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Pitch Watch: Western Sydney University appoints new PR agency; Mattel picks new lead brand agency; SA Gov tenders for NDIS

Social Soup launches gamified influencer app with CUB signed on as exclusive partner

Morning Update: meet KFC’s Mad Men Colonel; Facebook unveils Workplace platform; new publisher for Mumbrella Asia

Mumbrella reveals plans for expansion in Australia and Asia 6

Hahn Super Dry dares consumers to ‘Never Settle’ in new campaign by Ogilvy 1

The Girl on the Train arrives first at weekend box office

Alec Baldwin urges Aussies to do better in GE Money rebrand to Latitude Financial 42

Samsung uses 360-degree VR in interactive Netball Australia campaign

Porter Davis aims for inclusivity with artistic new Campaign For Respect 1

Free TV Australia’s Clare O’Neil to join SBS as director of corporate affairs 2

Aussie head of Tui social media on why she will ‘never go back’ to agencies 1

Comm Bank goes into schools with ‘world first’ Virtual Reality pilot

Ten’s Brock claims 828,000 metro viewers; 1.003 watch Bathurst 1000 race 1

TV creates unified app to bring network mobile streaming services in one place 2

Cathay Pacific searches for PR network to handle global crisis communications

Morning Update: Tic Tac tackles Trump; Dentsu suicide due ‘to overwork’; the future for micro influencers; Netflix in China unlikely

Radio news is starting to shift away from bulletin appointment listening says SBS Radio

DAB+ ‘doesn’t fit into our plan’ as it’s easier to target audiences with streaming services admits media buyer

Nova dominates at ACRAs as Kate, Tim and Marty take out Best On-Air Team

Some of Mark Ritson’s claims around media are ‘dangerous’ says media agency exec 31

Omny aims to solve major podcast issue with Podcast Discovery Feed 1

Ready For Takeoff fails to fly high on return as A-League fails to find big crowd on SBS

FreeTV names new CEO to take over from Julie Flynn

Bauer Media announces departure of Hearst Australia publisher Marina Go

News Corp sells stake in NZME

Wicked Campers, Sony Pictures and Lithgow Valley Springs rapped by Ad Standards Board 2

Big ideas are a ‘curse’, reveal Hamish and Andy 4

Utes turn into confessionals for tradies in CarsGuide campaign by Red Engine SCC 3

Sydney Opera House launches overnight festival to celebrate binge-worthy TV and pop culture

Smith’s positions itself as the essential Aussie entree in new campaign 2

SXSW acts to prevent Labor Party from using similarly titled event 1

Radio marketing campaign mocks streaming services’ reach 5

Pitch Watch: Worksafe gets creative, Twitter hires PR, Rugby League World Cup gets digital partner, Revlon appoints creative

Multi award-winning creative lead Ben Coulson departs Y&R; replaced by McWhopper creative Josh Moore 6

Seven’s Make You Laugh Out Loud gains more than 150,000 viewers, The Block wins night

BBC overhauls UKTV brand in bid to resonate with wider audience 1

Airline advertising lacking creativity, says Air NZ CEO, as Kiwi carrier kickstarts first TV push in Australia 5

Australian radio unites to create one app that plays all stations 7

News Corp sports journalist Rebecca Wilson loses battle with breast cancer 2

Morning Update: Diamond industry back with new campaign; Facebook’s new VR web browser; how to buy the perfect bra

Former Dentsu Mitchell boss Kenny Stewart returns to agencies with lead role at OMD 1

Air NZ turns to Dave the goose in campaign to lift awareness of airline’s international network 2

Meerkats look east for growth in 2017 as it moves to 3.0 model

NGO The Hunger Project launches education campaign to end world hunger

Tech agency DT appoints senior staff in restructure 2

Younger audiences continue shift away from broadcast TV shows multi-screen report 6

Seven West Media admits need for caution in how it acts after Sunday Times deal goes through

Macquarie Media could be forced to sell 2CH after third deadline passes 3

So what do Google’s product launches mean? Experts give the low down on the search giant’s tech innovations 1

Seven’s The X Factor loses 86,000 viewers, The Block wins the night

New agency aims to give clients a new level of certainty

ACCC concerned by industry impact of News Corp’s proposed acquisition of Australian Regional Media 1

Acquisition of Punters.com.au allows News Corp to ‘better service’ its wagering clients, says Damian Eales 1

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Morning Update: How to crowdsource an ad; Singapore’s educational ‘drug bus’; News Corp faces ‘fake Sheikh’ lawsuits

RadiumOne promotes Kerry McCabe to global president role 1

SBS Viceland will still have more local content per week than ABC2: Marc Fennell rejects SBS-Vice criticism 3

Melbourne suburb mocks Sydney lockout laws in ‘guerilla-style’ campaign 3

News Corp Australia buys racing publisher punters.com.au 1

N2N, Fuel Communications and Touch Creative launch parent brand The Herd Agency

eHarmony fights gamification with focus on ‘holy grail of dating’ 2

Brandscreen staves off winding-up order amid claims $13m is on way from mystery backer 1

ThinkTV taps Reckitt Benckiser’s Rowena Newman for marketing boss job 2

Google’s new tech set to deliver even more data to search giant 1

Seven’s 800 Words proves more popular than Ten’s Todd Sampson’s Body Hack 1

Rubicon Project appoints Vdopia’s Simone Krakowiak as country manager for Australia and NZ 1

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children tops the box office over the long weekend

Morning Update: Toyota releases ’emotional’ robot; L’Oreal Brazil reveals make-up for the blind; Vogue’s blogger backlash

Quickflix debtors agree to sale to US-based tech player 4

Australian Marketing Institute confident of surplus, committed to recruiting new members 5

Ad Wrap: KFC fancies a change; Macca’s Monopoly instant win; Holden showcases Trailblazer; Ford’s new Mondeo by design

Bauer Media launches ‘one-off’ health and fitness magazine to ‘explore new opportunities’ 2

Qantas partners with Airbnb to offer Frequent Flyer points for accommodation bookings 1

Foxtel buys Seven out of Presto as it prepares to shutter service 8

Seven’s X Factor musters lowest launch audience to date but Seven wins Aussie drama shootout 1

Salesforce buys marketing data management platform Krux

SBS and Vice announce launch date for TV channel SBS Viceland 4

Deloitte pushes further into agency business with Cinder acquisition

Todd Sampson backed influencer agency Vamp launches in Singapore and Hong Kong 1

Morning Update: who is Louise Delage?; new tip app for journalists; ‘midult’ marketing; Hong Kong police video goes viral

Australia’s most successful female creative moved to US because nobody would promote her locally 6

Sharks drought-breaking final delivers NRL and Nine record five-city audience

Philips goes with Spider-man TV ad in Australia as part of global brand campaign 2

LGBTIQ comparison to ISIS by Tele’s Miranda Devine sets off social media outrage 2

The Monkeys adds creative firepower with hire of Big Ad creator Grant Rutherford

Bulldogs’ fairytale win delivers more than three million viewers for Seven

Cosmo to let ‘our readers’ decide after nominating Sonia Kruger for Woman of the Year 11

Restructure takes its toll on Salmat as revenue drops $47m