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‘We are complicating the shit out of it’, Spotify MD on engaging customers

Enero profits drop 26% in ‘difficult trading year’ 11

Cull your agencies and stop appealing to ‘every fucker with a thumb’, Spinach founder advises 2

Dentsu Aegis appoints acquisition specialist Victoria Gehrig 1

Modern Teaching Aids targets parents and teachers who want to go the extra mile

‘Significantly inaccurate and misleading’: Canberra Times article about Centrelink debt ‘debacle’ breached Press Council codes 1

Isuzu’s shifts search for growth outside traditional customer base

Stop worrying about likes, comments and shares, says Facebook ANZ’s head of automotive 11

Holden unveils plan for marketing in age of the shared driverless electric car

R U Ok? campaign reminds peers to talk in any setting

Heinz seeks new creative agency

Nine net profits rise but dragged down by TV licence writedowns

SCA profits up 40.7% with regional affiliate agreements driving revenue gains

Murdoch and Gordon’s joint bid for Ten given go-ahead by ACCC 4

HT&E posts mixed results as soft radio market drags on revenue

Nine dominates Wednesday night TV despite strong performance from The Bachelor and ABC

Matt Kemp joins Clemenger BBDO Melbourne as senior planner

Global theatre pioneer and Aussie music industry icon headline Mumbrella Entertainment Marketing Summit

Marques that worked for the last 100 years won’t work for the next, warns Ford boss

Oriel ad blocking management technology launches for Australian publishers 3

‘There was nobody else left’: Publishers desert AMAA magazine audit 2

Gourmet Traveller enters podcast space, refreshes magazine 1

WPP warns ad industry ‘in danger of losing the plot’ over discounting as revenue growth slows 4

‘Get rid of the loop of pain’: Automotive marketers warned they’re forgetting about the customer 1

An ‘old man’s brand’: How Bentley Motors is attempting to change perceptions 1

‘It’s easy to reduce everything down to cup holders’: What the auto industry needs to know about women 2

Ben Sampson joins The Monkeys as creative director 1

CarAdvice and Facebook team up in new auto marketplace

Cummins & Partners explains why all different people need health cover in first work for HBF 1

‘We don’t see a problem’: Ultra Tune marketer argues ads empower women 7

The Athlete’s Foot rebrands with ‘MyFit’ campaign

Matthew Hayden and Alinta Energy customers say ‘Flick Them’ to high energy rates

Ad Standards board raps burger bar for ‘extremely offensive’ Facebook post 8

Nine’s True Story with Hamish & Andy pulls lowest ever audience figures 4

Fairfax’s general manager of events, Sarah Pohlman departs 2

Automotive advertisers underpin Australian media as other advertisers fall away data reveals

Pedestrian.TV launches new teen website ‘Pez’ and three new channels 2

Twitter celebrates hashtags turning ten

ABC News websites bump Nine to third in latest Nielsen rankings 3

Vice, Broadsheet, Pedestrian.TV, Junkee and FBi radio agree to enrolment blackout 7

‘Completely illegal activity’ causes ad watchdog to reprimand eHarmony 1

Isentia reports ‘disappointing’ loss after King Content write downs 1

Mitsubishi takes drivers off road to promote its Pajero Sports model 5

Volkswagen shows what an extra 18 kilowatts can do

Hungry Jacks says ‘keep it real’ in action film spin off campaign 2

Deliveroo alters logo to promote marriage equality 4

Planet Broadcasting locks in partnership with MVMT across all Australian podcasts

‘Loosen’ constraints on domestic media instead of holding back Google and Facebook, Ritson tells Senators

Google rejects Senator’s allegations of ‘misusing market power’

Kerri-Anne Kennerley shows her moves in musical Healthy Care ad 11

Ansible global boss Travis Johnson out of Mediabrands as fallout from Tajer departure spreads 14

Seven names Brisbane sales director Natalie Harvey as head of Sydney sales

Ogilvy PR Melbourne’s MD Adam Vincenzini departs to join Icon Agency Melbourne

Air New Zealand and Commonwealth Bank trial customer service robot ‘Chip’

Fairfax renames NZ business to Stuff and appoints Sinead Boucher as CEO

McCain Foods appoints Cummins & Partners Melbourne to creative account 1

ABCs: Half yearly circulation audit sees many newspapers suffer 10% declines while Sunday Telegraph falls below 400,000 12

ABC’s line-up of 7.30, Australian Story and Four Corners beats Hell’s Kitchen and Australian Survivor 2

Fergus Halliday takes reins as editor of PC World Australia and New Zealand, replacing Nick Ross 1

The Project hits Sunday night screens 4

Supercheap Auto and Bosch team up to launch auto service centres

Executive Media launches new magazine, Traces 3

ACCC boss slams ‘poor’ and ‘unacceptable’ NBN marketing 5

Optus locks in Tabcorp to drive English Premier League into venues 1

Annabelle: Creation beats off The Dark Tower to retain weekend box office top spot

Kathmandu appoints Keep Left to PR account

‘We don’t use data as a panacea for growth’ says APN Outdoor’s Richard Herring

Freeview targets bathroom catch-up TV viewers as Freemans return

Blue 449 wins media for Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical

Pay-as-you-go news platform PressPatron launches in Australia, InDaily gets on board

NAB recruits mini legends dressed as AFL stars for its 2017 NAB Mini Legends campaign 20

Havas Media replaces Vizeum as World Vision shifts media focus to digital 4

Hell’s Kitchen holds steady at 543,000 metro viewers after move to later time slot

Failed merger cost APN Outdoor $3.38m, but revenue climbs

AANA appoints former Unilever CMO John Broome as CEO 3

Guardian Australia appoints Fairfax’s Tereza Alexandratos as commercial operations director 4

Google teams up with NY Times and FT for media subscription experiments, say reports

Posterscope appoints News Corp’s Michael Emmerson as head of investment

The Block delivers weekly win for Nine as Seven entertainment shows languish

Kate, Tim & Marty, Erin Molan, Ray Hadley and Hamish & Andy amongst ACRA 2017 finalists 1

AFL tops NRL in Friday night footy clash

Breakfast radio pioneer Gary O’Callaghan dies aged 83 13

Peter Vogel returns to Australia to head merged Maxus and MEC agency for Group M 4

BHP’s first ads in three decades start to pay dividends as next stage rolls out 1

Group M launches new global viewability standards 1

Vice partners with shops and bars to offer incentives for enrolling to vote 1

Foxtel backs Federal Court’s decision to block 127 domain names associated with piracy 5

Woolworths signs as supermarket and fresh food sponsor of Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games 3