ARIA recruits Shine Endemol CEO Mark Fennessey as awards creative director

August 17, 2016 10:31

The 30th anniversary of the ARIA awards will see its organisers and the Ten Network pull out the big guns, with Shine Endemol CEO, Mark Fennessy, recruited to oversee the music industry broadcast.

Mark Fennessy: creative director at the 2016 ARIA Awards

The awards show will again be broadcast on Ten with ARIA CEO, Dan Rosen, telling Mumbrella the show was hoping to build on its 2015 audience and will continue to push social channels.

“This year we are wanting to make the broadcast as big as it can possibly be, and we have appointed Mark Fennessy from Shine Endemol as the creative director,” Rosen said.

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Simon Canning

Simon Canning was Mumbrella's marketing and advertising editor from 2015-2017. In a career spanning journalism and communications over more than 30 years Simon has become one of Australia’s most respected analysts and commentators on the advertising, marketing and media industries. A regular commentator on radio and TV, Simon has also worked in media in the US and UK .

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2 COMMENTS

Tony T 17 Aug 16

Isn’t this old news?

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Sydney2100 17 Aug 16

The ARIA’s used to pull 1M+ audience but now has no real relevance to any demo.
Good luck trying to drag any amount of audience shift despite the Fennessy factor.

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