Son of Singo blasts radio reporting, threatens to sue Fairfax and AdNews

MRN director Jack Singleton has blasted the media for misreporting radio statistics and said both newspapers and radio stations "should be sued" for painting 2DayFM as top dog. more »

Bradbury, Ferrier and Rush on whether advertising can save Vodafone

Vodafone continues to shed customers in Australia and the rot shows no sign of stopping. So can advertising save the day? AdNews asked three of adland's top men. more »

Salesforce plans assault on Australian social ads market

Salesforce is upping its social advertising efforts in Australia and is planning to convince large brands to invest in the market. more »

London raid: BMF appoints Dominic Stinton as new CEO

BMF has appointed Dominic Stinton as CEO.

BMF has appointed former BBH man Dominic Stinton as CEO. Once relocated from London he will replace Jeremy Nicholas, who left two weeks ago after 12 years at the agency. more »

Dove flies away with the spoils in first YouTube Ads Leaderboard

This is the first instalment in what will be an exclusive quarterly collaboration between YouTube and AdNews to tell you which advertisements Australians are watching. more »

AAMI, GIO: 'Too much hype' around big data

Suncorp's top marketer, Mark Reinke, will declare there is too much hype around big data and analytics at tomorrow's annual Connect conference staged by the AANA in Sydney. more »

CHE, Clems, and OMD get the cricket gig

CHE Proximity, Clemenger BBDO and OMD will handle marketing and media for the 2015 Cricket World cup in Australia and New Zealand, the local organisers have confirmed. more »

Big data needs a big computer: Move over Ask Jeeves, now you can Ask Watson

IBM's Watson supercomputer has fallen on hard times. Two years after his history-making win on game show Jeopardy, he's been reduced to a customer service representative for ANZ. more »

Canon appoints consumer imaging marketing manager

Canon Australia has hired Vivien Lee as general manager of consumer marketing for Consumer Imaging. She starts this week, reporting to Canon's director of consumer imaging Jason McLean. more »

FreeTV disputes Fairfax story on live odds

The minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy Senator Stephen Conroy

Industry body FreeTV has hit out at a report in the Fairfax press today claiming Stephen Conroy brokered a deal with the TV networks to continue spruiking live odds during sporting broadcasts. more »

COMMENT: McIntyre - Kurt Burnette or Rohan Lund new Seven Network CEO?

Was there enough of a tip from Kerry Stokes in this morning's conference call with journalists to expect Kurt Burnette will get the gig replacing the $2.6 million man, Tim Worner, as Network Seven boss? more »

Naked adds Hush Puppies and Clarks creative to roster

Hush Puppies. Source: Hush Puppies' website.

Naked Communications Melbourne office has extra spring in its step after winning the Hush Puppies and Clarks footwear creative account. It's a decent win for the new MD. more »

Nielsen: Mobile access means less page impressions, here's a new tool

Is mobile advertising all it's cracked up to be? New data has suggested that while mobile may be booming, the shorter, more functional sessions it generates mean less page impressions. more »

VOTE: Is the Greenpeace Coke ad offensive or is cash king for commercial TV?

Nine won't air it because it is "offensive". Seven said it was "inappropriate". Only SBS has said it won't run the Greenpeace Coke advert for "commercial reasons". What do you make of that? Vote now. more »

Consumers engaged, literally, so why are firms spending less on social?

More Australians are logging on to social in the toilet and in bed. Growth is good and increasingly mobile. So why are small and medium firms spending and thinking less about it? It's a big miss, hints Sensis. more »

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OPINION: The disconnect between brands, agencies and customers

Without proper access to brands' internal sales data, agencies are swimming blind and customers ultimately lose out, writes Avrill D'Costa.

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