Start the Week: Labor’s media law reform promise; News Corp buys publisher; The Messence merger

Welcome to Unmade’s Start the Week podcast, dedicated to looking ahead to the week in media and marketing.

Today’s topics:

• Media law becomes an election battleground

• Will the public pay for ad-supported Netflix?

• Making sense of Telstra’s $50m Fetch deal

• News Corp buys into Stockhead

• Why WPP merged Mediacom and Essence, and the Accenture Interactive global rebrand

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Today’s episode features Unmade’s Tim Burrowes in the UK and and Damian Francis in Australia. As always, we’d love to hear what you think at letters@unmade.media

Further reading:

• SMH: ‘Stakes are getting higher’: Labor says free sport broadcasts at risk

• The Australian: Nine and Seven in the race for Olympic Games rights as Kerry Stokes lunches with IOC chief Thomas Bach

• AFR: Users want discounts if Netflix introduces ads

• Unmade: Why Telstra bought into Fetch

• The Australian: News Corp buys Stockhead stake for focus on ASX-listed small cap companies

• Marketing Week: Accenture Song is not a great rebrand, but it could be so much worse

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