About this podcast
Mediaweek Podcasts deliver insider access to Australia’s media industry. From exclusive interviews with top execs and talent, to sharp analysis of trends shaping media, marketing and advertising.
Episodes
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- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Ryvalmedia's Kenny Stewart and Sam Cousins · 26 min · Season 2We used to ask a mate what to buy. Now we’re asking ChatGPT. So how does a brand get a look-in when AI is writing the shopping list? Helping to unpack that are Sam Cousins…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Mamamia CEO Luca Lavigne · 29 min · Season 2Now, if your parents run a restaurant or they're tradies and you join the business, that's a lovely family story. But if your parents run a media company, well, apparently we…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Sam Armytage · 43 min · Season 1There’s something reassuring about talking to someone who’s spent years on television and still sounds like good company over a very long lunch. Samantha Armytage is one of those…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Tapt Media's Brian Gallagher · 40 min · Season 2When Brian Gallagher first walked into the offices of what’s now Tapt Media, it was a Tuesday and the sales floor was empty. His verdict? “Culturally bereft.” A lot’s changed…
- Josh Simons and Tim Burrowes 2026 · 56 min · Season 2Mediaweek and Mumbrella have spent years covering Australia’s media industry while becoming one of its juiciest stories. The latest argy-bargy centres on Vinyl Media's plans to…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Gogglebox's Matt Fahd · 27 min · Season 2You probably know Matty Fahd from the Gogglebox couch. But before he was critiquing TV for a living, he spent 18 years working behind the scenes in media, from the agency…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - SCA's Group Digital Commercial Director, Olly Newton, and SCA’s Head of Digital Ad Product and Operations, Kim Loasby · 21 min · Season 2Google gets the click. Meta gets the conversion. But did either of them actually create the demand? New research from SCA and Seven suggests that by the time a consumer searches…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Kyle Sandilands · 29 min · Season 2We here at Mediaweek wanted this chat to be a little bit different from our usual ones. We all know about the bust-up with Jackie, the court case and the new show, Kyle…
- Mediaweek Newsmaker's - Seven's director of sales, Katie Finney and Prophet CEO Jordan Taylor-Bartels · 29 min · Season 2If you've ever wondered whether marketers are giving far too much credit to the last click, this episode is for you. In this episode of Newsmakers, I’m joined by Seven's director…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - RyanCap's Simon Ryan · 39 min · Season 2Simon Ryan has seen this industry from both sides of the table. He used to run things inside a legacy global holding company - now he's the one building a business, giving those…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Antoinette Lattouf · 34 min · Season 2Antoinette Lattouf has become one of the defining figures in Australia’s media and political landscape - not just because of the Federal Court case against the ABC, but because…
- Mediaweeks Newsmakers - Michael Usher · 31 min · Season 2There are journalists who cover the news, and then there are those who somehow end up standing in the middle of history as it unfolds. Michael Usher has spent the better part of…
- Mediaweeks Newsmakers - Julia Edwards & Maddy Mewing · 31 min · Season 2Securing millions of eyeballs during prime time looks great on a network press release. However, monetising those streaming audiences at the speed of live television, presents a…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Tom Malone · 32 min · Season 2Tom Malone didn’t set out to run a national audio network, but he sure built his career like someone who might. In this episode of Mediaweek’s Newsmakers, the Tapt Media CEO…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Spotify's Jenny Haggard · 27 min · Season 2The term ‘thought leader’ is often loosely applied across marketing and media, but at its most effective, it plays a defined role in shaping brand direction and influence. That’s…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Anthony Jeselnik · 51 min · Season 2He’s been described as a comedic dark genius. But beneath Anthony Jeselnik’s acerbic wit lies a mind shaped by the power of literature. Fiction, to be precise. In fact…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers: MOVE 2.0 unshackled · 33 min · Season 2For years, the media industry considered out-of-home advertising the blunt instrument of the media mix. Planners bought giant billboards and hoped people would drive past. Those…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers: The female leaders of Omnicom · 31 min · Season 2What do you get when you invite six of ad land’s most powerful women into a room to talk candidly about what it means to be a woman in the industry? It might sound like the start…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Marc Fennell · 26 min · Season 2Marc Fennell has a knack for finding the stories that make you double-take. From art heists to stolen colonial artifacts, he has carved out a niche as Australia’s preeminent…
- Mediaweek Newsmakers - Mark Ferguson · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 1Veteran news anchor Mark Ferguson joins Mediaweek’s Newsmakers to reflect on his journey from a teenage cadet in Tamworth to the face of 7NEWS Sydney. Ahead of his 60th birthday…
