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Adland Bail Out event raises $140,000

Google News undergoes revamp, allows access to paywalled websites from any device 2

ANZ, Google, Society One, GMHBA, PayPal and more confirmed for the Mumbrella Finance Marketing Summit

Budget 2018: More bad news for ABC, major advertising campaigns on the horizon and ACMA asset sold off 3

Nine announces ‘Future Women Academy’ to target organisations with diversity issues 1

Co-founder of Ugly, Gary McCreadie, set to depart after just one year 1

Sports presenter Matt White appointed Ten’s head of sport

Instagram beefs up business communications tools

Government regulation of digital platforms would be a dangerous mistake, warns publisher Morry Schwartz 1

Influencer Sam Evans partners with Audi to show Austria’s ice driving experience 4

Hardhat wins creative account for winemaker, Innocent Bystander 2

Primo Smallgoods positions prosciutto as the perfect accompaniment for a night in with ‘Cheryl’s platter for one’ 1

Almond Breeze spends another $3m on ‘Breeze the Day’ campaign

American Express brings global brand platform ‘Powerful Backing: Don’t Live Life Without It’ to Australia

Michael Morcos joins Event Hospitality and Entertainment as group comms manager

Chatime encourages consumers to share internet search history and says ‘Let’s get weird’

Sydney Opera House seal turned into Facebook Messenger chatbot by The Works 1

Tourism Tasmania encourages travellers to ‘Feed Your Curious’ 3

Menulog appoints Clemenger Melbourne to creative account 2

Telstra exits IAB Board 8

Fairfax Media fined $15k for Domain ad

Radio ad for Charlotte Pass Alpine Resort lambasted for ‘outdated stereotype’ suggesting blondes are stupid 8

Premieres of Masterchef and House Rules unable to beat The Voice on Monday night

Ten to axe Family Feud after four years 11

Red Agency wins PR account for TrustedHousesitters.com

YouTube audiences hunt for nostalgia and how to videos, survey claims

Renault celebrates everything big to promote ‘big SUV life’

New Australian film Breath pulls more than $1m on opening weekend, can’t beat Avengers: Infinity War

3M wants to ‘end manky’ with bandages that stick 1

Big W says ‘all kinds of thanks’ to all different kinds of mums in Mother’s Day campaign 1

Toni & Guy launches musical battle to promote new products 1

Southern Cross Travel Insurance asks travellers where their sense of adventure is in latest campaign

English Premier League rights drives Optus gains, researcher claims 1

Specsavers creates in-ad eye test for viewers with ‘Cubby House’ campaign 18

HT&E boss hits out at ‘untruths’ about Adshel business

Digital assets to be consolidated under Generation E Media in HT&E restructure

Seven’s MKR finale pulls in 1.543m for winner announcement 2

Former Who editor Shane Sutton joins Bauer Media 2

303 MullenLowe creates first work for Crust Pizza with ‘live life on the Crust’

Seven wins ratings week with help from My Kitchen Rules

Ben Sharp exits ADMA after just two weeks 6

Shane Warne reminisces on his regrets in eBay’s latest campaign 2

Grant Williams joins NSW Police Force as executive director of public affairs

Seven’s House Rules and Purplebricks to auction off renovated property

Recycling Discover Hub creates VR experience to educate children about recycling

Stockland celebrates diversity by recognising ‘all those who mum’ in Mother’s Day ad 1

Asics Oceania creates travelling salesman mockumentary to launch new Wallabies Jersey 2

Shane McLeod joins Fifty Acres as media specialist

CBS to bring subscription video on demand service to Australia 4

DDI shifts design store Top3’s catalogue to glossy magazine

Amex lead strategist Ciarán Norris returns to Ireland for Facebook role 1

Bulldog Skincare appoints Men at Work to PR account

Three Aussie Farmers hold auditions to find the face of their brand

Cosmo editor Keshnee Kemp to take helm at WHO Magazine 8

Former media executive Bob Goodge resurfaces at Nine 5

ABC boss Michelle Guthrie ‘unreservedly’ apologises to Kevin Rudd following Cabinet Files coverage 1

Getup co-founder returns to Sydney to launch local agency office 1

Seven’s MKR leads Thursday with 800,000 more viewers than Ten’s Show Me The Movie 1

Red Cross aims to #beatloneliness in latest campaign 4

Radisson Hotel Group appoints Accenture as experience agency

Engage:BDR acquires app advertising platform AdCel

Ogilvy wins Wotif’s creative and PR account 1

Comedian Rhys Darby and NZ PM Jacinda Ardern lobby to #getNZonthemap in latest Tourism NZ campaign

Medibank calls out Google AdWords’ costs and policies in digital platforms inquiry 9

Programmatic trading in Australia to exceed global average this year: GroupM

Australian Avocados poke fun at ‘millennial mortgage woes’ in first campaign by Ikon Sydney 6

Revlon launches global media agency review 1

Cambridge Analytica protests its innocence as the company files for bankruptcy

The Royals and Blue449 win Australian Super’s creative and media account

Football Federation of Australia seeks media and creative agency 1

Contiki launches hunt for creative agency 2

My Kitchen Rules dominates key demographics, takes Seven to Wednesday night ratings win 1

Spotify sales boss says there’s still work to be done on educating agencies and brands about music streaming

Google, Autopact and agencies for Honda and QBE join the Automotive Marketing Summit

Holden sponsors Rachel Griffiths’ directing debut

Soap Creative merges into Isobar 1

Universal Magazines launches bespoke division for WellBeing

Starts at 60 ventures into e-commerce, launches members-only club 1

Fairfax Media reports an increase in site metrics following revamp 9

Social media ad spend increased 25.3%, while newspapers and magazines suffer significant digital decline 1

Fairfax finance manager Carla Webb-Sear to join Network Ten as CFO

Suncorp launches extension of ‘Money with Sunny’ expressing importance of sport

Ad agency HBT acquires Hardwire Agency

Red Cross is out for blood in NRL state of origin campaign

Facebook promises better user privacy controls and more advertiser tools at F8 conference

Seven’s My Kitchen Rules pulls ahead of Nine’s The Voice on Tuesday night

Host/Havas wins Chatime’s creative account

Comedian Paul Verhoeven stars as ‘Your Dick’ in Smiling Dick launch campaign 6