Mumbrella live blog: Thursday, May 29
Welcome to Mumbrella’s live blog, the rolling diary of everything you need to know in marketing and media. Refresh the page for the latest updates.
Top stories:
- Ten loses bid to stop programmer John Stephens working for Seven
- TV ratings: Nine claim ‘biggest ever’ audience for State of Origin I
- Opinion: The sharing economy is just more status wank
- ABC starts production on new show from Bondi Hipsters creators
- Angry Birds creator blasts mobile games for campaigns
5:17pm – As always there’s always more news to be found in our FYI section which today has covered items including Southern Cross Austereo marking its 20th year of Give Me 5 for Kids charity in hospitals across Australia; ABC has launched its first “multi-platform” series and Kym Pfitzner has been appointed COO of Dentus Aegis.
4:31pm – Here it is folks, the moment we’ve all been waiting for, the Australian Sex Party’s budget response video they raised $15k to create through crowd funding. Have a guess what they say the government has done to a lot of people…
