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Best of the Week: A disastrous FY22; Biggest CMO move of the year; Letters: What’s the point of DAB+? 1

How Seven’s shotgun marriage to Cricket Australia turned to divorce proceedings 2

Unmade video: The essential update on communications law with Stephen von Muenster

To the Infinite Dial… and beyond 5

Tuesdata: The home loan providers that spent big as we entered a cost of living crisis

Best of the Week: Black holes in the metaverse 4

Tuesdata: Who rules the domestic skies as travel returns?

Unforced errors and cautionary tales

Indistinguishable from magic; And why is Seven doing worst in the market crash?

Wednesdata: May’s most prolific TV advertisers

Best of the Week: The media agency numbers game; Remember the ABC’s Project Jetstream?

As media valuations crash, is history about to repeat itself, a decade on?

Tuesdata: The fifteen biggest billing media agencies

Best of the Week: Should TV ditch the overnights? No! 2

Is the ABC’s next generation of radio listeners coming through? Not according to the ratings 4

Tuesdata: The automotive power player rankings, and the new contenders

Vibe check: Nervous and woke

Trust fails are bad for ratings too; The ASX bloodbath worsens for media stocks

Tuesdata: How the salaries of ASX-listed media and marketing CEOs stack up

Best of the Week: No winners in the Craig McLachlan court case; The atomised trade press

Making podcasting pay when the listening numbers don’t (yet) add up 7

Best of the Week: The media manifesto you won’t get next week, and the ASX rollercoaster 1

Attention surplus disorder

Best of the Week: What the new data tells us about Foxtel 2

Paramount gets serious about AFL; Mangled Monkeys; When it’s good to be boring

Revealed – How Labor outspend the other political parties for TV advertising in April

Best of the Week: Why Telstra bought into Fetch; the perils of the AFL TV rights deal 2

Why agencies tinker with their own brands; Announcing our first Unmade event 1

BOTW: The Netflix U-turn

Has Qantas got a brand crisis or just a PR problem? 3

Best of the Week: Why Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover will probably fail; bad faith publishing 3

The radio ratings in four charts you’ve not seen before 6

Best of the Week: How Omnicom and Publicis overtook WPP in financial performance 3

Australia’s biggest TV advertiser last month was the federal government promoting climate claims

Best of the Week: Sir Martin’s rocket ship suffers engine failure; Winners and losers of the quarter

Welcome to WebKeeper – where the real Budget winner is Big Digital, as usual

Best of the Week: Marketing in a cost-of-living crisis; Who (apart from Ten) would want SCA’s TV stations?; Is Qantas blowing its brand advantage? 2

How insurance became one of Australia’s most exciting marketing battlegrounds

Best of the Week: Good blokes, mean girls and newly unemployed men

An Unmade update – more subscribers, more listeners, more jetlag 6

Best of the Week: Henry Tajer’s next act; and radio’s losers

The end of one of adland’s great stands

Best of the Week: Foxtel’s float runs out of road as Telstra switches horses to Fetch

Dark patterns of digital putting behavioural economics in the ACCC’s crosshairs 2

Best of the Week: 102 Weeks Later

We interrupt this program to bring you a puppet show about tall poppies 1

Best of the Week: Ten finds a place in the Paramount family; meet Unmade’s new recruit 2

Seven’s hunting season is over – for now

Start the Week: Foxtel weighed up name change; InStyle returns; Tourism Australia back in the marketing business 1

Best of the Week: Why agencies can’t tell clients what they do 13

Government backs away from war on ABC in election year; CHEP reboots; Paul Henry – Breakfast was Ten’s poison chalice 2

Best of the Week: Facebook’s nightmare; Google’s ridiculous profit; and can they still get the Foxtel float away? 2

Nobody knows anything; Accenture’s big hire; NYT’s Wordle strategy

Start the Week: Eye of the Tiger; Day of the Cat; End of Business Insider; problematic pie charts

Best of the Week: Algorithmic adventures, idiot marketers, walled gardens and the Oban ferry

Start the week: Will The Cat reanimate Prime’s corpse?; Wobbly moments for the bear economy

Best of the Week: Has subscription streaming peaked, just as connected TV comes through? 4

Painful exits after Mumbrella’s illicit afterparty

Best of the Week: Radio’s new talent conveyor belt 1

Is it time for MLA to move on from Kekovich and co? Seven’s hot mic faux pas 1

How are we doing with Unmade?

Matt Damon and the heuristics of finance 1

The great News Corp breakup? And the Unmade Index kicks off today

Why James Warburton is Unmade’s CEO of the year. And announcing The Unmade Index 1

The dismal decade behind SCA’s radical end-of-year shakeup; Nine locks in NRL 3

Newsfeed: Worst company of the year; News Corp exec moves on; ABC chases the money

Spotify bought an Australian podcasting company yesterday. Here’s the reason

Ratings crunching to reveal the secret radio star

Newsfeed: More drivetime shuffles; Molan’s TV downgrade; a new gig for Gaven Morris – already

Making sense of the Junkee sale; Doing the right thing when things have gone really wrong

The television will be revolutionised

Newsfeed: Junkee sale slows; Fletcher dumps on Facebook; News anchor sacked; Credlin says sorry

Why everyone’s mad for Spotify Wrapped and MrBeast; podcasting momentum; and you stayed too long, Jack

The distrust data shows there’s no political downside to hammering Facebook 1

Three months in: an update on Unmade’s progress 2

Things that matter: Radical new law for social media; Seven and Nine split the honours; Tony Talbot’s return; PHD bigwig’s exit

Ad Standards’ influencer muddle; the ancient Wiggle; and is the Morning Crew coming or going?

Foxtel loses another marketing director; Andrew Jaspan rides again; Matt Doran goes global

Stubbornness of the social media spoiler; ridiculous readership numbers; a favourable wind for HT&E

News Corp ends the platforms truce; Optus wins the EPL; the audio industry’s talent war; and a CMO responds

Pigs in blankets, podcasting alliances and the Australian Financial Review’s weak spot 2

Is podcasting a boom or a bubble?; Nine doubles down on digital; Aldi astroturfing 1

Joint CEOs for Australia’s top media agency – but will it be the long term plan?

JobKeeper: Half a billion reasons why the media industry owes Scott Morrison

HT&E is about to spend its war chest on buying Grant Broadcasters – so now what?

High wire media finances, controversial award winners and CMO successions 2

The CMO roundabout spins faster

The view from 40,000 feet: Hard going in the news business… and radio too