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

Welcome to Start the Week, our Monday scene-setter for the week ahead.

Today’s topics: Remembering Harold Mitchell; latest on how AI is changing marketing; Seven West Media prepares for digital newspaper launch

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Harold Mitchell: Media’s biggest beast

Today:

• Harold Mitchell, Australia’s most successful media agency founder, passes on;

• SWM prepares to launch The Nightly

• The week in AI, as Google’s bodged Bard branding becomes Gemini

Further reading:

• Australian Financial Review: Ad man Harold Mitchell was living large to the end

• The Australian: Media tycoon Harold Mitchell dies, aged 81

• The Age: Australian advertising and media veteran Harold Mitchell dies

• Brisbane Times: Stokes’ Seven takes on News Corp with nightly newspaper, supported by Gina Rinehart

Today’s episode features Tim Burrowes, Abe Udy and Cat McGinn

Time to leave you to start your week.

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Tim Burrowes

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