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iSelect hires ex-marketing chief Roger McBride 7

Social media agency slams Facebook benchmarks as ‘rubbish’, launches new benchmarks 30

Kellogg’s and Woolies launch ‘Breakfast Crusade’, free cereal given away to schools 7

Satellite Boy to get world premiere in Toronto

Gruen asks: How do you sell Gina Rinehart as owner of Fairfax? 5

MFA finalists revealed 3

First Mumbrella Awards shortlists revealed 4

I Will Survive debuts with just 506,000 20

‘Christchurch reimagined’ campaign to lure Aussies back to quake-hit city 7

Williams: Illegal downloading is scumbag theft 90

Ten: We gave it a shot but we have to cancel Everybody Dance Now 17

Durex lube ad okayed by ad watchdog 6

Coles backs Status Quo Aussie tour 32

McDonald’s rolls out Sam Kekovich in lamb TV ads 9

Evergreen launches PR arm 1

Fox and Nine win NRL rights in five-year deal 12

Tim Rogers fronts AFL finals campaign 8

Aussie doco Red Obsession set for theatrical release 1

DDB Melbourne’s new ECD brings in Rob Beamish and Jim Ritchie from JWT 5

Keep Australia Beautiful campaign takes a road trip

Aussies to judge at Spikes Asia

Ogilvy flips strategy for drink driving campaign 5

Mango Melbourne expands experiential and social media offering 1

Jessica Watson biopic to set sail next year 4

The X Factor returns with 1.6m 6

The Sapphires adds $2m at box office as The Bourne Legacy debuts 1

Kogan boasts about hitting 200,000 Facebook fans before rivals 9

MONA invites tourists to experience the dark side of Tasmania

IKEA highlights lowered prices with shouting dad and screaming customers 3

Deluxe acquires Omnilab Media brands 7

MasterChef production moves to Melbourne 3

Lush backs Free West Papua campaign 4

Man undoes woman’s bra with his feet in KFC ad 12

Cleo stands firm against anti-Photoshop protest 38

Seven West Media promotes Yahoo!7 boss Rohan Lund to COO 5

Hail wins at Melbourne International Film Festival

Banana industry asks Aussies to ditch no-nos for na-nas 2

Howzat tops 2m for Nine 37

DDB Melbourne hires Simon Bagnasco from Clems as creative director 3

Stynes loses second job in a month 14

Mumbrella audience grows by 15% on previous month 2

Anita Jacoby departs Zapruder

Poo-sniffing puppy cleared by ad body 17

Big Brother ratings continue downwards on Friday 27

Gernie guns for weekend warriors 3

U by Kotex explains how to avoid the embarrassment of leaky tampons 5

Whitlam two-part doco among Screen Australia’s $2m funding round 2

Toyota celebrates its ties with rural Australia with ‘This is Landcruiser country’ campaign 1

Sportsbet and CommBank go to war over ‘Can’ parody 39

Clems Sydney launches fast turn-around unit 3

Screen Australia to appear in court to defend James Ricketson allegations 2

Family pig stars in Suzuki ad 2

‘Does branded content jeopardise the integrity of the media?’ 1

Spreets removes skinny image used in ‘Like slim?’ promotion 9

Aussie social media firm launches Twitter search tool 3

Domino’s hires ad agency – three months after taking advertising inhouse 11

Telstra’s Olympics ad wins Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month 9

Big Brother rates below 1m for first time since debut 16

News Limited pushes on with ‘superdesk’ restructure in Victoria and makes photographic redundancies 3

Agency brews beer to win beer account 17

Communications Council releases guidelines for social media best practice 5

Sing-a-long with The Sapphires app

Ten rips up schedule in face of Everybody Dance Now ratings disaster 21

Earphone Bully wins next round of Sirens radio awards

Protest group urges Cleo magazine to stop using digitally altered images of girls 8

Hooroo launches ATL push, ‘We’re all travellers’ 6

Roadshow Films creates online game to promote The Expendables 2 3

Shake it Up Foundation re-enacts symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease with coffee shop stunt 10

Schwarzkopf mocks infomercials, ads created by media agency MEC 12

Telstra: ‘We believe that Australia is a clever country’ 3

Puberty Blues debuts with under a million but wins over younger demos 8

Tim and Eric film to get Australian premiere at Sydney Underground Film Festival 1

Bonds stages battle of the undies dance-offs 12

Ten sales boss O’Brien: We need just one hit to turn it around 25

Clark Rubber dusts off 1970’s ‘Better than a beach’ jingle 5

Two Australian films join Toronto International Film Festival line up

Angostura launches ‘Rediscovered’ campaign, parts ways with Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara 5

Queensland Police pins crims on Pinterest 5

Schmackos creates encyclopaedia of dog tricks 3

Everybody Dance Now fails to recover 8

Melbourne Water wins postcard of the month 1

GI Cancer Institute wants kids to take The Gutsy Challenge

Sydney University targets MBA students with ‘Me, first’ campaign 3

JWT Melbourne hires creatives Brendon Guthrie and Tim Holmes from rival DDB 2

Target’s ‘trampy’ togs slammed by Facebook community 25

Kakadu or bust in latest Inspiring Journeys campaign 3

David Angell replaces Wendy Gower as MD of UM Melbourne 10

Melbourne Metro offers rides for brides 5