Mumbrella live blog: Thursday, April 3
This is Mumbrella’s live blog, your rolling media diary with all you need to know that’s happening. Refresh the page for more updates.
Top stories:
- Droga5′s David Nobay confirms departure from Recipe to Riches
- Opinion: PR agencies will not exist in ten years
- Nine launches new data play Tipstone which it says makes Google ‘second tier’
- The Hoopla puts up a paywall to make content pay
- Mumbrella hangout: The problem with pitching
- Opinion: Why you should pull an all-nighter to get to Cannes
- TV ratings: MKR and The Block dominate, Puberty Blues dips
- Dr Mumbo – Inside the Crunchy Nut chatline
5:00pm – It’s fair to say the Budget Direct ads always create commentary – especially when they feature aliens Zeek and Zia. So here’s their latest – which sees the use of “smart technology” for the “smarter deal” provider (see what they did there?).
3:28pm – Ok, whetever you’re doing stop for a moment and marvel at what might well be the greatest TV show to grace our screens this year, Seven’s Bogan Hunters. Truly.
Should I know who Joe Hildebrand is ?
Hildebrand exemplifies the no-responsibility attitude of opinionated celebrity. He wants the attention and status of someone who talks for a living and takes no care whatsoever with his pronouncements.
Have a good look at what he said. It was a deliberate, unequivocal lecture. He know it was a large, popular audience. And he took no care at all.
Ms Batty was absolutely right to nail his arse to the wall.