Analysis

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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?

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

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

Tuesdata: July’s most prolific TV advertisers

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

What we learned from Listnr yesterday

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

Tuesdata: Who won the cold and flu pharma battle

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

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+?

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

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

To the Infinite Dial… and beyond

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

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!

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

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

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

Attention surplus disorder

Best of the Week: What the new data tells us about Foxtel

Paramount gets serious about AFL; Mangled Monkeys; When it’s good to be boring

Revealed – How Labor outspend the other political parties for TV advertising in April

Best of the Week: Why Telstra bought into Fetch; the perils of the AFL TV rights deal

Why agencies tinker with their own brands; Announcing our first Unmade event

Why agencies tinker with their own brands; Announcing our first Unmade event

BOTW: The Netflix U-turn

Has Qantas got a brand crisis or just a PR problem?

Best of the Week: Why Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover will probably fail; bad faith publishing

The radio ratings in four charts you’ve not seen before

Best of the Week: How Omnicom and Publicis overtook WPP in financial performance

Australia’s biggest TV advertiser last month was the federal government promoting climate claims

Best of the Week: Sir Martin’s rocket ship suffers engine failure; Winners and losers of the quarter

Welcome to WebKeeper – where the real Budget winner is Big Digital, as usual

Best of the Week: Marketing in a cost-of-living crisis; Who (apart from Ten) would want SCA’s TV stations?; Is Qantas blowing its brand advantage?

How insurance became one of Australia’s most exciting marketing battlegrounds

Best of the Week: Good blokes, mean girls and newly unemployed men

An Unmade update – more subscribers, more listeners, more jetlag

Best of the Week: Henry Tajer’s next act; and radio’s losers

The end of one of adland’s great stands

Best of the Week: Foxtel’s float runs out of road as Telstra switches horses to Fetch

Dark patterns of digital putting behavioural economics in the ACCC’s crosshairs

Best of the Week: 102 Weeks Later