Department store David Jones is the latest retailer to offer Seven Media Group’s digital recorder TiVo, in the hope of a sales drive before Christmas.

Initiative has scooped the $50m combined media accounts of car brands Hyundai and Kia, with Total Advertising losing out.

With Obama now US president and the Australian cricket team gradually regaining some face (well kind of), it’s time for us to concentrate on other important matters – like Christmas holidays.

Start-up New Zealand agency Federation has won five new pieces of business, including APN’s New Zealand Herald and Fisher & Paykel Finance Group.

ACP Magazines has put the creative business for women’s weekly Woman’s Day out to pitch, with four agencies, excluding the incumbent George Patterson Y&R, battling it out for the work.