What the media industry in Australia is talking about today
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