Yesterday
Labor facing internal backlash on gambling ads
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is facing growing backbench pressure to introduce a total ban on gambling advertising.
- Ronald Mizen
This Month
Life360 shares hit all-time high, announces 70m users
Market darling Life360 continued its share price rally on Friday after lifting its revenue and earnings guidance for the full year.
- Tess Bennett
July
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Investors aren’t buying Google’s AI future – yet
The search giant’s parent, Alphabet, produced solid earnings, but shareholders are tiring of claims about future magic without answers to important questions.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Coles and Woolies can tap an $800m profit pool. It may be controversial
The media businesses of Australia’s supermarket giants are set to keep growing. But that may not excite suppliers as much as investors.
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
Aussie who sold cloud start-up for $2b jumps on AI for ads
Three years after selling A Cloud Guru in a bumper payday, Sam Kroonenburg is teaming up with advertising entrepreneurs with big plans and investors in tow.
- Paul Smith
‘Grazed, but not Dazed’: Trump T-shirts go viral
Entrepreneurs in Asia were quick to cash in on the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump.
- Marcus Lum and Sophie Yu
Mediaweek publisher flags potential sale of business with staff
Those comments came after the Financial Review revealed Trent Thomas had been found by external investigators to have bullied and harassed a member of staff.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Technology Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
New tools democratise greenhouse gas management
A digital marketplace for companies with smaller carbon footprints to buy offsets has taken out the Technology category.
- Alexandra Cain
Mediaweek publisher to ‘step back’ amid workplace misconduct claims
Formal complaints about alleged behaviour of Trent Thomas, owner of the trade media publication, lodged by two people and investigated by external firms.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Brands hit up TikTok as Instagram, Facebook lose their lustre
The Victorian Chamber of Commerce found expanding marketing was a top priority for members, striking a deal with the platform to educate owners how to do it.
- Patrick Durkin
June
Why everyone hands this CEO the wine list at restaurants
Not everyone can tell the grape variety, age and region of a wine – but advertising executive Michael Rebelo has the sommelier certificate to prove it.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nothing funny about AI as advertisers look to laugh off uncertainty
A new humour category at this week’s Cannes Lions festival seeks to highlight the “human connection” in a sector beset by a crisis in creativity.
- Daniel Thomas
Why publishers fear Google AI search will kill their websites
News organisations are heading into another battle with tech giants, with growing fears the race to beat each other with AI summaries will result in more content stolen.
- Paul Smith
May
How business websites will have to change for Google’s AI era
Enterprises hoping to attract the attention of the search engine’s Gemini platform will need short, punchy web pages, says a digital advertising expert.
- John Davidson
Financial Review print and digital readership jumps
The Australian Financial Review has grown its print and digital readership for the year, while its News Corp rival The Australian went backwards.
- Nick Bonyhady
A complex legend: Harold Mitchell farewelled by billionaires, underworld figures
Advertising guru and philanthropist Harold Mitchell has been celebrated as a “larger than life” but complex legend.
- Updated
- Patrick Durkin
The researchers influencing billions in global marketing
The Ehrenberg-Bass Institute is sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, McDonald’s, Mars, Nestlé and PepsiCo. Its findings guide global business decisions.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Why everyone’s mad at Apple’s new iPad ad
Apple’s crushing of human creativity has sparked backlash, but its new iPad Pro ad has also inspired some surprising video responses.
- Will Oremus
Ellerston-backed video platform draws in big-name investor
The investment from Melbourne emerging companies specialist Acorn Capital takes the total funds raised by Genero to $15 million.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
April
- Exclusive
- Social media
TikTok Australia makes its first stand after US ban laws pass
The US congress passed a bill on Wednesday requiring TikTok to be sold within a year or be banned in the country.
- Nick Bonyhady
