Live blog: Thursday, September 4
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Top Stories:
- Video Hangout with Pandora’s Steve Hogan
- Peter Biggs retires as CEO of Clemenger Melbourne
- Foxtel slashes prices and puts more premium content in basic package
- Nick Worthington to be keynote speaker at next month’s BEfest
- Nielsen to battle out with GfK for coveted IAB online measurement contract
- TV ratings: The Bachelor continues to build for Ten
- Woolworths rapped over guerilla marketing on side of ABC Adelaide office
- News Corp’s Daily Telegraph raises price of eNewspaper app by 320%
- Opinion: The truth about shopping
1:19pm – The tributes are already coming in after the news that Peter Biggs has decided to retire as CEO of Clemenger Melbourne. This one from one of his major competitors down the years:
Peter,
To see a great practitioner and in the nicest way I say this – a combatant – leave the industry makes me feel a little lost. A more charming, erudite and sophisticated man I can’t remember meeting. Holmes needed Moriarty. Salieri needed Mozart. And anyone who wanted to be any good needed Biggs. I enjoyed knowing you were there.
Age quod agis.
