Podcast

The start of Coles’ new customer focused era 2

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 16 May: Clemenger redundancies, Vice goes bankrupt, TV launch blows up, concerns for Gov’s anti-vaping campaign

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 15 May: New Snap MD, changes at SCA, Sean Cummins on working from home, Forty Winks appoints indie agencies

Start the Week: Google in the frame on PWC’s tainted tax advice; Albanese turns up temperature on gambling ads; new local leaders for Snap

Is the Albanese government a friend or foe of the Australian media sector?

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 9 May: Tennis Aus appoints BMF, Sportsbet breach, The Brag’s new GM, Lego Masters finale ratings

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 8 May: MasterChef launches figures, Jules Lund returns to radio, Qantas ditches AFR

Start the Week: Qantas goes to war on the AFR; Jules Lund returns to radio; ABC addresses digital leadership deficit

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 4 May: Leadership changes at IAG and KPMG, MasterChef to air Sunday, plus Wednesday TV ratings

Who’s the top performer in April’s campaign round-up? The answer is in the keg

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 2 May: Kantar SVOD report, Ogilvy creative restructure, Pure.amplify shuts, Berkeley Comms launches

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 1 May: Jock Zonfrillo passes away, VOZ launches, I’m A Celebrity finale ratings, New CEO at SCA

Start the Week: Why it was time for Grant Blackley to go; a new start for the TV industry; Twitter’s monetisation plans for publishers; Coles Radio up for grabs

Azure Antoinette on how industry can overcome its ‘inherent fear around diversity, equity and inclusion’

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 20 April: New senior marketer at ANZ, GfK metro radio ratings, Dentsu says Yes to the Voice

Fox and Dominion settlement avoids historic trial; Savage unpacks agency positioning; and Foxtel Media’s Mark Frain

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 18 April: Kate Bailey’s expanded remit and other new appointments, Similarweb debunks Musk’s claims, and The Reject Shop partners with Thinkerbell

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 17 April: TPG and IKEA go to pitch, Tinder’s new campaign, Seven wins second Easter TV week

Start the Week: Total TV finally approaches; Eddie for 3AW drivetime?; How streaming quotas will work; Google’s speaker blunder

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 13 April: Paramount+ lands Formula 1 deal, Murdoch defamation case update, Clemenger BBDO’s Dani Bassil, Harvest Snaps’ new platform

How Kirsty Muddle is making the single-brand holdco a local reality, even if that means taking creativity off its pedestal

Agency startup takes it to consultancy giants; breaking down pitchapalooza and Clemenger’s Dani Bassil

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 11 April: PHD wins Hesta account, Nine wins Easter in TV, new Carlton Draught campaign

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 6 April: Coady leaves Havas, Unilever reviews media account, SBS’ Alone Australia uplift, new Roy Morgan findings

What’s behind Australia’s declining ad spend?

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 4 April: Tabcorp CEO’s gamble to cut ads, Red Havas’ appoints CEO, Hearts & Science Melbourne MD exits, Athena Home Loans has a new CMO

Start the Week: HBO to stream locally from next year; Nine’s killer quarter; Betting ads crackdown Is AI just a toy?

The Unmakers: Simon Hakim on building an incubator for challenger brands; Plus, a dip on the Unmade Index

Aussie advertising has its mojo back

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 28 March: TV’s first tentpole clash, This is Flow wins A2, Trilingual launch

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 27 March: Banning gambling ads, Binge brand partners, Idol ends on a high note, David Ray leaves Reddit

Start the Week: TV industry’s ratings system red faces; 69% think there are too many betting ads

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 23 March: Expansion at Atomic 212, Initiative retains Pernod Ricard, Private Media’s Fray redundant, Kantar’s BrandZ report

News Corp’s Michael Miller on reaching 1m subscriptions, negotiations with Facebook, the economic challenge of AI, and navigating advertiser boycotts

Protests, AI and blackjack: reporting live from Adobe in Las Vegas

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 21 March: Scire launch, News Corp’s D_Coded, new CHEP ECD, oOh Media study

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 20 March: Bullfrog nabs Saatchi & Saatchi duo, Suncorp’s latest Team Girls campaign, journalists warned against TikTok, Seven gains in weekly TV share

Start the Week: ABC to review its radio ratings decline; Dan Sinfield moves on from Meta; Anti-siphoning deadline approaches

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 16 March: KIIS topples 2GB streak, Tourism Tasmania’s new CMO, AFL season launches, NewsCorp mastheads unite under one brand platform

The metaverse is out and AI is in: Dan Monheit reports from SXSW

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 14 March: Menulog appoints Thinkerbell, Adobe says APAC is addicted to cookies, Sue Squillace goes to Attivo, MFA updates board

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 13 March: Henry Tajer welcomes influencer regulations, UM Brisbane finds new GM, MAFS TV dominance, Foxtel fights inflation claims

The Evening Mumbo – Thursday 9 March: F*ck the Cupcakes sparks ugly backlash, Analogfolk turns local, ACCC targets tech giants, Milkrun restructure

What the retail media industry needs to do next

Will this creative appointment spark a new age of advertising glory at Publicis?

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 7 March: Paul Sigaloff, FIFA’s Saudi sponsorship, Zenith, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica update

The Evening Mumbo – Monday 6 March: Wunderman Thompson, Dean Chadwick, TV ratings, Ipsos Iris

Start the Week: How the TV networks are planning a premium video exchange; Web rankings redux; The rise of subscription video

Nearly time to turn off the transmitters. The viewing shift is happening faster than you think 1

How vital was securing HBO content for Foxtel’s streaming future?

‘We’re the only one-stop-shop at scale in Australia’: EssenceMediacom APAC CEO fires warning shot 6

The Evening Mumbo – Tuesday 28 February

The Evening Mumbo: Lisa Ronson makes a move, Lion creates new role, Foxtel and HBO rumours and the SMH tops news

Start the Week: Local podcast spend revealed; Another HBO lifeline for Binge; What results season told us

Is news coverage a safe environment for advertisers? 5

Start the Week: Meta launches paid verification; Results season unpacked; How media companies are prepping for a downturn

Spinach’s Ben Willee on the meaning of Nine’s Olympics win, why it’s okay to say the R-word, and loyalty in a fickle industry

What would a blockbuster merger between Seven West Media and HT&E look like?

Start the Week: A Seven-HT&E merger?; Breaking Bad wins the Super Bowl; What to watch for in financial results season

Ben Shepherd on why retail media is up with adwords as a media invention; how sales people can get his attention; and the 2023 outlook

More execs on the move; Mark Richardson’s new gig and AKQA’s Ajaz Ahmed

Start the Week: Catalano and Janz both make moves; What to look for in the News Corp results; TV ad revenue falls

Winds of change at Clemenger Group; MAFS gets jump on competitors plus AANA’s Josh Faulks

Hosting a single market is ‘much more fun’ says Mick Molloy as he takes on Sydney

The year in review: CMO moves; brand crises; a Netflix U-turn; war for the Market Herald; the madness of Musk and ABC’s audio audience collapse

Celebrating 10 years of NITV, but what challenges lie ahead for an under-resourced First Nations media sector?

Are best practice pitch guidelines being used? Few and far between, says Publicis boss Rebelo

Start the Week: Ten swings for the cricket; Musk goes after Twitter alumni; Paul Barry closes on Media Watch record

Election coverage, commercial models, Bargaining Code, privacy challenges and embracing TikTok: Wrapping 2022 in news media 2

StW: Brand trouble from the bondage bear; The Twitter files; TMH’s bloody boardroom coup

Is dentsu’s leadership team finally complete? 4

StW: New faces at Today and A Current Affair; Winners of the TV ratings year; Molloy in Sydney

Marketing in 2023 with Nick Garrett, Naomi Johnston, Richard Curtis and Andrea Dixon

Is sport becoming advertising’s problem child? Plus Dentsu’s new top creatives

One year on at GroupM: Clarity in the agency lineup, embracing Buchanan’s chaos and cautious optimism

StW: The journo departure lounge; Return of Twitter’s most toxic; The readership sausage

Should Christmas be Australia’s Super Bowl moment?

The Unmakers: Jamie Harding, CEO of Theatrix – the new streaming platform for the arts

Start the Week: Why 2GB split with Jim Wilson; Closing in on a cricket deal; Mega Meta cuts

A Good Different approach: How Aldi became a Special Buy through creative advertising

Upfronts season: As two BVOD markets emerge, is Netflix and co’s entry a validation of SBS’ premium strategy?

Start the Week: Musk’s ‘thermonuclear’ threat to advertisers; Nine to extend tennis deal as cricket bidding begins; ABC shakeup

Why Ooh Media’s Cathy O’Connor has been anything but bored with outdoor

Victoria saves the day for Netball Australia; and building a global tourism campaign with Justin Graham

Upfronts season: Why oOh!media’s new Reooh is ‘more than just retail’

Start the Week: Elon’s Twitter bloodbath begins; Mutiny’s new start; the Rebel Wilson verdict

When attention becomes disruption as QMS and City of Sydney reviews its street pylons

What good is doing good? Leo Burnett’s Catherine King on what the public expects from brands