Start the Week: Local podcast spend revealed; Another HBO lifeline for Binge; What results season told us

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Welcome to Start the Week, our Monday morning scene-setter for the week ahead.

Our first conference, RE:Made - Retail Media Unmade, is this Thursday. See the whole program on the RE:Made website

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Digital art by Dall-E | Prompt: ‘A microphone partially buried in coins’

Today:

• Australia’s podcasting spend revealed

• Another HBO extension for Foxtel

• A Logies mystery

• Will the government take on the networks on quotas?

• What we learned from results season

Today’s episode feature Tim Burrowes and Abe Udy

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Further reading:

• IAB Australia: Digital Audio Advertising Spend Surges To $221m In Australia

• The Australian: Foxtel poised to ink multi-year deal with US media giant Warner Bros Discovery

• The Australian: Media Diary: The Logies: no date, no location

• The Australian: Albanese government faces pushback on streaming content obligations

• Unmade: Nine's Sneesby gets better at navigating the awkward questions

• Unmade: Tuesdata: Profits begin to fall as Seven West Media prepares for a chilly 2023

• Unmade: Tuesdata: Unpacking Ooh Media's financial results; can the good old days of 2019 return?

• Unmade: The end game approaches for HT&E

• Unmade: Southern Cross Austereo has had its worst ever start to a financial year. Can Listnr change the trajectory?

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Audio production was courtesy of Abe’s Audio, the people to talk to about voiceovers and sound design for corporate videos, digital content, commercials and podcasts.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with Tuesdata for our paying members.

Have a great day.

Toodlepip…

Tim Burrowes

tim@unmade.media

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