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Film executive Ann Lyon has died

Austar AFL promo wins The Monkeys Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month 13

Mumbrellacast: Chicken fight | gamification | Our agencies of the year | The radio numbers

Carlton Dry moves away from TV 3

Chrissie Swan quits The Circle for Mix breakfast 2

Ben Naparstek appointed Good Weekend editor 7

Cudo boss Billy Tucker to move on

Visual Jazz creates online music service for JB Hi-Fi 3

Mediacom promotions sees Jenner become chairman and Pejic CEO 13

Meet the marketers with Mumbrella 2

Andrew Livingston new CEO of Initiative 4

Pat Ingram joins Fairfax’s Sunday Life 8

Tickets for the AACTAs on sale now 1

On sale now: The Mumbrella Annual 2011 8

Mumbrella’s creative agency of the year: Clemenger BBDO Melbourne 4

Doron Kipen replaces Trevor Harrison as president of sound guild

Mumbrella’s media agency of the year: Ikon 10

Future filmmaker wins scholarship to International Film School Sydney 4

Mumbrella’s PR agency of the year: Edelman 24

Mumbrella’s advertiser of the year: Coca-Cola 12

Mumbrella to name its agencies of the year shortly

ACP boss Phil Scott departs 3

Flickerfest announces world and Australian premieres in local program

Burson-Marsteller boss Brian West to leave; replaced by Christine Jones 2

Southern Cross Austereo dominates in Perth

First Digital to go as Private Media and AIBM split ad sales 2

Hundreds of fans feature in St Kilda membership campaign 14

KFC launches attack ad on McDonald’s chicken 38

Brisbane radio ratings: ARN’s 97.3FM jumps to the front 1

Adelaide radio ratings: Mix wins weekly share as FiveAA wins breakfast and drive

Melbourne radio ratings: 3AW sees big ratings drop 4

Scandal-hit Sandilands show increases ratings; 2UE goes backwards and 95.3 shrinks again 12

Sarah Murdoch leaves Next Top Model

Screen Australia invest in $1m across five documentaries

Jeremy Philips to leave Photon 8

Jessie French appointed marketing manager at SceneOn

John Edwards awarded AFTRS honorary degree

Vizual Jazz to help create Sunshine Coast site

Emile Sherman, Kriv Stenders and Gillian Armstrong receive Screen Australia funding

News Limited COO Peter Macourt to step down 2

Actor Harold Hopkins dies, aged 67

Pure Blonde repackaged for summer 15

Sarah Wilson ends Sunday Life column 7

ARN opts for local over national drive shows 4

Brendon Dangar appointed content director at Mix 101.1 2

Paul Gilbert to lead OMD’s social media offering

Mccann Sydney appoints Oliver Maisey as CD

STW buys Bullseye 10

AFR launches ‘revolution’ campaign and tells readers: We weren’t good enough 21

Nine’s Gary Burns to lead Fox Sports

Tim Worner named CEO of Seven Network

Kyle Sandilands issues open letter to the media and apologises for comments 53

Chris Smith’s asylum seeker quiz breaches radio code 13

Mystery buyer makes an offer for Hyro 5

Interbrand makes three redundancies

Four newspaper industry bodies merge into one 2

Screen Australia invests in Thomas Mai and Josh Pomeranz’s FanDependent

MasterCard to pitch 2

Mumbrella is three – thanks for supporting us 26

Mumbrellacast: Jabba on Housos; Who’s Who in Australia; Goldfishgate; YouthFAIL; Google’s most searched ads; And now for the Bullshit 4

Microsoft appoints Marc Barnett to run digital advertising units 2

Mariner Boating Holidays celebrates the excesses of adland in the ’90s 5

South Australian filmmaker wins Beijing Pitching Competition with superhero story

ARN expands On Air with Ryan Seacrest to Brisbane and Adelaide

Chrysler hires Lenore Fletcher from Mitsubishi to run corporate affairs

New group buying for ads site Advideals unveils first offer 3

Telstra and Google create Androidland

Woolworths’ relationship with market research firm The Leading Edge ends 1

Youth off the Streets ad features old homeless man 10

Emile Sherman, Ben Mendelsohn and Lizzy Gardiner recognised in 2012’s Who’s Who

GroupM boss: if Europe goes into recession next year, Australia will follow 17

Motherpedia launches to target Aussie mums 10

End of year new business activity: a dead cat has bounced

ABC TV entertainment boss shifts to Adelaide Film Festival

Here I Am’s TV premiere on ABC1

ABC’s Amanda Duthie appointed Adelaide Film Festival director

Lipton Ice Tea launches ‘misting zones’ 17

Sydney radio market loses nearly 7% of ad revenue in November 4

Streaming film service Mubi added to Sony Australia’s roster 2

Edgerton’s Bear selected for Sundance Film Festival

Hotel chain invites guests to Steal Banksy 41

Fairfax Media upgrades online metro mastheads 14

Oral B sponsors BBC iPlayer in Australia 5

Tourism Australia and TripAdvisor team up to promote Australia’s quality tourism operators

MediaCom wins $2m Merlin Entertainment business 1

Theatre company Belvoir creates Christmas video for subscribers 2

November’s Ad of the Month shortlist revealed 3

Saatchis snares Jason Lonsdale as head of planning 5