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Nine, Vinyl buck ASX trend to post big gains

Nine, Vinyl buck ASX trend to post big gains

On the surface, Nine’s AGM did not appear to offer too much cheer for investors, but there must have been something in the numbers or sentiment that...

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Hal Crawford

Traditional advertising is a crumbling empire

Traditional advertising is a crumbling empire

Poem founder Rob Lowe takes a wide-angle look at advertising and concludes that if people aren’t already talking about your brand, there’s little...

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Rob Lowe

WFH, riots and the broken Australian promise: The stories we tell ourselves matter

WFH, riots and the broken Australian promise: The stories we tell ourselves matter

Four Pillars Gin co-founder and Mumbrella360 creative director Matt Jones observes a world with an increasing gap between the stories we tell...

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Matt Jones

The risk of playing it too safe with media interviews

The risk of playing it too safe with media interviews

When anything can be taken out of context and sent around the world, it’s understandable that brands are reticent to give media interviews. Bec...

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Bec Brown

Who will buy the products when AI has taken the jobs?

Who will buy the products when AI has taken the jobs?

When I lived in London, I often looked up at the skyscrapers in the City and wondered what all those thousands of people inside actually did. They...

wednesday 5

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Vinne Schifferstein Vidal

My PR startup has copped flack. I still believe good comms shouldn't rely on your bank balance

My PR startup has copped flack. I still believe good comms shouldn't rely on your bank balance

When Barney Chunn described his new AI-powered PR service Drumbeat to Tim Burrowes, he said it filled a gap between a full-service agency and nothing....

wednesday 10

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Barney Chunn

Writing is the least important part of writing

Writing is the least important part of writing

Crisis communications expert and veteran journalist Peter Wilkinson takes a hard look at writing, a skill many in media and marketing prize, but that...

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Peter Wilkinson

Local media is losing share because it is hard to buy and hard to analyse

Local media is losing share because it is hard to buy and hard to analyse

Henry Innis, co-founder and CEO of Mutinex, takes issue with the current narrative that marketing mix models are instructing brands to move away from...

02.11.2026 10

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Henry Innis

In the kitchen

In the kitchen

As Upfronts season winds down, Tim Burrowes checks in on Paramount and Mamamia’s plans for 2027

02.11.2026 30

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Tim Burrowes

ET, SBS, FOI and other acronyms

ET, SBS, FOI and other acronyms

A freedom of information application revealed what SBS management had to say about Mumbrella behind closed doors (and how one of them recommended...

02.11.2026 20

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Tim Burrowes

Our unavoidable training partner

Our unavoidable training partner

In analysis which first appeared in Mumbrella’s Best of the Week email, Tim Burrowes complains about being trapped in an unavoidable relationship...

30.10.2026 20

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Tim Burrowes

Ritson: Why doesn't every marketer insist on a Parramatta Clause to protect themselves from principal media?

Ritson: Why doesn't every marketer insist on a Parramatta Clause to protect themselves from principal media?

MiniMBA founder Mark Ritson welcomes the steps the NSW Government has taken to protect itself from the shadiness of principal media. Why doesn’t...

30.10.2026 20

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Mark Ritson

Occupational hazards of the ad obsessed

Occupational hazards of the ad obsessed

Last month, my sister and her hubby popped over to see me here in Australia. To call Paul a petrolhead doesn’t quite nail it, or at least suggests...

29.10.2026 10

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Hal Crawford

Parliament’s sledging truce: it lasted 24 hours

Parliament’s sledging truce: it lasted 24 hours

Crisis communication expert Peter Wilkinson isn’t surprised the verbal ceasefire between politicians following the Helen Haines attack didn’t last...

28.10.2026 30

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Peter Wilkinson

Behind a bad call: How Michelle Guthrie became managing director of the ABC

Behind a bad call: How Michelle Guthrie became managing director of the ABC

In this extract from her new book, veteran media journalist Margaret Simons investigates the appointment of former Google exec Michelle Guthrie to the...

28.10.2026 30

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Margaret Simons

Why should I pay to stop AI companies using journalism I’ve already paid for?

Why should I pay to stop AI companies using journalism I’ve already paid for?

AI companies are lobbying to be able to use publisher content by default, unless the owner specifically opts out. Todd Scott, owner of NZ’s National...

27.10.2026 20

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Todd Scott

Crawford: A slice of hell? Domino’s withdrawal from promotional addiction

Domino’s have put themselves into a promo doom loop, but can they pull out?Strategist Al Crawford reckons

26.10.2026 30

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Al Crawford

The marketing funnel is flattening as websites become libraries for LLMs

BFJ Digital’s GM Fabian Valado attended IAB’s Brisbane market update recently, and reports back on what brands need to refocus on to remain...

23.10.2026 20

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Fabian Valado

AI is making PR a lot easier. That’s a problem

Sean Sowerby, head of PR and content at Sunday Gravy, writes that artificial intelligence is changing the way public relations works, which is...

22.10.2026 10

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Sean Sowerby

Why I spy on my colleagues

Poem senior producer Hattie Morgan on four ways to get ahead in the office.

21.10.2026 20

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Hattie Morgan

We need to talk. But perhaps not in another bloody panel

Session submissions for Australia and New Zealand’s best and biggest media and marketing conference Mumbrella360 open today. The conference’s...

20.10.2026 20

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Matt Jones

All reap and no sow: Advertising is betraying its young

Vinne Schifferstein Vidal co-founded AI-focussed independent agency MC&V, and has seen firsthand how AI has eroded both skills and trust in young...

19.10.2026 20

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Vinne Schifferstein Vidal

Google is poisoning automated search results. Why?

In Marketing We Trust’s Paul Hewett highlights a curious and (for many) alarming new development: Google is deliberately serving bad search results...

16.10.2026 30

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Paul Hewett

AI can replace your PR agency for less money? Sorry, but the maths doesn't work

The promise of AI replacing PR agencies, as touted by Barney Chunn on a recent episode of the Unmakers podcast, sounds compelling. But once you factor...

16.10.2026 30

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Azadeh Williams

Qantas needs visible leaders taking account, not another half-baked statement

15.10.2026 30

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Sharon Williams

KFC unveils the Tender Boyz in latest campaign via Special

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Zac Nikolovski