Unmade: media and marketing analysis
By Tim Burrowes
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Media and marketing news with all the in-depth analysis, insight and context you need.
Unmade offers industry news from an Australian perspective, from the founder of Mumbrella and the author of the best-selling book Media Unmade, Tim Burrowes
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'We are ARN, and we're an entertainment company': Michael Stephenson takes charge
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Why Matt James backs himself '110%' to monetise NRL if Nine wins all the rights
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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'Humble and hardworking': Amazon pitches to be Oz ad ecosystem's full funnel friend
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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'We are going to be the client I always wanted': Mat Baxter on his OOH-only tattoo skincare launch
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Make sure you clap
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Football, streakers and the SBS content slate
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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'Proudly indie' - Why Caroline Catterall sold Keep Left to Hardie Grant Media
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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'Making something people actually want to click on still takes a good idea'; Cuttable founder Jack White on the Meta opportunity
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Christian O'Connell is going national. Or is he?
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Paul Hamra on Solstice Media's two decade overnight success story
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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'Media is different' - Will Hayward on why he believes Private Media's Pinstripe purchase will work out
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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'You're not going to get an AI agent to watch TV for you' Samsung's Alex Spurzem on the rise and rise of connected TV
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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'Nothing is more powerful than an authentic host read' - How Earmax is finding a place as Australia's first podcast media agency
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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'The moats are gone' Unmade's Compass live at Mumbrella360
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Clive Dickens on harnessing the AI opportunity as traditional jobs go away
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Live from m360: The Unmade-Mumbrellacast crossover episode
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May 29, 2025 |
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Live at HumAIn: 'It's the garden of Eden with no weeds.' How AI is driving a second coming for chatbots
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May 21, 2025 |
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'We can sit around and shake our fists like blacksmiths in the 1900s, angry at cars': How creative Chas Bayfield is riding out AI
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May 14, 2025 |
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AI slop is putting brand trust at risk, warns Getty Images' creative head
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May 04, 2025 |
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'A love letter to the ridiculous and wonderful world of agencies': How Rob Mayhew went from adland to creator
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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How local media remains divided as audience trust evaporates
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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What's holding marketers back from AI?
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Here comes Tubi
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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BotD: Live from Compass Auckland; Ooh Media finds momentum; yet another Clems rethink
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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'I love winning': Atomic 212 boss Barry O'Brien on staying hungry, and selling to Publicis
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Live from Compass Melbourne: Can adland change for women?; get ready for rage; and 'dumb' cash giveaways in radio
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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StW: Hugh Marks and Matt Stanton firm up for ABC and Nine; Plus our 2024 verdict, and 2025 predictions
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Live from Compass Adelaide: Fake CMOs; too many pitches and did Campaign Brief deserve the benefit of the doubt?; Vinyl buys Concrete Playground
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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StW: Omnicom set for Interpublic takeover; Should Nine sell its radio stations? Meta's designation decision approaches
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Live from Compass Perth: Hard truths about the cost of career success; Why publishers are giving Google a free pass; raising the bar on WA's 'lazy' creativity
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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StW: Farewell The Monkeys; ACCC to muscle up against platforms; AI content theft;
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Live from Compass Sydney: 'Weaponised procurement', tax-dodging platforms and the AI gold rush; SEN ready to play
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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StW: Remembering Lisa Ronson; High pressure day for SCA; Should Paramount buy Seven?
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Live from Compass Brisbane: 'Best navigator wins', the looming war on social media, and saving television
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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StW: Kochie's Law, Bluesky's week, and Coke's AI Christmas ad
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Live from Compass Hobart: Avoiding invisibility, a burnout epidemic and the foolishness of hustle culture
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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StW: AGMs, Upfronts, and the first podcast election
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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'The most powerful lobbyist in Canberra' Joe Aston on how Qantas featherbeds politicians to get its way
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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StW: The age of zero click arrives in Oz; Verdict on Myer's Christmas humbug ad; Nine chair faces fight for her seat
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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'I’m deeply concerned with the future of the open web' IAB Tech Lab boss Tony Katsur on why he worries about walled gardens
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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StW: Seven News boss rails against 'evil forces' summoned by Meta and co as lobbying intensifies
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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'It's been cathartic': Foxtel's Mark Frain on parting ways with the TV establishment; Compass Brisbane
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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StW: How Campaign Brief double glazed adland's glass ceiling; Rape claim at Nine
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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'We did kick the door down': Four Pillars Gin co-founder Matt Jones on growing a brand and a whole industry; Compass Sydney
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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StW: Campaign Brief 'misogyny'; AI brings back dead stars; Aldi overtakes disgraced rivals on brand trust
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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'We are approaching retail media 3.0': Lessons from REmade's leaders
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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The Unmakers: How Mercha is reshaping Australia's promo merchandise sector
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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StW: How will ACCC intervention hit retail media?; Succession for Bruce Gordon; More AI magic (and menace)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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The accidental publisher: How Josh Simons ended up running Australia's fourth biggest ASX-listed publishing company
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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StW: Warburton's media move; LinkedIn scrapes; Telstra's ad blitz; sporting codes lobby against betting ad ban
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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'We don't see ourselves as a free to air business any more' - Rod Prosser on Paramount's evolution
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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StW: Nine moves on from the Sneesby era; Upfronts season: Independents Day and Paramount on stage
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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StW: Privacy postponed; Big fines for scam ads; New AI rules; Unpaid Disrupt Radio staff unready for startup 'rough and tumble'
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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StW: Earnings season rolls into Upfronts; Why 7am on Thursday is podcasting's golden hour
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Bernard Salt on why the pursuit of lifestyle is the key to Australia's consumer psyche
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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StW: How agencies are screwing news media with lazy brand safety; Google's biggest AI search rival reveals ad plans
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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How Man of Many became more than whisky and watches
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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StW: Tech tax door cracks open; ABC's bold Media Watch move; Ooh Media reveals a down half
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Foxtel's streaming boss Julian Ogrin on chasing 5m homes and winning the ad war
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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StW: Cosmo's return; Rumblings over Nine's Domain ownership, share buyback and move on Foxtel; the week in AI
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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'The loophole in democracy': Crikey boss Eric Beecher on the power of (mostly) unregulated media proprietors
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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StW: Labor backs off on betting ads; Rex regrets; and digital ad levy firms up
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Live at HumAIn: AI Read The News Today, Oh Boy; and relief rally finally lifts Unmade Index back above 500 points
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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StW: Infinite Dial 2024; Strike begins to hit Nine's papers; the low nutrition AI content farms spool up
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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'Starting a business is a creative act' - Sir John Hegarty on applying creativity
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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'We don't think it's sustainable for them to operate in this market' - News Corp’s Nicholas Gray on the potential to kick Meta out of Australia
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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StW: Is Nine's Olympic balance sheet red or black?; Mediaweek for sale to Vinyl Group? Upfronts partying on hold
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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'I want the show to be more widely available': Christian O'Connell pushes for networking into Sydney
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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StW: After media's meltdown, what comes next?; AI for PR monitoring; Voiceover artists' existential threat
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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'There doesn't seem to be any let up' former Austereo boss Michael Anderson on the ad market's accelerating decline
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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StW: Southern Cross Austereo makes up its mind about ACM; New alarm over uninvited AI scraping
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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The Unmakers: Chris Wirasinha on how Linkby is helping publishers rework the affiliate marketing game
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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StW: Why women are rejecting news; Research industry trembles at AI onslaught; Seven's comic signing
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Busting the digital audio fraudsters, and how connected TV is the scammers' latest honeypot; Seven's debt milestone
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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AI is news media's extinction event: the verdict - our closing HumAIn Great DebAIt
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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StW: Newest retail media network revealed; First ratings clue on K+J; Paramount sale into the endgame; Platforms targeted
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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'If transformation was easy, everyone would do it': New Mutinex CEO Mat Baxter on why adland is stuck in old models
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May 29, 2024 |
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Will Nine's scandal over news boss take down leadership? Agencyland's new player; News Corp restructures
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May 26, 2024 |
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The Mamamia transition - In conversation with new CEO Nat Harvey and proprietor Jason Lavigne
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May 22, 2024 |
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StW: Epochal days in AI; can ARN's scale logic win the day in the SCA battle?
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May 19, 2024 |
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Lou Barrett on News Corp's sales evolution, and is the industry ready to try again for a local premium content exchange?
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May 15, 2024 |
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StW: ARN races to rescue SCA takeover as Anchorage wimps out; TV sports rights showdown; Is OpenAI going to take on Google?
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May 12, 2024 |
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The Unmakers: Fabulate it - How an Australian tech platform is helping brands manage big influencer campaigns
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May 08, 2024 |
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StW: Cost cutting on Nine agenda as Sneesby spray goes public; and SXSW unveiled
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May 05, 2024 |
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Prophet growth: How Jordan Taylor-Bartels is using big math to predict marketing goals
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May 01, 2024 |
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StW: K+J Day; Cosmo is back; Google hides local ad revenue as Twitter's take collapses
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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StW: TikTok crackdown; Consumers' sauce sacrifices; Free-to-air ads slump 17%; ABC ups its marketing spend
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Anthony DeCeglie on the Nightly: 'There's a demand for quality journalism that's free, mainstream middle'
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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StW: The Bondi Junction attack - How 2GB led the way as the ABC went missing; Lehrmann verdict; Fast food ads next
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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How Daniel Kahneman, the grandfather of behavioural economics, changed marketing
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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StW: James Warburton set to leave Seven next week; Bad pitches; How AI is driving copyright dodging
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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'It's fear that stops men standing up. They don't want to rock the boat'
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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As Paramount+ preps its local ad tier, ANZ boss Beverley McGarvey and global chief Marco Nobili talk strategy, speculation and sport
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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StW: Google tells agencies AI will eat their jobs; What was Accenture thinking?; Smart TV app verdict imminent
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Voice of the indies: Sam Buchanan on the rise of Independent Media Agencies Australia
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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StW: ACCC takes aim at search; SCA board spill gathers momentum
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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'Every question was being answered the wrong way' - Erik Jensen on ten years of the Saturday Paper
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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StW: Countdown to Kyle; 'AI will do 95% of agency jobs'; Will Nine buy back Catalano's papers?
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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'The slog is relentless': Claire Kimball and Kate Watson on the marathon of email publishing
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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StW: Media's coming war with Meta as Facebook turns its back on news; TV Fight Club convenes
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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'We couldn't get a pulse back' Patrick Delany on the rationale behind Foxtel's pivot to streaming
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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StW: Media's 'extinction level event'; What to expect from SCA's financials; Another Google AI brand blunder
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Can the radio industry persuade marketers to rethink their media buying strategies?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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STW - Hubbl revealed; Earnings season in earnest; Ten boss Jarrod Villani exits
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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How Vinyl, Australia's only ASX-listed music company, got into publishing by buying The Brag Media
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Start the Week: Vale Harold Mitchell; Australia's new paper; Google's bad AI brand strategy
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Start the Week: Paramount in play?; ABC's big commercial hire; Amazon Prime Video's Aussie surge; Radio 'smears'
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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How Gai Le Roy steered the IAB from spruiking digital to industry consensus
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Start the Week: Is Nine trying to sell Domain?; New TV ratings system launches today; Is arcane ABC ready for Kim Williams?
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Live at Compass: Rethinking TV measurement, creativity, and adland's declining influence on culture
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Live at Compass: Is WFH about avoiding work?; Will better reporting mean ad dollars?; Why won't trade press tell readers what they know?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Connected: How Scott Lorson steered Fetch TV to Australia's prime streaming aggregator
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Big moves in publishing at Nine, Schwartz and LadBible; The year of carnage, AI and retail media
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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'I don't even think we're at the early adopter stage': AI agency founder Jeremy Somers on the disruption ahead
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Start the Week: The year of the ad streamers; Retail media's $1bn grab; ABC podcast data at last; What now for Seven?
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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‘You're all battering each other’ - Why LBB’s Matt Cooper wants to focus on the positive in adland
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Bed wars; Ten's off season Bachelors strategy; Sky News' streaming play
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Nick Smith on taking the helm at News Corp's content agencies Medium Rare and Storyation
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Media redundancies; End of the Millionaire era; Nine closes in on Melbourne Cup
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Nick Rynne on leading Seven's new streaming bet with community sports service Streamer
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Start the Week: TV lobbies at war; ACCC's Plan B if Meta drops news; Hamish McLennan and OpenAI boss in the exit lounge
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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The hour that decides an agency's fate: Jonathan Pease on how to win the room
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Seven gatecrashes the radio war; Google plots cutting off search in Australia; Michelle Rowland gets cosy with gambling lobby
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Final word on Upfronts season: Investment bosses give their verdict; and SBS boss James Taylor sets out his stall
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Nine retains The Ashes; Media bosses step up platform lobbying; Consumers cut their streaming spend
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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'Still massive advertising dollars in linear': How Paramount is balancing a streaming future with Ten's broadcast present
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Curtain closes on Upfronts season; what's to come at SBS?; Catalano enters SCA bidding saga; Seven's new masthead
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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The Unmakers: 25 years of Abe's Audio
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Start the Week: SCA seeks alternative buyers; SXSW Sydney report card; Performative good
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Bonus: The Unmade x TV Blackbox crossover - Live at the Seven Upfronts
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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(Re)defining retail media
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Start the Week: SXSW kicks off; ARN closes in on Kyle & Jackie O deal; end of Upfronts season
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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'Know my role, play my role': Russel Howcroft on learning his new craft of radio
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Seven claims the year; News publishers ask for more cake; Market Herald chases rebrand
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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'The world's most secretive democracy': Peter Greste on Australia's press freedom problem
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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'It's not doing what I aspired': How programmatic pioneer Brian O'Kelley is trying to fix his mess
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Foxtel loses patience with anti-siphoning; Ads come to Amazon's Prime Video
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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'Setting up an ad network is the smallest part': Retail media evangelist Colin Lewis explains how Australia took the lead
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Kyle and Jackie O push for $200m deal, Amazon tries to siphon TV ad revenue
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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'Brief once, personalise everywhere': How Avid Collective is trying to become a native content engine
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Countdown to Facebook news oblivion; Dissecting Nine's Upfronts: Retail media, AI ads and the price of Olympics sponsorship
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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'We were doing AI before it was sexy': Sonnant's Tony Simmons on revolutionising audio content
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Start the Week: What to expect from Upfronts season; payday for Clems shareholders; How much is online news worth to Google?
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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'Just a little too arrogant and authoritarian': Barrie Cassidy on how the ABC reacts to criticism
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Harsh words for TMH management; Telstra's second streaming horse; Ita's farewell and Anderson's second term
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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'It will create tons of new jobs': Marcel's global president Arpit Jain on AI's impact on agencies
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Start the Week: A rubbish start to earnings season, Ooh's profit fall; and a twist in government's anti-siphoning laws
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Matildas mania; Uplift in Tassie tourism; Is outdoor company QMS in play?
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Thinkerbell's Jim Ingram and Adam Ferrier on the measured magic of life after PwC
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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StW: TV lobbying machine hits Canberra; earnings season predictions; Editor suddenly exits Mumbrella
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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The Great DebAIt: Is the rise of AI a threat to marketing jobs, or merely a useful tool?
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Foxtel's next move; DDB doubles down on digital; ARN woos Kyle and Jackie O; Seven's Logies gamble a hit
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Private Media's Will Hayward on the chase for growth, information niches and the mental health cost of fighting Lachlan Murdoch
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Grim outlook for marketing industry; Media's 'biggest horror decisions'; Netflix loses local grip
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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'I love to prove the naysayers wrong': Scire founder Chris Janz on launching a subs-led business publishing challenger
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Start the Week: HumAIn highlights; ABC loses under-55s; New start for Clems; Scire's hires; World Cup sponsors revealed
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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'The critics are saying they're going to give us six months': Trying to make sense of Disrupt Radio
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Will the market support a Credlin-Abbott podcast?; The intriguing thing about Domain's Review reboot
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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'It would have been annihilation' Nick McKenzie on Nine's high stakes defamation battle with Ben Roberts-Smith
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Will Kyle and Jackie O move?; ABC board gets to grips with radio woes; Twitter meltdown
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The Unmakers: An adland return for Justin Drape and Michael Canning, with Exceptional Alien Studio
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Recriminations over ARN's SCA share raid; Call for total betting ban looms; Australia's platform laws get global pickup
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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What to expect from the new CEOs at Havas as James Wright and Gayle While take charge
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The first AI radio host?; Fast food ads under threat; the ABC job cuts; a key appointment for SBS streaming
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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'It's like addressing the United Nations of the creative industries': Colin Daniels, the man bringing SXSW to Sydney
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Why JCDecaux's Steve O'Connor is bullish that programmatic will make a difference in outdoor
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Melbourne Cup in play; Business groups launch ad war; Cultural issues at the side hustle hurt Kochie's lap of honor
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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How Zenith boss Jason Tonelli is tripling down on client ROI, and wants to return the Audit Bureau to relevance
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May 31, 2023 |
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Start the Week: D-Day for defamation laws; TV revenues under attack; Kochie leaves Sunrise
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May 28, 2023 |
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Ten years of The Guardian in Australia: Finding a niche next to Fairfax and News Corp
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May 24, 2023 |
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Start the Week: A new Twitter clone from Meta; Coalition promises TV networks $46m tax cut; new hires at Scire; No love for subs
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May 21, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Google in the frame on PWC's tainted tax advice; Albanese turns up temperature on gambling ads; new local leaders for Snap
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May 14, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Qantas goes to war on the AFR; Jules Lund returns to radio; ABC addresses digital leadership deficit
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May 07, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Why it was time for Grant Blackley to go; a new start for the TV industry; Twitter's monetisation plans for publishers; Coles Radio up for grabs
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May 01, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Total TV finally approaches; Eddie for 3AW drivetime?; How streaming quotas will work; Google's speaker blunder
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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How Kirsty Muddle is making the single-brand holdco a local reality, even if that means taking creativity off its pedestal
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Start the Week: HBO to stream locally from next year; Nine's killer quarter; Betting ads crackdown Is AI just a toy?
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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The Unmakers: Simon Hakim on building an incubator for challenger brands; Plus, a dip on the Unmade Index
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Start the Week: TV industry's ratings system red faces; 69% think there are too many betting ads
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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News Corp's Michael Miller on reaching 1m subscriptions, negotiations with Facebook, the economic challenge of AI, and navigating advertiser boycotts
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Start the Week: ABC to review its radio ratings decline; Dan Sinfield moves on from Meta; Anti-siphoning deadline approaches
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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What the retail media industry needs to do next
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Start the Week: How the TV networks are planning a premium video exchange; Web rankings redux; The rise of subscription video
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Nearly time to turn off the transmitters. The viewing shift is happening faster than you think
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Local podcast spend revealed; Another HBO lifeline for Binge; What results season told us
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Meta launches paid verification; Results season unpacked; How media companies are prepping for a downturn
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Spinach's Ben Willee on the meaning of Nine's Olympics win, why it's okay to say the R-word, and loyalty in a fickle industry
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Start the Week: A Seven-HT&E merger?; Breaking Bad wins the Super Bowl; What to watch for in financial results season
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Ben Shepherd on why retail media is up with adwords as a media invention; how sales people can get his attention; and the 2023 outlook
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Start the Week: Catalano and Janz both make moves; What to look for in the News Corp results; TV ad revenue falls
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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The year in review: CMO moves; brand crises; a Netflix U-turn; war for the Market Herald; the madness of Musk and ABC's audio audience collapse
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Ten swings for the cricket; Musk goes after Twitter alumni; Paul Barry closes on Media Watch record
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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StW: Brand trouble from the bondage bear; The Twitter files; TMH's bloody boardroom coup
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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StW: New faces at Today and A Current Affair; Winners of the TV ratings year; Molloy in Sydney
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Marketing in 2023 with Nick Garrett, Naomi Johnston, Richard Curtis and Andrea Dixon
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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StW: The journo departure lounge; Return of Twitter's most toxic; The readership sausage
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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The Unmakers: Jamie Harding, CEO of Theatrix - the new streaming platform for the arts
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Why 2GB split with Jim Wilson; Closing in on a cricket deal; Mega Meta cuts
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Musk's 'thermonuclear' threat to advertisers; Nine to extend tennis deal as cricket bidding begins; ABC shakeup
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Why Ooh Media's Cathy O'Connor has been anything but bored with outdoor
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Elon's Twitter bloodbath begins; Mutiny's new start; the Rebel Wilson verdict
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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What good is doing good? Leo Burnett's Catherine King on what the public expects from brands
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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StW: Hi, Bayo: Foxtel set to merge Binge and Kayo; Will Nine swoop for early tennis deal? ABC shifts priorities
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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The Unmakers: Sinorbis founder Nico Chu on helping western marketers crack Asia
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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StW: News Corp's merger; Stan to lose its NBCU deal? A disastrous media launch; Frankly's ratings stinker
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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The Unmakers: How Storipress founder Alex Pan wants to reinvent digital publishing
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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StW: F1 shambles; Dodgy government ad spend; Ita doubles down on missing ABC audience; Networks lobby on CTV
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Paramount Upfront: How the Pluto FAST channels will change the game
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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The Unmade podcast: Rich Curtis on the biggest names on the FutureBrand Index, election campaigning and Meta's reputation recovery
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Seven closes on Peacock; Lachlan Murdoch's Nova profits revealed; what to expect at Ten's upfronts
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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The Unmade podcast: Jag Sanger of The Market Herald on buying Gumtree and Carsguide, and launching a newspaper
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Forbes and Inc in Aussie head-to-head; the Optus hack; underwhelming AFL ratings; blood on the ASX
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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The Unmakers: WeAre8's Lizzie Young on why she wants exactly 6.5% of social media budgets
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Most watched TV; a perfect AFL lineup; Ten's Saturday problem
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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The Unmakers: Richard Baker's plan to build 'the best independent premium audio storytelling house in the Southern hemisphere'
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Reporting the biggest Royal story; TikTok the espionage machine?; NRL holds out its hand for Foxtel cash
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Start the Week: How Woolies is Australia's most trusted; TV networks abandon kids' content; Netflix's Aussie ad play
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Start the Week: ScoMo's Tourism Australia mystery (nearly) solved; lessons of media mergers; The Cat's masterplan
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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The Unmade podcast: Nigel Marsh
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Qantas says sorry (again); Is AFL's D-Day finally here?; New owner for Carsguide; Results season
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Lachlan goes legal; The Block puts Nine back on top; Foxtel's anti-siphoning push
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Fast food marketing under attack; TikTok grabs $70m slice of ad market; Meta goes missing again
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Start the Week: AFL TV rights bids land; new streaming subs fall; the prolonged radio recovery
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Ten's ratings turnaround; Has AFL missed the boat? Making space for introverts
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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The Unmakers: Troy Townsend and Jack Byrne of Zitcha - turning retailers into publishers
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Return of the pirates; AFL rights bidding heats up; Will Nine journos strike?
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Are we running out of PRs?; Musk pulls out of Twitter deal; Catalano's new real estate play
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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The Unmakers: Austin Mackell of Stone - using technology to improve journalism transparency
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Start the Week: TrinityP3 urges agencies to be upfront about harassment, bullying and assault; Ten's bold AFL bid; Meta's bargaining code outburst
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Broadcast legislation review flagged; the Stan / Foxtel tie-up that never happened; more on the metaverse
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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The Unmakers: Mutiny's SaaS bet to reinvent marketing analytics, and how it wants to reshape the industry
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Start the Week: M&C Saatchi sale saga continues; directors depart Judith Neilson Institute; Apple visits the Med; a happy Mutiny
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Start the Week: SMH's Rebel Wilson debacle; Are Media refocuses on content marketing (again); World Cup bonanza
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Blood on the trading floor; Eddie Elsewhere; Vale Peter Harvie; See ya, Fletch; Top moments of reality telly
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Sports fans' multi-platform streaming bill; Wokeness and the CMO; Debranding Prime?
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May 30, 2022 |
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Marketing in a Cost of Living Crisis
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May 26, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Poll night ratings winners; Labor's media agenda; TV's last big content prize
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May 22, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Nine calls for Facebook and Google to face code; Ooh Media's Poly push; Netflix's small tax bill
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May 15, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Facebook's Australian 'hit job'; Foxtel's streaming numbers; election fever
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May 09, 2022 |
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'It doesn't have to be this way' - PHD's Chris Stephenson on the complexities of marketing in a programatic world
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May 04, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Labor's media law reform promise; News Corp buys publisher; The Messence merger
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May 02, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 26: Deus Ex Machina (and an epilogue too)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Start the Week: SCA hunts for next CEO; Musk seizes Twitter; WPP's new commerce move
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 25: Friday The Thirteenth
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Start the Week: AFL up for grabs; Who will win the post-Easter ratings battle? Elon's Twitter game
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 24: Fake News
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Foxtel IPO is dead; Sack SCA bosses says Ray Hadley; Election overload begins
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 23: Billionaire Elephants
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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How The Brag Media's 'centre of culture' strategy led to an Australian edition of Variety
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Now or never for the Foxtel float; How Netflix saved F1; Will Amazon snatch The Olympics?
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 22: Polarising, Paying and Staying
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Start the Week: A merger for SWM and HT&E?; AAP's next move; TV's big news week; the verdict on the Qantas ad
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 21: Taking sides
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Start the Week: A big exit from Nine; The ABC's naughty tweeters; another social media crackdown?
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 20: Hard Stuff
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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With a senior exec named as abuser, has adland's belated #MeToo reckoning finally begun?
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 19: Home James
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Are Media moves into ecommerce; shifting sands of streaming; agencies exit Russia
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Start the Week: Netflix in Oz; Variety mag Down Under; and do Ten's Saturday ratings woes even matter?
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 18: The 800-Pound Gorilla
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 17: The CBS Shock
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 16: 2Day was Yesterday
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 15: A House of the Most Brittle Glass
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 14: Magazines are different
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 13: Predator and Prey
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter 11: Blood, Sweat and Tears; and The Unmade Index slides again
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter ten: Elephant in the Room
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter nine: World Is Fukt
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Streem's Elgar Welch on selling to Cision: 'The knocks at the door got louder'
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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The Unmade podcast: Andrew Jaspan on his new publishing venture 360Info
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter eight: The Invaders and the Independents
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter seven: Dead Air
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Unmade podcast: Ten sales boss Rod Prosser on budgeting for growth in 2022 and launching another streaming service
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter six: Follow the Money
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Media Unmade podcast - Chapter five: Throuple trouble on Team Australia
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Media Unmade podcast - Chapter four: Who Saved Channel Nine?
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter Three: Phone Hacking, Paywalls and Grin-F*cks
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Unmade: Ups and downs of the radio ratings with industry commentator Vivienne Kelly
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Unmade podcast: Nine sales boss Michael Stephenson on going national and the demos that matter
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Media Unmade - Chapter Two: The New Adventures of Lachlan Murdoch
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Media Unmade podcast - Chapter one: Greg and the Lost Cat
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Upfronts podcast with Ten bosses Jarrod Villani and Beverley McGarvey
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Seven's 2022 upfronts: Sport, data and a LOT of old favourites
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Oct 12, 2021 |