After Nine’s premiere of Framing Britney Spears last night, Seven joined the documentary train with Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure, the iconic comedian’s last ever special which shows him coming to terms with his Parkinson’s diagnosis. The doco had 433,000 viewers. Other premieres included Nine’s new medical drama Amazing Grace, which had 504,000 viewers according to […]

Dentsu has unveiled its 2030 consumer vision report – ‘The Age of Inclusive Intelligence’ – which charts the long-term consumer trends that will shape the next decade. The research shows how the pandemic has accelerated many of the long-term trends facing brands, drawing on in-depth interviews with world- renowned futurists, academics, authors, and experts, together […]

Although the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras might look a little different this year, the event aims to be as characteristically fabulous as its previous iterations and in partnership with JCDecaux will be paying homage to its spiritual home of Oxford Street with a campaign designed to continue bringing the sparkle to Sydney.

Google has told the ad tech industry that privacy will be king, as the tech giant prepares to finally deprecate third-party cookies on Chrome. In an announcement overnight, Google confirmed it would not be using alternative methods to track users online once third-party cookies are deprecated. Google’s director of product management, ads privacy and trust […]

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Streaming subscription service BINGE and burger chain Grill’d  has announced the release of a limited edition BINGE Brain Burger to celebrate the return of season 10 of the zombie series, ‘The Walking Dead’, now streaming now on BINGE. The one-of-a-kind zombie inspired campaign has been brought about by Thinkerbell, BINGE and Grill’d. The integrated campaign […]

Havas Group has promoted Simone Gupta (left in main photo) to a newly created role of CEO of Havas PR Australia, responsible for Red Havas and One Green Bean. Gupta will work with Steve Fontanot (right), managing director of Red Havas, to continue to strengthen and grow one of Australia’s largest communications groups, with specialties […]

Australian media technology company WINR today announced the launch of AdGate Audience Builder, the industry’s first platform that enables publishers to gather their own first-party identity and insights at scale, to create addressable audiences. This comes at a time when the future funding of journalism is in question, with Australian publishers both losing revenue to, […]

Havas Media Group has appointed Danni Dimitri to the role of head of strategy, Sydney. The appointment is a promotion for Dimitri who has held the title of Havas Media Group strategy director since 2018. Dimitri’s 13 years industry experience spans senior strategy and communications roles at a number of leading agencies. L-R: Virginia Hyland, […]

Catering marketplace EatFirst to hero their female businesses during this year’s celebrations

Heritage drinks brand Bickford’s has appointed Our Revolution as its consumer branding agency to tackle key components of its innovation growth following a pitch process. The agency’s remit will span brand strategy and identity, packaging design, and an above the line campaign for Bickford’s Group. The beverage company’s produce spans from water to alcohol, and […]

While the Sydney Sixers won the BBL season ten trophy, Rexona Clinica won the summer sports marketing battle with a game-changing sponsorship idea. BBL 2020-21 series will go down as the ‘Year of the Pit’ after Rexona Clinical owned the summer after unveiling its new form of advertising sponsorship – ‘Pitvertising’. The concept, devised by […]

Botanica by Air Wick is proud to announce the launch of The Rare Bloom Project™, in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia (WWF) and working in collaboration with The Australian Seed Bank Partnership (ASBP). Over the next three years these organisations will work to help protect Australia’s uniquely rich biodiversity by helping save 120 native wildflower species from the threat of extinction.

Essity, the company behind the Cushelle brand, today announces a special partnership with WWF, pledging £150,000 to support the recovery of koalas impacted by the 2020 Australian bushfires.

Cubery, a tech-based market research agency headquartered out of Melbourne, Australia, today announces the appointment of former Kantar Head of Advertising Research, Sam Walters, as General Manager, Consulting.

The Adelaide Advertising and Design Club (AADC) is heading into its 46th year with two new Co-Presidents at the helm; Studio Manager of Simple Integrated Marketing, Taylor Martin and Managing Director of Showpony Melbourne, Jamie Scott.

Brisbane brand agency Type + Pixel has promoted digital specialist Danielle Shannon to a newly created Head of Digital role.

For the second year in a row, CADBURY Freddo is giving up his place on the iconic purple packaging to help raise awareness for Australian endangered frogs at risk of disappearing forever! This year, the team at Taronga Zoo, Sydney (Taronga) has also joined the ranks and will be partnering with Freddo alongside Zoos Victoria and Conservation Volunteers Australia to raise awareness and funds for endangered Australian frogs, the Spotted Tree Frog and the Northern Corroboree Frog.

The Wired Agency has won the ANZ digital and social remit for the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) Sydney Office after an undisclosed pitch process. Wired will execute digital, social, and content for the KTO Sydney Facebook. Managing Partner David Kennedy-Cosgrove said, “we’ve been dreaming of overseas holidays for more than a year now.” “Now we […]

Mat Baxter remains Australia's gift to the global advertising world. Had David Droga not already nicked the title.

The only thing more French than this Renault ad from Publicis Conseil is queuing for 10 hours to get into the Louvre.

Hopefully the judge will order this neo-Nazi to watch 'American History X' and 'Inglourious Basterds' for good measure.

Any vegetarian needs to read this at least five times. After all, they do love regaling their dietary habits ad nauseam.

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D&AD Shift with Google is an accesssible space for self-taught creatives to refine their skills. The aim of the program is to foster a rich talent pool at a time when diversity in the workforce should be a priority. The night school is taking place in New York and London, and will launch in Sydney […]