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DDB Melbourne buys indie agency Lifelounge with MD Lorenzo Bresciani to depart 6

Volkswagen consolidates commercial vehicle and Skoda brands with DDB Sydney following pitch 2

Arnott’s Shapes promote new Extreme product with YouTube partnerships

Australia falls to fourth place on The Gunn Report

2014 Annual: the year that was – July

2014 Annual: the year that was – June

Mean things no-one said about your campaign

McDonald’s launches steak products with ‘Big Lunchbox’ activation and campaign 5

Peeing panda’s big day out in Sydney 8

DDB global creative chief Amir Kassaei: Stop categorising ideas by discipline 2

Hermit crabs use discarded mobile phone packaging in latest ‘new phone feeling’ ad from Telstra 7

JWT global creative head Matt Eastwood says Australian ad industry more supportive than US 7

Adventurous goldfish promotes new Telstra pre-paid freedom offer 6

Devondale ad showing woman struggling to climb fence ruled not sexist 3

ASB rules Devondale ad showing Asian man struggling to herd cows was ‘demeaning’ 13

Telstra celebrate unexpected upgrades with hotel spot

Live blog: Monday, August 11

DDB Sydney ECD Dylan Harrison leaves to start directing career with Toby Talbot taking the role