September 20, 2018 | Amora Hotel Jamison Sydney
Trust in journalism, media metrics, new revenue models, brand failures and successes. In its fifth year, Publish will explore the biggest challenges and opportunities in the industry today and discuss how they will affect publishing’s future. Some of the biggest names in the industry will take the stage to share research, case studies and strategies as well as debate the burning market issues. The conference will provide industry professionals with the inspiration and learnings they need to excel in the year ahead. It’s the best way to keep up-to-date and network with the key industry players.
News Partnerships Lead for ANZ, Facebook
News Partnerships Lead for ANZ, Facebook
Andrew Hunter is Facebook’s News Partnerships Lead for Australia and New Zealand. In that role, he is leading Facebook’s growing collaboration with Australia’s news organisations. Andrew began his career as a local news reporter and has worked in newspaper, magazine and digital news rooms. Andrew co-authored the book All Your Friends Like This … which looks at the relationship between the news industry and social networks.
Editor-in-Chief, Qantas Magazine & Travel Insider, Medium Rare Content Agency
Editor-in-Chief, Qantas Magazine & Travel Insider, Medium Rare Content Agency
As Editor-in-Chief of Qantas magazine and Travel Insider, Kirsten Galliott is responsible for all content across Qantas’s platforms. In addition to the monthly magazine and inspiration website, she oversees QantasLink’s regional title, Spirit, two Chinese editions a year, social media and video content.
In 2017 and 2016, she was named Editor of the Year at Mumbrella’s Publish Awards. A journalist for more than 20 years, she has been the editor of InStyle and B magazines for Pacific Magazines and the(sydney)magazine and Sunday Life for Fairfax Media. She has also been the fashion editor for Sunrise on the Seven Network, consulted to the SBS television program TwentyFourSeven for Hal McElroy Media and been a regular reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide.
She is an ambassador for Dress For Success Sydney, which empowers women to achieve financial independence.
It’s one of the most prominent questions of any publishing pro, from journalist to sales rep – ‘what’s the next step after heading my department.’ Whether you’re the editor, head of sales, marketing director or similar, the next step for many is of the management variety, and some eventually make it all the way into the C-suite.
But do these skills truly transition into business leadership at a C-suite level? Of the prominent senior staffers that have transitioned into leadership roles beyond editorial, sales or marketing, there have been examples both good and bad and some which have failed, tried again and succeeded.
So should publishing professionals looking beyond their department do MBAs? Do they have the natural ability to be business leaders? Should agencies across advertising, PR and media look to hire them in leadership roles and what has made these people successful in managerial business roles?
In this session, hear from some of the most prominent business leaders whose careers started in publishing.
CEO, Pacific Magazines
CEO, Pacific Magazines
Gereurd is the Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Magazines, the multi-media and publishing arm of Australia’s largest and best-performing integrated media group, Seven West Media.
He leads a portfolio of the country’s most influential, iconic and powerful cross-platform brands including Better Homes & Gardens, marie claire, New Idea, InStyle, Women’s Health and Men’s Health.
Gereurd has more than two decades of experience across all facets of the media industry, having held positions at Guardian News & Media, ACP (now Bauer Media) and Pacific across editorial, commercial, publishing and general management.
He is also the Chairman of Australia’s industry body for magazine publishers, Magazine Networks.
Company Director & Author
Company Director & Author
Marina Go is Chair of the Wests Tigers NRL Club, Chair of Office Brands, a non-executive director of Autosports Group and author of the business book for women, Break Through: 20 Success Strategies for Female Leaders. She was previously GM of Hearst Australia at Bauer Media.
Boss magazine named her as one of 20 True Leaders of 2016.
Marina has over 25 years of leadership experience in the media industry, having started her career as a journalist. She was appointed Editor of Dolly magazine at the age of 23, before spending the next decade editing a number of leading women;s magazines. She has held senior leadership roles at Fairfax, Pacific, Emap, Bauer and Private Media, where she was CEO and founder of the career website Women’s Agenda.
She is a director of digital startup Daily Siren, and also a member of the Advisory Boards of the Walkley Foundation, The Australian Republican Movement and Women’s Agenda. She is a former director of Netball Australia, Odyssey House, Sydney Symphony Vanguard and The Apparel Group.
She lectures on digital media at the University of Technology, Sydney, is a Mentor with the Women In Media and NRL Women programs and a UNSW Alumni Leader and Ambassador.
She has an MBA from The Australian Graduate School of Management, a BA (Mass Communications) from Macquarie University and is a member of the AICD.
She is a mother of two young men and passionate about diversity and equality.
The Australian publishing industry is not short of titles that have been confined to the dusty closet of history, particularly when it comes to larger publishing companies looking to streamline their business offering. But as has been proven more than once now, many of these titles still have a substantial business model hidden within.
With new leadership, a fresh perspective and a reimagining of the revenue model, a number of titles have moved from large publishers to new businesses or smaller publishers to find substantial success.
In this special fireside chat, two successful publishing businesses which have acquired titles from large publishers will discuss the ins and outs of migrating a title to a new company. They will talk about why they saw a business opportunity in the titles, how they managed to take ownership of them, what they did to turn them around and why, now, they are finding success in their acquisitions.
General Manager, The Readership Works
General Manager, The Readership Works
Mal Dale joined The Readership Works in 2011 as the inaugural General Manager. He has over 20 years’ experience in media, at both the agency and publisher side. He is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the industry cross-platform audience metric emma, managing the research providers and various stakeholders.
Among his previous roles, Mal was Managing Partner at Mitchell and Partners and Head of Digital at MediaCom Australia.
For the past 18 months, Facebook has been aggressively pursuing misinformation and other low-quality content in News Feed.
In this session, Facebook’s News Partnerships lead for ANZ, Andrew Hunter, will provide an update on this ongoing battle against bad actors on the platform.
He’ll also detail how Facebook is focusing on the ‘good’ by collaborating with publishers to support trustworthy, informative and local news.
News Partnerships Lead for ANZ, Facebook
News Partnerships Lead for ANZ, Facebook
Andrew Hunter is Facebook’s News Partnerships Lead for Australia and New Zealand. In that role, he is leading Facebook’s growing collaboration with Australia’s news organisations. Andrew began his career as a local news reporter and has worked in newspaper, magazine and digital news rooms. Andrew co-authored the book All Your Friends Like This … which looks at the relationship between the news industry and social networks.
There isn’t a much more divisive topic than reader revenue models in publishing, from paywalls to subscriptions and everything in between. Heralded as the saviour by some and a certain death by others, new reader revenue models have been implemented in a number of ways. Now it’s time to have your say.
In this unique session, three different solutions will be presented to the audience by some of the biggest names in the industry. They’ll explain how their model works, why they went down that path and how its been received. They’ll also explain how they are retaining loyal followers. Essentially, they’ll sell you their revenue model.
Then, it’s in your hands. You decide who’s business model works best for you or whether any can convince you that you should part with your hard-earned cash.
CEO, The Australian & Publisher, News Prestige Network
CEO, The Australian & Publisher, News Prestige Network
Nicholas Gray has been CEO of The Australian since 2013 where he leads the commercial development of the masthead and has been responsible for top and bottom line improvements fuelled by digital subscription growth, an expanded focus on digital products, business and lifestyle coverage and successful marketing campaigns including The Australian Business Review and For The Informed Australian. He joined News Corp via the acquisition of Business Spectator, of which he was GM and Publisher.
Before this Nicholas was CFO / Strategy Director and then National Sales Director at ninemsn. Prior to this, Nicholas worked on corporate strategy at Lion Nathan and was an investment banker at Citigroup in London and Tokyo and Macquarie in Sydney.
Nicholas is a Non-Executive Director of Society One and the Community Newspaper Group. He has also previously held non-executive director positions at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), iSelect and 3P Learning (Mathletics).
Nicholas graduated from UNSW in 1997 with a BCom / LLB, and remains involved with the University as a Non-Executive Director of the UNSW Foundation board and Business School Alumni Leader.
A series of investigations around the world have suggested journalism is turning into a job only wealthy young people can afford to get into. An increase in those wanting to join the industry combined with a decrease in entry-level roles has seen publishers and broadcasters demand recruits arrive fully trained. Today, wannabe journos require a degree and to have completed months, or often years, of unpaid internships – something critics claim excludes all but those from the richest backgrounds. In this session hear from industry experts about the evidence, solutions and the impact on society when our fourth estate doesn’t reflect the social makeup of Australia.
Freelance Journalist & Founder, Rachel’s List
Freelance Journalist & Founder, Rachel’s List
Rachel Smith has established a successful freelance career over the past 15 years as a journalist, content creator and copywriter, completing work for a range of clients – from consumer magazines and custom media to a number of major Australian corporates. Her work has appeared in the smh.com.au, marie claire, Good Health, Women’s Fitness, Restaurant & Catering Magazine, Vacations & Travel and Home Beautiful, as well as Village Roadshow, Destination NSW and NAB.
She is also the founder of Rachel’s List, an online freelance community which posts jobs for the media and digital industries, and is also a forum for a wide range of issues within the changing media landscape.
Founding Member & Secretary, Interns Australia
Founding Member & Secretary, Interns Australia
Tilly is a PhD Candidate at the UTS Business School researching unpaid internships and employability and a founding member of advocacy body Interns Australia. She has spoken and written about the internship phenomenon extensively, particularly advocating for paid internships and increasing diversity in professional sectors through paid internship programs. She is a seasoned advocate, researcher and public policy specialist who has worked in a variety of political and not-for-profit roles, including most recently as a policy and campaigns adviser at consumer advocacy organisation, CHOICE. Beyond professional life, Tilly also serves as a director of charity Goods for Girls, a Kenyan-based charity that teaches women to sew reusable sanitary pads, distributing them in rural schools and providing women’s health education.
Agencies have long been shouting about the merits of UX, but although many publishers have been going through rebrands, refreshes and relaunches, UX isn’t always something that is spoken about in much detail.
Clean, clutter free and streamlined should be front of mind for all publishers both for their consumers and their clients. It’s not just about keeping the user experience at the forefront of everything a publisher does, but increasing the opportunities for advertising revenue and partnerships, all of which UX can play a significant role in, particularly with diminishing display ads.
This session will look at the new user experience and how publishers are increasing their opportunities across readership and partnerships. From redesigns to autoplay, mobile-first to traditional publishing, UX is having a significant impact on the publishing industry.
Head of Digital Product & Technology, Pacific Magazines
Head of Digital Product & Technology, Pacific Magazines
Will Everitt has proven success mobilizing innovation and change from blue chips to start-ups with extensive global experience including Auckland, Hong Kong, London and Sydney. This includes rebuilding product and technology teams, adopting Agile enterprise wide and establishing large scale audience product platforms for leading brands such as Lonely Planet, The Times, Stuff.co.nz and South China Morning Post.
Mr Everitt joined Pacific Magazines, publisher of Marie Claire and InStyle as head of product and technology in 2017 to lead technology transformation and product development. He was previously general manager, technology director and chief product officer for Fairfax Media with responsibilities including The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. During his time at Fairfax, his team won prestigious industry awards for new product releases including ‘News site of the Year’ for SMH.com.au and ‘News app of the Year’ for the AFR app.
Founder & Creative Director, Frank Digital
Founder & Creative Director, Frank Digital
Founding partner and creative director of Frank Digital, Matt is a strategic and conceptual thinker who has lead top creative teams to financial and creative success. With offices in Sydney and Melbourne, Frank Digital was named by Awwwards as one of the most innovative digital agencies in Australasia and in February this year was acquired by UK listed data marketing agency Jaywing. Its clients include, AMP Capital, Merivale, Bauer Media, Western Sydney University and City of Sydney.
General Manager Commercial & Digital Strategy, NRL
General Manager Commercial & Digital Strategy, NRL
Todd is General Manager of Commercial and Digital Strategy at the NRL. Since it’s launch in December 2017, Todd has led the commercial program across the new look NRL Digital publishing business. NRL Digital has achieved phenomenal results over the first six months with network audience up 17% year on year and over 2.5m uniques visiting the platform weekly.
Working with product and content teams, he is responsible for the integration of NRL partners into NRL.com and balancing the commercial program with the needs of the fan base and the game. Todd has taken the business from a zero base to a commercially sustainable operation, connecting brands with Rugby League fans and developing effective marketing campaigns across tentpole moments including State of Origin.
Todd and his team have devised a premium publisher strategy focused on content integration, data led one to one personalised communications and an optimised advertising framework.
Publishers are usually more than willing to speak about the dynamic nature of the industry and what it is doing to their business model. Consumers are more than happy to vote with their clicks and their wallets. But what about brands and media agencies – the two who are often the difference between a publisher sinking or swimming?
Measurement, partnerships, packages, events, associations – brand and media agencies involvement in publishing has stretched further than ever before. But are they happy with the direction it is taking and do they feel that involvement in publishing is paying off?
In this pointed panel session, leaders from both brands and media agencies will take a hard look at the publishing industry, layout the positives, address the areas where improvement is needed, and discuss what they’d like out of a relationship with a publisher.
Principal, Hourigan International
Principal, Hourigan International
James Greet is one of Australia’s most experienced agency change leaders. During the course of his career he has worked with some of the world’s most progressive agencies across both media and creative, where strategic and creative thinking has been the definer and driver of their success.
During his 14 years in Australia, James has held the CEO role at OMD, Mindshare (ANZ, Japan and Korea), and Ikon (ANZ, ) building a reputation as a pioneer, helping turn under performing companies into both market and global network leaders.
More recently he has worked as a Partner of Cummins&Partners, a successful Australian independent Advertising Agency who wanted to realise the ambition of offering both creative and media under one roof, across both their Melbourne and Sydney offices.
Today he is a Co-founder of CleanThinking, a ‘jedi council’ of comms strategists, designed to help businesses turn media complexity into clarity and advantage. CleanThinking works with a range of businesses including brand marketers, media and entertainment companies and creative agencies.
Chief Investment Officer, GroupM
Chief Investment Officer, GroupM
Nicola was promoted to GroupM Chief Investment Officer in 2018 after spending four years at GroupM agency Mindshare as CIO.
A highly respected media executive, with extensive experience across all channels and digital integration, she now leads the investment function at the biggest media investment group in Australia and sits on the Senior Leadership Team.
Before moving agency side, Nicola spent her career in publishers in both Australia and the UK. Nicola earned a degree in Psychology at Sussex University before joining the Conde Nast sales team based in central London. She moved to Australia in 2003.
She has held high profile sales roles at both Fairfax and News Corp in Australia and immediately prior to joining the Mindshare National Leadership team, spent five years serving as National Sales Director of News Digital Media before moving to the role of NSW Sales Director of the integrated print and digital business within NewsCorp Australia.
It’s been a case study for years – youth, millennials, gen Z… call them what you want, they consume media differently to older demographics. All of them will grow older at some stage and begin to digest different media. However, the way they will want to consume that media will be dramatically shaped by what they are consuming now.
While they may want different information traditionally delivered by more mainstream media, they will expect it to be delivered in ways familiar to them. It has the potentially to completely change the way media operates and shake up the current status quo as this set of consumers grows older.
In this session, a panel of youth media will look at how they are delivering content and advertising today, and discuss what their current consumers will expect from media in the future. They will talk about content, advertising and partnerships, and try to pin down how media will be reshaped in the coming years.
Chief Operating Officer, Conversant Media
Chief Operating Officer, Conversant Media
A background in print, online and radio journalism with a focus on sport and business, has ensured that Sorrel always places audiences at the centre of business and commercial strategy.
She began working for Conversant Media in 2014 in the Ad Operations and Integration team, quickly demonstrating a skill for bridging the gap between editorial guidelines and commercial partnership requirements.
As the business grew, Sorrel carved out a path in integration and business operations and was chosen by Managing Director Zac Zavos to fill the newly created, Business Manager role, in October 2015.
In 2016, with the business delivering strong financial growth, Sorrel helped take Conversant Media to market with APN News & Media (now HT&E) acquiring the business in October of the same year.
Promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2017, Sorrel took on integration, commercial, corporate governance, reporting and broader business responsibilities, supporting the CEO in the day to day running of the organisation.
After 12 years with the company, CEO Zac Zavos finished up with Conversant Media in April 2018. With his departure, Sorrel was appointed co-leader of the business, alongside co-founder Zolton Zavos.
CEO, Allure Media
CEO, Allure Media
Jason Scott is CEO of Allure Media, a next generation media company with a diverse portfolio. Allure Media partner with some of the world’s largest and most innovative media companies to create Australian versions of global media and ecommerce brands that people love.
The growing portfolio of partners includes Business Insider, Gizmodo Media Group, Pop Sugar Network, ShopStyle, and the Who What Wear Network. Most recently launching Kin Community Australia, You Tube’s number one video network for women.
During his career, Jason has lived and worked in the United States, Europe, and Asia building teams across a range of businesses, cultures and markets working for global media companies including Havas Media and Microsoft and Fairfax Media.
CEO & Founder, Junkee Media
CEO & Founder, Junkee Media
Neil is one of Australia’s most respected and successful digital leaders as the CEO & Co-Founder of Junkee Media, Australia’s leading youth publisher. With over 20 years experience in digital publishing, Neil has created some of Australia’s most loved and successful media brands including Junkee, Punkee, AWOL and inthemix.
Under Neil’s vision, Junkee Media has grown to reach over 1.5 million visitors to its websites each month and its video content has notched up over 100 million views in the last 12 months.
Junkee Media are award winning pioneers of native content in Australia, working with local and global brands including Qantas, Westpac, American Express, Schweppes and Disney to help them to tell and share their stories.
Junkee Media was acquired by oOh!media, Australia’s leading Out Of Home company in June 2016. Neil is now applying his content and creative knowledge to the sector to harness the power of oOh!’s digital out of home network.
General Manager of news.com.au & Whimn, News Corp
General Manager of news.com.au & Whimn, News Corp
Bio coming soon…
Publishers are no longer publishers. They are outlets producing content across a range of platforms with a varied array of business models for a constantly moving consumer. That consumer is rarely locked into a set of habits, always looking for something new.
Enter full service publishing. Newspapers producing TV content, magazines ruling social, digital outlets creating events – it’s a media free-for-all with varying degrees of success. It’s all to gain the attention of the constantly moving consumer, a consumer that is three dimensional and needs to be treated as such.
In this session, some of the media brands producing content across a variety of platforms will explain how and why they have scaled up, and what position that puts their core business model in. They will discuss how the consumer they are trying to reach has changed and why their new content model is one that will drive their business forward.
What are the risks and is it worth the reward? The term ‘full service is heavily debated in agencyland, but is it more suited to publishing?
Digital Editorial Director, Nine Entertainment Co
Digital Editorial Director, Nine Entertainment Co
Bio coming soon…
Director & Publisher, Vice Australia
Director & Publisher, Vice Australia
Myki’s crystal ball was working well in 2003, when he launched Canadian-born VICE Magazine into the Australian market. Operating in only three countries at the time, the underground magazine has since expanded into the world’s leading youth media brand, with a global footprint in 30+ countries across mobile, digital and linear platforms.
As Director, Myki has overseen VICE’s local expansion into Australasia’s most influential youth media company, winning Brand of the Year at the Publish Awards 2017. He orchestrated a defining partnership with SBS to convert free-to-air TV channel SBS2 into SBS VICELAND in November 2016, now featuring VICE’s award-winning programming. He has also developed VICE into Australia’s most awarded in-house branded content studio, working with preeminent brands such as Google, Ebay, Schweppes and Air New Zealand.
National Commercial Strategy Director, CREATE, NOVA Entertainment
National Commercial Strategy Director, CREATE, NOVA Entertainment
Kate Murphy leads NOVA Entertainment’s branded entertainment team, CREATE, which employs over sixty of the industry’s most exciting and diverse talents across multiple disciplines including; content development and production, strategy, sponsorships, design, research and analytics, digital campaign operations and trade marketing.
With over 12 years media experience and as one of the founding members of CREATE, Kate’s expertise is commercial brand integration and strategic partnerships having previously held brand integration and brand experience management roles at NOVA Entertainment, oOh!media and ARN.
Judged the winner of B&T Magazine’s Women in Media 2016 in the sales category, Kate and her team work directly with the NOVA Entertainment sales team and their clients and partners to produce strategic media solutions that connect with audiences, deliver results and grow both broadcast and non-traditional revenue.
How do you measure? Arguably, no more detail is needed for this session summary as the varied answers to this question could likely keep the Publish conference going all day on its own.
Take away the jest and it’s a serious, ongoing, issue the industry is facing. There’s the off-platform measurement debate, readership versus circulation and large disparities in different forms of digital measurement.
Measurement systems are struggling to keep up with a changing digital environment and those in charge of running them are constantly under pressure from publishers ,brands and media buyers to adjust the methodology.
The industry cannot agree on the ultimate solution, so for now, what should the next steps and be how can the metrics debate finally take a step forward rather than two steps back.
General Manager, The Readership Works
General Manager, The Readership Works
Mal Dale joined The Readership Works in 2011 as the inaugural General Manager. He has over 20 years’ experience in media, at both the agency and publisher side. He is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the industry cross-platform audience metric emma, managing the research providers and various stakeholders.
Among his previous roles, Mal was Managing Partner at Mitchell and Partners and Head of Digital at MediaCom Australia.
Managing Director, Nunn Media Sydney
Managing Director, Nunn Media Sydney
Chris is Managing Director of Nunn Media in Sydney. Nunn Media is Australia’s largest independent media agency with more than 40 staff and in excess of $200m of billings across its Sydney and Melbourne offices.
Chris has almost 25 years experience in media and data analytics. Prior to launching Nunn Media in Sydney in 2014 Chris was Principal of data analytics consultancy Quantium. Previous media agency experience includes being CEO of Mindshare in Australia and before that China where he spent nearly a decade of his career.
Chris began his agency career in full-service agencies, having worked for Saatchi & Saatchi London and JWT Shanghai.
Audience Development, Bauer Xcel Media
Audience Development, Bauer Xcel Media
Bio coming soon…
CEO, Roy Morgan
CEO, Roy Morgan
Michele Levine has been Chief Executive Officer of Roy Morgan Research since 1992.
With over 30 years’ experience as a researcher, Michele has been responsible for thousands of surveys, including some of the largest research projects ever undertaken in Australia, many of which continue to play a crucial role in shaping our society today.
Driven by an insatiable curiosity about people and what makes them tick, as well as a fundamental belief in the empowering value of information, Michele was instrumental in developing Roy Morgan Single Source, the world’s leading consumer study based on over 50,000 interviews a year, and the Roy Morgan Business Survey.
With a passion for Australian culture, education and the arts, Michele was Chair of the Malthouse Theatre Board, where she provided leadership in strategic planning, philanthropy and corporate engagement. She also served on the Australian Made Campaign Board of Directors, where her expertise in buyer behaviour and the Australian marketplace was greatly valued.
A staunch believer in social justice, Michele is an Ambassador for the Menzies School of Health Research, advocating for their work in closing the gap in health and education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
In her roles as Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics at The University of Queensland, and member of the Advisory Board of the Melbourne Business School’s Centre for Business Analytics, Michele strives to connect industry with university research.
It’s one of the most prominent questions of any publishing pro, from journalist to sales rep – ‘what’s the next step after heading my department.’ Whether you’re the editor, head of sales, marketing director or similar, the next step for many is of the management variety, and some eventually make it all the way into the C-suite.
But do these skills truly transition into business leadership at a C-suite level? Of the prominent senior staffers that have transitioned into leadership roles beyond editorial, sales or marketing, there have been examples both good and bad and some which have failed, tried again and succeeded.
So should publishing professionals looking beyond their department do MBAs? Do they have the natural ability to be business leaders? Should agencies across advertising, PR and media look to hire them in leadership roles and what has made these people successful in managerial business roles?
In this session, hear from some of the most prominent business leaders whose careers started in publishing.
Company Director & Author
Company Director & Author
Marina Go is Chair of the Wests Tigers NRL Club, Chair of Office Brands, a non-executive director of Autosports Group and author of the business book for women, Break Through: 20 Success Strategies for Female Leaders. She was previously GM of Hearst Australia at Bauer Media.
Boss magazine named her as one of 20 True Leaders of 2016.
Marina has over 25 years of leadership experience in the media industry, having started her career as a journalist. She was appointed Editor of Dolly magazine at the age of 23, before spending the next decade editing a number of leading women;s magazines. She has held senior leadership roles at Fairfax, Pacific, Emap, Bauer and Private Media, where she was CEO and founder of the career website Women’s Agenda.
She is a director of digital startup Daily Siren, and also a member of the Advisory Boards of the Walkley Foundation, The Australian Republican Movement and Women’s Agenda. She is a former director of Netball Australia, Odyssey House, Sydney Symphony Vanguard and The Apparel Group.
She lectures on digital media at the University of Technology, Sydney, is a Mentor with the Women In Media and NRL Women programs and a UNSW Alumni Leader and Ambassador.
She has an MBA from The Australian Graduate School of Management, a BA (Mass Communications) from Macquarie University and is a member of the AICD.
She is a mother of two young men and passionate about diversity and equality.
CEO, Pacific Magazines
CEO, Pacific Magazines
Gereurd is the Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Magazines, the multi-media and publishing arm of Australia’s largest and best-performing integrated media group, Seven West Media.
He leads a portfolio of the country’s most influential, iconic and powerful cross-platform brands including Better Homes & Gardens, marie claire, New Idea, InStyle, Women’s Health and Men’s Health.
Gereurd has more than two decades of experience across all facets of the media industry, having held positions at Guardian News & Media, ACP (now Bauer Media) and Pacific across editorial, commercial, publishing and general management.
He is also the Chairman of Australia’s industry body for magazine publishers, Magazine Networks.
Co-Founder, Storyation
Co-Founder, Storyation
Lauren Quaintance is Co-Founder of Storyation – an award-winning content marketing agency that counts Tourism New Zealand, Mercer and Bupa among its clients.
She was named one of the top 15 women in the world in content marketing by the editor of Chief Content Officer magazine, and has been a keynote speaker in Singapore, India and Australia.
A former journalist and senior executive at Fairfax Media she has a Master’s from Columbia University in New York and was awarded a fellowship at Oxford University in the UK.
After five years and over 50 issues, Lisa Messenger elected to close the print title Collective Hub. Collective Hub began with a bang in 2013 as Messenger Collective before changing to Renegade Collective and then finally Collective Hub. Its entrepreneurial focus with a female fashion flavour gave it a unique selling point.
Collective Hub, which once had plans for UK and US editions and was ranged in multiple overseas markets lives on as a digital-only property, while Messenger has launched LisaMessenger.com as well.
In this fireside chat, Messenger will discuss the reasoning behind the closure, her thoughts on the publishing industry in Australia, new revenue opportunities and what’s next for her and her business.
Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Collective Hub
Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Collective Hub
Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Collective Hub. She launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013 with no experience in an industry that people said was either dead or dying. Collective Hub grew into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and education – all of which serve to ignite human potential. In April this year she courageously decided to break it all and do the ultimate pivot.
Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 24 herself.
Most notably, Lisa chartered her ride to success with her bestselling book Daring & Disruptive: Unleashing the Entrepreneur and its sequels Life & Love: Creating the Dream, which reached number-one on Booktopia; Money & Mindfulness: Living in Abundance, that shot to bestselling status within the first month; Breakups & Breakthroughs: Turning an Ending Into a New Beginning and Purpose soon followed.
Her passion is to challenge individuals and corporations to get out of their comfort zones, find their purpose, change the way they think, and to prove there’s more than one way to do anything. She encourages creativity, innovation, an entrepreneurial spirit and lives life to the absolute max. Most mornings she wakes up and pinches herself at how incredible her life is, but is also acutely aware and honest about life’s bumps and tumbles along the way.
With fans including Sir Richard Branson, New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world.
Publish Awards, Mumbrella Travel Marketing Awards, Pearl Awards, CMAs, AMAs – if there is an award for content marketing, there is a good chance Medium Rare Content Agency and its partnership with Qantas has either won it or been in the running.
It was a relationship established from the beginning of the Medium Rare journey and has set new standards for the way content marketing as a business is run. Since launch, Medium Rare has expanded the relationship with Qantas, adding QantaLlink’s in-flight magazine and Chinese editions to its repertoire.
In this session, Kirsten Galliott, Editor-in-Chief of Qantas Magazine and Travel Insider, will look at how the partnership developed over time and why it has succeeded. She’ll go through strategy, planning, relationships and business, building a session with deep insight into one of Australia’s – if not one of the world’s – leading content marketing partnerships.
Editor-in-Chief, Qantas Magazine & Travel Insider, Medium Rare Content Agency
Editor-in-Chief, Qantas Magazine & Travel Insider, Medium Rare Content Agency
As Editor-in-Chief of Qantas magazine and Travel Insider, Kirsten Galliott is responsible for all content across Qantas’s platforms. In addition to the monthly magazine and inspiration website, she oversees QantasLink’s regional title, Spirit, two Chinese editions a year, social media and video content.
In 2017 and 2016, she was named Editor of the Year at Mumbrella’s Publish Awards. A journalist for more than 20 years, she has been the editor of InStyle and B magazines for Pacific Magazines and the(sydney)magazine and Sunday Life for Fairfax Media. She has also been the fashion editor for Sunrise on the Seven Network, consulted to the SBS television program TwentyFourSeven for Hal McElroy Media and been a regular reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide.
She is an ambassador for Dress For Success Sydney, which empowers women to achieve financial independence.
The Australian publishing industry is not short of titles that have been confined to the dusty closet of history, particularly when it comes to larger publishing companies looking to streamline their business offering. But as has been proven more than once now, many of these titles still have a substantial business model hidden within.
With new leadership, a fresh perspective and a reimagining of the revenue model, a number of titles have moved from large publishers to new businesses or smaller publishers to find substantial success.
In this special fireside chat, two successful publishing businesses which have acquired titles from large publishers will discuss the ins and outs of migrating a title to a new company. They will talk about why they saw a business opportunity in the titles, how they managed to take ownership of them, what they did to turn them around and why, now, they are finding success in their acquisitions.
CEO, Emprise Group
CEO, Emprise Group
Rob Gallagher is CEO and Managing Director of Emprise Group Holdings, a content and marketing business built around the self-drive, regional tourism market. Emprise was formed in July 2017 with the merger of Hema Maps and Adventures Group.
Gallagher’s history in the publishing industry started when he joined Bauer Media in 2012. With a fresh perspective on the traditional models, Gallagher could see the changes in publishing happening in front of his eyes without the constraint of historical biases. It was clear that disruption was afoot, but he could see the biggest asset the big players had, being content, was not being harnessed as they searched for the silver bullet to arrest downward trends in ads & circulation. There was an opportunity to flip the model on its head, so Gallagher led the buyout of Adventures.
A shift to a content first business re-framed the way the business operated – no longer was the printed product the most important thing as it was in a “publishing paradigm”. This, combined with an approach to build solutions, saw the Adventures business reshape its position in the market by building new revenue streams through its events and content agency services. The irony in the model Gallagher’s team had created was the improvement in the core published product, with ad numbers up, circulation up and industry awards recognition of the new strategy.
Within the six months of starting the Adventure’s business, Gallagher and his business partners Matt O’Meara & Sam Hayward started discussions with Hema Maps MD, Rob Boeghiem on strategic partnership opportunities. The more the two businesses worked together, the greater the opportunities they identified and the more logical the merger become.
Gallagher takes on the role of CEO for the new business, born out of two traditional publishing businesses but with a clear strategy in investing in the core assets of the business – content and data. The team will be built out to scale the resources focusing on delivering market leading adventure based content and regional mapping.
When asked around what it is like to be in publishing in the current climate, Gallagher is quick to quip “We are not a publisher, we just happen to publish products. We are not defined by the medium, but we use channels which we see creating impact – and our magazines and books are certainly doing that.”
CarAdvice.com began as a simple one-man blog, yet it has evolved over the past decade to become a leading publisher of automotive editorial content, capturing a market once dominated by the established players. This hasn’t happened by accident. It has been the result of a deliberate strategy to invest in in-house content creators and focus on a premium advertising-funded business model. All this in a market where others have outsourced editorial and shifted to programmatic ad sales – a strategy that Andrew Beecher argues is a ‘race to the bottom’ for the industry and consumers as a whole.
In this presentation, Beecher will recount the CarAdvice story and make clear how the business continues to grow and evolve with changing market conditions. He will demonstrate why it’s important for all publishers to put a value on editorial content and not sell themselves short. If you are struggling with the challenge of growing revenue, without jeopardising your editorial standards, this presentation will help show how the two can work together to increase revenue, grow audience and provide premium content for the benefit of consumers.
CEO & Managing Director, CarAdvice.com
CEO & Managing Director, CarAdvice.com
Andrew Beecher is the CEO & Managing Director of CarAdvice.com, Australia’s leading independent publisher of premium automotive content.
Since joining CarAdvice in 2013, Andrew has been instrumental in leading the company to increase sales, drive profitability and evolve its editorial and business strategy to the changing publisher landscape.
In 2016, Andrew spearheaded the successful sale of CarAdvice.com to the Nine Entertainment Company for a reported valuation of $35million.
Prior to joining CarAdvice, Andrew ran digital marketing, e-commerce and media divisions for IPMG, Sensis, TradingPost.com.au, Adslot Limited and Carsales.com Limited.
With a passion for both cars and content, Andrew is an outspoken advocate for premium publishers and the value of independent editorial in the automotive industry.
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An absolute must for the publishing industry, a great event for everyone in the industry to learn and network with businesses relevant to their own and to see and hear what's new and now in their market.
Cutting edge, inspirational and stimulating food for thought.
We can only together become more of a powerful industry, so I highly recommend that people get involved.
Well organised event with content on point, and an array of guest speakers delivering thoughtful commentary.
It was intense, and in a really, really good way.
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