BOTW: Mamamia takes on the podcast giants, marketer legacies; A Very Bad Score
Welcome to the penultimate Best of the Week of 2022, written on a beautiful Saturday morning at Sisters Beach, Tasmania.
Happy Wright Brothers Day. Today’s writing soundtrack: Led Zeppelin IV.
Before, and even during, the pandemic, the rhythm had been for most people in the industry to push through to the last Friday before Christmas, only gearing up again after Australia Day.
This year feels different. I get the sense that a lot of people pulled the pin on the year yesterday. It’s been a long, exhausting year for many. Happy holidays, if yours has already started.
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Plenty of comments in social media alleging that the Thunder result was due to “match fixing”. I don’t believe them, of course (Thunder couldn’t organise themselves to do it, for a start), but I’d assumed that the underlying thought was a betting fix.
Now you’ve got me thinking that maybe it was someone from Pyrmont or thereabouts, trying to drive down the value of the Big Bash franchise overall?!