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News Ltd hires Optus insights chief Darren Stein

Paramount/Transmission to release The Tunnel DVD 8

New documentary fellowship announced

NSW scripts competing for $30,000

ANZ awards Whybin\TBWA global advertising account 5

Red Dog moves to August 4

Telegraph revamps website and gears up for marketing push 10

MediaCom hires OMD’s Laverde as data chief; OMD promotes Liddell to run Fuse 2

Wednesday doldrums for Nine and Ten 2

BMW uses smart phone streaming to drive X3 sales 4

Panalux inventory to stay in Australia

Adidas MD defends local relevance of new ad featuring Beckham, Messi 37

Sandilands says no to The X Factor 9

Chris Lilley’s Angry Boys unveiled by the ABC 21

Ad suggests being a banker is a social faux pas – unless it’s for St George 24

Angry Boys – teaser

Biutiful 1

The Reef

Griff the Invisible 3

Ethics, experiments in marketing, life after TV, digital measurement and media manifesto revealed as first Mumbrella360 topics 7

Metro Screen Interactive Media Seminar

OMD signals importance of PR in media mix by appointing Alistair Henderson as strategy chief 5

Comedian Sam Simmons airs one-off mountain goat spot 11

Canon unveils $5m campaign for TruCapture technology 6

Rafters more than doubles Top Gear’s audience 3

Screen Australia and WA government fund Sam Worthington surf movie

Hyro to raise capital to pay off $2.3m tax bill 10

Graham Kennedy’s crown put on sale by Adam Boland for Japanese tsunami fund

Aldi returns to TV screens with ‘smarter shopping’ campaign 6

People in China arrested for owning DVD of Australian doco

Adelaide film fest revenue up 16%

Griff the Invisible: an Australian superhero

Fairfax research: newspaper mags Vs newsstand mags 9

Nine banks on Million Dollar Drop 8

Sydney Victorian mall promotes coming shopping season 4

McCann’s McLaren on horror of Japan quake

Non-traditional markets have been neglected 1

LifeStyle Channel and [V] dominate ASTRA nominations

ASTRA reveals subs marketing finalists 2

Conviction Kitchen is latest show to fire up for Seven 18

Wasted drops 55% to $488 screen average 2

Government takes positive approach to curb obesity 21

Sky News: We beat ABC News 24 for tsunami audience 16

Australian critics give six nods to Animal Kingdom 1

Peplow to head screen content at AFTRS 18

Expedia explores New York on $50 9

Recognition PR and Outsource acquire Write Away

Audit body warns of online tricks used to inflate audiences 4

Hawaii Five-O’s Sunday ratings dwindle 7

ABC defends decision not to switch to rolling coverage of tsunami 6

Four out and two in as McCann Sydney restructures creative department 7

No Gatsby after all? 3

Seven dominates the weekly rankings 6

ABC News 24 hammered over Japanese tsunami coverage 37

Business as usual for Holler Sydney after Publicis Groupe buys UK namesake

The Reef: Between distributor flags 1

A Heartbeat Away: Smells Like Teen Spirit 2

The BBC ripped off The Games, say the show's creators

The BBC ripped off The Games, say the show’s creators

Traditional agencies are ‘lost’ in the online content space 19

Fairfax CEO named chairman of The Newspaper Works

Complaints against Essential Beauty ‘Hairy tales’ ad dismissed by ASB 4

NRMA spot portrays a life without a car 12

RMIT opens experimental entertainment lab

Austar hires Lavender as DM agency

Mumbrellacast: Adtech; The supposed year of the mobile; Ambush marketing; Outdoor ads regulation; Wankers; Jen Aniston goes viral

Don’t make online video content and expect to monetise it, producers warned 14

Georgina Safe joins SMH from The Australian as fashion editor 2

Whybins wins ad of the month for SMH and Tropfest promo 3

It’s okay to get pork on your fork, rules ASB

Wicked Campers ad banned for encouraging drivers to run over kangaroos 11

Pizza Hut pushes new Stonefired Pizza 14

Nine falls below 1m again 4

As The Brand Shop closes, Shift opens 1

David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz on working together for 25 years

Seven moves to clarify Warburton start date proceedings

Julie Burke appointed as Euro RSCG Sydney MD 2

Peter Jackson's report was wrong: NZFC

Peter Jackson’s report was wrong: NZFC

Content Classification: Industry guidance recommended 1

Profile: Bob Connolly, a life of observation 2

The Jesters – Season 1

Subdivision 2

Ad featuring kids throwing away fruit banned by watchdog 14

The Adtech sales floor: Jodee Rich; Iain McDonald; Rob Leach and Tim Chatfield 3

Screen Australia delivers small screen funding guidelines 3

Peter Horgan steps up as CEO of OMD 8

Big Bang Theory helps Nine keep head above water