Round Two of the 2014 AdNews Agency Rankings is revealed in this issue. Can UM hold on at the top of the media league? Did Clemenger keep its lead in creative? Which agencies are topping the digital and direct leaderboards? You can get the full report and listings to see where you – and your rivals – stand in the Rankings right now on the iPad edition.
We've also got the times and photos from The AdNews Challenge. Relive the joy, or pain, from the event.
Our Big Pic feature 'Dial down the content volume' looks at ever-growing content marketing and whether we've reached overload. King Content CEO Craig Hodges and Contiki head of marketing Brett Morgan and the Content Marketing Institute’s Joe Pulizzi have a say.
Global tech player Lenovo is limbering up for its first big consumer push in Australia and we talk to global CMO David Roman in The Marketer.
The ABC was handed multimillion-dollar budget cuts this week. We talked to Angela Clark, in Newsmaker, who takes on a newly created role in the new Digital Network division.
In The Sell, Paul McIntyre talks to Jason Buckley, the recently promoted CEO of Y&R Group about the agency's reinvention.
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In the news we look at the YouTube leaderboard of the most watched ads for the last quarter of the year, how Guardian Australia has too many briefs for native content from brands to handle, and Nick Baker, the outgoing CMO of Tourism Australia, uses the C-word. No, not that C-word. Customer.
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Plus, you get to pick the AdNews Agency Cover of the Year 2014 in our poll.
It's Chiriiiistmas, soon. But in Creative Choice it's Christmas now. We asked M&C Saatchi creative director Chris Little and Loud's new ECD, Steven Thomson, to review six of this year's festive flourishes. Aldi, Sainsbury's, David Jones, Bonds, John Lewis and Coles.
In Creative Focus, Candide MacDonald asks The Hallway ECD Simon Lee, Ogilvy Melbourne ECD Brendon Guthrie, Droga5 ECD Steve Coll, Havas Worldwide digital creative director Jay Morgan and Saatchi & Saatchi EMEA creative director John Pallant 'What's in a fad?'
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