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REmade special: The week in retail media

BotD: Amazon boss to keynote at REmade; WPP names new CEO; Mark Britt and Mat Baxter reveal new venture

BotD: Gallagher puts the band back together (no, not Oasis); Hyland out of Havas; Ooh Media’s price turnaround

Tuesdata: Where Australian ad spend goes

BotD: CommBank claims first streaming roadblock; Ita vs Antoinette, pt 2

BotW: Relevance drift; Stan's late winner; Vinyl Group gets a new credit line

HumAIn week: The Cloudflare alliance and big tech funds AI with job cuts

(Another) 20 minutes inside Sir Martin Sorrell's head

Here comes the year of simplification

FY25 end of year report: The winners and losers of The Unmade Index

A love letter to podcasts

BotW: The ABC's Antoinette problem is a long way from over; ARN confronts its K+J problem; In praise of the ACCC

Justice, advocacy, and a terrible precedent

'A garden that needs to be tended every day': Adam Cadwallader on bringing Motio to life

Omnicom: Legally prohibited from moral leadership

After 15 years, when does Google stop getting the benefit of the doubt?

BotD: Google does the dirty on publishers; New marketing boss at Westpac; More trouble for K&J Show; Ten's Spotify plan

BotW: Nine's centre of gravity is back to TV; Nick Garrett to rule them all; Why ARN needs to take K+J national

BotD: Nine shakes it up (and closes on EPL); Publish conference returns; Google asks for more

'Nothing is more powerful than an authentic host read' - How Earmax is finding a place as Australia's first podcast media agency

BotD: Telstra gold while Optus name is mud; Mushroom trial drives podcast chart

As the ABC is overtaken by Seven News and news.com.au, more bad news about news avoidance

BotD: A new gig for Ben Shepherd; Tajer out of Seven already; Garrett to rule them all

BotW: Making sense of TV cancellations; Why Amaysim must be in on the AI joke; Hard truth about Nine's missed moment

BotD: TAC luurves Omnicom; Sorrell disses WPP; How Nine failed to act

'The moats are gone' Unmade's Compass live at Mumbrella360

Q&A represented a braver and more experimental ABC than today

How the Project survived (and even thrived) for 16 years

BotW: AI winners showing up; How Rob Morgan built a local behemoth; Why Greg Hywood is unimpressed with Nine's management

BotD: Crikey’s embargo bust; radio rumours; whither The Project?

BotD: Rob Morgan bows out; Meta and LinkedIn bid for more ad dollars; WPP loses Paramount

Clive Dickens on harnessing the AI opportunity as traditional jobs go away

BotD: Optus rips up its creative and media roster; ABC radio chief departs; Fiji marketer comes home

BotD: SMI finally sees ad growth; Vinyl Group asks court to solve shares blunder; New gig for Stutch, old one for Pellegrino

BotW: Droga goes out on top; Holdco homogenisation; Vinyl's court case

Live from m360: The Unmade-Mumbrellacast crossover episode

Finding flaws to play the AI game; Our plans for REmade

Fail

BotW: Big bucks for TV sport, no bucks for kids content; The Project on the skids?

BotW: Nine admits it got it wrong on radio; Google's big AI week; a curious magazine launch

BotD: A fresh start for Nine Radio; PHD wins Bunnings; Optus EPL deal stalls

Live at HumAIn: 'It's the garden of Eden with no weeds.' How AI is driving a second coming for chatbots

BotD: Ash Farr's new global CMO role revealed; Google unveils chain of AI moves

BotD: Market sentiment turns against media as RBA warns of tariff headwinds

BotD: Radio's rogues lean in; Lachlan's Nova profits revealed; Warburton gets a gig

BotW: Of influencer CEOs, SCA agitation, and a symbolic exit

De-Pendant

'We can sit around and shake our fists like blacksmiths in the 1900s, angry at cars': How creative Chas Bayfield is riding out AI

What the minister for fun needs to get serious about

Does News Corp’s news division belong in Fox Corp?

The Campaign for Real Media

BotW: The MOVE muddle; What the Domain deal means; WPP's revolution; Trump wrecks the Aussie screen industry

SCA back on top

Marginally negative

AI slop is putting brand trust at risk, warns Getty Images' creative head

BotW: The Kyle & Jackie O Show faces ratings trouble in Sydney too; Now the magazines use AI cover models

Meta goes all in

The verdict on Cathy O'Connor

BotD: Domain deal into extra time; Jackie No Show; Facebook signs off another low tax bill; Welcome to the Lamestream

Vinyl story rolls on; Google's AI contradiction; and Uncle Clive pays for everything

Vinyl's cunning plan to make a buck; Unmade Index recovers

Could Google lose Chrome, and how bad would that be for advertisers?

BotW: AI takes the mic; Netflix gets serious about ads; SCA spikes; and a Google breakup gets a little closer

'A love letter to the ridiculous and wonderful world of agencies': How Rob Mayhew went from adland to creator

BotD: Aussies fall for US podcaster; Seven West Media capitalisation falls to $200m; SBS sense of humor failure over streaming glitches

BotD: Rapping the election; declaring the influencers; and Stepho's next hire

The sad cobbler

BotW: Will Trump's trade war trigger an advertising tax?; A wobbly week on the Index; and do TV debates still matter?

Effective?

Where to next for the commercial TV industry?

Is QMS going out through the in door, or in through the outdoor?

Red Monday for Unmade index; Take our AI survey

BotW: Enero woe; Growthops flops; and TikTok clock resets

How local media remains divided as audience trust evaporates

Unmade Index scorecard: The first quarter

A smoking gun

The robots back Albo

BotW: Kiis prepares for a fierce gumming from ACMA; Radio National's audience emergency; How to spend $770m

What's holding marketers back from AI?

BotD: NRL TV rights stuck in neutral; Daily Aus won't talk about profit; Clems back into retail

Streaming's second decade begins now

BotD: Bunnings gears up for retail media Hammer Time; Mumbrella tops the trade press numbers; Andrew Little out

BotW: The platforms recruit Trump for their fight with Australia

And now the calamitous news

The trust statistics that suggest a revolution is brewing

BotD: 'No conspiracy' says CRA; No signal from the ABC; No future at Clems for ECD

BotW: Nine's night watchman bats on; Why not use AI?; 2Day chases the kids

The wrong metrics of retail; tell us if you want the REmade Awards to return; No early ASX fillip for Stanton

Here comes Tubi

Toxicity versus tedium?

BotD: Optus joins the HumAIn lineup; WeAre8 shuts its doors in Oz; Emirates up for grabs

BotW: SCA kicked out of the All Ords; Poppy Reid's social follower shenanigans; Hugh Marks' first day

BotD: 'Not all jobs are worth saving'; Women urged not to speak for free

BotD: OMG junior pay is worst in market, new data suggests; Oops, AI Did It Again; Tarsh Belling exits Triple M after just six weeks

BotD: More adland green shoots but SWM takes ASX hit; Change at the top for SXSW Sydney; Poppy Reid's next gig

BotW: Vinyl Group slips out some late night numbers; How Meta outlasted its local crisis; Audio's big week

BotD: Investors give belated thumbs-up to SCA results; the man who still believes in TV; the prosaic truth about a betting ad ban

BotD: The day SCA went audio-only, took Listnr profitable, and lost a drive host; ARN Media back into growth; Hallway creative chief exits

BotD: Enero loses ground; Sheargold off air after Matildas comment; Foxtel locks in last minute Max deal

BotD: Ita goes to war; Nine profits fall again

BotD: Live from Compass Auckland; Ooh Media finds momentum; yet another Clems rethink

BotW: Domain bid starts unravelling the consolidation chain

Luke Girgis puts his reputation on the line in Vinyl Group legal battle

BotD: Ratings cut fails to lift media stocks; Reo signs another client; New IAB chair

BotD: News incentives postponed; Murdoch laundry; SCA wins on the Unmade Index

BotW: Ita's version; TV's Weekend at Bernie's; and News Corp's expiry date

How Kim Portrate helped the television industry ride the last wave

BotD: Is Bruce Gordon Nine's next proprietor?; UFC vs The SMH; Unmade reveals new boss

BotW: What we learned at the Lattouf hearing; Here comes ADH; ARN drops below $200m

BotD: Max counts down to launch; SCA closes in on licences sale; News Corp impresses market

BotD: Rally on the Unmade Index; CRA owns up; Time's up for Liz Hayes

BotD: W+K explains McBloke hires; Ooh Media drops below $600m threshold; CRA claims most podcasts get 100,000+ downloads

BotD: Another down year for ads; Meet the men of McDonald's new ad agency; Sandilands' brain drama

'I love winning': Atomic 212 boss Barry O'Brien on staying hungry, and selling to Publicis

BotW: Publicis goes shopping; NRL goes to market; and Disrupt Radio goes down

BotD: How AI remains in the balance for Aussie marketers; ARN Media's restructure; SWM surges on the Unmade Index

BotD: Atomic payday; the Pureprofile bounce; and DDB cuts jobs

BotW: Why Nine had to get rid of Cullen; Optus Sport on the block; Ooh Media readies for cuts

We're buying Mumbrella

BotW: Ticking clock on the TikTok block; Winners and losers in the Nine shakeup

BotW: Our verdict on the Unmade Index's CEO of 2024, in a dud year