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EXCLUSIVE: New digital strategy boss at McCann 2

‘Woolworths logo looks more like a pumpkin than an apple’ 16

Woolies unveils new ‘apple’ logo 4

Freeview TV marketing is ‘lipstick on a pig’ 3

DR MUMBO’S DIARY: Daily Telegraph’s spectacular TV cock-up 2

UK newspaper outsources subbing to Sydney

GOODLINX: PR in a slow news week; Australia’s clean feed embarrasment; another Heineken classic

Nine’s Betfair promotion under pressure from the ICC 3

Vodafone marketing director Herbison quits for new telco role 2

Sydney revenues drag down radio market in 2008 1

EXCLUSIVE Leo Burnett loses McDonald’s staff, but wins new business 1

DR MUMBO: Rolex saves lives – fact; Martha Stewart is late for Christmas; someone’s told Martin Sorrell about digital; Americans can’t take Aussie ad Sheilas 2

Goodlinx – what Australia’s media and marketing bloggers are talking about today

New WA tourism marketing boss

New Lonely Planet boss is digital heavyweight

Will the AMI challenge Australia’s advertising regulator?

Leo Burnett settles $15.5m army case

Kekovich returns for Australia Day 2009, Tango-style 2

EXCLUSIVE: New digital agency Future Büro launches

DR MUMBO: Superman meets Batman; Superbowl meets 3D; Burger King’s Facebook stunt 1

Groovy Grandmas struggles on the newsstands

EXCLUSIVE: Bellamy Hayden set to move into media buying 4

OPINION: MySpace (and Franz Ferdinand) show how to make brand activation rock 3

Are M&C Saatchi in the frame for Freedom Furniture? 1

Quadrant latest magazine to be hoaxed 1

Channel Ten drops Next Top Model after copping it for murder episode 1

OPINION: Get ready for a digital TV and radio disaster 6

Most of Australia’s controversial ads in the clear 3

Nine takes Today to Sundays

Newsagent threatens protest against distributor

OPINION: Doctor Who announcement shows Twitter as great for networking, rubbish for news you can trust 5

DR MUMBO’S DIARY: Paris Hilton, old news and undead celebrities 1

LINKS OF THE DAY: How to advertise tap water, the science of shopping and the faces of Australia’s TV year

Time to stop saying "no comment" says PR 1

Did the ABC blow it with Wallace & Gromit?

World’s biggest new ad contract awarded

Punters distrust blogs and trust TV 5

TV leads news, but Internet overtakes papers 1

Newsagent to publishers: get off your sunburnt backsides

OPINION: Why does cinema advertising suck? 6

Herald comes out against Conroy’s filter plans 1

Dear Santa: Thanks for the link love 1

Digital bigwig Holmes a Court in police confrontation 2

No tennis and strawberries for media agencies this year

IN THE PAPERS: Filters, the off switch and speaking antidisestablishmentarianistically

Podcast Network battles on

Linkbait piece is best marketing blog posting of the year 1

Essential sites, best buzzwords and biggest stories of 2008.

Best agency Christmas cards 1

UPDATED "Disastrous data loss" takes Podfather Reilly off the air 2

Digital minister’s Twitter profile falls victim to online identity theft 6

Could Foxtel get its claws into terrestrial digital? 1

ABC radio boss Sue Howard quits

Media agencies challenged to take on the world in new awards

Richard Webb moves on from the Blue Freeway disaster 4

Cancer Council starts to go viral with ‘It’s a Beautiful Day for Cancer’ 6

JWT and Mindshare lead report card

iPhone AppStore is product of the year 2

Radio’s ‘Cash for Comments’ spectre returns 1

More than half of Aussie homes now on broadband 1

Omnicom plans to lose 5% of global workforce 4

Ten’s profits-slide signals the coming squeeze 1

Web site declares war on PR embargoes 2

Is the Network Ten ‘leak’ This Week In Shorts a PR stunt? 1

Xtreme beats Nielsen to pay-TV business 1

Surprise as Seven wins award for Olympics coverage

‘Online measurements will fail to galvanise industry’ 2

Two in the running for SMH? 1

Luhrmann takes over British telly for movie launch

Will Google invest in newspapers? Or in being put ahead of other traffic?

Superfast UK broadband to leave Australia for dust 7

Three is the magic number for Australian DM

Telstra accused of homophobia 2

Commercial Monitors does Factiva deal

PBL shrinks its debt mountain

Meet advertising’s people of the year

New Fairfax boss tells staff ‘There is much to be done’ 1

‘Bandit’ web sites swindling Aussie advertisers

Strategist: ‘Media marketing departments must merge’

Aussie PRs to learn from Obama campaign

Absolut in Bikestand stunt 3

Brand Agency cleans up with ENJO at Perth awards

Banks the popular target for Aussie marketing bloggers 1

More pressure for GPY&R with Caltex out to pitch

Newspapers told not to interview drunk people 2

Public most positive about Jackman

Superbowl slump

Sultry Sally faces PR woes 8