Unmade Index ends the week on an uptick, but loses 5% across October

Tim Burrowes

October 31, 2025 5:02

It was a solid Friday on the Unmade Index, closing up by 0.56% for the day, down by 1.56% across the week and down by 4.99% across October.

Nine (up 0.9%), Ooh Media (up 1.1%), Ive Group (also up 1.1%) and Gumtree (up 5.9%) were among the stocks that improved today, while merging media companies Seven West Media (down 2.1%) and Southern Cross Austereo (down 1.7%) both lost ground. Vinyl Group was also down, by 1.2%.

Aspermont issued an unremarkable quarterly update which saw it report profits of $400,000 for the last quarter, which did not move the share price in either direction.

The Unmade Index closed on 465.1 points.

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.