Blis has today revealed its new Consumer Confidence Pulse — the most comprehensive tracker of its kind — this interactive dashboard builds on its existing trend data around consumer mood to analyse behaviour during the COVID pandemic. The dashboard also now tracks consumer movement over a rolling 13-month period, across 18 retail and lifestyle sectors […]

Following the success of Series One: Grey Nomads, Australian Seniors has launched the second series of the Life’s Booming podcast – Dare to Date.  Hosted by James Valentine (pictured with guests Liz and Barry), Life’s Booming explores the incredible stories and addresses topics important to Australians over 50. Series two titled Dare to Date is a six-part series that covers real-life love, […]

Zenith Brisbane has announced two newly-created digital roles, with Stephanie Plunkett (pictured below) joining as digital director and Louise Marks (main photo) as senior digital manager. Plunkett will work in partnership with performance director, Carla Whitehouse, leading Zenith Brisbane’s digital product. Her responsibilities will include driving strategic solutions to deliver marketing-led growth for clients, digital […]

World-leading conversational agency VERSA has bolstered its team with two senior appointments in response to growing uptake in conversational AI technology across various sectors. Vanessa Tout has been appointed global head of client partnerships and growth, while Michael Oso-Hughes comes on board as design director. Tout joins VERSA CEO Kath Blackham and managing director Michael […]

Engagement marketing agency, Banter, has hired Patrick Rutkowski as Creative Technologist, to further bolster the digital and innovation side of the business. Rutkowski joins Banter after having spent the last five and a half years at independent creative agency, The Hallway where he was most recently creative technologist working with the likes of Rheem, Tourism […]

Havas Media Group Australia and New Zealand chairman Mike Wilson will step down after eight years with the agency at the end of August. Wilson will continue to act as a consultant to the business on key projects. Wilson launched Havas Media Australia as founding CEO in 2013, before stepping into the newly-created role of […]

Half Dome today announced the acquisition of independent media agency Consumedia to create a full-service media agency, working with enterprise level clients across Australia.

Kargo has today announced several major growth milestones across the APAC region for the first half of 2021, more than doubling H1 revenue year-over-year with 115 per cent growth. Kargo also ran 41 per cent more campaigns in the region than in H1 2020 and the average campaign size increased by 32 per cent over […]

Hootsuite has today announced its acquisition of Heyday, a Montreal-based conversational AI platform that enables brands to deliver personalised customer experiences through 1:1 messaging conversations. Commerce is rapidly moving onto social and messaging platforms. Hootsuite, a pioneer in the social media management category, has the largest customer base in the industry and with this acquisition […]

Mat Yelavich joins oOh!media as chief technology & information officer. Although stresses it's not tourism information.

SBS' new head of food and entertainment apparently makes a wonderful baumkuchen, but says she hasn't watched The Crown.

Thrive announces new hires & expanded client service focus. No news on the Venus de Milo in the office atrium, however.

B&T's a huge fan of the Officeworks shopping experience, but just throwing it out there about possible $1 hot dogs?

When answering the office phone at Chello, does one answer, "Chello, this is Chello"? If not, why not?

Public Relations Institute announces national conference. Sadly, Roxy won't be speaking on unwanted doorstep excreta.

Moira Geddes, founder and director of independent food publication EATIVITY has been handpicked by IAB Australia to become the first ever micro-publisher to take part in its Mentorship Program, highlighting the important role that specialised custom digital sites play within the country’s media landscape. EATIVITY aims to keep consumers in the know and help small […]

Hivestack, the global ad tech leader in programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) advertising, today announced the appointment of Ichiro Jinnai as president, Hivestack Japan. Jinnai will be responsible for driving the regional strategy, direction and expansion of the Hivestack platform in Japan. “I am beyond thrilled to welcome Ichiro Jinnai to the Hivestack family,” […]