Analysis

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

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

Streaming’s second decade begins now

BotD: Bunnings gears up for retail media Hammer Time; Mumbrella tops the trade press numbers; Andrew Little out 1

BotW: The platforms recruit Trump for their fight with Australia 1

And now the calamitous news

The trust statistics that suggest a revolution is brewing

BotD: ‘No conspiracy’ says CRA; No signal from the ABC; No future at Clems for ECD 1

BotW: Nine’s night watchman bats on; Why not use AI?; 2Day chases the kids 3

The wrong metrics of retail; tell us if you want the REmade Awards to return; No early ASX fillip for Stanton

Toxicity versus tedium?

BotD: Optus joins the HumAIn lineup; WeAre8 shuts its doors in Oz; Emirates up for grabs

BotW: SCA kicked out of the All Ords; Poppy Reid’s social follower shenanigans; Hugh Marks’ first day

BotD: ‘Not all jobs are worth saving’; Women urged not to speak for free

BotD: OMG junior pay is worst in market, new data suggests; Oops, AI Did It Again; Tarsh Belling exits Triple M after just six weeks

BotD: More adland green shoots but SWM takes ASX hit; Change at the top for SXSW Sydney; Poppy Reid’s next gig

BotW: Vinyl Group slips out some late night numbers; How Meta outlasted its local crisis; Audio’s big week 1

BotD: Investors give belated thumbs-up to SCA results; the man who still believes in TV; the prosaic truth about a betting ad ban

BotD: The day SCA went audio-only, took Listnr profitable, and lost a drive host; ARN Media back into growth; Hallway creative chief exits

BotD: Enero loses ground; Sheargold off air after Matildas comment; Foxtel locks in last minute Max deal

BotD: Ita goes to war; Nine profits fall again

BotW: Domain bid starts unravelling the consolidation chain

Luke Girgis puts his reputation on the line in Vinyl Group legal battle

BotD: Ratings cut fails to lift media stocks; Reo signs another client; New IAB chair

BotD: News incentives postponed; Murdoch laundry; SCA wins on the Unmade Index

BotW: Ita’s version; TV’s Weekend at Bernie’s; and News Corp’s expiry date 1

How Kim Portrate helped the television industry ride the last wave

BotD: Is Bruce Gordon Nine’s next proprietor?; UFC vs The SMH; Unmade reveals new boss

BotW: What we learned at the Lattouf hearing; Here comes ADH; ARN drops below $200m

BotD: Max counts down to launch; SCA closes in on licences sale; News Corp impresses market

BotD: Rally on the Unmade Index; CRA owns up; Time’s up for Liz Hayes

BotD: W+K explains McBloke hires; Ooh Media drops below $600m threshold; CRA claims most podcasts get 100,000+ downloads

BotD: Another down year for ads; Meet the men of McDonald’s new ad agency; Sandilands’ brain drama

BotW: Publicis goes shopping; NRL goes to market; and Disrupt Radio goes down

BotD: How AI remains in the balance for Aussie marketers; ARN Media’s restructure; SWM surges on the Unmade Index 1

BotD: Atomic payday; the Pureprofile bounce; and DDB cuts jobs

BotW: Why Nine had to get rid of Cullen; Optus Sport on the block; Ooh Media readies for cuts 2

We’re buying Mumbrella 19

BotW: Ticking clock on the TikTok block; Winners and losers in the Nine shakeup 1

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

The Foxtel sale, and ARN Media makes another big move with Stephenson’s hire 1

BotW: The content guy’s biggest task – turning around the ABC; And what just happened with Nine’s sales guy?

SCA gets one foot out of the door on TV; and Unmade is coming to Auckland

You’re among the 98.54%. Here’s your escape plan

BotW: Kicking the can on the News Media Bargaining Code; Uncertainty guaranteed for News Corp; The InterCom combo; a tiny green shoot for K+J 1

Omnichannel, omnishambles; Retail media outlook for 2025; Seven West Media hits new low point

What’s wrong at Ooh Media?; And Seven West Media is overtaken by ARN

BotW: How Google bought the silence of Australia’s media establishment; Another Australia Day culture war; Drink riding 4

Digging into Aspermont’s slumping price, as auditors warn it may be unable to pay its bills

From generative AI hype peak to trough, but the revolution won’t be postponed

How sponsored content is contributing to Australia’s media literacy problem

BotW: Kim Williams picks the wrong fight; End-of-week crumbs for publishers; Goodbye WSFM, hello Gold 1

An abrupt exit at Mediaweek as James Manning is ‘sacked’; Unmade Index fades 14

Is radio’s audience really ageing? 2

TV’s most interesting battleground is FAST

BotW: The media inquiry that isn’t; Tough love for TV; and finding MediaLand 5

The view from the road

It’s getting pretty bloody hot in this saucepan; SCA shares leap

BotW: Bad policy, good politics?

A difficult decision looms for ARN

How a spat between a minnow publisher and computing giant showcases the existential threat faced by the trade press 1

BotW: The two-speed media economy; And yet another exit for Ben Shepherd

Wherever you are in Australia, please don’t miss Compass

Don’t forget that you’re entitled to a ticket to Compass

A transparency message for retail media; Unmade Index falls some more; Compass Melbourne panel revealed

When will investors find a reason to believe in media stocks again?

BotW: We’ve finally hit bottom but will there be a double dip?; How Qantas perks have tainted Albo’s brand

It’s here

Brands used inflation as a smokescreen to put up prices – are they ready for it to end?; Planets aligning for Seven-ARN merger

If TV networks really think they are paying too much to broadcast, test the market; ‘LinkedIn lecher’ boosts Vinyl stake