More Seven casualties: TV boss Angus Ross and COO Trent Dickeson depart Southern Cross

Angus Ross, group managing director of Seven TV, and chief operating officer Trent Dickeson have both left Southern Cross Austereo, the latest in a series of personnel changes that have favoured ...

Forget the mil: Top salaries in adland are shrinking

Top executives in Australia’s advertising industry are facing a squeeze like never before as consolidation, shrinking remits and AI spell the demise of once-envied leadership salaries.Recruiters in ...

Nova’s big Sydney breakfast plans face Blackwell speed bump

Nova presenter Tim Blackwell has been served with an interim apprehended violence order taken out by his ex-wife Monique Blackwell.According to the Daily Mail, which broke the story on Thursday ...

Block layoffs wipe out Australia’s Afterpay marketing staff

The fallout from Block’s global layoffs is hitting Australia, with a swathe of marketing staff among cuts that have eliminated 60% of the company’s local full-time roles.Almost two dozen Australian ...

Ticker and Leadstory: The startups taking different paths to video news

The grip that traditional media has on the delivery of news has been loosening for some time.The number of people using alternative sources of news has been increasing as each year passes, especially ...

Marty O’Halloran joins Thrive in advisory role

Thrive PR and Communications has secured former global chairman of DDB Worldwide Marty O’Halloran as a strategic advisor.O’Halloran retired in 2024, after a four-decade career that saw him go all the ...
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Scape Student Living activates ‘You Had To Be There’ platform with Bondi pop-up event, via Noisy

Scape Student Living partnered with Noisy to create a surprise pop-up event in Bondi featuring DJ Ben Gerrans, promoting their ‘You Had To Be There’ platform. The event sold out quickly, emphasizing ...

Georgie Gardner out at Nine

Nine presenter Georgie Gardner will leave the network next month, after 24 years.Gardner started at 9News in 2002, presenting 6pm weekday weather and reading the morning news.She moved to the Today ...

Nova announces retail media play with Scentre Group at intimate ‘Infronts’ event

Nova has partnered with Scentre Group, owner of Westfield shopping centres, on a retail media play that will see ...

Media Federation of Australia appoints new chair and deputy chair

The Media Federation of Australia (MFA) has appointed WPP Media ANZ CEO Aimee Buchanan as its chair, alongside Imogen Hewitt, Spark Foundry ANZ CEO and Publicis Groupe CMO as deputy chair.The MFA is ...

Ex-Cheil Australia staff launch Fair Work claims against Samsung in-house agency

Samsung’s in-house agency, Cheil Australia, is facing Federal Court action from two former senior leaders who were sacked ...

Giddy Up: The most syndicated radio show in Australia is expanding

Craig Hutchison was a disappointed under-bidder in the recent sale of Nine Radio, but it hasn’t slowed his expansion of the Sports Entertainment Network he leads.The core pillar in the SEN business ...