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Aussie producer streams premiere of Occupy Wall Street doco 3

Gold Coast radio ratings: Gold FM is number one

Rozz Switzer backs Aussie launch of non-dairy milk drink Almond Breeze 6

Bonds rolls out phase 2 of Birthday Project 2

Google Australia joins movie on-demand market

Study: Victorians value Herald Sun, New South Welshman like Nine, South Australians prefer Adelaide Advertiser 6

Adshel brews a beer in a billboard 6

International and local experts to share insights on how to create entertaining branded content 4

Telstra removes porn from BigPond 26

The Block wins in key advertising demos 1

Mumbrellacast: A conversation about The Conversation | Cash for tweets | How will Masterchef series four fare?

MP accuses Fairfax and News Limited over NBN advertorials 3

Metricon uses Facebook and inflatables to woo footy fans 3

Lachlan Brahe moves from Carat to MCM Media

Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut discards TV for path-to-purchase 12

Michael Hill reviews $7m Aussie media business 4

The Avengers takes second biggest opening day in Australian box office history 10

Victoria Treole and Matthew Dabner leave Screen Australia as Tristram Miall returns as assessor 3

TAC campaign urges bikers to slow down 156

Ex Optus marketer goes to court

Samsung Galaxy launch believed to be behind ‘Wake up’ teaser campaign 33

Britt, Bradshaw, Filmer and Crockett to debate the big digital questions at Mumbrella360 1

Fairfax video streams see monthly decline 10

Sydney theatre company Belvoir satires its own rehearsals 1

AGT wins Wednesday night but The Block shines in all major demos 3

Greenpeace protests against Apple’s coal-powered iCloud 5

Sydney suburb to launch ‘It all starts at Chatswood’ tourism campaign 39

ABC appoints Jennifer Collins as head of entertainment 2

Ikea introduces Australia’s seven types of sleeper 8

Lego film due for February 2014 release 3

Headspace fights youths’ corner in mental health awareness campaign 2

Start-up bosses to debate how to run an ad agency at Mumbrella360 2

The Voice helps Nine win Monday ratings, ABC beats Ten 2

Bill Bennett film to star Toni Collette and Slumdog’s Dev Patel 1

ABC settles out of court over Paper Giants defamation case 1

SATC exposed for paying celebs to tweet about Kangaroo Island, agency: ‘It’s not illegal’ 62

Masterchef to launch on May 6

Social gifting service Wrapp to launch in Australia 2

Scott Hicks’s The Lucky One tops the box office 1

‘Nutritious and delicious’ Quorn launches first Aussie TV campaign 13

SBS turns to modelling agency for new boss of subscription TV 1

Aussie playwright Stephen Sewell to make directorial debut

The Palace wins big at the South Australian Screen Awards 2

Diageo and McDonald’s marketers to discuss how to shake up brand status quo

The Voice shouts with massive 2.69m viewers 3

STW launches branded content company Hatch Entertainment 1

Neil Finn track in new ad for Kiwibank 3

Dame Edna is new brand ambassador of Jenny Craig with pledge to shed 15 kilos 6

Optus goes lighter on animals in new ‘It’s possible’ ad 52

Louise Evans quits The Australian after seven months as commercial editor

Dawn French gets fresh with Curtis Stone in Coles FlyBuys campaign 16

Sun-Herald reintroduces TV liftout after reader complaints 4

Cancer Council anti-smoking ad: is this how they see you? 10

Lee Stephens joins board of Private Media 1

Input Sydney adds new sessions

Coal company Xstrata threatens Mumbrella with defamation action over This Is Our Story spoof 44

Internet provider clear of film TV piracy claims in High Court 14

ABC News 24 launches regional magazine made by locals 1

Delegation heads to Australia-China Film Industry Forum

Ad pastiches mining industry’s ‘This is our story’ campaign 9

McCann launches ‘Should’ve gone to Specsavers’ outdoor ads 23

The Fetch founder Kate Kendall teams up with YouTube founders for Zeen.com launch 12

Mumbrellacast: John Petropoulos | Barter | Logies leak | Cannes Film Fest | Ryan Shelton’s Dare | The Voice

Social commerce gets Mumbrella360 focus

The Block helps Nine to narrow ratings win over Seven 7

Coles releases loyalty ad featuring Dawn French 18

EFTPOS wins Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month 3

Expat directors shine but Australian films shunned at Cannes

Wine company Casella to ‘crowd brew’ its first beer 8

Former PHD boss Barry O’Brien to chair media charity Mayday 2

Animal rights group hires retail agency Rhubarb to replace ad banned for ‘unjustified graphic violence’ 2

Wolverine returns to Sydney, ‘2000 jobs created’ 1

Seven News journo and ex-Haystac exec launch Project PR & Media 2

Galloway and Dunne join mobile masterclass speaker lineup

Coles revamps Flybuys loyalty scheme in ad offensive featuring Dawn French 26

Mumbrella360: Who is Gen Z and why do we care?

Slurpee app offers shop locator and alien brain freeze game 1

Mining body backs indigenous doco fellowship

iSelect ads see ‘Decide right’ move into health and energy 4

The Australian launches cross-platform advertising unit PACE 1

Crikey names Jason Whittaker editor and Marina Go as publisher

RMIT launches ‘speed dating with your portfolio’ event 3

Night Shift by Curious Film’s Zia Mandviwalla headed for Cannes

Chrissy Blackburn joins The Leading Edge as brand strategy head

Kevin Rudd fronts ad for HeartKids 1

The Celebrity Apprentice returns with under 1m 5

News Limited makes senior editorial changes on key titles 6

Bulgari shifts Trent Power to marketing role 2