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Optus puts media agency account under review

Telecommunications giant Optus has put its media agency account up for review, a regular process it says is aimed at ensuring alignment in values and business outcomes.

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Satirically salient: Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads engages hard-to-reach young males through print… and Betoota Advocate

Using a physical newspaper to convince young blokes to stop driving while under the influence of alcohol isn’t necessarily the first thing that springs to mind when plotting out a new drink driving awareness campaign. But the combination of print, then online, satire – in the form of the Betoota Advocate – and two years of persistence by the Queensland Department of Transport team paid off, triggering millions in reach and a +10.5 per cent baseline increase in belief in the consequences of drink driving. It’s an effort that’s now won four awards and counting, most recently the Australian Marketing Institute’s Marketing Excellence Award for Content Marketing.

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Data paralysis, short-termism, lack of commerciality stopping marketers from making decisions, says Australian Marketing Institute CPM Award winner

This year’s winner of the Australian Marketing Institute’s Certified Practising Marketer award, Paper + Spark’s Paul Everson, is in plenty of conversations right now, but reports a market afraid to commit to decisions as socio-economic uncertainty and short-termism persist. It’s not helping many marketers are either struggling to draw insights from data, or lack commercial nous to connect the dots to the business bottom line, he says – a big reason why skills development programs like Certified Practising Marketer are so critical to the industry. But with the core fundamentals of marketing as solid as ever – even with more channels and sophisticated terminology at our disposal – this experienced agency leader, marketing industry mentor and Uni lecturer is keen to see the industry embrace big M marketing with more confidence.

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New retail giant emerges: Myer and Apparel Brands to unite

After months of discussions, Myer and Premier Brands are going ahead with their merger agreement, combining the Myer apparel portfolio with Premier’s Apparel Brands portfolio including Just Jeans, Jay Jays, Portmans, Dotti and Jacqui E.

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