Podcast

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

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?