton

Marcel Sydney’s ECD Scott Huebscher exits with Wesley Hawes to take role 2

Jacqui Capel joins Bohemia as integration director 1

Lee Milverton joins comms agency Society as art director

Court rules for Optus in ‘End of Empires’ fight with Telstra 2

Holidays with Kids appoints 10 year old as children’s editor

Young Henrys apologises to women for not patronising them and pointing out gender differences in Lady Beer campaign 3

Bastion Collective opens two new agencies Bastion Engage and Bastion China 2

Optus draws on emotions experienced whilst watching sport for FIFA World Cup campaign

KFC launches NRL fan engagement game turning supporters into referees

Optus makes cuts to employees across the business including brand and comms team 1

Antony Catalano purchases stake in ‘Domain’s biggest client’ Tomorrow/ Media Plus 4

Tourism Tasmania opens RFI to ‘overhaul’ marketing program with new project

Facebook global marketer Andy McKeon joins Aussie video production platform Genero 1

Australia’s metro TV stations meet bare minimum for children’s programming quotas, ACMA reports 1

ABC’s children’s content boss Michael Carrington appointed interim distribution boss

Employees hide who they really are in new campaign for SBS

Magda Szubanksi boosts Seven’s Interview audience by almost 100,000

Sir Martin Sorrell resurfaces following deal with shell company, Derriston Capital PLC 4

Ten cancels ‘Roseanne’ following racist tweet 12

NAB apologises to customers for not getting ‘the money bit’ right 2

TAB pits head against heart in Yankee Doodle sing off 2

Syrian refugee kids try Vegemite and attempt Aussie slang to promote Ration Challenge 1

Spectrum Group wins bike sharing company ofo’s PR account 3

Deloitte hires McCann’s Charles Baylis as creative director 1

City of Adelaide seeks corporate PR services

Canon encourages Australians to be more curious in ‘Bring your Curiosity’ campaign

Five new languages to appear on SBS Radio app 2

Queensland government opens media tender, seeking ‘value for money’

GSK appoints Theresa Agnew to lead ANZ consumer healthcare division

UnLtd and Talent Rise call on industry to hire entry-level youth

Jim Groves replaces Adam Marshall as Carat Perth’s MD

Dot-com era survivor Melbourne IT rebrands as digital agency Arq Group 1

Seven’s House Rules edges towards Ten’s Masterchef Australia with highest rating episode of year to date 1

Warwick Taylor named general manager of Zenith Brisbane 1

Eleven PR Melbourne wins three new accounts

Poem wins Playstation Australia’s PR account and launches social experiment

Solo: A Star Wars Story makes $6.612m on debut weekend 6

Hello Molly celebrates the ‘party girls’ ritual’ in first-ever television ad

Ashley Hay appointed editor of the Griffith Review

Google.org opens its ‘tech for good’ Global Impact Challenge awards 1

Fitzy & Wippa’s panel operator Josiah Shala heads to Hit96.9 Shepparton 2

Hahn launches epic pub anthem challenge in beer banter campaign 1

Love Island premieres on 9Go with 155,000 metro viewers 3

Australian Electoral Commission appoints Horizon Communication Group ahead of upcoming Federal election

Bauer Media’s Jenna Clarke joins BuzzFeed as head of BuzzFeed originals 2

Starcom pivots to become ‘return on experience’ agency, appoints national planning director and head of measurement 3

Sky News to run on free-to-air television in deal with WIN 11

Foxtel and Sky News change channel numbers ‘for ease of navigation’ 2

SBS removes Ray Martin’s ‘n-word’ anecdote from Royal wedding catch up coverage 6

Barnaby Joyce and Vikki Campion sign interview deal with Seven’s Sunday Night 13

SMG Insight opens Melbourne office, appoints ANZ managing director Ned Morris

Qantas extends partnership with Luxury Escapes 1

Seven signs Damien ‘The Bowlologist’ Fleming to commentate tests and Big Bash League

Host/Havas named Agency of the Year, while Cummins & Partners’ Stop the Horror takes home top gongs at AWARD 2

Rich couple looks to ‘adopt’ child and donate $170k to first home in new campaign 8

Macworld Australia to close after more than 30 years 6

The days of ‘big thick bureaucratic layers’ in agencies have to change: Terry Savage 1

ABC’s entertainment distribution boss Rebecca Heap to exit after four years

Nova Adelaide general manager Neil O’Reilly to leave in restructure

Twitter founder defends service’s rules, saying it polices conduct, not content 1

Publicis unveils first draft of its Marcel artificial intelligence platform 7

Mumbrella Wheel of Truth participants revealed: Smart, Moore, Greet, Portrate and Garrett

Nine scores a win on Thursday evening with help of NRL coverage

Magdalena Roze shows time-poor cooks how to make interesting meals for Philips 2

Green Door Co wins four B2B PR clients

Kite Communications wins Volt Bank’s consumer PR account

Queensland dentist’s TV ad banned for exploiting women 2

Robb Report Australia to publish UK edition

Senator Derryn Hinch quits Crikey column

Adam Goodes, Neil Perry, Carla Zampatti and Jessica Gomes front David Jones’ 180th birthday campaign 3

Harold Mitchell falls out of AFR Rich List as media business is ‘unable to keep pace’ with other sectors 5

Canberra in a Can: ‘Third-best city to visit’ launches vending machine campaign

Westinghouse plays on ‘incompetent dad’ and ‘busy mum’ stereotypes in refreshed campaign 10

Essence appoints Daphne Goh as VP of data strategy