Analysis

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Merger mania starts to fade for ARN Media

BotW: Netflix – a billion bucks and not a dollar in tax 2

Game changer Ciaran Davis departs ARN; what to expect from TV stalwart Stepho 2

The Kyle & Jackie O Show receives a gumming from ACMA’s toothless tiger

Tuesdata: The numbers behind the SCA-SWM merger

Vinyl Group reveals it is spending $1.6m buying a domain from a shareholder 3

BotW: Pork disasters and other dangerous ideas; Gumtree for sale?

PT takes charge: Change at the top of Nine after a short but successful stint for West

MurdochTok

Dial M for murky

BotW: A new PR crisis for Optus; Radio’s killing season arrives early 1

Cancelled

Ranker rancour

The government has outsourced the social media age problem to the platforms

1,000 days later

BotW: In the week Lachlan took control, a radio thesis; Paramount project gets bigger

Unskippable 3

2GB drifts into icy waters while K+J see the shoreline

BotW: Northbound 2

Suddenly, offsets are the next thing on the news industry’s lobbying agenda 2

Tuesdata: Starting the financial year backwards

Enero pulls back the curtain on BMF

BotW: Trump bats for the platforms; As Vinyl owns up to a $15.8m loss, can it reinvent its publishing model with AI?

Tuesdata: Don’t mention the printing press

The 2Day Show

Sun scream

Unmade is four: Back in the fold 2

Radio’s podcast commitment deficit; Nine storms the Index; retail media’s power struggle 2

Tuesdata: Four guesses at how much podcast listening is actually occurring 1

Cathy O’Connor delivers her best result for Ooh Media but analysts fear the future

BotW: Mount up 1

How DDB lost Maccas after half a century; the week in AI; Unmade Index in the green

AI’s copyright capture cheerleader Scott Farquhar melts under the studio lights 4

Tuesdata: Seven reports a down but not disastrous result (and fails to practice what it preaches on marketing investment)

Imagine if Australia’s media actually worked together

BotW: Surrendering to AI; reframing the DAB+ problem; ARN’s Jonesy & Amanda ego problem

To the victor the spoils: who will win the retail media feeding frenzy? 2

News Corp (and SMI) by the numbers

Goodbye to Australia’s largest media company

BotW: Jonesy & Amanda’s (begrudging) move; the AI hit list; influencers gone wild 1

Friends reunited 1

The Googleplex hits peak hubris; ARN, SCA and Vinyl hit valuation convergence

Weeks where decades happen

Google is in the zone and rules are out the window

Tuesdata: Hitting bottom

BotW: Escape velocity for Netflix; the end of publicly funded broadcasting in the US; holdco consolidation

This week in AI: The agents arrive

Vinyl Group incinerates another $9m as SCA overtakes ARN Media again

Tuesdata: The hidden finances of our biggest magazine publisher Are Media

Car week

REmade special: The week in retail media

BotD: Amazon boss to keynote at REmade; WPP names new CEO; Mark Britt and Mat Baxter reveal new venture

BotD: Gallagher puts the band back together (no, not Oasis); Hyland out of Havas; Ooh Media’s price turnaround

Tuesdata: Where Australian ad spend goes

BotD: CommBank claims first streaming roadblock; Ita vs Antoinette, pt 2

BotW: Relevance drift; Stan’s late winner; Vinyl Group gets a new credit line

HumAIn week: The Cloudflare alliance and big tech funds AI with job cuts

(Another) 20 minutes inside Sir Martin Sorrell’s head

Here comes the year of simplification

FY25 end of year report: The winners and losers of The Unmade Index

A love letter to podcasts 1

BotW: The ABC’s Antoinette problem is a long way from over; ARN confronts its K+J problem; In praise of the ACCC 3

Justice, advocacy, and a terrible precedent

Omnicom: Legally prohibited from moral leadership

After 15 years, when does Google stop getting the benefit of the doubt? 1

BotD: Google does the dirty on publishers; New marketing boss at Westpac; More trouble for K&J Show; Ten’s Spotify plan

BotW: Nine’s centre of gravity is back to TV; Nick Garrett to rule them all; Why ARN needs to take K+J national 3

BotD: Nine shakes it up (and closes on EPL); Publish conference returns; Google asks for more

BotD: Telstra gold while Optus name is mud; Mushroom trial drives podcast chart

As the ABC is overtaken by Seven News and news.com.au, more bad news about news avoidance

BotD: A new gig for Ben Shepherd; Tajer out of Seven already; Garrett to rule them all

BotW: Making sense of TV cancellations; Why Amaysim must be in on the AI joke; Hard truth about Nine’s missed moment

BotD: TAC luurves Omnicom; Sorrell disses WPP; How Nine failed to act

Q&A represented a braver and more experimental ABC than today 1

How the Project survived (and even thrived) for 16 years 1

BotW: AI winners showing up; How Rob Morgan built a local behemoth; Why Greg Hywood is unimpressed with Nine’s management 1

BotD: Crikey’s embargo bust; radio rumours; whither The Project?

BotD: Rob Morgan bows out; Meta and LinkedIn bid for more ad dollars; WPP loses Paramount

BotD: Optus rips up its creative and media roster; ABC radio chief departs; Fiji marketer comes home

BotD: SMI finally sees ad growth; Vinyl Group asks court to solve shares blunder; New gig for Stutch, old one for Pellegrino

BotW: Droga goes out on top; Holdco homogenisation; Vinyl’s court case

Finding flaws to play the AI game; Our plans for REmade

Fail

BotW: Big bucks for TV sport, no bucks for kids content; The Project on the skids?

BotW: Nine admits it got it wrong on radio; Google’s big AI week; a curious magazine launch 3

BotD: A fresh start for Nine Radio; PHD wins Bunnings; Optus EPL deal stalls