Campaign Edge is now in Darwin, having merged with local Darwin agency, Sprout to form Campaign Edge Sprout.

Sprout was started 18 years ago by Anya Lorimer and is the Territory's largest design agency, while Campaign Edge has offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne and is led by creative director Dee Madigan (left).  The agency's recent campaign 'No one Deserves a Serve' was a finalist for the 2018 Ad of the Year.

Independent experiential consultancy, 4Horsemen Agency, has entered into its first unique partnership opportunity announcing a collaboration with Melbourne Basketball Events business, Streetball Madness Events, for its upcoming King of Oz and Streetball Madness 2 Events.

December 2017, the first Streetball Madness tournament was held in Melbourne where 24 teams, compiled of past and current professional players and some of Melbourne's best unknown basketball talent, competed for a huge $25,000 in Streetball Madness 1. In addition to the main tournament, fans were treated to All Abilities, Legends, Youth and Women's games, children's clinics, outdoor open shooting courts and various onsite pop-up activations. The free event was visited by thousands of consumers from around Australia and followed online by an audience of over 400,000.

Celebrating what it means to be a fan of the Premier League, from a uniquely Australian perspective, Optus has partnered with English football magazine Mundial to find the most dedicated fans in Australia.

Unibet has launched its latest campaign via Ninth Wave, featuring everyday Australians making casual or humorous bets with family, friends or work colleagues.

 
The total value of funds, services, inventory and time donated by the media, marketing and creative industry increased by 21% compared to the previous financial year due to a growth in corporate partners, and an increase in fundraising through events and media inventory donations.

Starcom client business director Elizabeth Vaz clocked up a rare milestone in the advertising industry - celebrating 30 years with Starcom this week.

Vaz began her media industry career with Masius Advertising before she joined what was then Total Media in 1988 as personal assistant to the managing director.  In 2001, Starcom and Total Media merged to create what was Australia's second largest agency. She has worked in various roles at Starcom, including media buying, planning and strategy.

Her 30-year anniversary was celebrated at Starcom with speeches and accolades, led by Melbourne managing director, Stuart Jaffray, and surrounded by staff. Her daughter, Andrea Vaz, is continuing in her mother's footsteps and works at Publicis Media as research systems manager.

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A TVC developed by suicide prevention charity R U OK? for its 2018 campaign called 'Signs' has rolled out across the country, gracing movie theatre screens, television and online media publications.

Network Ten has announced the appointment of former ad agency creative director Michael Stanford as national creative director in its newly formed TEN Imagine division. He will report to chief sales officer Rod Prosser.

Taste Creative has launched the interactive eBook 'I Didn't Like Hubert', narrated by actor Angela Kinsey - famous for her role in the US TV series The Office. The eBook is part of an initiative to raise $30k in 30 days by donating 100% of the revenue to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation to purchase a life-saving incubator for sick and premature babies.

To demonstrate where quality hardware selections really come to life in a consumer's home, Blum, a European manufacturer of high quality furniture hardware and cabinet solutions, has just released 'The Cabinet Maker', a stirring film to promote its lifetime guarantee on products.
 
In conjunction with Blum, Engine Room developed the fictional short film that tells the story of cabinet maker Troy, who throughout his life fails to be satisfied by his work, only to realise as an older man from where his true source of inspiration should come - key moments of his life in the family kitchen.
 

Havas Media Group has today announced the appointment of Damien Terakes (centre) as client services director. Following multiple new business wins and continued agency growth, the position will see Terakes take on a senior management role across all Havas Media clients in Australia as well several global accounts.

Terakes has built an impressive media career, with more than 30 years' experience as a senior media professional. Most recently coming from a client partner role at Initiative, that he held for the last four years, Terakes has established himself as a sought-after media leader. He has led a multitude of large, industry-leading global clients and iconic Australian brands in the automotive, retail, technology and entertainment categories. His award winning work and experience in some of Australia's leading media agencies will bring a wealth of experience to his new role.

The Clemenger Group has purchased a majority stake in Levo Digital, a leading Australian marketing services and technology business.
 
Levo delivers transformation by empowering businesses with marketing technology and tools that connect consumers with the things they want and need, when and where they need them.  The company helps its clients innovate, expand and transform their organizations through the implementation and use of technology, with a specialization in designing and deploying marketing automation and e-commerce platforms.

Noisy Beast Melbourne is launching a podcast that builds on the Swisse New Zealand brand campaign featuring Kieran Read.

Says Tineke Madgwick, marketing manager, Swisse New Zealand: "Swisse have a range of vitamins that support New Zealand every day, but with our new podcast, we're supporting New Zealand at night time too.

Media agency PHD, has today announced its appointment by Vocus Consumer Division, as the media agency of record representing the Dodo and iPrimus brands.

This appointment comes off the back of a series of wins for PHD's Melbourne office in the last 12 months including Carlton United Breweries, Speakeasy Studio and the Caydon Property Group.

Chair of the Australian Film, Television & Radio School, Russel Howcroft, has today called for the establishment of a federal Creativity Commission to drive economic growth and ensure Australia is not left behind.
 
Speaking at the National Press Club, Howcroft - who is also chief creative officer at PwC - said that Australia needs a federally supported body dedicated to creative capacity building to combat what he describes as the country's 'creative deficit'.
 

Aussie Women's Sevens Rugby superstar and Olympic Gold medalist, Charlotte Caslick, is the new face of Tradie Underwear.

Australian radio and TV personality Gus Worland has cemented himself as 'Hero Dad' in RedBalloon's latest Father's Day campaign via Ultimate Edge Communications.

Worland is the star of the new content-driven campaign, putting his dad body on the line and urging us to 'take the hint' this Father's Day and gift an 'experience that'll knock Dad's socks off'.
 

One of Australia's leading planners, Michael Hyde, has joined Cummins&Partners as head of brand strategy, following an incredible run of new business success driven by the agency's full service offering across creative and media.

Hyde is a highly respected and experienced integrated strategic thinker, having worked across creative and media over his 18 years in the industry. He was most recently planning director at Y&R Melbourne and prior to that headed up strategy at Carat following 6 years at Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne. Over his career, Hyde has won multiple effectiveness and creative awards for clients ranging from Four'n Twenty to Schweppes to Public Transport Victoria, Defence Force Recruiting and many more in between.

APRA AMCOS' deal with Facebook licenses the use of the millions of songs it represents in Australia and New Zealand including the songs of its 95,000 songwriter and publisher members. Facebook has a community of more than 2 billion people and continues to grow globally.

Campbell Arnott's has released 'Moments That Shape The Game', a light-hearted campaign to promote Arnott's Shapes in the lead up to football season final series and international rugby matches across Australia and New Zealand.  
 

Wasif Kasim has joined Online Marketing Gurus as chief marketing officer. The role will see Kasim oversee the marketing and sales strategy for the search and digital agency.

Kasim has an 11 year track record building marketing and sales teams that accelerate business results across startups, enterprises, SaaS, tech and education. Kasim most recently served as global head of digital at Crimson Education and as global head of marketing at King Content.

Parents across large parts of Melbourne are being encouraged to check their child's vaccination status in a potentially life-saving new behaviour change campaign by Icon Agency.

'It's Time to Immunise Melbourne' encourages parents to vaccinate their toddlers to help protect them and others in the community from life-threatening yet preventable disease.

The integrated campaign was created for the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network (NWMPHN) by Icon Agency creative director team, Ed Bechervaise and Rod Clausen.

While immunisation plays a key role in every family's life, new research from NWMHN reveals alarmingly low levels of vaccination across Melbourne. In the CBD, for example, 16% of two year olds haven't had their jabs on time while there are over 2,300 toddlers in the north west who aren't immunised - enough to fill 23 childcare centres.

LIA has extended the entry deadline to next Friday, August 24, 1:00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.

In a strong growth phase, Australian social media and online community management specialist Quiip has been appointed to Publicis Worldwide, Australia, Sydney Adventist Hospital (the SAN) and Museum of Australian Democracy (MOAD).

As well as these new business wins, Quiip has had contracts renewed with VicHealth (This Girl Can) and beyondblue.

Quiip is providing a range of services to its new and renewing clients including; business and out-of-hours social media and community management and consulting, social media training and mentoring, suicide, mental health and critical escalation support and engagement, crisis communications and risk planning.