Analysis

Attention surplus disorder

Best of the Week: What the new data tells us about Foxtel 2

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 2

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

Why agencies tinker with their own brands; Announcing our first Unmade event 1

BOTW: The Netflix U-turn

Has Qantas got a brand crisis or just a PR problem? 3

Best of the Week: Why Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover will probably fail; bad faith publishing 3

The radio ratings in four charts you’ve not seen before 6

Best of the Week: How Omnicom and Publicis overtook WPP in financial performance 3

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? 2

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 6

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 2

Best of the Week: 102 Weeks Later

We interrupt this program to bring you a puppet show about tall poppies 1

Best of the Week: Ten finds a place in the Paramount family; meet Unmade’s new recruit 2

Seven’s hunting season is over – for now

Start the Week: Foxtel weighed up name change; InStyle returns; Tourism Australia back in the marketing business 1

Best of the Week: Why agencies can’t tell clients what they do 13

Government backs away from war on ABC in election year; CHEP reboots; Paul Henry – Breakfast was Ten’s poison chalice 2

Best of the Week: Facebook’s nightmare; Google’s ridiculous profit; and can they still get the Foxtel float away? 2

Nobody knows anything; Accenture’s big hire; NYT’s Wordle strategy

Start the Week: Eye of the Tiger; Day of the Cat; End of Business Insider; problematic pie charts

Best of the Week: Algorithmic adventures, idiot marketers, walled gardens and the Oban ferry

Start the week: Will The Cat reanimate Prime’s corpse?; Wobbly moments for the bear economy

Best of the Week: Has subscription streaming peaked, just as connected TV comes through? 4

Painful exits after Mumbrella’s illicit afterparty

Best of the Week: Radio’s new talent conveyor belt 1

Is it time for MLA to move on from Kekovich and co? Seven’s hot mic faux pas 1

How are we doing with Unmade?

Matt Damon and the heuristics of finance 1

The great News Corp breakup? And the Unmade Index kicks off today

Why James Warburton is Unmade’s CEO of the year. And announcing The Unmade Index 1

The dismal decade behind SCA’s radical end-of-year shakeup; Nine locks in NRL 3

Newsfeed: Worst company of the year; News Corp exec moves on; ABC chases the money

Spotify bought an Australian podcasting company yesterday. Here’s the reason

Some news about our plans for Unmade

Ratings crunching to reveal the secret radio star

Newsfeed: More drivetime shuffles; Molan’s TV downgrade; a new gig for Gaven Morris – already

Making sense of the Junkee sale; Doing the right thing when things have gone really wrong

The television will be revolutionised

Newsfeed: Junkee sale slows; Fletcher dumps on Facebook; News anchor sacked; Credlin says sorry

Why everyone’s mad for Spotify Wrapped and MrBeast; podcasting momentum; and you stayed too long, Jack

The distrust data shows there’s no political downside to hammering Facebook 1

Three months in: an update on Unmade’s progress 2

Things that matter: Radical new law for social media; Seven and Nine split the honours; Tony Talbot’s return; PHD bigwig’s exit

Ad Standards’ influencer muddle; the ancient Wiggle; and is the Morning Crew coming or going?

Foxtel loses another marketing director; Andrew Jaspan rides again; Matt Doran goes global

Stubbornness of the social media spoiler; ridiculous readership numbers; a favourable wind for HT&E

News Corp ends the platforms truce; Optus wins the EPL; the audio industry’s talent war; and a CMO responds

Pigs in blankets, podcasting alliances and the Australian Financial Review’s weak spot 2

Is podcasting a boom or a bubble?; Nine doubles down on digital; Aldi astroturfing 1

Joint CEOs for Australia’s top media agency – but will it be the long term plan?

JobKeeper: Half a billion reasons why the media industry owes Scott Morrison

HT&E is about to spend its war chest on buying Grant Broadcasters – so now what?

High wire media finances, controversial award winners and CMO successions 2

The CMO roundabout spins faster

The view from 40,000 feet: Hard going in the news business… and radio too

Breakfast wars according to Lisa Wilkinson: Was it actually like this? 1

What is Here, There & Everywhere planning to do with that big pile of money?

Seven’s bargain and SMI: Getting by 1

Seven pounces on Prime (which is bad news for SCA); Facebook’s ACCC warning; Woolworths Radio… again 2

Securing a new power base: An update on the Unmade adventure 3

News Corp – an exponential evolution? 3

The Google court case… wow

Starting the week: ABC under scrutiny; Coles most green?; Heart Foundation fades; ad tracking apocalypse 1

Enero on the up; Pureprofile stands still; TV’s lack of ambition; all change in radio; the Facebook logo 1

Ten reveals the most interesting slate for 2022; the Junkee deal; a new Facebook brand? 7

Starting the week: Nine closes on NRL; bids in on Junkee; Seven claims crown; New owner for Radio Today

Facebook and the tradespeople 1

Not so Flash? 8

Seven in 2022 – Sport and shiny floor shows but not much sizzle

Back to the war on the platforms 1

Not a normal radio ratings day

Rethinking Mamamia

An Olympian bounceback in monthly ad spend, but the media industry isn’t yet back on track

The problem with humans

The curse of the AFR, and radio changes in Sydney