What the media industry in Australia is talking about today

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Agencies

  • Bastion: Bastion strengthens media offering with new executive media director appointment ➡️
  • Bastion: PHD’s Joanna Barnes jumps to Bastion ➡️
  • Emotive: ‘We’ll never sell this business:’ Emotive launches Emotive Productions ➡️
  • Emotive Productions: ‘We’ll never sell this business:’ Emotive launches Emotive Productions ➡️
  • Omnicom: Omnicom reports A$8.7 billion March quarter ➡️
  • Omnicom: Omnicom’s brutal decision-making to sell agencies ➡️
  • PHD: PHD’s Joanna Barnes jumps to Bastion ➡️
  • Tag: TAG wins Fresho creative and digital account ➡️
  • WPP: QMS and WPP Media executives elected co-chairs of IAB Australia DOOH Council ➡️
  • WPP: QMS and WPP Media executives named co-chairs of IAB Australia DOOH Council ➡️
  • WPP: QMS’s Micheal Whiteside & WPP Media’s Jacqueline Ingram Join IAB Australia’s DOOH Council ➡️
  • WPP: WPP appoints Peter Agnefjäll to its board of directors ➡️
  • WPP: WPP secures global creative and production business for Henkel consumer brands ➡️
  • WPP: WPP wins global creative pitch for Henkel Consumer Brands ➡️

Companies

  • ACA: ACA launches AI Academy with Time Under Tension ➡️
  • Ancestry: EXCLUSIVE: Ancestry CMO reveals the secrets behind new celebrity campaign ➡️
  • Breville: Breville turns daily coffee ritual into global platform with ‘Millions of Mornings’ ➡️
  • Fresho: TAG wins Fresho creative and digital account ➡️
  • Henkel: WPP secures global creative and production business for Henkel consumer brands ➡️
  • Henkel: WPP wins global creative pitch for Henkel Consumer Brands ➡️
  • Kitchen Warehouse: Kitchen Warehouse Helps Aussies ‘REMUMBER’ Mother’s Day Via Block ➡️
  • Specsavers: Specsavers Takes 95 Metre Billboard To Target Whether Aussies Are Long Or Short Sighted ➡️
  • Spotminders: Spotminders ad breach puts covert tracking in regulators’ sights ➡️
  • Vue: Taika Waititi Directs An ‘Epic Love Letter’ For Vue’s New European Brand Campaign ➡️
  • Vue: Vue unveils ‘Feel it Forever’ brand film directed by taika waititi ➡️

Industry

  • AI: How AI is reshaping the CMO role ➡️
  • AI: Meta revenue up by a third in an AI-powered leap ➡️
  • CMO: How AI is reshaping the CMO role ➡️
  • DooH Council: IAB Australia appoints new co-chairs for DooH Council ➡️
  • HR: HR influencer needed at the (former) home of Kyle and Jackie O ➡️
  • IAB: IAB Australia appoints new co-chairs for DooH Council ➡️
  • Mother’s Day: Kitchen Warehouse Helps Aussies ‘REMUMBER’ Mother’s Day Via Block ➡️
  • News Bargaining Incentive: Country Press Australia calls for bipartisan support on News Bargaining Incentive legislation ➡️
  • OzTAM: OzTAM launches interactive Streamscape dashboard ➡️
  • Screen Forever: Producer Kate Separovich wins inaugural Screen Forever Simpsons pitch prize ➡️
  • Simpsons: Producer Kate Separovich wins inaugural Screen Forever Simpsons pitch prize ➡️
  • The Experience Advocacy Taskforce: Experience Advocacy Taskforce appoints industry leaders to combat ageism ➡️

MediaOwners

  • Amazon: Amazon advertising revenue grows 24% ➡️
  • Country Press Australia: Country Press Australia calls for bipartisan support on News Bargaining Incentive legislation ➡️
  • Google: AI ‘lights up’ Google’s profit ➡️
  • Meta: Meta revenue up by a third in an AI-powered leap ➡️
  • oOh!media: The ‘opportunistic’ takeover bid for oOh! ➡️
  • QMS: QMS and WPP Media executives elected co-chairs of IAB Australia DOOH Council ➡️
  • QMS: QMS and WPP Media executives named co-chairs of IAB Australia DOOH Council ➡️

People

  • Andrew Cook: Andrew Cook joins BrandSpace ➡️
  • Jackie O: HR influencer needed at the (former) home of Kyle and Jackie O ➡️
  • Jacqueline Ingram: QMS’s Micheal Whiteside & WPP Media’s Jacqueline Ingram Join IAB Australia’s DOOH Council ➡️
  • Joanna Barnes: PHD’s Joanna Barnes jumps to Bastion ➡️
  • Kate Separovich: Producer Kate Separovich wins inaugural Screen Forever Simpsons pitch prize ➡️
  • Kyle Sandilands: He’s back: Kyle Sandilands teases new project ➡️
  • Kyle Sandilands: HR influencer needed at the (former) home of Kyle and Jackie O ➡️
  • Micheal Whiteside: QMS’s Micheal Whiteside & WPP Media’s Jacqueline Ingram Join IAB Australia’s DOOH Council ➡️
  • Peter Agnefjäll: WPP appoints Peter Agnefjäll to its board of directors ➡️
  • Stephen Fry: Stephen Fry sues tech conference after falling off stage ➡️
  • Taika Waititi: Taika Waititi Directs An ‘Epic Love Letter’ For Vue’s New European Brand Campaign ➡️
  • Taika Waititi: Vue unveils ‘Feel it Forever’ brand film directed by taika waititi ➡️

Updated: Thu 30 Apr 2026, 10:55 am