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WordPress rival raises $500,000 in seed funding
Start-up accelerator Startmate, Boson Ventures and Junkee Media co-founder Tim Duggan are all investing in this publishing newcomer that can help create a media company in one day.
- Miranda Ward
‘Like an accountant’: Businesses urged to audit digital marketing
Advertising veterans want SMEs to do a regular health check on their digital marketing efforts to make sure they are not getting ripped off.
- Miranda Ward
Subscription streaming to grow to $6.51b sector by end of 2026
Consumers are spending $510 more per household on media and entertainment than before the pandemic, driven by subscription streaming to alleviate lockdown boredom.
- Miranda Ward
Yesterday
News Corp elevates ex-Citi banker to deputy CFO
Andrew Cramer’s decision to quit banking and head to New York with News Corporation appears to be working out.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
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Retail lobby group chief quits but vaping push continues
National Retail Association staff had a backroom role in a campaign to legalise e-cigarettes despite the lobby group keeping its support for vaping a secret.
- Neil Chenoweth
How the streaming wars created a $34 billion cottage industry
Product placement is hardly new - but the deluge of content from the streaming wars has created an entirely new genre of it, and it’s worth billions.
- Sophie Haigney
Seven sues over software it needs for Commonwealth Games
The network is in dispute with a production company named Gravity related to an agreement signed in 2019.
- Miklos Bolza
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Digital excellence the key to loosening consumers’ purse strings
When lockdowns began in March 2020, global brand distributor True Alliance was perfectly poised to pivot its business to online.
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MyDeal focused on ‘necessary’ items as cost of living bites
Consumers are tightening their spending, focusing more on only necessary items, says listed online marketplace retailer MyDeal chief marketing officer Ryan Gracie.
- Miranda Ward
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- Media & marketing
‘Can’t keep up’: PR industry wants to import foreign flacks
The public relations industry says the domestic supply of talent is not coping with demands from the corporate world and needs migration reform to attract skilled professionals from overseas.
- Miranda Ward
Shippit focused on growth as it unveils new purple branding
The fast-growing Sydney-based logistics tech start-up is seeking to capitalise on the “next wave” of the e-commerce revolution and increase its presence in South-East Asia.
- Miranda Ward
Ampol focuses on its role in the Australian journey in new ad push
The campaign will highlight what the company stands for, then celebrate its fuel credentials and later add messaging around its future energy initiatives such as EV charging.
- Miranda Ward
How a snack brand is starting a conversation on mental health
PepsiCo is listening to consumers who want products of all kinds, even chips and soft drinks, to use their platforms for good.
- Miranda Ward
How this media consultancy is using technology to beat its rivals
Audience Precision says it can help big brands solve business problems in about 80 hours less than its traditional advertising agency rivals.
- Miranda Ward
Boral’s lower carbon concrete sales jump 80pc
A product developed 10 years ago by Boral engineers listening to Led Zeppelin is in higher demand as customers push to go greener.
- Simon Evans
‘Mad Men’ industry pushed to declare harassment policies
Chief marketing officers of big Australian brands are being asked to think about how their advertising agency partners handle issues of harassment, bullying and assault in an effort to stop agencies from silencing staff.
- Miranda Ward
Rupert Murdoch sent Jerry Hall email to say marriage was at an end
The former supermodel filed for divorce from her billionaire husband on Friday, citing “irreconcilable differences,” six years after the pair married.
- David Millward
Financial Review free for Qantas customers
The Australian Financial Review has signed a new deal with Qantas to make its digital content available to all the airline’s customers in its lounges and onboard flights.
June
Seven seeks to blow up cricket broadcast rights deal
Seven Network wants the Federal Court to allow it to cancel its deal, for which it pays $75 million cash and $7 million in free advertising a year.
- Miranda Ward
