TAB appoints creative | I'm A Celeb cast revealed | McLachlan charged | Jacenko launches new PR business | ABC urged not to hire Hywood | Ten announces national sales director | Nine unveils tennis sponsors | 18 new jobs

[View Newsletter Online]( [Mumbrella Newsletter][Mumbrella Newsletter]( Five days and counting until Mumbrella CommsCon Awards entries close You’ve got the week ahead to finalise your [Mumbrella CommsCon Awards]( entries – final entries must close this Friday. Enter for individual, team and company-based awards across 28 communications and PR categories. Put your work in the spotlight, make a name for your agency or in-house team, or give your career a boost – [get your entries in now]( for a shot at the shortlist. News [M&C Saatchi nabs TAB's creative account]( M&C Saatchi has won the creative account for TAB, Mumbrella can reveal. Incumbent agency Clemenger BBDO Sydney won TAB’s creative account in 2016 after the betting company moved its creative account away from TBWA Sydney. [READ MORE »]( News [I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here pulls 1.098m viewers for opening night]( Ten has secured its first big ratings win of the year, with 1.098m metro viewers tuning in for the ‘Opening Night’ segment of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, and 1.014m watching ‘Welcome to the Jungle’. The segments are down on last year’s Opening Night which had 1.274m, and Welcome to the Jungle’s 1.108m, however the shows did top the ratings ladder last night and help Ten to a winning 20.8% audience share. [READ MORE »]( News [I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here cast revealed]( Former television hosts Ajay Rochester and Luke Jacobz have joined “gossip guru” Richard Reid, former politicians Jacqui Lambie and Sam Dastyari, and infamous ABC presenter Natasha Exelby on Ten’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Exelby attracted national attention when she was caught off guard during an ABC News 24 broadcast in which she was not paying attention. [READ MORE »]( News [Mumbrella SAGE to hold tailored interactive workshops from DVM Law, Kathryn’s Mint and Scarlett Strategic Solutions]( Mumbrella SAGE, the conference for independent agencies, will for the first time hold limited-space interactive workshops. Featuring sessions from the leaders of DVM Law, Kathryn’s Mint and Scarlett Strategic Solutions, the workshops will run twice during the day with attendance capped at 20 delegates per session. [READ MORE »]( News [Roxy Jacenko and husband Oliver Curtis launch new PR business venture targeting China]( High-profile public relations practitioner Roxy Jacenko is launching a new business, 18 Communications, targeting Australian companies which want to raise their profile in the hard-to-crack Chinese market. The owner of Sweaty Betty PR is going into business with her husband, Oliver Curtis, who was released from Cooma Correctional Centre 18 months ago after serving time for insider trading. [READ MORE »]( News [Craig McLachlan charged with indecent assault by Victorian Police]( Prominent actor and the former lead actor of Seven’s Doctor Blake Mysteries, Craig McLachlan, has been charged by Victoria Police for a number of indecent assault offences. Victoria Police confirmed to Mumbrella that a 53-year-old New South Wales man has been charged with eight counts of indecent assault, one count of attempted indecent assault and one count of common law assault. [READ MORE »]( News [PwC's Harriet Wray joins Mutiny as COO]( Harriet Wray has joined marketing consultancy Mutiny as its chief operating officer, Mumbrella can reveal. Wray was previously a product lead at PwC for over a year, prior to which she was at full-service agency CHE Proximity as its director of product and operations. [READ MORE »]( News [Ten officially announces Lisa Squillace as national sales director]( Ten has formally annouced the appointment of Lisa Squillace as its head of network sales, following the settling of a legal dispute between the network and Squillace’s former employer, Seven West Media. The sales exec was most recently Seven’s director of program partnerships, where she was responsible for monetisation across the entire network. Squillace left her role in October. At the time, Mumbrella understood she would be taking up a role with Ten. [READ MORE »]( News [Former ABC staff urge government not to appoint Greg Hywood as chairperson]( In a not-so-thinly-veiled swipe at former Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood, former ABC staff have urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the government not to appoint a chairperson “who has displayed bias against the national broadcaster”. Hywood – who by some is considered a front-runner to replace Justin Milne at the helm of the corporation – was among the commercial media’s leaders who have been critical of the ABC’s digital approach. [READ MORE »]( News [Nine reveals Kia, ANZ, Uber Eats and AGL as inaugural Australian Open tennis sponsors]( Kia, ANZ, Uber Eats and AGL have been unveiled as Nine’s lead advertisers for the network’s first year of broadcasting the Australian Open tennis tournament. Nine won the rights to the tournament in a $300m deal last March, beating out Seven who had held the rights for 40 years. [READ MORE »]( News [Bob Mackintosh set to depart R/GA as regional ECD vice president]( R/GA’s regional VP ECD, Bob Mackintosh, is set to depart the agency at the end of the month to “take time out from the industry”. Mackintosh joined R/GA in as a freelance ECD in Shanghai in February 2017. Three months later he was promoted to VP ECD for APAC. [READ MORE »]( News [Founder of Wunderman, Lester Wunderman, passes away]( Les Wunderman, the founder of advertising agency Wunderman, has passed away from natural causes at the age of 98. Wunderman himself is considered by many to be the founder of modern-day direct marketing, with the agency noting how he transformed the industry. [READ MORE »]( News [Sabco Australia appoints startup agency Shell Media to handle planning and buying]( Shell Media has scored its first client with Sabco Australia appointing the independent agency to handle its media planning and buying. The agency was launched in September by former Zenith director, Dean Shell, after 20 years with groups including Publicis, Mediabrands and WPP. [READ MORE »]( News [ABC beats Ten again in weekly ratings]( The national broadcaster, the ABC, secured a 12.3% primary channel share throughout the ratings week, ahead of commercial free-to-air channel Ten, which had 9.5%. The defeat for Ten came ahead of the week it will launch its summer programming line-up including I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, Hughesy, We Have A Problem (Tuesday) and Show Me The Movie (8 February). [READ MORE »]( News [The Daily Telegraph, The Age and The Guardian fall by more than 10% in December DCR rankings]( News Corp’s The Daily Telegraph, Nine’s The Age, and The Guardian Australia have shed more than 10% of their audiences month on month, according to December’s Digital Content Ratings figures. The Guardian Australia fell 16% from its November unique audience of 4.530m, to an audience of 3.811m, while Nine’s masthead The Age fell by 14%, from 3.783m to 3.243m. [READ MORE »]( News [Ten's Hughesy, We Have A Problem returns on 29 January]( Comedian Dave ‘Hughesy’ Hughes is set to return to television with the second season of ‘Hughesy, We Have A Problem’. The comedic panel show premiered in January last year with a metro audience of 632,000 and finished off in May with 456,000. [READ MORE »]( News [SCA brings back Luke Bradnam and Margaux Parker for Gold Coast-only drive show]( Luke Bradnam and Margaux Parker will return to the airwaves on the Gold Coast this year with The Rush Hour running from 3pm to 6pm on Gold 92.5 FM. Previously Bradnam and Parker had been joined by Ben Dobbin and were broadcast throughout Brisbane and the Gold Coast, however, the scaled back show will no longer make it to Queensland’s capital. [READ MORE »]( News ['Unwrap me' lingerie ad found to objectify women in Ad Standards ruling]( The advertising watchdog has found a lingerie advertisement by Honey Birdette objectified and exploited women by implying the model could be undressed or unwrapped. The ad, which features in a video and as a poster, pictures a woman laying on top of presents in red lingerie with the text “unwrap me”. [READ MORE »]( Carnival, Expedia & News Corp join Travel Marketing Summit line-up for April 11 Don’t miss out on the opportunity to dive into best practices in content marketing and converting a new generation of travellers at [Mumbrella’s Travel Marketing Summit.]( You can expect to hear from top brands and publishers such as Carnival, News Corp and Australian Traveller Media, plus Expedia Group Media Solutions’ Director of APAC will present global research findings. [Save $150 today.]( A new year is upon us and so comes fresh challenges and opportunities. So if you spent 2018 cold calling to gain industry contacts, say hello to [Mumbrella The Source.]( This subscription-only industry data bank taps into our unrivalled industry knowledge to deliver essential information. 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