Integrated Melbourne agency Icon has taken top honours in the 2021 SABRE Awards, winning the coveted Australasian Consultancy of the Year for 2021 along with a host of category and craft awards. Icon led a large field of Australian agencies with a total of three major and seven minor awards, including gold in the cause-related […]

Making It Australia dips. As in its audience numbers declined, not some contestant making French onion.

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Want to have your life completely overtaken by real estate agents selling dodgy units? Domain makes it a click away.

JCDecaux announces 35 new Large Format billboards. Good news for the myopic, bad news for those with stiff necks.

Presumably with a dearth of new movies due to COVID, it appears Hollywood A-listers are increasingly turning to making ads. Take a new spot for Apple’s new iPhone 13 that was directed by Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow who won the Oscar for 2010’s Hurt Locker. The new spot’s called “Hollywood in your pocket” […]

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MOOD, in partnership with UnLtd and Tonic Media Network, has announced details of the second ‘Tea Break’ webinar event that will delve into the links between alcohol and mental health. Hosted by award winning journalist and host of ABC’s Coronacast, Dr Norman Swan, the free session will be held next Wednesday September 22 at 3:30pm AEST. The panel features chief sales officer […]

After almost 60 years and 24 movies, everyone knows James Bond’s drink of choice is a martini “shaken not stirred”. But it appears 007 has ditched the vodka for beer in the latest tie-in for the upcoming release No Time To Die. In a new spot for sponsor Heineken, Bond (aka Daniel Craig) is seen […]

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Piers Morgan has reunited with Rupert Murdoch, signing a News Corp contract after leaving his position as host of ITV’s Good Morning Britain earlier this year. Morgan now has a newspaper, book and TV deal, with a program slated to air on Sky News Australia, as well as the US’s FOX Nation streaming service. It […]

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The independent, BCM Group has launched earned media agency IVY, led by former McCann Worldgroup (The Red Republic) leadership duo Mia Hamilton and Emma Bedsor. With offices in Sydney and Brisbane, IVY will offer an integrated mix of services including PR, social media, influencer engagement, events and activations, complementing BCM’s existing media, digital and creative […]

Singer Billie Eilish has announced that she only agreed to wear Oscar de la Renta to the Met Gala after the brand promised to stop using fur. Eilish who has just been named one of Times most influential people, flexed her influence when she explained that she got the designer brand to stop using fur, by simply […]

Stephanie Dechamps is Boomi’s head of AJP marketing, and a bona fide data-aficionado. Dechamps sat down with B&T to discuss her career journey, Boomi’s acquisition by TGP and Francisco Partners, and her passion for martech. B&T: What prompted your career change from journalism to tech?  SD: I moved from Belgium to Dubai, where I was a […]

ABC Sports presenter, Tony Armstrong had the internet in a flutter when it appeared he had launched an OnlyFans account. However, Armstrong quickly denied the rumours.  It has been a salacious week for Armstrong, first, he accidentally said “bulging dick” on-air and now he is shooting down rumours he joined OnlyFans. It all began when a seemingly […]

Commonwealth Bank and Cricket Australia have today announced the renewal of its long-running partnership for a further three years, extending its commitment to the game at all levels. Partnering with Cricket Australia for more than 30 years, Commonwealth Bank has had a significant impact on many touch points across the game. In particular, the bank […]

Former agency executives Tim O’Neill and Tim Fouhy have launched the auto technology startup Summon. Australia’s first full e-commerce service for prestige cars. O’Neill and Fouhy both founded Reactive, a digital agency, which was bought by Accenture in 2016. Following the deal, O’Neill and Fouhy ended up leading the company’s digital marketing arm, Accenture Interactive before […]

To honour the fantastic feats of the Australian Paralympians, Hootsuite has revealed the top trending hashtags and social media data of the Paralympics. The top trending hashtag during the Paralympics period, #tokyo2020, received over 38,000 tweets and retweets, amounting to 1.7M+ impressions, while other popular hashtags included #paralympics, #readysettokyo and #paraswimming. According to Hootsuite’s research, […]

Coke rolls out latest new look & new recipe. Despite having a checkered history of rolling out new looks & new recipes.

Perth-based digital media publisher So Media Group has completed the acquisition of fellow Perth-based social media marketing ag

SCA snares ABC radio veteran Melanie Withnall who brings with her 18 years' experience & an "I Love Ita" coffee mug.

B&T tried to get "David & Goliath battle" into this Sling & Stone headline; however, it proved not possible in the end.

Some serious agency heavy hitters vying for YouTube's Skippys competition. Hopefully none will be gracious in defeat.

Aussies can now stream the iHeartRadio Music Festival live. Not that it's stopping anyone on a temporary visa either.

Global socially-led creative agency We Are Social has launched The Feed, an editorial Instagram publication tracking digital culture and trends on a global scale. 

SOON, a futures think tank focused on human insights, has launched today tracking trends, developments and disruptions across people, products and the planet. Led by internationally renowned futurist, social scientist and trend forecaster Sarah Owen (pictured centre) in partnership with TABOO directors Andrew Mackinnon (right) and James Mackinnon (left), the independently Australian-owned futurist company uncovers […]

NON is pioneering a whole new category of sommelier-standard 0.0% ABV wine alternatives, manufactured in a completely new way. Despite the lockdown, in 3 months NON has tripled their overseas distribution and begun work on a new NONLab production facility 6 times larger than their current space.

B&T asks, is the tedious marketing trope "low-hanging fruit" banned in the Orchard offices?

Deloitte continuing to fish in adland's pool. B&T assumes it's not using worms for bait but rather large pay cheques.