News

Google’s most searched ad in 2011 is Strongbow 15

Screen Australia announces Springboard teams 1

Campaign group pushes for Sandilands boycott to stretch into 2012 11

Linda Mottram for Mornings and Chaser Knight for Evenings on 702 ABC 3

Euro RSCG Sydney restructures creative team, promotes four 6

Leo Burnett wins Creative Showcase with augmented reality app for kids 1

Burson-Marsteller launches youth division that ‘gets digital’ 22

Peroni mounts giant Vespa at Taylor Square 5

Boss apologises for dead goldfish 53

SBS launches online forum and TV debate on ethnic diversity 3

Government axes Australia Network tender and lets ABC retain contract 7

SBS launches Cultural Intelligence portal in preparation for televised forum 2

Oranges and Sunshine’s Dany Cooper wins best editing at the Ellies 2

Screen Australia invests $17m in features and TV drama

Call for entries: feature films at Cannes

Ogilvy Sydney retrenches creative staff, CD Andrew Ostrom exits 7

Moby and co donate signed clothes in Vinnies campaign 8

Paypal: online commerce to reach $30b by the new year 5

Mindshare Melbourne ends year-long MD search, hires Anathea Ruys from CHE 1

Maker’s Mark launches Christmas campaign 1

Mediacom is B&T’s agency of the year 5

Diet Coke gets smoochy with ‘One calorie burnt in a moment…’ campaign

Radio industry launches Christmas digital radio offensive 2

Carriageworks rebrands 2

Val Morgan launches ‘digital pyramid’ 7

Adaptation of John Birmingham’s Tasmanian Babes Fiasco wins BIFF’s Chauvel Award

Grubby and Dee Dee axed from Melbourne’s Gold104.3 FM 62

Quickflix sign VOD rights with NBCUniversal

Movie Extra’s Webfest 2.0 finalists announced

New-look McCann hires ten staff 13

Niche Radio Network to launch with 55 new stations 9

Mark Addy joins Patts Melbourne as digital creative director 1

Government urges Victorians to prepare for bushfires 1

McCann ECD Michael Raso leaves for CD role at Ogilvy

Mumbrellacast: Paul Merrill on Zoo; An Aussie media without Poms?; Google eats journos’ lunches

Woolies imports idea from New Zealand for new campaign 25

Red Bull body-paints surfer Sally Fitzgibbons to launch design contest 1

Strongbow goes night surfing 4

Call for entries: November Ad of the Month

Louis Vuitton wraps The Herald 4

Myer super boost bras: we’ll boost your breasts by 200% 13

BMF creative director Dennis Koutoulogenis leaves 2

Kieran Darcy-Smith’s Wish You Were Here to open Sundance Film Festival 1

UTS study accuse News Limited of bias in carbon tax coverage 19

S&J Media Group wins $10m contract to put ads inside Melbourne trains 5

CommBank review latest: M&C Saatchi and Goodbys are shortlisted 7

Greenpeace chief moves to Republic of Everyone

Matt Granfield on hipsters in agencies 29

Ogilvy PR shuffles MDs 2

BWM unveils new work for Selleys 2

Basketball player Andrew Bogut joins sports marketing firm

Sunday Life editor Sarah Oakes to launch Fairfax women’s website Your Daily Life 5

‘Reinvented’ McCann lands first post-merger win: retailer Suzanne Grae 4

AFR cuts cost of pay wall 9

Needle gets Mexican theatrical release across 50 screens 2

Simon West signs on to direct Dust and Glory

20th Century Fox home entertainment sign deal with Hopscotch/eOne

BMF MD Martin Rippon leaves, agency splits into three 5

The Hunter leads AACTA Awards nominations 4

Agencies face exodus of British staff and bigger super bills following axing of tax perk 253

Mindshare hires Evelina Lye from Omnicom Media as marketing manager 2

Dave Brady joins Whybins Sydney as creative group head

UM wins Tempur from Mitchells 2

Fairfax’s severed ties with founding family ‘not a reflection of poor corporate strategy’ 4

MTV program line-up dominated by foreign imports 3

Adland ocean swim league launches 3

ABC confirms axing of Hungry Beast

Creators of Review with Myles Barlow launch sketch comedy site

Ex-BMF digital honcho Justin Hind joins ex-Burnett wife Dominique at WiTH 8

Survey: Aussies stop during sex to use social media 19

ARIA chief to talk digital

BBC Worldwide marketing director Amanda McGregor promoted to new role 4

Postcard medium launches QR code education campaign 6

Tim McDermott shifts from 2UE to DMG

Jungleboys launches comedy site 3

PPR wins Cricket Australia 1

Engine signs US director Saman Keshavarz 2

Woolies pushes new credit cards 2

Austar footy: no ad breaks, siren to siren 9

Packed to the Rafters and Underbelly are 2011’s top local dramas

TV Ratings: A big week of finales

Foxtel to launch catch-up TV service as ABC boss laments inability of free networks to work together on Aussie Hulu 9

We’re going down the toilet while Google eats our lunch, warns News Limited editor 33

Virgin Mobile gives away 75 bikes leading up to Christmas 2

ABC tops the honours at Walkleys 2

Manufacturers union subverts ‘This is our story’ mining ads 11

Consumer watchdog warns against buying dodgy products this silly season

ARIAs deliver for Go 2