Analysis

What is it with alcohol and the media industry?

When will we get a decent ad for an AI product?

Back to founder mode after Mat Baxter’s swift Mutinexit

BotW: What’s Snext for Nine? TV’s evolutionary moment

Scorecard: Mike Sneesby failed at Nine, but first he gave the company a future by launching Stan

An asteroid misses; an asteroid hits: privacy crackdown cancelled, as social media age law takes priority

Nine’s $3bn decline

BotW: Media companies aren’t marketing through the downturn; Disrupt Radio goes off air

Ooh Media kicks off Upfronts season with a rethink on retail media; Wipeout on the Unmade Index

Will Labor’s media reforms run out of time before the election?

A rotten start to the new financial year for ad spend; Why did the SCA and ARN share prices suddenly jump?

BotW: Lights out; Mourning The Monkeys; What next for SCA?

Cash crunch’: Disrupt Radio pauses live shows as staff await overdue pay

The consultancy wave recedes

BotW: Here come the juniors; Early exit of boss is good for the ABC – if they can find the right successor; Audio stocks take a hit

A $4.3m bill for the stalled SCA takeover but ARN Media isn’t giving up the chase

Unmade is three – here’s what’s new

Sometimes you have to cop to a bad quarter’ – Ooh Media drops a mediocre set of numbers

BotW: Half awake in Boomtown; Labor’s TV betting mess

Seven: As bad as it gets?

Diabolical trouble? To a point, Mr Shorten

3D chess: This is how Nine could buy Foxtel

BotW: Foxtel’s closing window; Seven braces for ABC’s revelations; 2Day kills another breakfast show

Elon may be a terrible platform proprietor but he’s got a point in his court case against advertisers

Seven’s debt pile overtakes its valuation; Unilever, PepsiCo, Cartology, Coles360 and IAB join REmade lineup

Adland gets a win on betting ads, but social licence is at stake; All red on Unmade Index

BotW: A digital levy for platforms now looks likely; Is the ad recession finally ending?

Does Google’s ad suck because it sucks, or because Gemini sucks?; And here’s what’s in store for the return of REmade

Seven things to watch for in results season

Handing over the torch; and the battle for News Corp’s future

How the retail media flywheel is crushing big media; How to win the REmade Awards

Cookiepocalypse postponed, but just wait for the Privacy Act amendments

The holding company mincer is eating agency brands

BotW: Global greenshoots; News Corp radio?; Is Sneesby about to pass the torch?

Newspapers are still on the extinction timeline – of course

Conversations with a robot wine salesman

BotW: Bad week for publishing; Good week for Paramount?; Bad week for Disrupt Radio; Bad behaviour at Mediaweek

Announcing the return of the REmade Awards; and Group M’s Marc Lomas on the evolution of Australian retail media

BotW: The new media legislation is out of date before the ink is dry

Ghost flights and party poppers: Brands aren’t saying sorry properly when they own up to customers

How Disrupt Radio lost nearly $5m in its first year on air; another new low on the Unmade Index

Scorecard: How FY24 was the year the bears came after Australia’s media stocks

BotW: The week the wheels fell off

Strategy eats synergy for breakfast: Why SCA rejected Catalano’s bid

TV’s bloodiest day

Why are so few board chairs actual experts on the media businesses they lead?

BotW: The cricket is behind the Amazon paywall, but does the public care? How Domain became half of Nine’s valuation

What’s the worst that AI can do to our industry (and can we prevent it)?

Are marketers and media agencies as complacent about ad fraud as they seem?

Despite Meta’s claims, the public say they get their news from social media

BotW: EOFY uncertainty; and the yin and yang of media exits

What PayPal’s retail media pivot means for brands; Media stocks lift from their low

There’s nothing normal about what’s happening to Australian media stocks

Decoding Peter Costello’s final salvo from his Nine exit

BotW: Slugging it out in Canberra; Brag Media boss’s weird exit; Grim milestones

Peter Costello’s shoulder barge turns Nine’s omnishambles into a shit show

No early Melbourne breakthrough for Kyle & Jackie O, and even SEN overtakes the ABC

SMI shows green shoot for news; Unmade Index pushes for 500

BOTW: Nine’s worst week – can Sneesby survive?; News Corp centralises; Is SCA taking The Cat seriously?

Peacock party: Why it makes sense for Comcast to buy Seven

Half.

The worst people in the world are making the most desperate hand over their data. What could possibly go wrong?

BotW: Amazon joins the fight for video ad dollars; a damp election campaign launch; and the Naked legacy

Is the future of journalism producing training fodder for the AI companies?

The shady underbelly of principal media

Who killed Skippy? How the TV networks turned their backs on their next generation

BotW: DM insights from the oldest boyband in town; the Initiative decapitation; An Optus-Max partnership?

A baller move from OpenAI, but who will end up paying for all this ‘free’ technology?

Arming the polar bears with flamethrowers while the ice melts – the AI acceleration

ARN’s takeover bid for SCA is on the critical list; can it be saved?

BotW: Crunchtime for SCA takeover; When the going gets tough for marketers; Seven-versus-everyone (Part 7); Foxtel flattens; Canberra wakes up to social media

Outpost: Almost all our major advertising and media dynamics now begin offshore

Behavioural economics, soft diplomacy and hardnosed pragmatism of airline marketing

BOTW: How news is becoming a collective industry; and SMI’s latest bloodbath

Help us learn how AI is being used in marketing and media

Tax is the answer; media’s great extinction deb(AI)t; and the Unmade Index rebounds

BOTW: The end of audits; Foxtel’s shifting sands; and a wild day on the Unmade Index

Anatomy of a viral news story: Why the Arj Barker baby controversy went everywhere

How UnLtd pivoted to purpose

BOTW: Seven’s new era; Meta turns on its AI; Radio leads change hands; and here come Amazon and Uber

Uber’s big moves; Are marketers missing a trick with brand-to-brand partnerships?; and James Warburton exits Seven

Shots fired. An ad agency boss says you shouldn’t come to our AI conference. Why?

The company you keep: What the Bruce Lehrmann affair says about Seven’s culture

BotW: Sexist advertising is back, baby; Facebook can go on serving scam ads; The Unmade Index’s rotten week

Does today’s strong Publicis result mean the industry’s pulse is coming back?

TV gets a win; Our AI conference program unveiled; Unmade Index hits a record low

When wastage becomes fraud

BotW: Will Warburton go early?; The future of Paramount shapes up; and AI trust issues