News

TV program ratings for week 32

Hunt begins for top blogs 2

Rio aims to ‘put the reality back into underwear’ with new TV ad 9

Japan Airlines invites Aussies back to post-disaster Japan

Ad of the month shortlist revealed 1

Rumours of Nine-Telstra tie-up 3

Leslie Ali joins The Jamboree from Three Drunk Monkeys, Host brings back Bob Mackintosh

Markus Schleinzer wins Best New Talent at MIFF

2.568m watch Kate Bracks win Masterchef final – 1.3m less than last year 10

Underbelly Razor to debut on The Block’s finale night

Eye of The Storm wins The Age Critic’s Award

SPAA weighs in on ABC commissioning debate

BWM Melbourne MD Hugh Nairn departs 3

Rachael Taylor stars in new Bonds campaign 8

Tracie Michael quits as Initiative CEO 6

BMF behind Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign

Screen Australia’s All Media program closes Monday 8 August

‘Bacardi Together’ positioning arrives in Australia 1

Colourful past of secondhand cars marks BWM’s first work for Carhistory.com.au 5

Solaris launches counter-attack campaign against Greenpeace over trapped tiger video 45

Mumbrellacast: Redundancy hoaxer revealed; Tourism Oz’s UK agency; ABC cuts; NZ PM and Letterman; Google+; The ratings battleground

Banjo shuts Brisbane office as clients and MD Stephen Forth move to Sapient Nitro

Brett Howlett returns to Australia for Ogilvy Sydney ECD role

Sunrise trials Google+ hangouts to take viewers behind the scenes 7

Mumbrella to publish book assessing Australia’s creative agency performance 4

Ninemsn revamps website with Megan Gale for L’Oreal 8

Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year loses a third of its audience 28

Clems’ Paul Reardon joins Whybins Melbourne as ECD 2

Small businesses leads the charge towards online marketing 6

Red Dog: Red Collar Worker 8

Radio body courts agencies with discounted airtime for effectiveness research 5

Telstra ad puts Xoom tablet in punters’ hands 12

Adshel set to win Yarra Trams from JCDecaux

PepsiCo launches Doritos/Pepsi Max co-branding offensive 9

Chris O’Keefe to run Initiative Perth 9

The Tall Man and Snowtown selected for TIFF

SBS adds Al Jazeera to world news line-up

SoundEngine replaces Hullabaloo for audiopost and original music

Screentime acquires Fitzsimons’ Batavia

Hired Digital: an end-to-end solution for producers

Face to Face wins at Traverse City Film Festival 1

Gruen Transfer returns with 1.1m audience 3

Brown appointed Business Development Manager at Cutting Edge Digital

New editor for Girlfriend magazine 2

UK agency Zodiak Active used for new Tourism Australia youth campaign 4

Shaun Branagan shifts to BWM’s Melbourne office to run Kmart 3

‘Up skirting’ complaints against Razzamatazz thrown out by Ad Standards 14

Value of Fairfax Media hits two decade low 15

Edelman appointed as PR agency for Kmart Tyre and Auto

National Breast Cancer Foundation appoints PPR 4

ABC TV boss Kim Dalton tells staff: There will be redundancies as we focus on prime time 5

Australia’s Got Talent hits 2.9m high note, Top Gear goes into reverse 8

Myer creates a desert for spring/summer collection campaign 8

Call for entries: Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2012

Taking the temperature: Section 5 – Future of the Australian screen industry 18

Australian filmmakers well represented at MIFF Short Awards

Photon shares hit new low 4

Former Kaleidoscope CEO Kylie Green launches The Oven Communications 8

BMF joins NRMA Motoring & Services roster 2

NZ PM used PR agency to get onto Letterman show 20

Major computer malfunction wipes out Fairfax’s morning NZ papers 7

Advertisers to swap notes on what they pay agencies 7

Return of Gruen asks whether Melbourne or Sydney should be capital, examines carbon campaign and looks at THAT Coles ad 10

Gatorade guns for repeat of Replay’s success in US 6

BWM unveils first work for Kmart 21

Masterchef starts final week with a win

John Eales fronts Berocca for fiftysomethings Sudoku campaign 3

Taking the temperature: Section 4 – Working overseas 5

Eye retains rights to Glebe Island Silos megasite 2

Movie Extra Webfest 2.0 launches today

Call for entries: The Australian Screen Editors Awards

Ten’s Adelaide news director Grant Heading to depart

OMA launches campaign for Missing Persons Week

Mad Mex challenges Aussie perceptions of ‘greasy cheesy’ Mexican food 14

Call for entries: July ad of the month

NRMA Insurance activates ‘My Car is Your Car’ proposition

Museum of Australian Democracy behind totalitarian stunt 5

PR agencies Lemonsoup and Trish Nicol merge

Goulburn Valley Peaches ditches the oarsome foursome in new ads by Host 1

Sam Neill is ‘Ready for anything’ in Host’s first campaign for MLA 12

John McKay to head new Melbourne office for promo agency Apollo

Telstra sells out of Adstream

Harpic says sorry for male toilet habits 17

Masterchef and The Block almost level in Sunday ratings

Taking the temperature: Section 3 – Australian television industry

Wine critic Max Allen raises ethical question of cash for reviews 5

Nine ends Rescue Special Ops 31

Nene King returns