Mumbrella Podcast: Cheerio Rove; Virgin Blue’s PR woes; The Apprentice flop; Has the Aussie newspaper decline begun? Smug Jacob’s Creek
In this week’s Mumbrella Podcast, with editor Tim Burrowes, deputy editor Camille Alarcon, House Party’s Scott Rhodie and Tck Tck Tck’s Cathie McGinn:
- Social media for a good cause
- Will we miss Rove?
- The unlikeable Apprentice contestants
- Virgin Blue’s poor PR handling of the upgrade disaster
- Has the national newspaper decline begun?
- The Famous success story
- The Grazia price rise
- Secrets of men’s mags
- Is the Jacob’s Creek character a tosser?
- The Ambra vampire ad
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Production by Georgie Pearson. Recorded with the support of CBS Interactive.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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Hi,
The Mumbo Report is part of my daily routine. I just clicked in to watch and all I can see is “File not found” can you pease let me know when it’s up and running? I need my daily fix!
Cheers,
Kristin.
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Dear Tim,
You have provided excellent reporting during your time at B&T, and possibly within mumbrella.
And as loath as I am to criticise someone who is attempting to provide a worthwhile service, this website is difficult to navigate and takes longer to load than most other websites. I was going to look at the opening vid a few minutes ago but after 33 seconds, nuh. (Double checked the line speed = 17Mbs)
The list of items to be covered looks tasty – a little like the Reader’s Digest F/C headlines. They get you in. The difference is that a 2 second flick will open the Reader’s Digest. 33 seconds still won’t open mumbrella. And each item on the list is not a live link so there’s no way to go directly to articles of particular interest.
Regrettably, as a group we are unable to persist with your website any more.
Good luck to you and your family.
Greg
PS About 5 years ago I sent a similar email to the Financial Review when they changed their site to something completely unfriendly – not sure if they’re still functioning because I haven’t been back.
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Hi Greg,
I’m sorry to lose you, particularly as it sounds like it may be a local issue. For what it’s worth we embed our videos directly from YouTube.
It may be worth your while chatting to your IT people in case they block access to that site for some reason.
Hi Kristin, Please let me know if you’re still having problems as it does appear to be working at my end.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Greg Thompson: Pompous much?
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Ep 22 is not on your YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMumboReport
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Hi Kristin,
We won’t be publishing episode 22 until tomorrow (we put new ones up on Tuesdays and Thursdays). But I appreciate your keenness!
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Greg,
You click on the little arrow above and it starts playing.
If you wait for the pcitures to come up you’ll wait a lot longer than 33 seconds. Try turning on your speakers instead.
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Relating to your comments to the Apprentice, they don’t seem to be researched. Given the time slot and network the Apprentice is rating quite favorably.
On Monday night it received 2 high percentage shares 3 (3 Com Networks)
9:30-10:30 – 30.28%
10:30-11:30 – 49.57% (timeslot win)
The week before it performed well in its demos
Apprentice won its timeslot for P16-39, P18-49 and P25-54
.#6 most watched program of the night for P16-39
#7 for P18-49
#8 for P25-54
Cheers,
Tim
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I still believe I’m going to win my bet on how the Apprentice goes next week.
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Hi Tim – any chance of providing a transcript, or segmenting the podcast up? Cheers, Brad.
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Hi Tim – I think Mumbrella can withstand Mr Thompsons departure. Given the appalling site design and functionality perhaps before leaving Greg could train his Google-like web design expertise onto the conundrem his argument creates when I try to weight it against the reality of Mumbles being the most widely respected and peer approved media industry blog in the land? Of course then he’d have to explain the podcast chart results, the rapid growth of related industry events, readership, and general influence. I’d like to say I’m eagerly awaiting his answer but I just had an epiphany. If he can’t figure out why a youtube video isn’t starting in his own browser how could he provide qualified advice on site function and design….eureka.
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