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AACTA Awards and Highway Patrol win the night for Seven

Competition watchdog greenlights News Corp acquisition of APN News & Media’s ARM

Mamamia appoints KPMG to sound out investors 1

Morning Update: Burger King’s burning Xmas sweater; Vice Media meets the President; Pandora preps Premium service

Vision Australia unveils new brand identity, aims to ‘stand out from the rest’ 1

IAG disruptor brand, Satellite, revealed 4

Digital sport outdoor media labeled as new $20m investment for QMS Media

Government to trial tool to speed up classification process of Netflix content

Seven West Media shuffle staff at WA mastheads following Sunday Times acquisition 2

Dumped ARN Brisbane breakfast host Robin Bailey joins SCA’s Triple M 2

Meat & Livestock Australia’s diversity work wins at Multicultural Marketing Awards

Ubank ads cleared of commodifying terminal illness

News Corp redundancy program moves forward, with editorial jobs gone at The Daily Telegraph 9

Unilever pulls ice cream ad aimed at kids after ad watchdog ban 2

Bupa launches search for new CMO as John Moore moves to UK 1

One time Apple design agency, Frog, opens in Oz after five years of stealth

More creatives exit R/GA Sydney as With Collective nabs award-winning team

Maurice Blackburn expands social justice campaign with 12-week podcast

Fairfax Media won’t float Domain separately, says Catalano 2

Aussie cricket win helps Nine lift Tuesday ratings trophy

Mumbrella Travel Marketing Summit returns in 2017, with awards added for the first time

Morning Update: BBDO’s gun control work; Instagram to launch safety tools; why these ads work; Asos pursues chatbot tech

Swinburne Online tells potential students ‘Let’s do this’

QMS Media looks to raise $20m to buy unnamed target

Former Stayz and U Bank marketer joins kids’ cyber app, Family Zone

Woolworths supports OzHarvest with Christmas donation drive

Hacksaw Ridge, Rake and No Activity take out gongs at AACTA’s screen craft awards 1

Executive creative director Gavin McLeod departs R/GA Sydney after four years 4

Pets and money among new verticals planned for Pedestrian.TV

Nine’s RBT most watched non-news program while Seven wins the night

CommsCon 2017 first announced sessions to tackle speaking to multicultural audiences, CSR and crisis comms 3

Community management code of ethics launched with aim of combating online abuse

Pitch Watch: F5 Networks taps PR agency; Havas Village wins five clients; Iris Capital names PR agency

Morning Update: What KISS taught me about marketing; biggest spending brands of 2016; confessions of a weed agency

Planet Broadcasting aims to launch Australian comedians into US market 3

Trolls debuts at number two at weekend box office but can’t beat Fantastic Beasts

Clemenger Sydney lands Ben Coulson as new head of creative 1

Audi asks customers to negotiate on price in new 303 MullenLowe campaign

The Age editor Mark Forbes resigns amid harassment claims 1

Twitter jockeys for role in A-League broadcast rights negotiations

Ooh Media adds Christmas bow to traditional billboards in Crown Lager campaign 2

Aussie cricketing domination helps Nine snag the win

Union puts in Fair Work application for journalists to be paid overtime

NSW Cancer Institute uses real-time UV levels to deliver sun-safe messages to the public

Commercial Radio Australia appoints AudioNet to automate radio buying

Morning Update: Helen Mirren drinks Bud, spruiks Uber; Snapchat tweaks cut viewers; Hollywood’s incompetent female journos

Yvette Mayer returns to Australia to lead OMD’s Sydney operation 2

Nine drops James Brayshaw for Craig Hutchison as AFL Footy Show host 1

Seven wins first week of summer ratings 1

News programming dominates TV viewing for first Friday of summer

The Australian’s Bowraville investigation becomes first podcast to win a Walkley

The Age editor Mark Forbes suspended over harassment claim

Hamish and Andy to leave radio to focus on TV careers 6

Virgin Australia reins in agency budgets and adds in-house creative 3

Junkee Media acquires The Vine, taps former owner to lead new social video product 1

Trillions lost due to sales and marketing chasm, claims study 3

Pitch Watch: Jacob’s Creek reviews creative; Sunsuper appoints media agency; drone company taps media agency

Daily Mail Australian businesses post $30m in revenue

JWT takes Tourism Queensland to the world with first campaign 2

ESPN surges to second in Australian online sports market with one million new users 1

Home and Away most watched non-news show as Seven wins the night

OMD chief digital officer Stuart Bailey moves across to PHD

Seven West Media opens voluntary redundancy program

Fairfax Media promotes WA Today deputy editor to editor

Morning Update: Mumbrella Asia editor admits scam defeat; 2016’s most viral ads; influencer marketing five ways

Agency founder launches SnackableTV network for brands targeting millennials

Aldi builds on its enthusiastic Americans campaign for Christmas 7

Wotif views holidays through the eyes of children in new campaign 1

News Corp acquires Sky News

Guzman y Gomez CMO Anna Jones departs

Is it the viewer or advertisers TV is putting first, asks Youi marketing boss 5

Return of Westpac’s Air Rescue helps Seven win the night 1

Cadreon appoints Clement Tsang as head of consulting

‘It drives me insane’: Telstra CMO lashes industry for separation of media and creative 8

303 MullenLowe restructures creative team, appoints new CDs and group creative head of Audi 2

Great Northern Brewing partners with Outback Wrangler in new campaign celebrating the outdoors

Forty Winks sells $1 bed bases in new Serta campaign

Ronan Keating re-creates Christmas hit for Air NZ with rising Kiwi actor 4

New York Times hunting for journalist to open bureau in Australia 2

Media reform passes lower house

Morning Update: Netflix enables downloading; best marketing campaigns of 2016; Instagram ‘will have more ads than Twitter in 2017’

ThinkTV recreates UK ThinkBox ad in first campaign aimed at demonstrating the power of TV

Coding error costs First Contact top 20 place in overnight ratings 2

Volkswagen brings back 1% campaign and reveals a Mad Max ute in new ad onslaught

Bauer Media axes Dolly print edition 6

Quickflix pivots focus to Hollywood blockbusters as it emerges from administration 3

Seven boss admits TV has been a ‘bit off’ with content 3

McDonald’s, Unilever, Luxottica and Jeanswest CMOs the latest speakers to join Retail Marketing Summit