Analysis

AI’s copyright capture cheerleader Scott Farquhar melts under the studio lights 4

Tuesdata: Seven reports a down but not disastrous result (and fails to practice what it preaches on marketing investment)

Imagine if Australia’s media actually worked together

BotW: Surrendering to AI; reframing the DAB+ problem; ARN’s Jonesy & Amanda ego problem

To the victor the spoils: who will win the retail media feeding frenzy? 2

News Corp (and SMI) by the numbers

Goodbye to Australia’s largest media company

BotW: Jonesy & Amanda’s (begrudging) move; the AI hit list; influencers gone wild

Friends reunited

The Googleplex hits peak hubris; ARN, SCA and Vinyl hit valuation convergence

Weeks where decades happen

Google is in the zone and rules are out the window

Tuesdata: Hitting bottom

BotW: Escape velocity for Netflix; the end of publicly funded broadcasting in the US; holdco consolidation

This week in AI: The agents arrive

Vinyl Group incinerates another $9m as SCA overtakes ARN Media again

Tuesdata: The hidden finances of our biggest magazine publisher Are Media

Car week

REmade special: The week in retail media

BotD: Amazon boss to keynote at REmade; WPP names new CEO; Mark Britt and Mat Baxter reveal new venture

BotD: Gallagher puts the band back together (no, not Oasis); Hyland out of Havas; Ooh Media’s price turnaround

Tuesdata: Where Australian ad spend goes

BotD: CommBank claims first streaming roadblock; Ita vs Antoinette, pt 2

BotW: Relevance drift; Stan’s late winner; Vinyl Group gets a new credit line

HumAIn week: The Cloudflare alliance and big tech funds AI with job cuts

(Another) 20 minutes inside Sir Martin Sorrell’s head

Here comes the year of simplification

FY25 end of year report: The winners and losers of The Unmade Index

A love letter to podcasts

BotW: The ABC’s Antoinette problem is a long way from over; ARN confronts its K+J problem; In praise of the ACCC

Justice, advocacy, and a terrible precedent

Omnicom: Legally prohibited from moral leadership

After 15 years, when does Google stop getting the benefit of the doubt?

BotD: Google does the dirty on publishers; New marketing boss at Westpac; More trouble for K&J Show; Ten’s Spotify plan

BotW: Nine’s centre of gravity is back to TV; Nick Garrett to rule them all; Why ARN needs to take K+J national

BotD: Nine shakes it up (and closes on EPL); Publish conference returns; Google asks for more

BotD: Telstra gold while Optus name is mud; Mushroom trial drives podcast chart

As the ABC is overtaken by Seven News and news.com.au, more bad news about news avoidance

BotD: A new gig for Ben Shepherd; Tajer out of Seven already; Garrett to rule them all

BotW: Making sense of TV cancellations; Why Amaysim must be in on the AI joke; Hard truth about Nine’s missed moment

BotD: TAC luurves Omnicom; Sorrell disses WPP; How Nine failed to act

Q&A represented a braver and more experimental ABC than today

How the Project survived (and even thrived) for 16 years

BotW: AI winners showing up; How Rob Morgan built a local behemoth; Why Greg Hywood is unimpressed with Nine’s management

BotD: Crikey’s embargo bust; radio rumours; whither The Project?

BotD: Rob Morgan bows out; Meta and LinkedIn bid for more ad dollars; WPP loses Paramount

BotD: Optus rips up its creative and media roster; ABC radio chief departs; Fiji marketer comes home

BotD: SMI finally sees ad growth; Vinyl Group asks court to solve shares blunder; New gig for Stutch, old one for Pellegrino

BotW: Droga goes out on top; Holdco homogenisation; Vinyl’s court case

Finding flaws to play the AI game; Our plans for REmade

Fail

BotW: Big bucks for TV sport, no bucks for kids content; The Project on the skids?

BotW: Nine admits it got it wrong on radio; Google’s big AI week; a curious magazine launch

BotD: A fresh start for Nine Radio; PHD wins Bunnings; Optus EPL deal stalls

BotD: Ash Farr’s new global CMO role revealed; Google unveils chain of AI moves

BotD: Market sentiment turns against media as RBA warns of tariff headwinds

BotD: Radio’s rogues lean in; Lachlan’s Nova profits revealed; Warburton gets a gig

BotW: Of influencer CEOs, SCA agitation, and a symbolic exit

De-Pendant

What the minister for fun needs to get serious about

Does News Corp’s news division belong in Fox Corp?

The Campaign for Real Media

BotW: The MOVE muddle; What the Domain deal means; WPP’s revolution; Trump wrecks the Aussie screen industry

SCA back on top

Marginally negative

BotW: The Kyle & Jackie O Show faces ratings trouble in Sydney too; Now the magazines use AI cover models

Meta goes all in

The verdict on Cathy O’Connor

BotD: Domain deal into extra time; Jackie No Show; Facebook signs off another low tax bill; Welcome to the Lamestream

Vinyl story rolls on; Google’s AI contradiction; and Uncle Clive pays for everything

Vinyl’s cunning plan to make a buck; Unmade Index recovers

Could Google lose Chrome, and how bad would that be for advertisers?

BotW: AI takes the mic; Netflix gets serious about ads; SCA spikes; and a Google breakup gets a little closer

BotD: Aussies fall for US podcaster; Seven West Media capitalisation falls to $200m; SBS sense of humor failure over streaming glitches

BotD: Rapping the election; declaring the influencers; and Stepho’s next hire

The sad cobbler

BotW: Will Trump’s trade war trigger an advertising tax?; A wobbly week on the Index; and do TV debates still matter?

Effective?

Where to next for the commercial TV industry?

Is QMS going out through the in door, or in through the outdoor?

Red Monday for Unmade index; Take our AI survey

BotW: Enero woe; Growthops flops; and TikTok clock resets

Unmade Index scorecard: The first quarter

A smoking gun

The robots back Albo

BotW: Kiis prepares for a fierce gumming from ACMA; Radio National’s audience emergency; How to spend $770m

BotD: NRL TV rights stuck in neutral; Daily Aus won’t talk about profit; Clems back into retail

Streaming’s second decade begins now