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Apple’s new iPad Pro ads have sparked outrage.

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.

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  • Will Oremus

This Month

Genero co-CEOs and co-founders Mick Entwisle (left) and Andrew Lane have worked with some of the biggest names in music.

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

TikTok Australia general manger Brett Armstrong has rejected calls for the platform to be banned.

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
The Department of Health is exploring severely limiting the amount of “unhealthy food” ads allowed.

Media fury as Albanese government flirts with $400m fast food ad ban

The television industry and large advertisers have slammed a study on restricting ads for “unhealthy food”.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

March

How this CEO cuts hour-long meetings to just five minutes

Justin Graham of advertising firm M&C Saatchi also says he wants to compete on Survivor, but suspects he might be thrown off the reality TV show early.

  • Sally Patten and Lap Phan
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ARN put Southern Cross in play when it acquired a near 15 per cent stake in June. Now it has secured due diligence.

Spills and thrills in Australia’s biggest listed radio deal

When nearly half the company’s investors publicly back a chairman’s removal, you can be sure change is coming. In this case, it is a long-mooted M&A deal.

  • Anthony Macdonald

Big media names pour cash into ‘cookie-free’ ad start-up

Media boss Antony Catalano and Seek co-founder Matt Rockman are among investors in a new advertising tech start-up, which eschews privacy-invading cookies.

  • Paul Smith

February

New Trader Interactive boss David McMinn (left) with Melbourne-based CAR Group CEO Cameron McIntyre.

From jousting sticks to selling boats online, eyeballs still rule

Carsales.com.au’s owner made a big bet in the United States. Now it has a new executive whose job it is to make it work.

  • Anthony Macdonald

January

(left to right ) Brothers, Cameron and Morris Bryant are behind one of the country’s biggest digital marketing firms, which handles $200 million in advertising. Tuesday 23rd January 2023 AFR photo Louie Douvis

Payday for brothers behind nation’s biggest digital indie media agency

Morris and Cameron Bryant started Sparro in 2013. This month, they sold to private equity-backed UK player Brainlabs for an undisclosed amount.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

December 2023

Sleeping Duck co-founders Selvam Sinnappan (left) and Winston Wijeyeratne.

Mattress maker accuses rivals of dodgy marketing with fake reviews

One of the Young Rich Lister founders of Sleeping Duck says the websites are owned by rival companies and are masquerading as review sites.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

November 2023

Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland.

Labor edges away from gambling ad ban

In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland noted some sporting codes relied heavily on online gambling revenue.

  • Ronald Mizen
Google’s strategy in dominating search via paid default status on phones is coming under antitrust scrutiny.

Google is paying someone else $40b to make sure you keep using it

The US government has made its case to prove Google is a monopolist. The Breakdown explains why some of the tech giant’s excuses are tortured.

  • Nick Bonyhady

October 2023

David Droga, the chief executive officer of Accenture Song.

Why adman David Droga finds most advertising ‘formulaic’ and poor

The Australian chief executive of Accenture’s digital agency leads a $28 billion-a-year behemoth. And he has plenty to say.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Christian Juhl, global CEO of GroupM,  the largest media investment organisation in the world.

Media’s $100b man says the ad market has room to grow

Christian Juhl, the global boss of media agency GroupM, says the advertising market has been resilient through so much uncertainty.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nike’s famous Just Do It slogan.

Unloved and facing regulation, the ad industry plays a $53b card

The three peak bodies for advertisers have united to launch a new pitch to government and consumers that advertising really is a good thing.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
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September 2023

London Underground

Public places should serve the public first

When the people who run the Tube allowed an entire station to be renamed after the Burberry fashion brand, they took branding too far.

  • Pilita Clark
Amazon will run ads in Prime movies such as Shotgun Wedding, starring Jennifer Lopez.

Amazon Prime will slap ads in movies and shows - unless you pay extra

Australians will be forced to watch ads on Amazon Prime shows starting in 2024 and must pay an extra charge to avoid them.

  • Michelle Chapman
Google’s new policy doesn’t apply to videos uploaded to YouTube that aren’t paid advertising.

Google to require ‘prominent’ disclosures for AI-generated election ads

The policy update requires the advertisers across the tech giant’s platforms to alert viewers when their ads contain images, video or audio from generative AI.

  • Davey Alba
The Uluru Dialogue ad was released on Sunday.

Farnham Voice ad a call to Boomer, Gen X nostalgia

Anthony Albanese quoted the lyrics of John Farnham’s classic 1986 song in question time on Monday, saying Australians did not want to “live in fear”.

  • Tom McIlroy
A screen grab of the Yes campaign advertisement that features John Farnham’s song You’re the Voice.

Dutton pledges second vote if Voice referendum fails

Peter Dutton says a future Coalition government would hold a second referendum on constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians if the Voice to parliament fails next month.

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  • Tom McIlroy