Podcast

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 6 April: Coady leaves Havas, Unilever reviews media account, SBS’ Alone Australia uplift, new Roy Morgan findings

What’s behind Australia’s declining ad spend?

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 4 April: Tabcorp CEO’s gamble to cut ads, Red Havas’ appoints CEO, Hearts & Science Melbourne MD exits, Athena Home Loans has a new CMO

Start the Week: HBO to stream locally from next year; Nine’s killer quarter; Betting ads crackdown Is AI just a toy?

The Unmakers: Simon Hakim on building an incubator for challenger brands; Plus, a dip on the Unmade Index

Aussie advertising has its mojo back

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 28 March: TV’s first tentpole clash, This is Flow wins A2, Trilingual launch

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 27 March: Banning gambling ads, Binge brand partners, Idol ends on a high note, David Ray leaves Reddit

Start the Week: TV industry’s ratings system red faces; 69% think there are too many betting ads

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 23 March: Expansion at Atomic 212, Initiative retains Pernod Ricard, Private Media’s Fray redundant, Kantar’s BrandZ report

News Corp’s Michael Miller on reaching 1m subscriptions, negotiations with Facebook, the economic challenge of AI, and navigating advertiser boycotts

Protests, AI and blackjack: reporting live from Adobe in Las Vegas

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 21 March: Scire launch, News Corp’s D_Coded, new CHEP ECD, oOh Media study

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 20 March: Bullfrog nabs Saatchi & Saatchi duo, Suncorp’s latest Team Girls campaign, journalists warned against TikTok, Seven gains in weekly TV share

Start the Week: ABC to review its radio ratings decline; Dan Sinfield moves on from Meta; Anti-siphoning deadline approaches

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 16 March: KIIS topples 2GB streak, Tourism Tasmania’s new CMO, AFL season launches, NewsCorp mastheads unite under one brand platform

The metaverse is out and AI is in: Dan Monheit reports from SXSW

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 14 March: Menulog appoints Thinkerbell, Adobe says APAC is addicted to cookies, Sue Squillace goes to Attivo, MFA updates board

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 13 March: Henry Tajer welcomes influencer regulations, UM Brisbane finds new GM, MAFS TV dominance, Foxtel fights inflation claims

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 9 March: F*ck the Cupcakes sparks ugly backlash, Analogfolk turns local, ACCC targets tech giants, Milkrun restructure

What the retail media industry needs to do next

Will this creative appointment spark a new age of advertising glory at Publicis?

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 7 March: Paul Sigaloff, FIFA’s Saudi sponsorship, Zenith, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica update

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 6 March: Wunderman Thompson, Dean Chadwick, TV ratings, Ipsos Iris

Start the Week: How the TV networks are planning a premium video exchange; Web rankings redux; The rise of subscription video

Nearly time to turn off the transmitters. The viewing shift is happening faster than you think 1

How vital was securing HBO content for Foxtel’s streaming future?

‘We’re the only one-stop-shop at scale in Australia’: EssenceMediacom APAC CEO fires warning shot 6

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 28 February

The Evening Mumbo: Lisa Ronson makes a move, Lion creates new role, Foxtel and HBO rumours and the SMH tops news

Start the Week: Local podcast spend revealed; Another HBO lifeline for Binge; What results season told us

Is news coverage a safe environment for advertisers? 5

Start the Week: Meta launches paid verification; Results season unpacked; How media companies are prepping for a downturn

Spinach’s Ben Willee on the meaning of Nine’s Olympics win, why it’s okay to say the R-word, and loyalty in a fickle industry

What would a blockbuster merger between Seven West Media and HT&E look like?

Start the Week: A Seven-HT&E merger?; Breaking Bad wins the Super Bowl; What to watch for in financial results season

Ben Shepherd on why retail media is up with adwords as a media invention; how sales people can get his attention; and the 2023 outlook

More execs on the move; Mark Richardson’s new gig and AKQA’s Ajaz Ahmed

Start the Week: Catalano and Janz both make moves; What to look for in the News Corp results; TV ad revenue falls

Winds of change at Clemenger Group; MAFS gets jump on competitors plus AANA’s Josh Faulks

Hosting a single market is ‘much more fun’ says Mick Molloy as he takes on Sydney

The year in review: CMO moves; brand crises; a Netflix U-turn; war for the Market Herald; the madness of Musk and ABC’s audio audience collapse

Celebrating 10 years of NITV, but what challenges lie ahead for an under-resourced First Nations media sector?

Are best practice pitch guidelines being used? Few and far between, says Publicis boss Rebelo

Start the Week: Ten swings for the cricket; Musk goes after Twitter alumni; Paul Barry closes on Media Watch record

Election coverage, commercial models, Bargaining Code, privacy challenges and embracing TikTok: Wrapping 2022 in news media 2

StW: Brand trouble from the bondage bear; The Twitter files; TMH’s bloody boardroom coup

Is dentsu’s leadership team finally complete? 4

StW: New faces at Today and A Current Affair; Winners of the TV ratings year; Molloy in Sydney

Marketing in 2023 with Nick Garrett, Naomi Johnston, Richard Curtis and Andrea Dixon

Is sport becoming advertising’s problem child? Plus Dentsu’s new top creatives

One year on at GroupM: Clarity in the agency lineup, embracing Buchanan’s chaos and cautious optimism

StW: The journo departure lounge; Return of Twitter’s most toxic; The readership sausage

Should Christmas be Australia’s Super Bowl moment?

The Unmakers: Jamie Harding, CEO of Theatrix – the new streaming platform for the arts

Start the Week: Why 2GB split with Jim Wilson; Closing in on a cricket deal; Mega Meta cuts

A Good Different approach: How Aldi became a Special Buy through creative advertising

Upfronts season: As two BVOD markets emerge, is Netflix and co’s entry a validation of SBS’ premium strategy?

Start the Week: Musk’s ‘thermonuclear’ threat to advertisers; Nine to extend tennis deal as cricket bidding begins; ABC shakeup

Why Ooh Media’s Cathy O’Connor has been anything but bored with outdoor

Victoria saves the day for Netball Australia; and building a global tourism campaign with Justin Graham

Upfronts season: Why oOh!media’s new Reooh is ‘more than just retail’

Start the Week: Elon’s Twitter bloodbath begins; Mutiny’s new start; the Rebel Wilson verdict

When attention becomes disruption as QMS and City of Sydney reviews its street pylons

What good is doing good? Leo Burnett’s Catherine King on what the public expects from brands

Upfronts season: Why 2023 is the year to ‘bounce Seven into the future’; plus a warning shot to social media’s slice: ‘we’re coming after theirs’ 1

StW: Hi, Bayo: Foxtel set to merge Binge and Kayo; Will Nine swoop for early tennis deal? ABC shifts priorities

Can Ruby the Roo lure 9M tourists back to our shores? Plus, creating truly sustainable strategy with Salterbaxter

The Unmakers: Sinorbis founder Nico Chu on helping western marketers crack Asia

StW: News Corp’s merger; Stan to lose its NBCU deal? A disastrous media launch; Frankly’s ratings stinker

Mumbrellacast: The Guardian serialises the Ben Roberts-Smith trial, plus launching WeAre8 with Lizzie Young

The Unmakers: How Storipress founder Alex Pan wants to reinvent digital publishing

Upfronts Season: ‘Never say never’ to Paramount+ ad-tier; Pluto plans; and Netflix’s impact on BVOD

StW: F1 shambles; Dodgy government ad spend; Ita doubles down on missing ABC audience; Networks lobby on CTV 2

Paramount Upfront: How the Pluto FAST channels will change the game 2

Mumbrellacast: Is there room for another streamer? Plus Cummins & Partners’ Michael McConville

The Unmade podcast: Rich Curtis on the biggest names on the FutureBrand Index, election campaigning and Meta’s reputation recovery

Start the Week: Seven closes on Peacock; Lachlan Murdoch’s Nova profits revealed; what to expect at Ten’s upfronts

Mumbrellacast: Audio Campaign Review with Thinkerbell and Akkomplice; Plus F-List sparks conversation

The Unmade podcast: Jag Sanger of The Market Herald on buying Gumtree and Carsguide, and launching a newspaper

Start the Week: Forbes and Inc in Aussie head-to-head; the Optus hack; underwhelming AFL ratings; blood on the ASX

Upfronts season: Michael Stephenson on why we won’t see ads on Stan, and Nine’s upcoming slate

The Unmakers: WeAre8’s Lizzie Young on why she wants exactly 6.5% of social media budgets

Start the Week: Most watched TV; a perfect AFL lineup; Ten’s Saturday problem

Mumbrellacast: Nine kicks off upfronts season; plus evolving the Royal brand

The Unmakers: Richard Baker’s plan to build ‘the best independent premium audio storytelling house in the Southern hemisphere’

Start the Week: Reporting the biggest Royal story; TikTok the espionage machine?; NRL holds out its hand for Foxtel cash

Mumbrellacast: A cashed up AFL, a new Clemenger BBDO Australia, and Cartology’s Mike Tyquin