Unmade Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

StW: Hi, Bayo: Foxtel set to merge Binge and Kayo; Will Nine swoop for early tennis deal? ABC shifts priorities

The Unmakers: Sinorbis founder Nico Chu on helping western marketers crack Asia

StW: News Corp’s merger; Stan to lose its NBCU deal? A disastrous media launch; Frankly’s ratings stinker

The Unmakers: How Storipress founder Alex Pan wants to reinvent digital publishing

StW: F1 shambles; Dodgy government ad spend; Ita doubles down on missing ABC audience; Networks lobby on CTV 2

Paramount Upfront: How the Pluto FAST channels will change the game 2

The Unmade podcast: Rich Curtis on the biggest names on the FutureBrand Index, election campaigning and Meta’s reputation recovery

Start the Week: Seven closes on Peacock; Lachlan Murdoch’s Nova profits revealed; what to expect at Ten’s upfronts

The Unmade podcast: Jag Sanger of The Market Herald on buying Gumtree and Carsguide, and launching a newspaper

Start the Week: Forbes and Inc in Aussie head-to-head; the Optus hack; underwhelming AFL ratings; blood on the ASX

The Unmakers: WeAre8’s Lizzie Young on why she wants exactly 6.5% of social media budgets

Start the Week: Most watched TV; a perfect AFL lineup; Ten’s Saturday problem

The Unmakers: Richard Baker’s plan to build ‘the best independent premium audio storytelling house in the Southern hemisphere’

Start the Week: Reporting the biggest Royal story; TikTok the espionage machine?; NRL holds out its hand for Foxtel cash

Start the Week: How Woolies is Australia’s most trusted; TV networks abandon kids’ content; Netflix’s Aussie ad play

Start the Week: ScoMo’s Tourism Australia mystery (nearly) solved; lessons of media mergers; The Cat’s masterplan

The Unmade podcast: Nigel Marsh

Start the Week: Qantas says sorry (again); Is AFL’s D-Day finally here?; New owner for Carsguide; Results season

Start the Week: Lachlan goes legal; The Block puts Nine back on top; Foxtel’s anti-siphoning push

Start the Week: Fast food marketing under attack; TikTok grabs $70m slice of ad market; Meta goes missing again 1

Start the Week: AFL TV rights bids land; new streaming subs fall; the prolonged radio recovery 3

Start the Week: Ten’s ratings turnaround; Has AFL missed the boat? Making space for introverts

The Unmakers: Troy Townsend and Jack Byrne of Zitcha – turning retailers into publishers

Start the Week: Return of the pirates; AFL rights bidding heats up; Will Nine journos strike?

Start the Week: Are we running out of PRs?; Musk pulls out of Twitter deal; Catalano’s new real estate play 1

The Unmakers: Austin Mackell of Stone – using technology to improve journalism transparency

Start the Week: TrinityP3 urges agencies to be upfront about harassment, bullying and assault; Ten’s bold AFL bid; Meta’s bargaining code outburst

Start the Week: Broadcast legislation review flagged; the Stan / Foxtel tie-up that never happened; more on the metaverse

The Unmakers: Mutiny’s SaaS bet to reinvent marketing analytics, and how it wants to reshape the industry

Start the Week: M&C Saatchi sale saga continues; directors depart Judith Neilson Institute; Apple visits the Med; a happy Mutiny

Start the Week: SMH’s Rebel Wilson debacle; Are Media refocuses on content marketing (again); World Cup bonanza

Start the Week: Blood on the trading floor; Eddie Elsewhere; Vale Peter Harvie; See ya, Fletch; Top moments of reality telly

Start the Week: Sports fans’ multi-platform streaming bill; Wokeness and the CMO; Debranding Prime?

Marketing in a Cost of Living Crisis

Start the Week: Poll night ratings winners; Labor’s media agenda; TV’s last big content prize

Start the Week: Nine calls for Facebook and Google to face code; Ooh Media’s Poly push; Netflix’s small tax bill

Start the Week: Facebook’s Australian ‘hit job’; Foxtel’s streaming numbers; election fever

It doesn’t have to be this way’ – PHD’s Chris Stephenson on the complexities of marketing in a programatic world

Start the Week: Labor’s media law reform promise; News Corp buys publisher; The Messence merger

Media Unmade – Chapter 26: Deus Ex Machina (and an epilogue too)

Start the Week: SCA hunts for next CEO; Musk seizes Twitter; WPP’s new commerce move

Media Unmade – Chapter 25: Friday The Thirteenth

Start the Week: AFL up for grabs; Who will win the post-Easter ratings battle? Elon’s Twitter game

Media Unmade – Chapter 24: Fake News

Start the Week: Foxtel IPO is dead; Sack SCA bosses says Ray Hadley; Election overload begins 2

Media Unmade – Chapter 23: Billionaire Elephants

How The Brag Media’s ‘centre of culture’ strategy led to an Australian edition of Variety 2

Start the Week: Now or never for the Foxtel float; How Netflix saved F1; Will Amazon snatch The Olympics?

Media Unmade – Chapter 22: Polarising, Paying and Staying

Start the Week: A merger for SWM and HT&E?; AAP’s next move; TV’s big news week; the verdict on the Qantas ad

Media Unmade – Chapter 21: Taking sides

Start the Week: A big exit from Nine; The ABC’s naughty tweeters; another social media crackdown?

Media Unmade – Chapter 20: Hard Stuff

With a senior exec named as abuser, has adland’s belated #MeToo reckoning finally begun?

Media Unmade – Chapter 19: Home James

Start the Week: Are Media moves into ecommerce; shifting sands of streaming; agencies exit Russia

Start the Week: Netflix in Oz; Variety mag Down Under; and do Ten’s Saturday ratings woes even matter?

Media Unmade – Chapter 18: The 800-Pound Gorilla

Media Unmade – Chapter 17: The CBS Shock

Media Unmade – Chapter 16: 2Day was Yesterday

Media Unmade – Chapter 15: A House of the Most Brittle Glass

Media Unmade – Chapter 14: Magazines are different

Media Unmade – Chapter 13: Predator and Prey

Media Unmade – Chapter 12: Haters Gonna Hate

Media Unmade – Chapter 11: Blood, Sweat and Tears; and The Unmade Index slides again

Media Unmade – Chapter ten: Elephant in the Room

Media Unmade – Chapter nine: World Is Fukt

Streem’s Elgar Welch on selling to Cision: ‘The knocks at the door got louder’

The Unmade podcast: Andrew Jaspan on his new publishing venture 360Info

Media Unmade – Chapter eight: The Invaders and the Independents

Media Unmade – Chapter seven: Dead Air

Unmade podcast: Ten sales boss Rod Prosser on budgeting for growth in 2022 and launching another streaming service

Media Unmade – Chapter six: Follow the Money