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iSelect debuts new ‘All Over It’ brand platform via The Royals 5

Australian Government returns master media account to UM 12

Tourism Australia begins creative pitch 3

Adshel to offer digital trading based on time, day and location

Rh7thm CEO Ross Dawson exits 1

Commonwealth Games organisers in damage control after closing ceremony broadcast outrage 13

Launch of The Voice season seven brought down by return of My Kitchen Rules

BWM Dentsu and Haystac give ALS patients their voice back with Project Revoice

Ten communications boss Neil Shoebridge resigns to open consultancy

Commonwealth Games provides Seven yet another weekly win

Seven’s Dr Blake Mysteries to go ahead without Craig McLachlan 459

Whooshkaa partners with Dirty John producer Wondery 5

AAMI and Edge highlight the difficulties of working with an injury 3

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell quits 11

‘You’re not even market ready, mate… let alone China ready’ warns Destination NSW CEO 3

Telstra launches pop culture-inspired digital and outdoor campaign from The Monkeys and R/GA 3

Foxtel and Seven lay out their strategies behind the cricket rights deal 3

Seven News wins international prizes for US reporting 1

Lifeline appoints Robyn&Leon to creative account

Tap into local Chinese community to win tourism, marketers urged 2

Danielle Uskovic moves on from Lenovo

Chris Kenny returns to Sky News with Sunday evening panel show 4

Emma Nolan becomes New Idea editor in chief 2

Candice Koffke promoted to group business director at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne 3

Conversant Media founder Zac Zavos exits 18 months after HT&E acquisition 3

Foxtel and Seven win cricket rights in deal which reshapes Australia’s broadcasting landscape 16

Commonwealth Games maintains Seven’s ratings dominance

Foxtel and Seven set to snatch cricket rights from Nine and Ten

Trafalgar wins Travel Brand of the Year at the Mumbrella Travel Marketing Awards

Another Australian streaming service ends as Dendy Direct winds up 5

Travel influencers with ‘no experience’ are getting paid by marketers to do the ‘best job in the world’ 8

Think HQ hires former Grey Worldwide MD Jane Emery as business development manager

Travel marketers told to rethink families, women and cyborgs

Nicole McInnes steps down as WooliesX marketing director 1

Spotify appoints Eleven to handle both PR and social accounts 1

‘It is not a debate about print or digital’: Travel marketers should be using both 1

Reprise appoints Andrew Copeland to lead Brisbane office, while Claudeen Martinez joins Sydney team

Rebel Wilson suffers setback in recovering Bauer defamation costs 1

John Sintras returns to Australia as SBS’ chief audience and content officer 13

Menulog promotes Lisa Brown to head of PR and communications

Travel brands ‘should employ interns’ to plot the technological marketing future 3

Programmatic platform Index Exchange appoints former Rubicon Project boss to lead Australian office

Commonwealth Games gives Seven a Wednesday night win with 1.199m viewers

Publishers call for new probe into collapse of media agency Hammond & Thackeray 34

Hunter & Coastal Lifestyle Magazine on the market after 15 years 1

OMD Melbourne awards managing partner titles in executive restructure 5

Vice appoints Rachel Tuffery as head of production

Xinja, Teacher’s Mutual, Spaceship, HiveEx.com and more confirmed for the Mumbrella Finance Marketing Summit 1

HT&E rejects Ooh Media bid to buy Adshel 4

Crikey successfully completes journalism crowdfunding campaign

Hardhat wins health fund Bupa’s content account

AFR big winner at Citi Journalism Awards for Excellence 2

Skins’ Jaimie Fuller, Collingwood’s Georgie Parker and Rugby Australia to speak at Mumbrella’s Sports Marketing Summit

ABC documentary Employable Me Australia edges towards Ten’s Hughesy We Have a Problem

IKEA promotes storage solutions with toy robot in latest spot

The Urban List launches chat-bot led scavenger hunt for Jaguar

UK-based digital agency WMA launches in Australia

Andrew Denton says Seven’s new interview program will not rely on the success of Enough Rope 2

Zuckerberg stands by Facebook’s ad-supported business model during congressional hearing

Holden appoints Kristian Aquilina as marketing director, replacing Mark Harland 5

JWT Melbourne parts ways with RACV as CHE Proximity wins account

AFL features a new CEO to promote its Sunday Funday family games 1

Amazon readying for Prime launch, but has a ‘long way to go’ in Australia

FutureBrand hires Nerida Murphy as creative director 2

Samsonite Australia appoints Alt/Shift as PR agency of record

Filtered Media launches social enterprise division led by Louisa Sampson

Elevate Communication wins five new accounts including Crime Stoppers Queensland

Volkswagen uses technology to resolve argument between couple in ‘more than just a car’ ad 8

Australia Post supports small businesses in latest campaign 2

Queensland Health appoints PublicisQ to handle obesity campaign

Seven’s Commonwealth Games swells to more than 1.3m, Young Sheldon and Bachelor in Paradise slide

‘We did not hack Facebook’, claims Cambridge Analytica 5

Google appoints McDonald’s digital boss Mark Wheeler as head of large customer marketing 5

Brake N Auto Parts radio ad pulled from air for ‘offensive’ and ‘aggressive’ language 1

Australian domain administrator crisis deepens as members push to fire CEO and directors 3

ASX listed influencer platform Engage:BDR sacks sales team, sees profit rise

The Studio at SCA launches first ever TV ad for OVO

KAYAK unveils its first Australian TV commercial

The Works and RXP open content agency Daresay, with former King Content staffers and clients 3

Emily Blunt’s A Quiet Place unable to beat Peter Rabbit as it earns $2.42m in first weekend at box office 3

Media agency model ‘in crisis’ 5

McDonald’s claims ‘world’s most exclusive beef’ in campaign for Wagyu burger

Aussie-founded tech company YuuZoo raided by Singapore police in securities probe

Landor Melbourne hunts for new managing partner following Nick Davis’ exit

Live Life + Travel Expo ad censured for appearing to breach Australian road rules

Social Soup nabs Pacific Magazines’ group sales manager Cara Norris

‘What’s the future of football?’ asks NAB in latest sporting push 4

KFC celebrates 50 years of ‘Finger lickin’ good’ with a throw back to 1968 6