Podcast

Nick Rynne on leading Seven’s new streaming bet with community sports service Streamer

New Mumbrellacast: ARN boss tells us about landmark Kyle & Jackie O deal; Is SCA doomed?; The fallout from Kelly Bayer Rosmarin’s Optus resignation

Start the Week: TV lobbies at war; ACCC’s Plan B if Meta drops news; Hamish McLennan and OpenAI boss in the exit lounge

The hour that decides an agency’s fate: Jonathan Pease on how to win the room

New Mumbrellacast: Optus still has a chance to turn this comms crisis around; What Seven West Media’s stake in ARN/SCA wars really means

Start the Week: Seven gatecrashes the radio war; Google plots cutting off search in Australia; Michelle Rowland gets cosy with gambling lobby

Final word on Upfronts season: Investment bosses give their verdict; and SBS boss James Taylor sets out his stall

New Mumbrellacast: Optus dealing with crisis comms over outage; is the Melbourne Cup on its last legs?

Start the Week: Nine retains The Ashes; Media bosses step up platform lobbying; Consumers cut their streaming spend

Still massive advertising dollars in linear’: How Paramount is balancing a streaming future with Ten’s broadcast present

New Mumbrellacast: The realities of the CHEP redundancies; Inside SCA’s AGM

Start the Week: Curtain closes on Upfronts season; what’s to come at SBS?; Catalano enters SCA bidding saga; Seven’s new masthead

The Unmakers: 25 years of Abe’s Audio

New Mumbrellacast: The good and the bad of SXSW; deep dive into upfronts season; latest on ARN’s SCA takeover bid

Start the Week: SCA seeks alternative buyers; SXSW Sydney report card; Performative good

Bonus: The Unmade x TV Blackbox crossover – Live at the Seven Upfronts

(Re)defining retail media

New Mumbrellacast: ARN’s shock bid for rival SCA; Telstra’s agency shake-up; Is marketing dead?; Voice advertising fall-out

Start the Week: SXSW kicks off; ARN closes in on Kyle & Jackie O deal; end of Upfronts season

Know my role, play my role’: Russel Howcroft on learning his new craft of radio

Start the Week: Seven claims the year; News publishers ask for more cake; Market Herald chases rebrand

The world’s most secretive democracy’: Peter Greste on Australia’s press freedom problem

It’s not doing what I aspired’: How programmatic pioneer Brian O’Kelley is trying to fix his mess

Start the Week: Foxtel loses patience with anti-siphoning; Ads come to Amazon’s Prime Video

Setting up an ad network is the smallest part’: Retail media evangelist Colin Lewis explains how Australia took the lead 2

Start the Week: Kyle and Jackie O push for $200m deal, Amazon tries to siphon TV ad revenue

Brief once, personalise everywhere’: How Avid Collective is trying to become a native content engine

Start the Week: Countdown to Facebook news oblivion; Dissecting Nine’s Upfronts: Retail media, AI ads and the price of Olympics sponsorship

We were doing AI before it was sexy’: Sonnant’s Tony Simmons on revolutionising audio content

Start the Week: What to expect from Upfronts season; payday for Clems shareholders; How much is online news worth to Google?

Just a little too arrogant and authoritarian’: Barrie Cassidy on how the ABC reacts to criticism

Start the Week: Harsh words for TMH management; Telstra’s second streaming horse; Ita’s farewell and Anderson’s second term

It will create tons of new jobs’: Marcel’s global president Arpit Jain on AI’s impact on agencies

Start the Week: A rubbish start to earnings season, Ooh’s profit fall; and a twist in government’s anti-siphoning laws

Start the Week: Matildas mania; Uplift in Tassie tourism; Is outdoor company QMS in play?

Thinkerbell’s Jim Ingram and Adam Ferrier on the measured magic of life after PwC

StW: TV lobbying machine hits Canberra; earnings season predictions; Editor suddenly exits Mumbrella

The Great DebAIt: Is the rise of AI a threat to marketing jobs, or merely a useful tool?

Is Australia’s ad spend really on the up? The acquisition of Sefiani, and analysing the Women’s World Cup audience

Start the Week: Foxtel’s next move; DDB doubles down on digital; ARN woos Kyle and Jackie O; Seven’s Logies gamble a hit

Private Media’s Will Hayward on the chase for growth, information niches and the mental health cost of fighting Lachlan Murdoch

Start the Week: Grim outlook for marketing industry; Media’s ‘biggest horror decisions’; Netflix loses local grip

I love to prove the naysayers wrong’: Scire founder Chris Janz on launching a subs-led business publishing challenger

Start the Week: HumAIn highlights; ABC loses under-55s; New start for Clems; Scire’s hires; World Cup sponsors revealed

The critics are saying they’re going to give us six months’: Trying to make sense of Disrupt Radio

Start the Week: Will the market support a Credlin-Abbott podcast?; The intriguing thing about Domain’s Review reboot

It would have been annihilation’ Nick McKenzie on Nine’s high stakes defamation battle with Ben Roberts-Smith

Start the Week: Will Kyle and Jackie O move?; ABC board gets to grips with radio woes; Twitter meltdown

The Unmakers: An adland return for Justin Drape and Michael Canning, with Exceptional Alien Studio

Start the Week: Recriminations over ARN’s SCA share raid; Call for total betting ban looms; Australia’s platform laws get global pickup

What to expect from the new CEOs at Havas as James Wright and Gayle While take charge

The first AI radio host?; Fast food ads under threat; the ABC job cuts; a key appointment for SBS streaming 2

It’s like addressing the United Nations of the creative industries’: Colin Daniels, the man bringing SXSW to Sydney

Why JCDecaux’s Steve O’Connor is bullish that programmatic will make a difference in outdoor

Start the Week: Melbourne Cup in play; Business groups launch ad war; Cultural issues at the side hustle hurt Kochie’s lap of honor

How Zenith boss Jason Tonelli is tripling down on client ROI, and wants to return the Audit Bureau to relevance

TV rumour mill goes into overdrive; grad salary story sparks a hot debate; how brands should approach The Voice and a chat with Kochie

Start the Week: D-Day for defamation laws; TV revenues under attack; Kochie leaves Sunrise

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 25 May: Mumbrella Awards shortlist, grad salaries in question, Unibet fined, Online ad growth flattens

Ten years of The Guardian in Australia: Finding a niche next to Fairfax and News Corp

Stan Grant’s exit and the ABC walk-out; Walkley’s awkward legacy; Ferrier’s new radio gig and a chat with Lion’s Chris Allan

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 23 May: Peter Holder leaves DMA, Foxtel and BeIn deal ends, Deloitte Digital new local boss, Stan Grant’s final speech

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 22 May: Gov launches Voice info campaign, ABC denies ignorance, Seven wins the week in TV, Esan Tabrizi departs Deloitte Digital

Start the Week: A new Twitter clone from Meta; Coalition promises TV networks $46m tax cut; new hires at Scire; No love for subs

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 18 May: HT&E rebrands to ARN Media, Meta could charge for usage, BMF gets new ECDs, Rugby Australia’s stance on the Voice

The start of Coles’ new customer focused era 2

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 16 May: Clemenger redundancies, Vice goes bankrupt, TV launch blows up, concerns for Gov’s anti-vaping campaign

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 15 May: New Snap MD, changes at SCA, Sean Cummins on working from home, Forty Winks appoints indie agencies

Start the Week: Google in the frame on PWC’s tainted tax advice; Albanese turns up temperature on gambling ads; new local leaders for Snap

Is the Albanese government a friend or foe of the Australian media sector?

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 9 May: Tennis Aus appoints BMF, Sportsbet breach, The Brag’s new GM, Lego Masters finale ratings

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 8 May: MasterChef launches figures, Jules Lund returns to radio, Qantas ditches AFR

Start the Week: Qantas goes to war on the AFR; Jules Lund returns to radio; ABC addresses digital leadership deficit

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 4 May: Leadership changes at IAG and KPMG, MasterChef to air Sunday, plus Wednesday TV ratings

Who’s the top performer in April’s campaign round-up? The answer is in the keg

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 2 May: Kantar SVOD report, Ogilvy creative restructure, Pure.amplify shuts, Berkeley Comms launches

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 1 May: Jock Zonfrillo passes away, VOZ launches, I’m A Celebrity finale ratings, New CEO at SCA

Start the Week: Why it was time for Grant Blackley to go; a new start for the TV industry; Twitter’s monetisation plans for publishers; Coles Radio up for grabs

Azure Antoinette on how industry can overcome its ‘inherent fear around diversity, equity and inclusion’

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 20 April: New senior marketer at ANZ, GfK metro radio ratings, Dentsu says Yes to the Voice

Fox and Dominion settlement avoids historic trial; Savage unpacks agency positioning; and Foxtel Media’s Mark Frain

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 18 April: Kate Bailey’s expanded remit and other new appointments, Similarweb debunks Musk’s claims, and The Reject Shop partners with Thinkerbell

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 17 April: TPG and IKEA go to pitch, Tinder’s new campaign, Seven wins second Easter TV week

Start the Week: Total TV finally approaches; Eddie for 3AW drivetime?; How streaming quotas will work; Google’s speaker blunder

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 13 April: Paramount+ lands Formula 1 deal, Murdoch defamation case update, Clemenger BBDO’s Dani Bassil, Harvest Snaps’ new platform

How Kirsty Muddle is making the single-brand holdco a local reality, even if that means taking creativity off its pedestal

Agency startup takes it to consultancy giants; breaking down pitchapalooza and Clemenger’s Dani Bassil

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 11 April: PHD wins Hesta account, Nine wins Easter in TV, new Carlton Draught campaign