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Chris Pash

She was previously chief strategy officer of WPP AUNZ, which became a wholly owned part of WPP last ...

Rose Herceg appointed WPP president in Australia and New Zealand

Chris Pash

It’s Friday's foundation client is ...

Pete Bosilkovski, Vince Lagana and Jeremy De Villiers launch agency

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

MOVE 1.5 will introduce a measurement for digital campaigns and a qualitative metric, the Neuro Impact ...

OMA upgrades MOVE, reveals new industry standards

James Smith

Some of the pitfalls to ...

Three reasons great video content will be essential for all businesses in 2022

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"His wily attitude made such a big impact on an entire ...

The spirit of Daniel Francis Murphy lives on at Dan Murphy’s, via Thinkerbell

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Partnering with world renowned illustrator Sebastian Curi to develop the bespoke ...

Chris Pash

Two days a week in the office versus ...

The coming clash between management and staff on remote working

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Honest, open, vulnerable, and ...

Chris Pash

InMobi, Google, Audible, TikTok, Carsales, Amazon, NOVA, Foxtel, Nine, The Trade ...

Jobs Intelligence -The latest ad industry roles January 31, 2022

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Former head of marketing strategy and transformation at ...

CHEP appoints Alex Roper director of strategy, Melbourne

Assia Benmedjdoub

NAB, Maserati, Myer, MyDeal, Witchery and Kathmandu marketers reveal the do’s and don’ts for ...

How do I win an Agency Of The Year Award?

There are now 4.62 billion social media users globally, with 424 million users joining since this time last ...

Social media reaches equivalent to 58% of world’s population

Chris Pash

State and federal governments, Harvey Norman and ...

Australia's biggest advertising spenders 2021

Danny Bass, Snap AUNZ director business solutions

Danny Bass shares his predictions for the new ...

What to expect from digital communications in 2022

Rhys Mugdan, William Campion, Clelia Niyikiza, Claire Kirby, and more step into new ...

Movers & Shakers: Toyota, SCA, M&C Saatchi

Chris Pash

The global advertising market to gain ...

Dentsu - Australia ad spend to grow 6% in 2022

Chris Pash

The entertainment app’s brand value increased ...

Chris Pash

Wednesday, February 2, at 3:30pm, The Ivy Den, Lounge & Terrace, Level 1, 320 George Street, ...

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

"...stifle innovation and put Australian businesses at a competitive disadvantage to those based ...

IAB raises concerns about proposed changes to privacy laws

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I have perspective from both sides of the client and agency ...

To see how the story unfolds, viewers must scan a QR code of their ...

Uber Eats continues Australian Open sponsorship with interactive ad

Chris Pash

The total value of Australia’s top 100 brands has risen by 11% to reach $161 ...

Freddie Young

"Your brand is for ...

IT’S ALL GUCCI: Branding in The Age of The ‘Collab’

Mitch Secrett joins the Digital Product ...

Chris Pash

The most read story was about the rules on how to play a card ...

Lists - The most shared articles in Australia of 2021

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And says its full-year results are ahead of ...

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John Hartigan, Tony Walker, Jane Doyle, Peter ...

Australia Day 2022 honours for media industry figures

Topics allows a user’s browser to determine a handful of topics that represent their top interests for the ...

LittleBIG has also “paid the rent” through the Pay The Rent ...

Melbourne agency keeps doors open in protest of January 26

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I lead how I would like to be ...

The agency has made a series of appointments and promotions within its strategy and planning ...

$TBWA\Melbourne reveals appointments within planning team$

The OOH campaign sends messages to leaders around the world to visit Australia for a lamb ...

Australian Lamb invites world leaders, and Mark McGowan, to Australia

John Pappas has been promoted to chief executive at Lexus ...

David Arns and James Gillespie join the ...

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Jimmy Hyett: “In such a volatile market, holding onto the best talent is a true indicator of a strong culture that exists within the ...

Matt Papasavva promoted to MD of This is Flow

Chris Pash

Early media agency booking numbers for December ...

Exclusive - Metro TV ad spend rides above pre-COVID

The new nine markets include Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Middle East, and South ...

BMW appoints IPG’s Team Dynamic in nine new markets

“Man of Many continues the expansion of both our team and client offerings into video, podcasting and ...

Man of Many continues expansion with promotions and new hire

Chris Pash

Inside an Australian startup attracting interest from industry ...

EXCLUSIVE - Two admen corner the fundamental problem around media spend

Chris Pash

Sydney has a new beer, Bowlo ...

Two creatives lose their jobs, walk into a bar and find a punchline

Chris Pash

Insider details on how Mitchell became a board director at ...

Harold Mitchell on the Packers, the Big Banana, debt, junkets and his autobiography

Aaron Vardon has held stints at Ikon, UM and Starcom before joining Performics in October last ...

Chris Pash

Seven West Media says full year earnings will slide below last year's $235.6 ...

Seven West Media has cut its earnings forecast in a 'soft' advertising market

Paige Murphy

Adobe and Microsoft have partnered with the Centre for Inclusive Design to commission The Benefit of Designing for Everyone report ...

Adobe and Microsoft back inclusive design research

Josh McDonnell

The series finale of Game of Thrones has once again smashed viewership records for Foxtel's main linear platform, with the show ...

Game of Thrones finale draws over 1.07m viewers

Paige Murphy

Iconic sports commentary duo Roy and H.G. will join Macquarie Sports Radio from Saturday 1 June to cover the ICC Cricket World ...

Sports duo Roy and H.G. join Macquarie Sports Radio

Josh McDonnell

UM ANZ has revealed plans to expaned its senior leadership team with the creation of a new role focused on "accelerating its media ...

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UM ANZ creates new future-focused national role

Chris Pash

The events include The Sun-Herald City2Surf presented by Westpac, The Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon, Carman’s Women’s Fun ...

Nine has sold its major sports events to The IRONMAN Group

Spark Foundry national investment and partnership director Craig Cooper

Will it deliver an emotional connection for the ...

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

KWP! has claimed responsibility for the marketing strategy that delivered the Liberal party victory at Saturday’s federal ...

Adelaide indie KWP claims authorship of 'The Bill Australia can’t afford'

Paige Murphy

Sydney-based research and brand strategy consultancy Pollinate has opened its doors in Canberra, appointing longtime employee Garrett ...

Pollinate opens in Canberra, appoints new MD

Josh McDonnell

Foxtel has gone on the offensive immediately following the conclusion to the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, offering new ...

Foxtel urges customers to consider life after Game of Thrones

Josh McDonnell

PHD has secured the title of Nine's Agency of Origin for 2019, as the Omnicom-owned agency triumphed over the ...

PHD triumph at Nine's Agency of Origin event

Chris Pash

Canva, founded in 2013, just completed a $US70 million capital ...

Chris Pash

A Deloitte survey found 61% of millennials and 56% of Gen Zs say social media does more harm than ...

Australian millennials say they would get anxious if they couldn't check social media

Chris Pash

Their number one concern is climate ...

Ignore Australian Millennials and Gen Zers at your 'peril'

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

The tool, initially announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg last year, allows users to view and delete their off-Facebook activity, meaning ...

Advertisers waiting to see impact of Facebook’s new privacy tool

Paige Murphy

UM has won the media communications portfolio for discount department store Kmart, following a competitive pitch process which began ...

UM retains Kmart media account worth over $20m

Paige Murphy

UM has won the media communications portfolio for discount department store Kmart, following a competitive pitch process which began ...

UM retains Kmart media account worth between $20-25m

Paige Murphy

UM has won the media communications portfolio for discount department store Kmart, following a competitive pitch process which began ...

Chris Pash

REA has added about $10 to its share price over the last ...

Chris Pash

REA has added about $10 to its share price over the last ...

Paige Murphy

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne has promoted Pippa O'Regan to general manger of the Myer ...

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne promotes Pippa O'Regan

Paige Murphy

Ant Melder and Chiquita King have joined forced to launch a new full service independent creative agency Coffee Cocoa ...

Ant Melder and Chiquita King launch indie agency

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Damian Eales has been elected as president of the International News Media Association (INMA) board of ...

News Corp's Damian Eales is the new president of the International News Media Association

Chris Pash

The advertising industry is looking for an ad spend bounce following a return of normal programming in ...

The ad spend bounce and the Morrison 'miracle'

Paige Murphy

Antony Catalano is shaking up the $1 billion plus real estate advertising industry with his latest investment The Today ...

Antony Catalano backs real estate advertising tech business

Chris Pash

News Corp led Australia’s medal tally, with a total of 12 awards or honourable mentions, including two first place ...

Australian and NZ news publishers win big at the Global Media Awards in New York

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Nova’s Smooth FM has been running strong for seven years and while Paul Jackson says it’s now mastered its offering, there was ...

Paul Jackson on building a 'refreshing' Smooth FM

Amazon is reportedly in talks to purchase Sizmek’s Ad Server as the adtech business sells off its assets after filing for ...

Amazon in talks to purchase Sizmek Ad Server

Paige Murphy

This week Tom Dery retires and Sarah Bailey, Jon Kenyon, David Roddick and more start new ...

Movers & Shakers: M&C Saatchi, VMLY&R, MCN

Josh McDonnell

GroupM Australia is launching a campaign in support of its LGBTQI+ community as part of its All Means All Diversity & Inclusion ...

GroupM launches LGBTQI+ campaign as part of a new diversity strategy

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

LGBTI news journal Star Observer has entered voluntary administration due to drying up advertising ...

Star Observer enters voluntary administration amid advertiser squeeze

Chris Pash

Driving growth with multiple formats and reach, digital capability, creative and content, and audience ...

oOh!media's Brendon Cook says data and machine learning will transform out of home

Paige Murphy

Tourism marketing agency Gate 7 is undergoing a major rebrand to reflect the company's "evolution" since it launched 21 years ...

Tourism marketing agency Gate 7 rebrands for its 21st birthday

Paige Murphy

Independent Melbourne agency Ellis Jones has repositioned its business to meet the increasing demand for social impact communications ...

Indie agency Ellis Jones is refocusing on social impact and innovation

Stephen Graham has been in the industry for ten years but once wanted to be a ...

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Young Gun: Isobar Australia associate strategy director Stephen Graham

Chris Pash

UBS, in an analysis of preliminary SMI numbers, says overall ad bookings were down 18.1% in ...

UBS: Easter and ANZAC day depress April ad bookings

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Former APN Outdoor general manager of marketing Charlotte Valente has joined the Big Red Group (BRG) as general manager for its B2B ...

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Chris Pash

Since Easter, oOh! has seen increased activity for post election ...

Ooh!media says post election business bookings have picked up

Chris Pash

Since Easter, oOh! has seen increased activity for post election ...

oOh!media says business has picked up post the federal election

Chris Pash

The appointment will strengthen the out of home advertising company’s presence in the New Zealand ...

oOh!media has appointed New Zealander Timothy Miles to the board

Paige Murphy

This week CHE Proximity, Ikon and Yoghurt Digtial have all been appointed to new ...

Queensland University of Technology associate professor in marketing and consumer behaviour Gary Mortimer

Queensland University of Technology associate professor in marketing and consumer behaviour Gary Mortimer discusses the decoy ...

The cunning sleight of hand behind decoy marketing

DDB Sydney chief creative officer Ben Welsh

DDB Sydney chief creative officer Ben Welsh examines how different political advertising might be if parties were forced to abide by ...

Playing by the rules: What if political advertising couldn’t lie?

Paige Murphy

Tom Dery is retiring after 24 years with M&C Saatchi, helping found its operations within the Asia ...

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

We reached out to Alison Tilling, Russell Hopson, Leif Stromnes and others to get a sense of who won the advertising ...

Adland weighs in: Who won the election ad battle?

Paige Murphy

Tech giants Adobe and Amazon have joined forces to introduce Magento Commerce branded stores for Amazon ...

Amazon and Adobe join forces for Magento Commerce

Paige Murphy

The WPP AUNZ-owned agency has bolstered its leadership team with several senior hires following a period of strong business growth and ...

VMLY&R Melbourne adds two managing partners to the team

Josh McDonnell

Independent full-service agency Cummins&Partners plans to target more clients unable to "buy their way out of ...

Cummins&Partners reveals plans for bigger media ambitions

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The AdNews Melbourne Summit returns for a third year with a single-strand, editorially and industry-curated program. Early bird ...

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

The news means Golf Digest now has access to Discovery’s streaming platform GolfTV which has exclusive rights to major events such ...

Condé Nast sells Golf Digest to Discovery

Paige Murphy

Viva Energy Australia has appointed former Myer senior marketer Andrew Egan as general manager of ...

Paige Murphy

Ben Shepherd has been hired as chief media officer as CHE Proximity continues to deepen its consultancy capabilities across the ...

CHE Proximity nabs Ben Shepherd from PwC

Chris Pash

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are hard working algorithms which promise to take on labour-intensive work for ...

Frenemies, robots and digital natives: Lend me your AirPods

Josh McDonnell

MCN has appointed former Adshel sales boss Daivd Roddick as the businesses newest chief sales ...

David Roddick named MCN's newest sales boss

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Deepend co-founder and CEO Matt Griffins it selling his shares in Deepend Melbourne, along with its 50% stake in Versa, to co-founder ...

Josh McDonnell

Nine's season finale of its newest reality series Lego Masters has drawn in over 1.49m metro viewers overnight, as the season ends on ...

Josh McDonnell

Former Dentsu Aegis Network boss, turned Carsales commercial director, Simon Ryan speaks to AdNews on his new role, the transition ...

Simon Ryan on Carsales move: 'I don't miss the agency world'

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party spent a mammoth $5,300,000 on election ads last week, exceeding the overall spend of each ...

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Clive Palmer's UAP dropped $5 million on election ads last week

Chris Pash

Keith Weed, the former chief marketing officer for Unilever, has invested in Tribe, the Australian self-serve platform for ...

Ex-Unilever CMO Keith Weed has invested in Australia's Tribe

Chris Pash

Google is now the destination for about half Australia’s digital ad spend but most of the $4.2 billion collected here doesn’t get ...

Google now pulls $4.2 billion a year from Australia

Josh McDonnell

Enero Group-owned agencies BMF and Naked are set to merge in a move to strengthen its "strategic and creative services" offering to ...

Patrick Whitnall has worked with Publicis Media for three years and once performed a solo in front of 5,000 people at the Royal Albert ...

More than 100 adland leaders from the creative, media and tech sides spent a night sleeping at a former Juvenile Detention Centre in ...

Adland raises $165,000 for charity in Bail Out

Paige Murphy

Ten's latest addition to the 6pm slot Celebrity Name Game drew 387,000 national viewers combined overnight for its ...

Ten's latest Denyer effort struggles, drawing 314,000 metro viewers

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Foxtel has revealed it considered trimming sports programming and hiking up subscription prices in an effort to improve its financial ...

Foxtel looks at hiking subscription fees and cutting sport costs

Paige Murphy

Independent marketing intelligence company MiQ has appointed Stuart Parker and Rhiannon Brown to two newly created sales roles off the ...

MiQ grows Sydney sales team with two new roles

Josh McDonnell

WPP-owned full service agency Ikon has been appointed as the media agency of record for chocolate brand Lindt & Sprungli, following a ...

Pippa Chambers

With plenty of soup to keep calm and well fed and a plan to avoid visual analogies, Ogilvy was ready to go with a trio of top ideas ...

Adland's industry bodies explored - Ogilvy designs AdNews May cover

Paige Murphy

Wavemaker Australia has boosted its digital and precision marketing capabilities with two promotions, including the creation of a new ...

Wavemaker strengthens search offering with new national roles

Josh McDonnell

The NRL's inaugural 'Magic Round' has generated high levels of engagement for both Foxtel and Tourism Queensland, with attendance up ...

NRL 'Magic Round' scores big for Foxtel and Tourism QLD

Chris Pash

Love Agency will be merged into KPMG's Digital Delta ...

KPMG Australia has bought pioneering digital business Love Agency.

Paige Murphy

MediaCom Melbourne general manager Rob Moore has exited the company in what is part of a wider restructure within the ...

Josh McDonnell

Optus Sport has notched up a 50% increase in activated customer accounts year-on-year as a result of its European football broadcast ...

EPL and UEFA deals give Optus Sport a 50% customer lift

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AdNews' Nicola Riches sits down with Nova's GOAT editor Melissa Matheson and digital commercial director Kane Reiken to hear what it's ...

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Bauer has produced a TV show, which will air on Ten, called Mighty Machines as publishers continue diversifying into cross-platform ...

Chris Pash

The telco has more than 15,500 public payphones across Australia, but councils in Sydney and Melbourne have challenged outdoor giant ...

Telstra is taking its payphone advertising dispute to the Federal Court

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Revenue for commercial radio metropolitan advertising has slid by 2.6% to $181.61 million in the third quarter, according to Deloitte ...

Radio revenue slides in a weak ad market

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Pacific has partnered with TEG Analytics to create a Customer Data Platform, as the publisher looks to stronger data and consumer ...

Pacific secures bigger database in partnership with TEG Analytics

Paige Murphy

Nine has announced it will renew Lego Masters for a second season in 2020, launching a call out for contestants to apply via its ...

Nine renews Lego Masters for a second season

RMIT University professor of advertising Robert Crawford

Commercialising the public space is nothing new, argues RMIT University professor of advertising Robert ...

Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here

Paige Murphy

Publicis Sapient and Leo Burnett have partnered with global organisation SheSays to create a #WeToo event, teaching people how to ...

Publicis Sapient and Leo Burnett launch #WeToo initiative

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

News Corp has provided Foxtel with a $300 million injection to help ease the company’s debt, following its consolidation with Fox ...

Josh McDonnell

AdNews spoke to the heads of programming for Nine, Seven and Ten to find out what worked in Q1, where things could be improved and ...

TV wrap: How the networks fared in first quarter 2019

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Nine is bringing editorial production of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review and The Age back ...

Nine cancels Pagemasters deal, brings sub-editors back in-house

Josh McDonnell

Nine has decided to end its AFL analysis program, the Footy Show after only eight rounds into the current season of the ...

Chris Pash

A challenging property market with significant falls in new residential listings and new project ...

REA says weak listings and the federal election mean lower revenue growth

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Ticketing and events business Live Nation has revealed plans to boost its local presence with the appointment of Greg Segal to the ...

PHD national new business and marketing director Chloe Hooper

PHD national new business and marketing director Chloe Hooper examines what it means to be a 'challenger brand' in a constantly ...

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

News Corp says the success of its digital strategy and book publishing segment, as well as the consolidation of Foxtel, helped it grow ...

News Corp says its digital strategy helped push revenue up 17%

Josh McDonnell

Ikon Melbourne has grown its client roster, adding 'virtual agency' Skinner Advertising Services (SAS) to its ...

Ikon Melbourne bolsters client roster with new partnership

Josh McDonnell

CHE will be tasked with driving the international cricketing event, which the ICC has stated will be used as a key tool to drive ...

CHE Proximity scores ICC T20 Cricket World Cup account

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Clemenger BBDO Sydney’s radio ad for its Dry July campaign won the Gold Siren Award last ...

Clemenger BBDO Sydney takes home Gold Siren

Chris Pash

HT&E joins other media groups in reporting a challenging market in the first three months of the ...

ARN says revenue is slipping in a 'soft' market

Paige Murphy

This week Mike Cooper and Grant Blackley started new roles, while Helen McCabe and Pete Bosilkovski departed their ...

Movers & Shakers: Aussie Home Loans, Nine, OMG

Chris Pash

Annie Bernston has been promoted to Director of Operations, APAC, to lead the programmatic ...

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Marco Del Castillo has been in the industry for seven years and was once awarded best bowler in his high school cricket ...

Young Gun: Wavemaker strategy manager Marco Del Castillo

Paige Murphy

This week Stratosphere, OMD Melbourne, UM Australia and more were appointed to new ...

Pitch Wrap: The Good Guys, Menulog, Defence Housing Australia

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Collaborations between major brands is likely to become a marketing trend, says Superdry as its campaign with Subaru and STA Travels ...

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Three big brands join forces for a major Australian influencer campaign

Paige Murphy

Omnicom Media Group has named Philippa Brown as the new CEO of PHD Worldwide, replacing Mike ...

OMG promotes Philippa Brown to PHD Worldwide CEO

Paige Murphy

Initiative Australia has appointed international strategist and former Cannes Young Lions winner Jason Maggs as senior director of ...

Initiative Australia snares international strategist Jason Maggs

Mariam Cheik-Hussein

Sportswear brand Asics has dumped Rugby Union player Israel Folau over a homophobic attack on social ...

Chris Pash

Warwick Heathwood, returning to Australia from the US, joins whiteGREY's Sydney office as Strategy ...

whiteGREY picks up Warwick Heathwood in a hiring spree

Josh McDonnell

Australian private health insurer Medibank is reviewing its $15 million media account, AdNews can ...

Paige Murphy

Omnicom Media Group has appointed PHD Worldwide CEO Mike Cooper to the newly created role of group CEO for APAC and ...

OMG appoints first group CEO for APAC and EMEA

Josh McDonnell

Online higher education organisation Open Universities Australia is pitching its media account, AdNews ...

Open Universities Australia pitches media account

Paige Murphy

Brendan Moore and Angus Williams have combined their talents to kickstart The Animals which they say is neither agency, nor ...

Former Blaze creatives start new venture The Animals

Leeds Beckett University visiting professor of brand communication Steve McKevitt

Today’s consumers are no longer simply on the receiving end of advertising through mass media channels, Leeds Beckett University ...

How the power of persuasion goes way beyond mere advertising

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