Analysis

BOTW: The economics of podcasting and a fork in the bird 1

BOTW: Rocketman strangles the bird; The curious Kyle ratings; Subscription winners; Amazon’s other best job 2

Members only: I want your Christmas campaign verdict; and a chance for us to catch up in Melbourne next week 4

A harsh (too harsh?) market verdict on News Corp’s quarterly numbers

How high can the Kyle & Jackie O rocket ship go?

Tuesdata: Last month’s biggest ads – supermarkets, insurance and betting brands

BOTW: The incineration of Twitter; the gambling backlash; Netflix pricing and Nine gets into product reviews

SBS makes a rational – and emotional – case for taking ad share from its commercial rivals

Who cares, wins

Tuesdata: How BeReal and TikTok are smashing Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat (and WeAre8 is yet to make a dent) 4

BOTW: Anti-social media, Sexpo style; Gravity catches the platforms; Musk reaches out to advertisers 1

Will Ooh Media pull off its retail media play?

Seven Upfront: A TV company that happens to own a newspaper; an AFL broadcaster that happens to air some cricket

Tuesdata: Last month’s top game advertisers

BOTW: Stan for sale?; Trouble at Kiis; Tabloid genius; Does the ABC really have Australia’s best marketing team?; Sydney’s cluttered streets

Binge gets an advertising tier as Foxtel sets out its wares for 2023 1

Dive BOM: Four executional errors and an unfathomable strategy have ruined The Bureau’s rebrand 1

Tuesdata: The new new News Corp merger explained in ten graphs

BOTW: Rupert puts the band back together; Netflix sets its Aussie ad price; see you in Melbourne

Carsales’ main media push shows where the classified players can go next

Tuesdata: Time in with the telly, for 30 years and counting

BOTW: Rich, talented arseholes

Rupert Murdoch goes platinum; and media stocks recover… a bit

Tuesdata: September’s most prolific TV advertisers

BOTW: The business of business publishing; Optus starts advertising; Falloon’s Nine exit 5

Optus writes a new chapter in the crisis handbook

Tuesdata: Which sports betting brand gambled the most on marketing?

Reputation crises for Optus and AFL; TV landmarks; and a bloody day on the ASX

Why Coles is getting out of the servo game 5

Tuesdata: How the supermarkets stack up in a cost of living crisis

BOTW: A holdco of vacancies

Nine Upfront: A dozen iterations, no revolutions

Tuesdata: How big tech stacks up after reporting season

BOTW: Performative.

Why Seven and Foxtel are willing to pay $40,000 per minute for the AFL deal

Tuesdata: August’s most prolific TV advertisers

BOTW: Publishing communities, backwards ad revenue and media’s lost trust 1

The Pureprofile turnaround: More evidence that domain expertise counts double

Media’s season in court: How The Teacher’s Pet changed Australia’s podcast landscape 1

Tuesdata: Is the digital advertising talent shortage easing?

Best of the Week: A tale of two broadcasters – the diverging fortunes of Nine and SCA

Australia’s most influential radio show has never had fewer listeners. The ABC’s audience problem is getting worse 2

Tuesdata: Which health insurance brand is currently spending the most?

Best of the Week: Faux pas, financials, BCS worship and the WFH debate (plus a request for some Slack feedback) 5

Lisa Ronson departs one of the biggest CMO roles, but how to mark her Coles scorecard?

Seven delivered two years of improved profits for the first time in its history, so why wasn’t the market more impressed? 1

Tuesdata: How the holding companies stack up after reporting season

Best of the Week: Walkbacks, setbacks, LinkedIn hacks, trainwrecks and a holdco flex

Triple J’s youth audience has fled. And no, it’s (mostly) not the internet’s fault – they’ve switched to commercial radio 4

How real estate is carrying News Corp while Binge fades

Tuesdata: The most interesting data from Facebook’s infamous Cunningham Memo

Saying the quiet bit about work-life balance out loud; tectonic plates of streaming move again

Media’s billion dollar bounceback 3

Tuesdata: July’s most prolific TV advertisers

Best of the Week: Qantas, Musk and Springsteen: Lessons in how to trash your brand 2

What we learned from Listnr yesterday 1

An Unmade update – preparing for our next leap (and two requests)

Tuesdata: How the social giants stack up

Best of the Week: Sorrell is a unicorn no longer; and Facebook pulled the rug on news again

Netflix numbers aren’t as bad as expected, but we’re still close to the streaming subs peak 1

Tuesdata: Who won the cold and flu pharma battle

Adland is a cosy club for some; why do so many want to leave? 1

Tuesdata: The most popular financial services brands this year

Best of the Week: Economic signals, radio noise and adland prevarication

An awkward pitch question for agency bosses: Have you hushed up claims of a predator in your midst?

Tuesdata: June’s most prolific TV advertisers

Best of the Week: A disastrous FY22; Biggest CMO move of the year; Letters: What’s the point of DAB+? 1

How Seven’s shotgun marriage to Cricket Australia turned to divorce proceedings 2

Unmade video: The essential update on communications law with Stephen von Muenster

To the Infinite Dial… and beyond 5

Tuesdata: The home loan providers that spent big as we entered a cost of living crisis

Best of the Week: Black holes in the metaverse 4

Tuesdata: Who rules the domestic skies as travel returns?

Unforced errors and cautionary tales

Indistinguishable from magic; And why is Seven doing worst in the market crash?

Wednesdata: May’s most prolific TV advertisers

Best of the Week: The media agency numbers game; Remember the ABC’s Project Jetstream?

As media valuations crash, is history about to repeat itself, a decade on?

Tuesdata: The fifteen biggest billing media agencies

Best of the Week: Should TV ditch the overnights? No! 2

Is the ABC’s next generation of radio listeners coming through? Not according to the ratings 4

Tuesdata: The automotive power player rankings, and the new contenders

Vibe check: Nervous and woke

Trust fails are bad for ratings too; The ASX bloodbath worsens for media stocks

Tuesdata: How the salaries of ASX-listed media and marketing CEOs stack up

Best of the Week: No winners in the Craig McLachlan court case; The atomised trade press

Making podcasting pay when the listening numbers don’t (yet) add up 7

Best of the Week: The media manifesto you won’t get next week, and the ASX rollercoaster 1