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2015 Annual: Gaffes of the year 1

2015 Annual: The year that was – November

2015 Annual: Top 10 Mumbrella analysis pieces and features

2015 Annual: The year that was – October

Former ABC managing director Brian Johns was ‘a man ahead of his time’ 3

Annual 2015: Social media fails 1

2015 Annual: The year that was – September

Mumbrella predictions for 2016 (and how we fared with our 2015 predictions) 2

Regional broadcaster WIN secures last-ditch deal to keep showing Nine Network content

2015 Annual: Good year, bad year

2015 Annual: The year that was – August

Aldi hopes musical tributes will convince shoppers of the freshness of its produce 3

2015 Annual: Biggest people moves of 2015

McDonald’s releases ‘world’s biggest crowd-directed short film starring fries’ #Fryflix 1

Star Wars sets sights on Avatar after smashing $50m box office mark in less than a fortnight

2015 Annual: Top media account moves

2015 Annual: Top creative account wins

2015 Annual: The year that was – July

‘Sydney’s most listened to radio show’: 2DayFM starts marketing push for Rove and Sam 5

2015 Annual: TV flops and TV hits 1

2015 Annual: The year that was – June

Ricky Ponting reflects on secrets of success in new minute-long film for Swisse vitamins 2

2015 Annual: The top 10 guest posts

2015 Annual: The year that was – May

Saatchi & Saatchi says critics of $500,000 Stoner Sloth campaign are not target audience 12

2015 Annual: The best ads of the year 4

2015 Annual: The year that was – April

Annual 2015: The worst ads of the year 8

2015 Annual: The year that was – March

Annual 2015: The best of Dr Mumbo

2015 Annual: The year that was – February

Quickflix issues yet more share options in deal to avoid $5m studio royalty payments 2

‘Mangoes, in the fruit aisle when the beat goes’: Aldi ad uses house track and exploding trolley

Mumbrella’s Christmas wrap of 2015’s best (and worst) festive ads

Allianz borrows from Final Destination films with out of control hose in new ad 1

News helps Nine win the night as Ten’s Big Bash cricket wins in the demographics

Air New Zealand’s Christmas message smashes records set by its 2014 effort 8

Chang’s breaks the language barrier with swearing grandma’s cooking tips

Morning Update: Taco joint goes viral with footage of burglary; Coke’s colourblind ad; Austrian Last Christmas DJ punished

2015 Annual: The year that was – January

WIN and Nine engaged in merger talks as affiliation fee negotiations stall 2

2015 Annual: the year at the box office

ABC boss Mark Scott set to go out swinging taking aim at News Corp and Peter Costello 20

Today show accused of child cruelty after lie detector stunt makes six-year-old girl cry 12

Daily Mail admits to paying $52.5m in cash and discounts to agencies and clients last year 5

Big Bang Theory and news help Nine win night as Big Bash proves popular with younger demos

Morning Update: Incisive Media bans ad blocker users; Christoph Waltz and James Corden glorify gamer stories; Top Gear EP departs

The Chaser Quarterly ‘trades’ integrity to offer brands native ads in magazine and online

The Hallway experiments with swapping freelancers desk space for services rendered 4

Razorfish names new Australia ECD as global creative head warns of rise of consultancies 3

Xtra Research hired to provide consistent data with new regional radio surveys contract 1

Fast Starter company Jack Media opens Sydney office hiring Matt Bateman to head operation 1

Big Bash continues to perform well as Love Actually helps Seven win the night 1

Rise of regional Australia, end of ‘cotton wool’ parenting and ‘golden age of BS’ named as key public relations issues for 2016

Morning Update: Miss Universe blunder a publicity stunt?; Facebook’s ‘duty of care’; Mashable for sale; Star Wars running routes

Clemenger left red faced after staffer hid image of a penis in university campaign poster 35

Star Wars: The Force Awakens smashes Aussie box office records on opening weekend

Royal hoax call DJ Mel Greig returns to radio as Wave FM’s breakfast host in 2016

Viewers ignore some of Foxtel’s biggest shows as pay-TV platform pushes its catch-up service 2

Incoming ABC MD signals desire to look at ‘all options’ for monetising content 10

WA Today censured by Press Council for unfair ‘Bong claims Santa Maria teacher’s job’ headline

ABC names Google executive Michelle Guthrie as managing director

Carols in the Domain sheds 198,000 metro viewers as Ten’s Big Bash dominates weekend 3

Roy Morgan wins legal fight after being locked out of Melbourne offices at weekend 6

Community TV station TVS goes off-air but aims to relaunch with video on demand service 144

NSW Government’s Stoner Sloth campaign cops social backlash a month after launch 22

Morning Update: Walmart crushes holiday video views; Netflix invents socks that pause TV; Star Wars: The Force Awakens shatters box office records

GetUp claims Nine is refusing to play its ad attacking Woolworths over pokie machines 6

Network Seven set to launch new high definition simulcast channel for its main channel 55

‘Kill Bills’ billboard for Powershop featuring a plug socket banned for being derogatory towards Asians 11

Head of digital Ciaran Norris leaves Yahoo7 for regional marketing consultancy role at AMEX 1

Top Citi media analyst Justin Diddams to depart

David Nobay to set up Sydney branch of Publicis Groupe creative shop Marcel 29

News Corp moves Townsville Bulletin editor Lachlan Heywood to top Courier-Mail role 5

Newly appointed L’Officiel Australia editor Damien Woolnough quits after one month

Westpac taps Junkee Media to launch money, career and wellbeing website The Cusp 1

Pitch Watch: BWM lands first Toyota work while Frucor is pitch that ruined Christmas 3

RECOGNISE campaign starts pitch for agency to carry on Neil Lawrence’s creative flame

Sydney derby helps Big Bash to best season opening yet helping Ten win the night

Former NRL commercial boss Paul Kind launches sports marketing agency joint venture 7

Rdio confirms closure from December 23

Morning Update: Homer Simpson saves business with Youtube; BBC’s clever crime trailer; Facebook starts brand streaming 3

Ad agency Clemenger Group paid the same tax as Google in 2013-14 according to tax office 5

GetUp ‘hijacks’ Woolworths Christmas ad in latest pokie machines campaign 7

Watchdog clears AbbottLovesAnal Q&A slip and sweary Four Corners show of standards breach 4

Key Southern Cross Austereo commercial exec Karen Halligan departs broadcaster for ZO 2

Loan company Moneyme aims to make brand more likeable with ads on customers’ cars 2

Pitch Watch: Creative appointments for Tourism Tasmania, Open and Monash Universities 5