Analysis

BotW: Mount up 1

How DDB lost Maccas after half a century; the week in AI; Unmade Index in the green

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 1

Friends reunited 1

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 1

BotW: The ABC’s Antoinette problem is a long way from over; ARN confronts its K+J problem; In praise of the ACCC 3

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? 1

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 3

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 1

How the Project survived (and even thrived) for 16 years 1

BotW: AI winners showing up; How Rob Morgan built a local behemoth; Why Greg Hywood is unimpressed with Nine’s management 1

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 3

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 2

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 2

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 1

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 2

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 5

BotW: Will Trump’s trade war trigger an advertising tax?; A wobbly week on the Index; and do TV debates still matter? 3

Effective? 2

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 1