Mumbrella live blog: Wednesday, April 23
This is Mumbrella’s live blog, a rolling diary of all you need to know in media and marketing. Refresh the page for the latest updates.
- Lexus dealers pitch media account, TMS on alert
- The Encore Score: The Logie Awards
- TV Networks set dates for post Easter franchises
- NSW/ACT Newsagents Association removes its CEO Chiang Lim
- The Saturday Paper to expand distribution into Adelaide and Brisbane
- Damon Stapleton to join DDB New Zealand as chief creative officer
- TV Ratings: Seven wins the night with over two million tuning in for MKR
- TedxSydney promises ‘varied and eclectic’ mix of creative work
- Nine makes key appointments ahead of video-on-demand service launch
5.06pm – Endota Spa launches new ad campaign encouraging the public to tell their mums how they feel this Mother’s Day. Read about the campaign here.
4.51pm Lee Lin Chin’s latest SBS 2 Clip for The Feed is pretty funny and involves her “quitting”.
3.50pm – Chinese courts have ruled in favour of the employees of now defunct digital agency Activate Shanghai, who sued their Australian former owner Ardent Digital for allegedly dismissing them without pay. Read the full story on Mumbrella Asia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBwc1XQNjMc&feature=youtu.be
2.58pm – Ten’s Studio 10 has taken aim at Nine over footage of William and Kate which the network claims was stolen from their program.
2.12pm – Apologies for the delay. Newsletter is now on the way out and there is lots of news. Lexus dealers are pitching their media account worth around $10m, the TV networks have set the dates for their post Easter franchises with buyer wondering if Nine will get to a 40 per cent revenue share, while the CEO of the NSW Newsagents Association has been removed.
1.27pm – Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney’s executive creative director Damon Stapleton is set to join DDB New Zealand as chief creative officer after announcing yesterday he was leaving Saatchi’s after two-and-a-half years. Details here.
1.13pm – Nine Entertainment has announced a number of key appointments for its new subscription video-on-demand service (SVOD), which is currently being code named “StreamCo”. Details here.
1.08pm – Here’s something funny for the lunch hour, it is a 30-point list of the annoying things journalists do to other journalists, with explanatory gifs of course.
12.02pm – Morry Schwartz’s The Saturday Paper is now distributing its copies into Adelaide and Brisbane. Read about the expansion here.
11.15am – This Saturday is Tedx Sydney and Mumbrella will be live blogging the creative work from the Tasty Bits Videos. You can get a preview of what to expect from the videos here.
10.35am – Media writer Amanda Meade has crunched the numbers of The Encore Score ahead of this Sunday’s Logie Awards. Who has the best chance of taking out the top awards? Full story here.
9.45am – TV Ratings are out and Seven last night drew a 30 per cent audience compared with just 18 per cent for Nine. Ten was again behind the ABC with 10.7 per cent with its highest rating program was the 5pm news. Full story here.
9.20am – Yesterday was Mumbrella Asia’s first birthday. Robin Hicks, Mumbrella Asia’s editor talks through the experience’s of that first year and how the site is tracking. Read about it here.
8.35am – Morning update has some interesting campaigns including this campaign featuring two guys suffer through a relentless downpours of food for charity. One of the guys is the same gentleman behind the viral chatroulette ‘wrecking ball’ parody video.
8.29am – Morning all, yesterday we told you about Dan Nolan and his FOI request which revealed that the PM’s department had written more than 130 pages of correspondence about his web plug-in that replaces pictures of Tony Abbott with ‘‘cute kittens’’ and the ensuing media storm that the plug-in created. Today we can report Nolan is shelling out $700 to get his hands on the documents. 
Is there something wrong with these Channel 10 ‘personalities?!’ Don’t they realise that the issue isn’t who had the footage first, it’s wtf they broadcast it in the first place. The hide of them to boast that they ran it first. And they wonder why 10 is going down the shiter.
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All i got out of that video was Joe Hildebrand trying to be funny, but not really receiving the laughter he expected
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They didn’t even have it exclusively – my understanding is that Nine’s Airlie Walsh questioned Ten over its claim on Twitter the other day when they branding the footage as “exclusive”, saying something like “didn’t you see Nine? We were right next to you.”
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