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Hungry Jack’s Scoopon deal smashes records with almost half a million sales (and counting) 29

LinkedIn announces 3m members, opens Perth office 3

Grown Ups launches first TV ad – for Youth Projects 8

Simon Hopkins leaves ACP for Brandtology 6

ARN’s Mix launches anti-bullying week 1

Myer Miss Shop blogger project launches 1

Match is Australia’s top online advertiser while Facebook publishes 23% of all display ads says ComScore 4

Former News International boss and husband arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert course of justice 3

Ten has best Tuesday ratings of 2012, but Seven still dominates 2

The Australian says it has 30,000 paying digital subscribers 8

Australian Party declines to name agency behind ‘homophobic’ attack ad 8

Bondi Hipsters seek sponsorship for Olympics show 37

John Safran blogs for Vice.com

SBS sells ‘Go Back’ to US, deal helps ‘balance Australia’s cultural terms of trade’

Sensis boss Bruce Akhurst ousted after seven years at the helm 1

Fertility company targets gay men as sperm donors 3

Hungry Jack’s deal with Scoopon – a group buying first for fast food 21

Rory Callaghan moves from ‘the number one’ to ‘the most dynamic’ TV producer in Australia 1

The One Centre creates digital ‘stream of consciousness’ for GE 2

Monday misery for Ten as Seven dominates again 3

Martian sci-fi film John Carter opens strongly at the box office 1

Mark Dapin parts ways with SMH’s Good Weekend 24

Naked founder John Harlow joins The Brand Agency as director of comms planning 1

Barry O’Brien exits PHD 15

Director Nicholas Reynolds returns to Plaza Films

CommBank: even riding a tractor we’re faster than other banks at settling card sales 6

We Are Social expands to NYC

Tourism Australia launches Pinterest profile 4

Coles reworks disco classic ‘Instant Replay’ for credit card launch 6

The Tunnel’s Julian Harvey directs adventure doco The Crossing 2

Daily Telegraph redesigns with ‘We’re For Sydney’ positioning 5

Graffiti artists spray Kings Cross billboard for STUDIO’s Work of art series 4

Rachel Sharp is the new editor of Women’s Fitness 1

First Sunday airing of My Kitchen Rules hurts Ten’s top shows 12

Woolies fights back in freshness war, Coles: ‘4/10 for effort, godda try harder’ 5

Herald Sun prepares to turn on paywall 12

Over 50s ad agency sponsors gay festival, ‘old people are gay too’ 2

Where The Wild Things Are-inspired Kangaroo Island ad prompts growth in searches 18

Rhonda’s goes to Bali in latest AAMI ad 9

Sydney Film Festival to join Vivid Sydney

Warp Films Australia to produce Kiwi film Shopping

FIVEaa talk radio host Amanda Blair steps down

Australian Nazi sci-fi film Iron Sky acquired by eOne 1

Newspaper Works launches media agency push with iPads giveaway 8

Nielsen media agency billings: Only five from top 20 agencies grow 6

Mumbrellacast: Sam Mac | immaturity in social media | Swerve | Creative ransoms | Community TV vs YouTube | Tabloid paywalls

McCann looks to Germany for strategy chief 2

Buttrose to chair tablet publishing firm Reddo 2

Regional Victoria to benefit from Victorian Government’s $240,000 Open Channel injection

Eddie McGuire plans move into TV drama 4

Zenith Optimedia becomes ‘the open agency’, Naked boss calls positioning ‘vague’ 4

Kony 2012 documentary rates well for Ten 17

Screen Agency defends role as producer offset administrator

Netflix rumoured to pick up Terra Nova

Can you still do edgy content on radio?

Publicis, Droga5, OMD and ZO remain in the hunt for Qantas 6

Singapore tries to persuade Aussies it’s not boring by telling them to ‘Get lost’ 27

Nine’s Olympics to air in HD 3

Priscilla director looking to break into ad world 3

News Limited: We’re talking to bloggers about paywalls because their influence matters 9

Angela Clark joins ABC as director of innovation as Abigail Thomas exits for Deloitte

Foxtel’s Adam Suckling moves to News Limited

M&C’s direct agency wins LivingSocial, Foundation retains $8m media 3

Sunrise reopens its lead over Today

Good Return in push around Women’s Day 3

Honda ad made from symphony of car sounds 3

Producers body hammers Screen Australia over Federal Court ruling

Woolies appoints “Not the obvious choice”… Droga5 20

Teeth make way for milk bottles and bowling pins in dentistry campaign 5

Phil Duffield launches Australian offering of Adap.tv 1

Production company The Explainers launches 2

Artist posts wordless outdoor ads, knocks ‘in your face’ billboards 7

MJ Bale film connects Aussie cricketers with sheep

Award-winning Aussie short film The Palace gets theatrical distribution 4

Australia’s cricket defeat hurts ratings for Nine

Foxtel-Austar merger looks set for go ahead

Mortgage & Finance Association launches first social media campaign

Grant’s puts biggest marketing spend in a decade behind new launch

Mother campaign inspires manly misadventures 14

Clems dominates TADAs shortlist

Fox pulls the plug on Terra Nova 5

Price comparison site accuses NAB ads of ‘hypocrisy’ 2

Melbourne chancers hold top creative directors to ransom in pursuit of job 14

Browning confirmed as News Limited comms supremo as Hemming takes on NDM role 4

EvoTV hires Fairfax direct marketer Jessica Shuwalow 1

Ogilvy Digital Influence rebrands as Social@Ogilvy 2

Web traffic offsets readership decline for just 4 newspapers out of the top 11 5

Peter Newman joins Shine as creative director 1