Opinion

Staff churn, big rosters and finding audiences: the challenges ahead for media agencies

Good and bad advice for businesses thinking of lobbying the Government 2

Why MacGyver is to blame for the lack of mobile ad formats 4

What is Peach? And should my brand be on it? 6

After Opera House evacuation, is it time for media to stop reporting every terrorism scare? 12

Not all awards are born equal 7

Credit Where it’s Due: Helen McCabe 6

Big Bash’s big boom: Will success see its sponsorship and broadcast dollars double? 2

Peak content or peak opportunity? 5

David Bowie – innovator extraordinaire

Will 2016 be the year Australian creativity died? 15

Netflix is everywhere (almost), so what does this mean for local media? 6

Optus’ new roster: Why these agencies? Where are the brands headed? What does it mean for a new CMO? The impact for Telstra 25

How the Melbourne Stars landed Optus as its major sponsor in under 24 hours 3

‘The Oscars of advertising’: Can the Clio Awards parlay its Mad Men fame into more entries? 2

Metrics, magic and markets: How surf brands used Instagram in 2015 4

Dick Smith: a brand battered one too many times 14

Big Bash League should wash its hands of Chris Gayle to avoid tarnishing the brand 33

Welcome to 2016: the year of virtual reality, ad avoidance, the talent battle and specialist PRs 2

By igniting the commercial debate, new ABC boss Guthrie fails her first leadership test 11

The social year in review 3

Podcasts: where people are actually choosing to listen to ads 3

I wish I’d made the Stoner Sloth campaign 21

Tinder’s latest partnership is a strange, annoying match

Why great writing has seen the Star Wars force re-awaken 12

Making climate change sexy…media sexy 3

The sharing economy will envelop brand data 3

Why commercial media shouldn’t fear a Googler at the helm of the ABC 3

Are you too old for social media? 41

The year in publishing: When a surfer punched a shark, Belle Gibson was exposed, Bronwyn took a chopper ride and Turnbull ascended 2

Dream big and live large: A tribute to events organiser David Grant 4

Why doing good is good business 3

Radio bosses: Melbourne set for marketing war; Hit looks to breakfast as Hamish & Andy slip; Macquarie’s concern as evenings freefall 5

Deep or wide? The existential question for business media 4

Being the oldest person in the room 25

Boiling the frog: how Sorrell stalked Singo’s prize for a decade and a half 3

From Chris Mitchell to Boris, life under leaders new and old at The Australian 15

After the Paris agreement the climate has changed for marketing and communications 6

Content delivered at the right time will trump any other marketing 23

Procurement in advertising. Friend or foe? 5

What would aliens learn from our advertising industry? 4

No you don ‘t need an app for that, no matter what the boss thinks 6

Streaming has been getting all the attention but TV is still doing the heavy lifting 14

What does the government’s new innovation focus mean for the media and marketing industries? 1

Why creative directors can be hopeless at hiring 41

Work is no longer a place 16

What are the great Aussie ads of the 21st Century so far? 17

The world game’s handling of the fan crisis is in a world of its own 13

Does Your Dry Cleaner Really Need To Be On Social Media? 9

How can we save the ad industry? Don’t be advertising 37

Were there any real winners in the last TV ratings year? 3

Starting an agency will make or break you 15

Use it or lose it – data alone is no loyalty-maker

The questions clients & agencies should ask about the MFA transparency framework 1

A guide to the Paris climate change talks for marketing and communications people 6

Divergent approaches to corralling native in the wild tests which approach will be right 2

The data doesn’t show that the mummy blogger era is ending anytime soon 3

Can better data help agencies overcome transparency issues?

Mummy blogs aren’t outdated, they are evolving for the modern media landscape 9

A plate of media redundancy schadenfreude, but whose fault is the bitter aftertaste? 14

Why are agencies so bad at handling their own reputations in a crisis? 2

Should you sponsor the 2018 Commonwealth Games?

Ad Blocking: Can the digital disruptors take their own medicine?

A slow motion car wreck: The unravelling of Droga5 Sydney 64

Don’t look back… something might be gaining on you

Australia’s successful arts community offers a lesson to adland and creativity’s future 4

Diversity and creativity – the time for a collective solution is now or it’s just another Groundhog Day 18

Leo Burnett Sydney CEO’s open letter on equality debate 24

Disproportionate coverage of Paris attacks is not just the media’s fault 4

What if the #YourTaxis ‘fiasco’ is actually good social media, not bad? 11

While Rome burns, we are busy building a new city 2

Leo’s Friday afternoon tweets highlight the industry’s problems with equality 17

Why I’m discriminating with my new agency’s hires 11

Filmmakers rejoice as Tropfest drops dead 48

Tropfest cancellation bad news for adland as the industry loses a nursery 3

Boys’ club: The ad industry’s secret shame 20

Five unspoken truths getting in the way of gender equality 53

Radio bosses: Rove and Sam marketing to start next year, Hughesy and Kate to get makeover

Ad tech marketers have valid opinions too 1

How I helped a medical victim tell her story 5

Credit where it’s due: David Gyngell

Five things to know about the new CEO of Nine Hugh Marks 3

Family a fitting epitaph for Neil Lawrence in his last work for Qantas 2

Thumb-stopping creativity: How to win the three second audition 2

Defining branded content: Does anyone really care? 3

Should SBS be launching a competitor to existing cash strapped gay press? 5

News Connect: How News Corp’s data-driven partnership with Quantium works