Analysis

Vinyl Group finally owns up to its loss-making 2025 1

Is Cathy O’Connor the next boss of Southern Cross Austereo?

Systems and signals: Australia’s brand story must grow up 6

Ritson on the great Coles swindle: Forget reputation, it’s the legislative response that matters 6

SaaSpocalypse Now: The software inferno will birth an intelligence era

WPP: A case study in how not to do brand architecture 16

AI vs humans: Choosing sides

Claude and the Super Bowl: Finally, the first piece of effective AI brand strategy 1

Mumbrellacast: New year, new creative — and no more AI slop, please

‘You’re not Apple’: Mimicking giant brands isn’t strategy, it’s delusion 7

All about the cash: Why the Laundys bought Nine Radio 3

Freaky Friday

Stanton puts his stamp on Nine with QMS move

Ritson: Why Saks couldn’t scale its way out of irrelevance

The everything platform: Netflix’s push to podcasts latest in search for growth

‘Nine cocked it up’: Where did it go wrong with 2GB and 3AW? 3

AI didn’t destroy Jeanswest’s brand … it was already dead 2

‘Involvement starts at seven figures’: Why SXSW Sydney’s shortcut to success failed   11

Who will buy Nine Radio? 4

AI isn’t the real crisis facing advertising 2

The Unmade Index’s CEO of the Year for 2025 is… Ive Group’s Matt Aitken

The ABC’s new breakfast radio problem

The end of Seven West Media, but not of Kerry’s culture

AI everywhere, but creativity intact: Agencies reflect on a ‘bonkers and brilliant’ 2025

Should clients take complaints seriously or just roll with them?

Unstuck

Sir Martin Sorrell declares PR is dead: PR pros respond 3

2025: The year reputational risk moved off the comms plan and onto the balance sheet 

Mark Ritson’s top ten marketing moments of 2025

Radio’s revenue war: Copyright Tribunal rules; Is Nova going again for breakfast?; The Nine Radio auction

Inside the Church of England’s risky new Christmas campaign 2

Mumbrella is 17: Back to underdog status 5

BotW: A blockbuster media deal as Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros Discovery

Marketing’s dangerous obsession 4

Really buckle up, Stepho’s ARN ride might be bumpier than we first thought

How the boss of Roblox turned a problem into a PR disaster (and why isn’t it on Australia’s age gate list?)

Radio ratings: How the ABC lost 40% of its radio audience over the last decade 1

What a buyer needs to know about Are Media and the future of magazines

BOM comms crisis? No, it’s something much worse 6

Ritson: Despite Snoop and Katy, Menulog’s collapse was inevitable 7

The caveat and the signal on the News Bargaining Incentive

All your friends don’t share any more 1

Remembrance Day climax: Media revels in high profile sacking

Kerry Stokes says goodbye to his shareholders as SWM accelerates its cuts 2

Better late than never: The government finally moves on streaming content quotas 1

Buckle up: Stephenson’s ARN is going to be a wild ride

It’s time to stop discounting our industry’s most valuable assets 3

The data miners take an L

Radio’s killing season goes into overdrive, but is the Kyle & Jackie O national strategy dead too? 1

Habit, friction and brand: The three factors in whether OpenAI’s new browser Atlas will defeat Google’s Chrome

Mumbrella’s next phase 3

BotW: Vinyl Group’s enslopification; agency extinction and ACMA’s email problem

Search is still sexy: Why sponsored products remain retail media’s powerhouse

Tuesdata: A set of ratings that makes killing season decisions harder 1

The wrong sort of consolidation

The Big Short, the Big Steal and the Big AI Bubble

Grand theft Australia

Reminder – because of your membership YOU get a ticket to this month’s Unlock conference, and Compass too. Here’s how

Merger mania starts to fade for ARN Media

BotW: Netflix – a billion bucks and not a dollar in tax 2

Game changer Ciaran Davis departs ARN; what to expect from TV stalwart Stepho 2

The Kyle & Jackie O Show receives a gumming from ACMA’s toothless tiger

Tuesdata: The numbers behind the SCA-SWM merger

Vinyl Group reveals it is spending $1.6m buying a domain from a shareholder 3

BotW: Pork disasters and other dangerous ideas; Gumtree for sale?

PT takes charge: Change at the top of Nine after a short but successful stint for West

MurdochTok

Dial M for murky

BotW: A new PR crisis for Optus; Radio’s killing season arrives early 1

Cancelled

Ranker rancour

The government has outsourced the social media age problem to the platforms

1,000 days later

BotW: In the week Lachlan took control, a radio thesis; Paramount project gets bigger

Unskippable 3

2GB drifts into icy waters while K+J see the shoreline

BotW: Northbound 2

Suddenly, offsets are the next thing on the news industry’s lobbying agenda 2

Tuesdata: Starting the financial year backwards

Enero pulls back the curtain on BMF

BotW: Trump bats for the platforms; As Vinyl owns up to a $15.8m loss, can it reinvent its publishing model with AI?

Tuesdata: Don’t mention the printing press

The 2Day Show

Sun scream

Unmade is four: Back in the fold 2

Radio’s podcast commitment deficit; Nine storms the Index; retail media’s power struggle 2

Tuesdata: Four guesses at how much podcast listening is actually occurring 1

Cathy O’Connor delivers her best result for Ooh Media but analysts fear the future