Unmade: media and marketing analysis

Welcome to the latest Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s chapter, I explore the dramatic evolution of News Corp in Australia and around the world during the last decade. I analyse the insights offered by News Corp Australia’s executive chair...

Welcome to Unmade’s new Start the Week podcast, dedicated to looking ahead to the week in media and marketing. Today’s topics: * Why some of the shareholders of TV company Seven West Media and radio giant HT&E are open to a merger; * Gearing up for a big news week with the Budget, the Shane Warne memorial and perhaps an election called too; * AAP launches its own direct news offering; * Verdict on...

Welcome to the latest Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s chapter, I explore the ever worsening relationship cycle between the Coalition government and the ABC, as PM Scott Morrison and communications minister Paul Fletcher pursued regular co...

Welcome to Unmade’s new Start the Week podcast, dedicated to looking ahead to the week in media and marketing. Today’s topics: * Nine loses one of its top executives; * Government opens another front against the platforms; * The ABC’s Twitter problem; * The Oz’s new podcast project Today’s episode features Unmade’s Tim Burrowes and Damian Francis . As always, we’d love to hear what you think at le...

Welcome to the latest Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s chapter, Nick Chan - the man who could have turned around the (mis)fortunes of Bauer Media in Australia - falls out with his German masters and abruptly walks away. His successor Paul...

In the latest edition of Unmade’s Start The Week podcast, Tim Burrowes and Damian Francis talk about developments in the world of media and marketing that broke over the weekend and this morning. Today’s episode deals with sexual harassment in the media and marketing industry. If you or someone you care about needs support, please contact 1800 RESPECT at 1800 737 732. In an emergency, call 000. To...

Welcome to the latest Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s chapter, we reach a moment of redemption for James Warburton as he returns to the media, and to his old home at Seven. By the time Warburton returned, the company had lost steam. What...

Welcome to Unmade’s new Start the Week podcast, dedicated to looking ahead to the week in media and marketing. Today’s topics: * Are Media buys ecommerce platform Hard to Find * Can the TV industry change the conversation about overnight ratings? * Is Foxtel’s float dead? * What does Telstra’s move on Fetch mean? * WPP and Accenture join the exits from Russia This is the second episode of Start th...

Welcome to Unmade’s new Start the Week podcast, dedicated to looking ahead to the week in media and marketing. Today’s topics: * What was the boss of Netflix doing in Australia?; * Variety mag coming to Australia; * Why The Iconic ditched its marketing boss role * What we learned about the ASX companies last week * Does it matter that Ten was sixth channel on Saturday night? * John Croll’s return...

Welcome to the latest Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s chapter, we reach the end of Fairfax Media’s 177-year-old story. Five years ago, the management of Fairfax Media was running out of time. Although the company’s secret blue team was al...

Welcome to the latest Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s chapter, we enter the final act of Unmade: The Remaking. By 2017, it seemed that Network Ten was becoming a de facto part of the extended News Corp empire, seven years after Lachlan Mu...

Welcome to the latest Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s chapter - the last in the book’s second act, we focus on radio. We explore the historic moment when Australia’s radio landscape was upended. In a move that triggered a decade of humili...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s episode we explore the booms and bubbles that consumed Australia’s media industry in the previous decade. We explore the cautionary tale of how Alex Malley, the CEO of a...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s episode we examine a story of mismanagement, structural change and bad luck. In the space of a decade, Australia went from having the greatest number of magazine readers...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. We have now reached the half way point of the book’s 26 chapters. And we are at a pivotal point for the TV industry. The chapter opens with the day the now notorious “Jacketgate” v...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another free extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. One of the things I was fascinated to learn in researching Media Unmade was the atmosphere in Kim Williams’ big office in News Corp’s Holt Street headquarters the day he told...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another free extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. Today’s chapter showcases the best and worst of Lachlan Murdoch’s media achievements over the last decade. In radio, he found a great deal of success, buying DMG Radio and tur...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another free extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. Today’s chapter tells the story of Fairfax Media at rock bottom. It opens at a deserted Domain, as the company’s new events push gets off to a disastrous start with nobody sho...

Australian media monitoring company Streem has been bought by the US-based Cision. Founder and CEO Elgar Welch joined Unmade’s Tim Burrowes to discuss how the deal came about, what it will mean for customers and where the company goes from here. The conversation can be heard via the player in this post, or the Unmade podcast can be found on all the major podcasting apps. Transcript Tim Burrowes:We...

Welcome to Unmade. In the latest episode I talk to one of Australia’s most credentialed media executives, Andrew Jaspan, about his newest venture, 360Info . Jaspan’s greatest career achievement to date was founding The Conversation, which has provided an editorial platform for academics globally. However, he departed in 2017 in acrimonious circumstances. During his career, Jaspan has also edited s...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another free extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. We’re now into the start of Act 2 - The Reckoning. Today’s chapter opens up with a cameo from one of the most misunderstood government ministers of recent years, Labor communi...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another free extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In this final chapter of Act 1, we explore the Australian radio industry at the first half of the previous decade. It was a time when Austereo’s two networks, Triple M and the...

Welcome to the Unmade podcast. Today’s guest is Rod Prosser, chief sales officer at ViacomCBS, parent company of Network Ten. In today’s conversation, Prosser reflects upon his turbulent decade at Ten, the difference on-demand viewing is making to the linear TV equation, and his bullish prediction for 2022 revenues. And he also reveals that Pluto TV - the ViacomCBS-owned ad supported video streami...

Welcome to the latest edition of the the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another free extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. This chapter focuses on the bubbles and the booms of Australian media in the last decade. I explore the rise and fall of group buying; the inflating content marketing bubb...

Welcome to the latest edition of the the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade , which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores. In today’s chapter, we look back at the last time the ABC was riding high, as managing director Mark Scott and director of innovation Ian Carroll led the charge into the digita...