Unmade Podcast

The slog is relentless’: Claire Kimball and Kate Watson on the marathon of email publishing

StW: Media’s coming war with Meta as Facebook turns its back on news; TV Fight Club convenes

We couldn’t get a pulse back’ Patrick Delany on the rationale behind Foxtel’s pivot to streaming

StW: Media’s ‘extinction level event’; What to expect from SCA’s financials; Another Google AI brand blunder

Can the radio industry persuade marketers to rethink their media buying strategies?

STW – Hubbl revealed; Earnings season in earnest; Ten boss Jarrod Villani exits

How Vinyl, Australia’s only ASX-listed music company, got into publishing by buying The Brag Media

Start the Week: Vale Harold Mitchell; Australia’s new paper; Google’s bad AI brand strategy

Start the Week: Paramount in play?; ABC’s big commercial hire; Amazon Prime Video’s Aussie surge; Radio ‘smears’

How Gai Le Roy steered the IAB from spruiking digital to industry consensus

Start the Week: Is Nine trying to sell Domain?; New TV ratings system launches today; Is arcane ABC ready for Kim Williams?

Live at Compass: Rethinking TV measurement, creativity, and adland’s declining influence on culture

Live at Compass: Is WFH about avoiding work?; Will better reporting mean ad dollars?; Why won’t trade press tell readers what they know?

Connected: How Scott Lorson steered Fetch TV to Australia’s prime streaming aggregator 1

Start the Week: Big moves in publishing at Nine, Schwartz and LadBible; The year of carnage, AI and retail media

I don’t even think we’re at the early adopter stage’: AI agency founder Jeremy Somers on the disruption ahead 2

Start the Week: The year of the ad streamers; Retail media’s $1bn grab; ABC podcast data at last; What now for Seven?

‘You’re all battering each other’ – Why LBB’s Matt Cooper wants to focus on the positive in adland

Start the Week: Bed wars; Ten’s off season Bachelors strategy; Sky News’ streaming play

Nick Smith on taking the helm at News Corp’s content agencies Medium Rare and Storyation

Start the Week: Media redundancies; End of the Millionaire era; Nine closes in on Melbourne Cup

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What the retail media industry needs to do next

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

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

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