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Tennis Australia launches ad to get more people playing tennis 8

News Limited appoints Belinda Hickman-Newton editor in chief of Quest Newspapers

Boating industry chairman says he knew nothing about pro bono pitch after backlash 12

Ro Markson behind PR agency launch: ‘We approach each brief as if there are no rules’ 8

Compare Travel Insurance wins Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month 8

Mumbrellacast: The Jenny Craig PR disaster | The Gruen Olympics | Australia Day marketing | Making radio ads 1

Cricket Australia launches ad to push one-day tournament 6

Warburton: Mott is the best 1

Matt Granfield joins Heritage Bank as marketing manager 4

2011 cinema advertising down on year before

Greenpeace uses real oil-covered dead birds in ads to warn of dangers of deep sea oil drilling 19

Tourism Tasmania and BOFA launch $20,000 film competition

AACTA confirms award presenters

CMO summit sells out

Boating industry calls agency pitch for pro-bono work 65

Tourism Tasmania holds short film competition 3

Club Med appoints first Australian agency 4

Shift hires creative director Dale Rhodes and ECD of design Nick Beckhurst 4

McCann Melbourne makes four new hires 1

STW sells one third of DTDigital to WPP

Sunday Telegraph: how good is the Sunday before Australia day? 5

Radio industry to test digital measurement system 6

Rob Morrison leaves Shift after 4 months 6

Richard Gray’s AFL film Blinder announces cast

MediaCom appoints Fiona Johnston to senior marketing role 11

Jason Scott appointed MD of News Queensland 1

Madman Entertainment appoints MPG 2

Agency bosses disagree on 2012 media market forecasts 5

Australians nominated for BAFTAs

Camilla Severi dropped from Brisbane’s Nova Breakfast 7

Mike Quigley presents at ASTRAs Conference

Four Australian films heading to Film Festival Rotterdam 1

Topshop appoints EVH to handle Australian PR

BMF hires two ECDs – Carlos Alija and Laura Sampedro from Spanish agency 6

Top of the Lake starts shooting in February 1

Tropfest Roughcut symposium to feature local and international filmmakers

Outdoor ad industry up 3.4% in 2011 2

James Cameron opens Australian office for Cameron Pace Group 2

Sefiani wins The Tax Institute 3

Roger Christie quits Sefiani for Ogilvy DI, Trinity Scarf joins Sefiani from Tourism Australia 12

Coca-Cola puts 50 more names on bottles in final phase of ‘Share a Coke’ campaign 24

Hamilton Island hires Sophie Baker as senior communications manager 4

Jenny Craig cancels Kyle & Jackie O sponsorship: ‘We badly misjudged public perception of Sandilands’ 68

DMG’s Melbourne 91.5fm puts video ads on buses 2

The Hoff joins Nine’s Celebrity Apprentice

Matt Melhuish to lead Photon 5

Jenny Craig – we don’t judge our clients and it’s not our place to judge Kyle Sandilands 32

The Palace wins best Australian short film at Flickerfest

NineMSN hunts for commercial director after Dean Capobianco departs 5

Ten and Seven biggest losers in summer TV ratings 14

Cross-dressing dog stars in ad to launch Jeep Compass 27

iSelect rushes new ads to air after laptop in hot tub ad ban 5

SBS hires Erica Green from Loud as marketing manager

BWM launches new campaign for Birds Eye 5

Australian academy presents first AACTA Awards; Cinematographer Don McAlpine honoured

Fat fighting brand Jenny Craig is first to sponsor Kyle & Jackie O after ‘fat slag’ attack 39

Survey: 1/3 of Aussie women spend 3 hours a day on Facebook 10

Ad standards rules: boosted boobs are ok 3

December’s Ad of the Month: shortlist revealed 9

GlaxoSmithKline consolidates media into Maxus 1

Nicole McInnes joins Adshel as marketing director 1

Buzz Insurance launches new campaign 2

UM claims ING Direct media account 18

The Monthly and Good Weekend writers Ben Naparstek and John van Tiggelen trade places 5

A dwarf, a fat man and a chainsaw prompt complaints to ad watchdog 21

Campbell Arnott’s marketer Cameron Davidson joins Frucor as marketing director

Unilever pushes green message at Sydney Festival

Ansell condoms ‘Zero or nothing’ ad cleared by Ad Standards 2

Nine appoints Victoria Buchan as comms director, Niki White steps up at The Lantern Group

Jeep erects a car on a pole 47

Red Agency secures sustainability conference

George Institute calls branding review 1

Melbourne Entrepreneurs push new iPhone invention 11

APN Outdoor acquires seven sites in Brisbane

AFR Group: ‘no decision’ on CFO Magazine closure

Bushwacked! begins principal photography

Quantium hires Host’s Bronwyn Galvin to head digital strategy 8

Twentieth Century Fox appoints Bronwyn Heys to head marketing 1

AIMIA shortlist revealed

iSelect ad banned for showing a man using a laptop in a jacuzzi 42

Clemenger BBDO Adelaide lets go creative director Greg Knagge 1

Ten makes room for The Biggest Loser in an evening reschedule

AFR closes MIS Magazine 4

Four Australian films head to France’s Clemont Ferrand

Southern Star’s Callaghan “leaves great legacy” says John Edwards

Radio sees modest ad revenue growth in 2011

Rory Callaghan resigns as CEO of Southern Star

BWM launches new campaign for Edgell 2