Unmade Podcast

‘You’re not going to get an AI agent to watch TV for you’ Samsung’s Alex Spurzem on the rise and rise of connected TV

A garden that needs to be tended every day’: Adam Cadwallader on bringing Motio to life

Nothing is more powerful than an authentic host read’ – How Earmax is finding a place as Australia’s first podcast media agency

The moats are gone’ Unmade’s Compass live at Mumbrella360

Clive Dickens on harnessing the AI opportunity as traditional jobs go away

Live from m360: The Unmade-Mumbrellacast crossover episode

Live at HumAIn: ‘It’s the garden of Eden with no weeds.’ How AI is driving a second coming for chatbots

We can sit around and shake our fists like blacksmiths in the 1900s, angry at cars’: How creative Chas Bayfield is riding out AI

AI slop is putting brand trust at risk, warns Getty Images’ creative head 2

A love letter to the ridiculous and wonderful world of agencies’: How Rob Mayhew went from adland to creator

How local media remains divided as audience trust evaporates

What’s holding marketers back from AI?

Here comes Tubi 2

BotD: Live from Compass Auckland; Ooh Media finds momentum; yet another Clems rethink

I love winning’: Atomic 212 boss Barry O’Brien on staying hungry, and selling to Publicis

Live from Compass Melbourne: Can adland change for women?; get ready for rage; and ‘dumb’ cash giveaways in radio

StW: Hugh Marks and Matt Stanton firm up for ABC and Nine; Plus our 2024 verdict, and 2025 predictions

Live from Compass Adelaide: Fake CMOs; too many pitches and did Campaign Brief deserve the benefit of the doubt?; Vinyl buys Concrete Playground

StW: Omnicom set for Interpublic takeover; Should Nine sell its radio stations? Meta’s designation decision approaches 1

Live from Compass Perth: Hard truths about the cost of career success; Why publishers are giving Google a free pass; raising the bar on WA’s ‘lazy’ creativity

StW: Farewell The Monkeys; ACCC to muscle up against platforms; AI content theft;

Live from Compass Sydney: ‘Weaponised procurement’, tax-dodging platforms and the AI gold rush; SEN ready to play

StW: Remembering Lisa Ronson; High pressure day for SCA; Should Paramount buy Seven?

Live from Compass Brisbane: ‘Best navigator wins’, the looming war on social media, and saving television

StW: Kochie’s Law, Bluesky’s week, and Coke’s AI Christmas ad

Live from Compass Hobart: Avoiding invisibility, a burnout epidemic and the foolishness of hustle culture

StW: AGMs, Upfronts, and the first podcast election

The most powerful lobbyist in Canberra’ Joe Aston on how Qantas featherbeds politicians to get its way

StW: The age of zero click arrives in Oz; Verdict on Myer’s Christmas humbug ad; Nine chair faces fight for her seat

I’m deeply concerned with the future of the open web’ IAB Tech Lab boss Tony Katsur on why he worries about walled gardens

StW: Seven News boss rails against ‘evil forces’ summoned by Meta and co as lobbying intensifies

It’s been cathartic’: Foxtel’s Mark Frain on parting ways with the TV establishment; Compass Brisbane

StW: How Campaign Brief double glazed adland’s glass ceiling; Rape claim at Nine

We did kick the door down’: Four Pillars Gin co-founder Matt Jones on growing a brand and a whole industry; Compass Sydney

StW: Campaign Brief ‘misogyny’; AI brings back dead stars; Aldi overtakes disgraced rivals on brand trust

We are approaching retail media 3.0′: Lessons from REmade’s leaders

The Unmakers: How Mercha is reshaping Australia’s promo merchandise sector

StW: How will ACCC intervention hit retail media?; Succession for Bruce Gordon; More AI magic (and menace)

The accidental publisher: How Josh Simons ended up running Australia’s fourth biggest ASX-listed publishing company

StW: Warburton’s media move; LinkedIn scrapes; Telstra’s ad blitz; sporting codes lobby against betting ad ban

We don’t see ourselves as a free to air business any more’ – Rod Prosser on Paramount’s evolution

StW: Nine moves on from the Sneesby era; Upfronts season: Independents Day and Paramount on stage

StW: Privacy postponed; Big fines for scam ads; New AI rules; Unpaid Disrupt Radio staff unready for startup ‘rough and tumble’

StW: Earnings season rolls into Upfronts; Why 7am on Thursday is podcasting’s golden hour

Bernard Salt on why the pursuit of lifestyle is the key to Australia’s consumer psyche

StW: How agencies are screwing news media with lazy brand safety; Google’s biggest AI search rival reveals ad plans

How Man of Many became more than whisky and watches

StW: Tech tax door cracks open; ABC’s bold Media Watch move; Ooh Media reveals a down half

Foxtel’s streaming boss Julian Ogrin on chasing 5m homes and winning the ad war

StW: Cosmo’s return; Rumblings over Nine’s Domain ownership, share buyback and move on Foxtel; the week in AI

The loophole in democracy’: Crikey boss Eric Beecher on the power of (mostly) unregulated media proprietors

StW: Labor backs off on betting ads; Rex regrets; and digital ad levy firms up

Live at HumAIn: AI Read The News Today, Oh Boy; and relief rally finally lifts Unmade Index back above 500 points

StW: Infinite Dial 2024; Strike begins to hit Nine’s papers; the low nutrition AI content farms spool up

Starting a business is a creative act’ – Sir John Hegarty on applying creativity

We don’t think it’s sustainable for them to operate in this market’ – News Corp’s Nicholas Gray on the potential to kick Meta out of Australia

StW: Is Nine’s Olympic balance sheet red or black?; Mediaweek for sale to Vinyl Group? Upfronts partying on hold

I want the show to be more widely available’: Christian O’Connell pushes for networking into Sydney

StW: After media’s meltdown, what comes next?; AI for PR monitoring; Voiceover artists’ existential threat

There doesn’t seem to be any let up’ former Austereo boss Michael Anderson on the ad market’s accelerating decline

StW: Southern Cross Austereo makes up its mind about ACM; New alarm over uninvited AI scraping

The Unmakers: Chris Wirasinha on how Linkby is helping publishers rework the affiliate marketing game

StW: Why women are rejecting news; Research industry trembles at AI onslaught; Seven’s comic signing 1

Busting the digital audio fraudsters, and how connected TV is the scammers’ latest honeypot; Seven’s debt milestone

AI is news media’s extinction event: the verdict – our closing HumAIn Great DebAIt

StW: Newest retail media network revealed; First ratings clue on K+J; Paramount sale into the endgame; Platforms targeted

If transformation was easy, everyone would do it’: New Mutinex CEO Mat Baxter on why adland is stuck in old models

Will Nine’s scandal over news boss take down leadership? Agencyland’s new player; News Corp restructures

The Mamamia transition – In conversation with new CEO Nat Harvey and proprietor Jason Lavigne

StW: Epochal days in AI; can ARN’s scale logic win the day in the SCA battle?

Lou Barrett on News Corp’s sales evolution, and is the industry ready to try again for a local premium content exchange?

StW: ARN races to rescue SCA takeover as Anchorage wimps out; TV sports rights showdown; Is OpenAI going to take on Google?

The Unmakers: Fabulate it – How an Australian tech platform is helping brands manage big influencer campaigns

StW: Cost cutting on Nine agenda as Sneesby spray goes public; and SXSW unveiled

Prophet growth: How Jordan Taylor-Bartels is using big math to predict marketing goals

StW: K+J Day; Cosmo is back; Google hides local ad revenue as Twitter’s take collapses

StW: TikTok crackdown; Consumers’ sauce sacrifices; Free-to-air ads slump 17%; ABC ups its marketing spend 3

Anthony DeCeglie on the Nightly: ‘There’s a demand for quality journalism that’s free, mainstream middle’

StW: The Bondi Junction attack – How 2GB led the way as the ABC went missing; Lehrmann verdict; Fast food ads next 1

How Daniel Kahneman, the grandfather of behavioural economics, changed marketing

StW: James Warburton set to leave Seven next week; Bad pitches; How AI is driving copyright dodging

It’s fear that stops men standing up. They don’t want to rock the boat’

As Paramount+ preps its local ad tier, ANZ boss Beverley McGarvey and global chief Marco Nobili talk strategy, speculation and sport

StW: Google tells agencies AI will eat their jobs; What was Accenture thinking?; Smart TV app verdict imminent

Voice of the indies: Sam Buchanan on the rise of Independent Media Agencies Australia

StW: ACCC takes aim at search; SCA board spill gathers momentum

Every question was being answered the wrong way’ – Erik Jensen on ten years of the Saturday Paper

StW: Countdown to Kyle; ‘AI will do 95% of agency jobs’; Will Nine buy back Catalano’s papers?