BotW: Our verdict on the Unmade Index’s CEO of 2024, in a dud year

Welcome to the opening edition of Unmade of 2025.

We return to a normal publishing cycle after Australia Day. We’ll be publishing sporadically until then. Today, we kick off with our first Best of the Week looking back at the (many) losers and (not very many) winners on the Unmade Index in 2024.

On the basis of delivering positive shareholder returns, there are only a couple of contenders for Unmade’s CEO of the year: Vinyl Group’s Josh Simons and Pureprofile’s Martin Filz. We reveal our selection below the paywall.

And we also examine the contenders for dunce’s cap, with the biggest destruction in shareholder value in 2024. It’s a four-way fight between the managements of Nine, Seven, Southern Cross Austereo and The Market Ltd. Again, you’ll find our choice below the paywall.