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

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

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?

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