Start the Week: Fast food marketing under attack; TikTok grabs $70m slice of ad market; Meta goes missing again

Welcome to Unmade’s Start the Week.

McDonald’s makes its presence felt at a USA vs Nigeria soccer friendly | Getty Images

Today’s topics:

• Politicians target fast food marketing to kids

• TV ad revenue shifts to streaming

• Blockbuster AFL rights bid goes missing

• Seven’s Commonwealth Games win

• A big week in TV launches

• TikTok’s Aussie income revealed

• Meta goes missing in action. Again.

• John Sintras’s new gig

• Why bosses want everyone back in the office

Today’s episode features Unmade’s Tim Burrowes and Damian Francis. As always, we’d love to hear what you think at letters@unmade.media

Further reading:

• SMH / The Age: GP-turned-MP to demand action on junk food advertising

• The Australian: Ten’s AFL rights bid falls flat

• SMH / The Age: ‘Plucked from thin air’: Paramount plays down AFL bid, eyes future deals

• Mumbrella: Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games brings in over 10M viewers for Seven in first week

• Nine: Weekly Oztam analysis

• Australian Financial Review: TikTok Australia revenue surges as Facebook rivalry heats up

• SMH / The Age: Meta missing in action at crucial Treasury talks

• Mumbrella: Mutiny appoints John Sintras to lead US expansion

• Unmade: Saying out loud the quiet bit about work-life balance

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