Mumbrella's outgoing co-founder and CEO, Martin Lane, makes a very special appearance on this week's Mumbrellacast just one month out from moving on to his next project. Martin reveals the worst decision he made at Mumbrella, the process of building and selling businesses and how the media, marketing and advertising industries have changed over the [...]

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This week Wavemaker CEO Peter Vogel joined the Mumbrellacast to talk through the media agency's focus for 2020, the 'fresh eyes' of WPP AUNZ CEO Jens Monsees, and the energy new clients such as Mondelez bring to the agency. Vogel also joined the team to talk through the news of the week, including the new [...]

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This week, it was 'revealed' that the industry was at risk of becoming a 'predominantly male, middle-aged, white workforce'... which was not particularly shocking. The Mumbrellacast team breaks down why the gap between men and women in this industry remains so significant, and what the data tells us. Plus, News Corp execs declared cricket was [...]

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This week saw the each of the commercial TV networks launch a tentpole reality program, marking the start of the 2020 ratings battle. In a move that surprised none of the Mumbrellacast team, Nine's Married at First Sight has come out on top, meanwhile Seven's revamped My Kitchen Rules has not proved the competitor it [...]

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This week the Mumbrellacast team picks apart MLA's Australian-but-not-Australia Day lamb ad. They discuss whether the Cambridge Analytica scandal is still relevant for the campaign's 'Lambalytica' play on words, who the campaign was targeted at and the motivations behind MLA's push for a 'summer campaign' rather than its traditional Australia Day ad. The promised battle [...]

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In this week's Mumbrellacast, Hannah Blackiston and Brittney Rigby sat down with Sydney Morning Herald photojournalists Nick Moir and Wolter Peeters to discuss capturing the frontlines of Australia's bushfire crisis and broadcasting it to the world. Moir and Peeters shared their stories from the last few months and explained the process behind shooting inside an [...]

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On this week's Mumbrellacast the team breaks down the latest changes at Dentsu Aegis Network, following the announcement of Rebecca Tos' departure from Merkle as ANZ managing director. Still in the wake of former DAN CEO Henry Tajer's restructure, the team discuss if there's more streamlining to come and what 2020 will look like for [...]

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In the first Mumbrellacast of 2020, the team looks at the efforts made by businesses and individuals in the media and marketing industry to lend a hand with the catastrophic bushfire crisis. Unfortunately, with the great actions of some, comes a lot of sniping and prolific 'fake news' on Twitter. The team discusses the growing [...]

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It was a big week for Seven, as its plans to sell off Pacific Magazines to Bauer Media and merge with Prime Media both experienced road blocks. The ACCC won't oppose the Prime merger, but, as predicted, The Cat and Bruce Gordon (amongst several other shareholders) stood in the way of the merger and the [...]

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This week, the Morrison government abolished the Department for Communications and Arts, shifting communications into the Department for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications and not acknowledging the arts at all. The Mumbrellacast team talks through what this means for the media marketing and advertising industry, including why some of the biggest media bodies in [...]

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