Public relations, increasingly being called to the marketing table first, is shining in a broader advertising industry where margins are squeezed and pitches are getting tighter. The future is earned, socially-enabled content, often built for specifi

Richard Brett, CEO of opr agency: Definitely. There is still the need for campaigns that sit purely as digital content, or purely as editorial, but where you are able to develop an idea or a campaign that has one central concept with multiple assets,

Data to the left of me, measurements to the right. The complex craft of judging the size of television audiences in Australia is reportedly getting simpler. The VOZ system, available from April, is billed as the start of a clearer picture of total au

What were your initial thoughts on the PR brief at hand? It was like being back at AWARD School! It was a challenge to distil our thinking down to a single page. We had a lot of fun with it. Advertising and PR go hand in hand, but we found it intere

The media Michael Miller grew up with in regional Australia has vastly changed. From the slow daily news filled with community updates, to the fast-paced nature of online global news. But unlike most, Miller, as executive chair for News Corp Australa

Time at the company: 28 years (four human years). How would you describe what the company does? carsales.com Ltd (ASX: CAR) is the largest online automotive, motorcycle and marine classifieds business in Australia. What do you do day-to-day? When n

Media sales executives gathered at a roundtable late last year to launch Advertise or Die, a campiagn created after a tough year for the advertising market. With Ten, Seven, Nine and Foxtel all onboard, they argued they deserved a bigger share of bra

Despite decades of brain-imaging studies, neuroscientists have been unable to define the circuitry involved in creative brilliance. To be fair, it often confounds the gifted themselves. Take the award-winning whiteGREY creative director, Ronojoy Ghos

Advanced TV services are on the rise, shifting consumer viewing habits and ad spend. Streaming services like Apple TV+ and Disney+ have launched globally, and we’ve seen more local content in Australia from the likes of Foxtel’s Kayo Sports and Nine’

Television, long a static piece of furniture, is off the couch and following the consumer, changing the whole game as consumption habits evolve and audiences migrate to mobile devices, watch streaming media using catchup apps and binge watching their

Online video has been around for a while now, but the shift from linear to a buffet of consumption habits including linear, subscription TV, BVOD, connected TV and more has recently hit a cracking pace. Our broadcasters are looking to keep pace with

During the last couple of years, adland has recognised it has a problem: diversity. This is a problem that two young creatives, Ava Frawley and Jasmine Subrata, are hoping to tackle with their Changing the Face initiative. For the AdNews March editio

Writing is an exercise in maybe. Maybe someone will read it. Maybe they won’t. Maybe they will like it. Maybe they won’t. You won’t know until words appear on paper (or pixels). And that’s the thing — getting the words down, and in the right order. S

Following news of redundancies, staff at Fairfax Media’s Sydney and Melbourne newsrooms walked out for a full week of protests in 2017. The cuts, impacting more than 100 roles, were considered too deep for a company that had already lost close to 200

How did the business come about? The Remarkables Group (TRG) was founded in 2012 as Australia’s first talent management agency solely dedicated to social influencers, then called bloggers. At the end of 2016, the original founder approached me to ch

In an increasingly tech-fuelled world that is overloaded with content, where eyeballs become harder to catch and attention spans continue to wane, it is creativity that cuts through the clutter. A standout idea can glue a brand into people’s minds. I

It has been almost three years since the industry was graced with Thinkerbell’s inception. Formed by ex-Cummins&Partners chief strategy officer and partner Adam Ferrier, and executive creative directors Jim Ingram and Ben Couzens, the agency has cast