Analysis

BOTW: Slow TV, FAST channels and fast news

The night Foxtel broke up with the television establishment

Whale tales and couch comfort as Ooh Media and Paramount share their 2024 plans

Tuesdata: The verdict on SXSW Sydney

BOTW: SXSW finds a new home in Sydney; The verdict on Seven; ABC defensiveness

Netflix has lots more advertising juice to squeeze

Streaming is the real reason ARN Media is plotting a breakup of Southern Cross Austereo 2

How the pollsters got it right on the Voice

BOTW: The referendum post mortem begins; Selling cars and cinema to Indecisive Dave; Ten’s footy fail 1

Can we pay it forward in retail media?

Media magic, in just 279 lines of code

Tuesdata: The books that influenced the marketing industry’s thinking class 1

BOTW: How the platforms ghosted news; Say it ain’t so, Joe; Media companies see 40% decline

REmade: A second wind for retail media, and Colin Lewis explains Amazon

Maybe the monthly SMI numbers point to a TV problem, rather than a market problem 1

A weaker media ecosystem’: Why publishers are pessimistic about the next round of News Media Bargaining Code talks 2

BOTW: Meet Google’s Bard, the gaslighting liar

An angry decline for X

The Australian experiment

Tuesdata: Media market faces a chilly Christmas

BOTW: Cantankerous egotists, phonies, zeros and bastards – a curious week for the old guard 1

Rupert Murdoch may no longer be the boss of News Corp, but he’s still the proprietor 1

Kylenomics 5

Tuesdata: Woolworths wins the engagement battle as Coles returns to the red hand

Upfronts and an unkind seagull 1

YouTube is Australia’s most profitable video company. It wants even more TV dollars 2

Why don’t creatives understand small business? 2

Tuesdata: How Amazon Prime Video has been winning the battle for new Aussie subscribers

BOTW: Small earthquakes and fake cakes

Upfronts are always big and glitzy. Nine’s was consequential too

Maintaining the rage bait of the new content pollution 5

REmade Retail Media News: Collaboration and margin salvation

Tuesdata: As Alan Joyce quits, Australia’s biggest brands face a reckoning on trust

BOTW: Daggy ads; TV’s 22% revenue hole; and why the Yes vote is in trouble

Qantas burned its goodwill with price gouging; now ACCC court action will trash the brand

Volatility in the radio ratings; Our retail media program revealed 4

Tuesdata: How Seven’s James Warburton is once again Australia’s top paid media exec

BOTW: TV’s pain is worse than it looks; First impressions of Scire’s Capital Brief 1

Grubby boardroom shenanigans at The Market Herald laid out by the Takeovers Panel 2

Unmade is two: Trade winds from the south 5

The data economics of Matildas Mania

BOTW: The results week where it all went wrong (and that doesn’t mean the Matildas)

Bloodbath on the Unmade Index continues

Seven sets course for an unremarkable decade

Most stocks taking hits on the Unmade Index

Tuesdata: Job vacancies fall across the communications industry

BOTW: Foxtel’s soft landing; No sign of the times for Nine; Football fever

With an earnings season reckoning looming, The Unmade Index finally breaks through 700 points

The Coles big red hand is back. Customers will see through it unless margins are trimmed too 1

End game approaches for gambling ads

BOTW: The whole ‘television is dead’ thing; The power shifts at Nine 1

Craig Hutchison’s Sports Entertainment Group hits historic low point on the Unmade Index

REmade topics revealed; Here come the REmade Awards; Teresa Aprile on the instore revival

How the tech giants stack up in earnings season

A TV for ants? When cookies collide with muddled funnel thinking 2

A forest of green on the Unmade Index

Radio turnoff for the Unmade Index

A bullish forecast for the Aussie podcast landscape

BOTW: The biggest job in radio, but is it an impossible one?

Investors still think Netflix subscribers are worth $1300 each. That’s crazy

From miraculous to taken-for-granted: How AI is already changing every aspect of the media and marketing world 4

Brands behaving (not too) badly: Big players on extended run of staying on Ad Standards’ right side

BOTW: Radio industry needs to clear up DAB+ misunderstandings; The index bounces back 1

Will Australia have a shared cultural moment around the Women’s World Cup? 4

Radio industry hits the half way point – what we learned in the new metro numbers 2

ABC radio is struggling to reach the masses; new data suggests the Canberra power brokers are not tuning in either

BOTW: How Four Pillars became an Aussie brand success story; Why Meta’s Threads might – might – just work; The AFR’s smart brand extension

Nineteen minutes inside Sir Martin Sorrell’s head

Tuesdata: How Toyota is outspending auto rivals; K&J speculation adds $11m to SCA’s market cap

BOTW: Our winners (and losers) of FY23

Why the radio industry is still insisting that DAB+ is a smash hit medium 1

RE:Made: The next wave of retail media players are coming; The silos are going

The true costs for agencies of pitching for business they probably aren’t going to win

BOTW: Meet Unmade’s AI friend; Are ThinkTV’s job cuts economic or strategic?; Why ARN raided SCA

Introducing TimBot 2

What we now know about ad fraud; ARN’s cheeky SCA investment; Bloody Ritson

What compels Australians to pay for news?

BOTW: Supermassive alien upstarts; The Guardian does the right thing on betting ads (what took so long?)

Adland’s inflection point 1

Tuesdata: The state of play in health insurance

BOTW: How long does AM radio have left?; Translating the ABC’s five-year plan; TMH woes will drag on 4

What we learned from Radio 360’s first outing; AI Upfronts speakers revealed 9

Tuesdata: How poor communications turned PwC’s PR disaster into an extinction level event 1

BOTW: TV’s game of billion dollar bullshit; How inflation is challenging adland’s optimism bias

BRS judgement is a vindication for the journalism but it does NOT mean the system works

BRS judgement is a vindication for the journalism but it does NOT mean the system works 5

Ooh Media leads The Unmade Index downwards as debt ceiling rally fades

Tuesdata: What the viewing numbers are telling us after a month of Total TV data