News

ACP restructures computing magazines, PC User’s Glenn Rees and APC’s Nick Race depart 9

Emile Sherman backs anti-factory farming campaign for Voiceless 12

Mazda launches car ad without a car in it 9

Ad body backs drag queen ad 3

Mark Calvert departs Nine News 3

Esben Storm honoured with ADG award 1

Storm Surfers 3D sells across various international platforms and formats

ABC launches footy mag 7

Sione’s 2 Unfinished Business to open March 1

BMF makes redundancies after falling client spend 16

Barney Howells joins Plaza

Mumbrellacast: Global Mail founder Monica Attard | ACP up for grabs? | Fairfax’s digital transparency | Seven’s early ratings dominance

Legal firm King & Wood Mallesons launches post-merger print campaign 21

Subaru wins Mumbrella Ad of the Month 5

Ten’s Breakfast boss: I’m not thinking about ratings but unlike Kochie and Karl, Paul Henry will say what he thinks 11

CommBank appoints M&C Saatchi 43

Earthflight debut fails to fly for Nine 1

ZO hires BMF’s Aaron Michie as chief innovation officer 5

YouTube viewers select final Tropfest film

Margaret Zabel confirmed as Comms Council CEO 2

Solo partners with new Foxtel channel A&E

Media analyst: Ten needs 100,000 viewers to help save The Circle as the morning battle intensifies 4

Hamish McLennan joins News as EVP to Rupert Murdoch 10

My Kitchen Rules takes nearly 2m 2

Swerve to get Australian/US simultaneous release 5

ACP ‘goes cold on Elle launch’ 5

Naked’s Mumbrella360 experiment to be presented at US consumer psychology conference 6

Noiseworks creates lingerie mob 24

SBS cut summer radio services to make ends meet

Saatchi & Saatchi wins Big W 5

Ben English to lead Adobe’s Australian marketing

Leo Burnett boosts focus on shopper marketing 2

Subscription TV ad revenue approaching $400m 3

CommBank starts with cricket 1

Eithne McSwiney swaps Leos for client role at Wunderman 1

Seven dominates Tuesday as Rafters makes a muted return

Alzheimer’s Australia targets politicians in Valentine’s Day DM blast 5

Profits grow at STW 3

Nonagenarian gives Valentine’s Day love advice in radio spot for Tip Top

Motion Picture Company releases Valentine’s Day Cupid promo

Ad agency snubs Perth awards as too parochial and “dominated by scam” 10

Seven’s Revenge a hit with 2m 11

Any Questions For Ben opens mildly

Domestic abuse charity subverts Valentine’s Day messages of love 41

Narayan Pattison leaves IGN Entertainment 3

March One jumps out of a plane for Cancer Council 4

‘Heartbreaking’ data loss as TVCentral goes blank 85

People’s Choice Credit Union launches musical bus stop 10

Web Marketing Experts hires Michael Teasdale to open Sydney office

Louise Buson joins The Australian from Sportsbet to head up digital

Better Homes & Gardens offers media buyers biggest bargain while FHM is priciest, data analysis suggests 20

NewsLifeMedia snaffles Ben Grill from OMD as strategy director 1

Aussie Home Loans boss John Symond returns to front ads 7

Nine wins first official ratings night of 2012

‘PacMags in talks to buy ACP’ 11

Wrigley uses ‘Bad boys’ in Extra ad 12

Garuda launches first ad in Australia since the ’80s 4

ACP appoints Leigh Monti to national sales role

No luck for Aussie nominees at 2012 BAFTA awards

McCann re-launches MRM in Australia 2

Cannes Lions introduces mobile category

Senior ranks of Murdoch’s The Sun arrested over corruption allegations 6

Seven wins the final battle before 2012 ratings war officially begins

KAK: Nine’s a sinking ship and the management are animals 14

Ten to launch Breakfast on February 27 15

State Investment Attraction Scheme unaffected by loss of Proyas’ Paradise Lost 2

Cockatoo Island Film Fest announces dates

Air NZ casts Aussies who don’t like New Zealand in reality series 25

Deluxe acquires Hong Kong-based VFX house

Rush joins Tropfest’s Roughcut

Julian Lee returns to The Herald as media writer 5

The Straits pulls in 542,000, ABC loses time slot to Seven and Nine

Fairfax first to move on releasing detailed data on app usage – slow start for The Age and The SMH 3

Roxy Jacenko on art imitating life with new book Strictly Confidential 7

Mumbrellacast: Super Bowl verdict | John Butler vs yoghurt | media agency innovation | Excess Baggage axing | What went wrong for FHM?

January’s Ad of the Month: shortlist revealed 1

Lachlan Murdoch becomes Ten chairman

ABCs: Zoo, People and Picture all lose quarter of their circulations 4

ABCs: SMH drops 12%, rival accuses Fairfax of ‘abandoning’ print 21

ABCs: FHM loses 50% of circulation in one of biggest magazine sales drops in media history 26

Iron Sky a hot ticket in Berlin 1

Roamz and ImageBrief make BRW start-ups ranking 3

NRMA Insurance puts car stereo in bus shelter 15

Gavin Larkin to be celebrated in Sydney event 2

ABC’s Wednesday night season fails to worry commercial broadcasters 8

Foxtel edges to 1.66m subscribers 13

Ogilvy PR hires ex-adman Mike Beckerleg as group director 4

Big M makes giant headphones from 40,000 drink cartons 1