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Mediaweek
by Mediaweek Studios
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 - Sam Armytage
There’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 people. She’s curious, quick with a laugh, and you get the feeling you’d want your story straight before trying to…
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Tapt Media's Brian Gallagher
When 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 since the Laundy family bought the business. Tapt Media is building a bigger digital audience; its YouTube channels are...
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Josh Simons and Tim Burrowes 2026
Mediaweek 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 use AI to dramatically scale its publishing output. The debate has since come down to AI publishing and, somehow, the…
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Gogglebox's Matt Fahd
You 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 trenches to helping build TikTok Australia. Then he did something many of us have probably fantasised about: he walked away…
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - SCA's Group Digital Commercial Director, Olly Newton, and SCA’s Head of Digital Ad Product and Operations, Kim Loasby
Google 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, clicks, or buys, much of the hard work is already done. The research looked at almost $73 million in media investment...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Kyle Sandilands
We 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 Sandilands Live, which launched today. And while we touch on some of that, I wanted to go somewhere else. Full disclosure: I’ve...
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Mediaweek Newsmaker's - Seven's director of sales, Katie Finney and Prophet CEO Jordan Taylor-Bartels
If 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 of sales, Katie Finney, and Prophet CEO Jordan Taylor-Bartels to unpack why the industry is moving beyond last-click...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - RyanCap's Simon Ryan
Simon 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 same networks a headache. Kind of poetic, honestly. He's the founder of RyanCap, which he built fast and sold to Cosmo...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Antoinette Lattouf
Antoinette 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 of the broader questions it raised about journalism, power, and what happens when reporters become the story themselves....
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Mediaweeks Newsmakers - Michael Usher
There 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 three decades doing exactly that. From the chaos of 9/11 in New York to the Iraq War, the London bombings, royal...
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Mediaweeks Newsmakers - Julia Edwards & Maddy Mewing
Securing 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 completely different challenge. Behind the screen, Connected TV (CTV) and programmatic advertising serve as the vital...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Tom Malone
Tom 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 traces his path from newsroom floor to the top job, unpacking the decisions, discipline and industry shifts that now sit...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Spotify's Jenny Haggard
The 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 the focus of the latest episode of Newsmakers, featuring Jenny Haggard, Head of Global Brand Strategy and Thought...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Anthony Jeselnik
He’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, Jeselnik’s appreciation for the written word is so great that he’s even started a book club. Called ‘The Anthony Jeselnik Book...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers: MOVE 2.0 unshackled
For 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 days are officially over. MOVE 2.0 has finally launched. The new $20 million measurement tool leaves its cage to shift...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers: The female leaders of Omnicom
What 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 of a riddle. After all, coordinating the diaries of six CEOs and senior leaders is no small feat. Amazingly, Mediaweek...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Marc Fennell
Marc 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 chronicler of the weird and the wealthy. His latest project, Australia’s Greatest Conman, dives into the surreal world of...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Mark Ferguson
Veteran 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, Ferguson opens up about the pivotal moments, global assignments, career risks, and lessons learned across four decades...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers Debate - AI And Journalism
What happens when a journalist who’s spent decades in the newsroom goes head-to-head with a futurist who believes AI could save it? In the very first Mediaweek’s Newsmakers Debate, Joe Hildebrand and Rita Arrigo face off over one of the biggest questions in modern media: Is AI destroying...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Shelly Horton
There aren’t many journalists who can say they’ve gone from covering crime scenes to coaching CEOs - but Shelly Horton can. After three decades in the media, she’s swapped newsroom chaos for the boardroom floor, turning her sharp instincts and trademark humour into a mission: helping leaders find...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Simon Cahill
For Simon Cahill, the intersection of music and technology has never just been work - it’s been a lifelong obsession. From tinkering with VCRs as a kid to helping launch SXSW Sydney, he’s built a career that reflects the same passions that once kept him glued to Saturday morning music shows. In...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Mitch Churi
Mitch Churi is a broadcaster who’s never been afraid to put himself out there. From squatting in a KIIS FM studio clucking like a chicken in front of Kyle and Jackie O, to winning awards and hosting national shows, Mitch has carved out one of the most colourful journeys in Australian radio. When...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Clair Weaver
Clair Weaver’s path to journalism wasn’t the usual one. At 19, she was flying long-haul as a flight attendant, wondering what might come next. But she already knew the answer: journalism. She studied remotely through the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists and cut her teeth at a...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Majella Hay
Majella Hay is undoubtedly one of the most powerful women in Australian television. She’s the Director of Content, Unscripted at the Seven Network, which means She’s the driving force behind shows like My Kitchen Rules, Australian Idol and Farmer Wants a Wife. But in this conversation, Majella...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Morgana O'Reilly
Morgana O’Reilly is no stranger to playing complex, messy women. And, she’s been everywhere - from Neighbours and Wentworth to The White Lotus. Now she’s stepping into one of her most haunting roles yet in Playing Gracie Darling. She stars as Joni, a child psychologist forced to return to the...
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Mediaweek Newsmakers - Nick McKenzie
Nick McKenzie has exposed war crimes, brought down politicians, and forced entire institutions to face the truth. Now, Australia’s most awarded investigative journalist joins Newsmakers to talk power, pressure - and why journalism still matters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mediaweek's Newsmakers: The Atlantic's Hanna Rosin
One of America's most distinctive and daring voices, The Atlantic's Hanna Rosin, is headed to Sydney this month, and she's not coming quietly. Ahead of her appearance as keynote speaker at the 2025 Women in Media National Conference, Rosin sat down with Mediaweek for a conversation that pulls no...
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Mediaweek's Newsmakers: Broadcaster David Koch
To broadcaster David Koch, Pinstripe Media was always more than a business, it was a family legacy. In this episode of Newsmakers, David Koch unpacks the decision to sell the small business and personal finance content company he built with his family, and what it means to hand over the reins to...
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Newsmakers - Journalist and columnist Maureen Callahan
This week on Mediaweek’s Newsmakers, our guest doesn’t just cover controversy, she often is the controversy. Maureen Callahan is one of the sharpest, boldest, and most unfiltered voices in modern media. Her bylines span Vanity Fair, Spin, Daily Mail (where she’s now a columnist), and New York…
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Newsmakers: ARN's Chief Content Officer Duncan Campbell
After more than four decades in the radio industry and 15 years at the helm of the Australian Radio Network's (ARN) content strategy, Duncan Campbell is stepping into a new chapter, but he's not switching off the mic entirely. In the latest episode of Mediaweek's Newsmaker's podcast, ARN's…
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Newsmakers: Journalist Jonathon Moran
In this deeply personal episode of Mediaweek’s Newsmakers, host Natasha Lee sits down with longtime friend and veteran entertainment journalist Jonathon Moran. More than just an interview, this conversation blends shared history with honest reflection, as JMo opens up about his career, his…
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Newsmakers: Neil Shoebridge from SKMG
In this episode, we sit down with someone who barely needs an introduction in media circles, Neil Shoebridge. With more than 30 years under his belt across journalism, publishing, and corporate communications, Neil has seen (and shaped) it all. Now co-founder of SKMG, he shares sharp, no-spin...
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Newsmakers: Cheng Lei
Australian journalist Cheng Lei spent over three years in Chinese detention. In this episode of Newsmakers, Lei sits down with Mediaweek's Natasha Lee for an in-depth and emotional chat about memory, motherhood, and surviving a system built to silence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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Newsmakers: Martin White, Vice-President of Broadcast News, Paramount
In a landscape where Nine and Seven command the lion’s share of commercial news audiences, and the advertising dollars that follow, 10 is charting a different course. Martin White, Vice-President of Broadcast News, Paramount, sat down with Mediaweek's Newsmakers podcast, to reveal he believes…
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Mediaweek Presents: Inside the SBS podcast, Eyes on Gilead
Fiona Williams is the host and producer of SBS podcast Eyes on Gilead. The podcast recaps episodes of SBS acquisition title The Handmaid's Tale and has built a very large following of fans from across Australia and around the world. Mediaweek's Natasha Lee and Dan Barrett caught up with Fiona to...
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Newsmakers: TIME Magazine's D.W. Pine
In a media landscape shaped by the infinite scroll, where attention is a currency and every frame competes with cat videos and breaking news, TIME Magazine's D.W. Pine is in the thick of it. In a conversation with Mediaweek's Natasha Lee, the magazine's Creative Director explains how he's not…
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Newsmakers: Dee Madigan
Hosted by journalist Natasha Lee, Newsmakers dives into the strategy, storytelling and spin behind Australia’s biggest headlines. This week, advertising expert and creative director Dee Madigan, from The Campaign Edge, known for her sharp political insights and unflinching commentary on gender...
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Newsmakers: Kymba Cahill
From the headlines to the bylines, Newsmakers brings you conversations with the people shaping Australia’s media landscape. Each week, Mediaweek's Natasha Lee talks to the people who are driving the stories in the news. This week, radio announcer Kymba Cahill addresses why she disappeared from…
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Mediaweek Presents: Foxcatcher - 'What the future can look like'
In this episode, Foxcatcher’s Managing Director Marcus Betschel and Head of Sales APAC Karan Kent sit down with Mediaweek’s Natasha Lee for a candid conversation about building trust, evolving the client-agency relationship, and what it really takes to drive results in a fragmented media…
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Mediaweek Presents: The Nightly - Inside Its Successful Breakout Year
Editor-in-Chief Chris Dore, ThinkNews Brands CEO, Vanessa Lyons and Roy Morgan CEO, Michele Levine discuss The Nightly's impressive first year in the digital news landscape and the industry trends that support it with Mediaweek's Natasha Lee. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mediaweek Heavy Hitters: How AI will transform business performance
Mediaweek editor Brittney Rigby sits down with Microsoft Advertising’s Elliott Knight, Compare the Market’s Dan Stevens, and Kinesso Australia’s Kellyn Coetzee to discuss how generative AI will impact the marketing landscape and what it means for brands. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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Heavy Hitters: Simon Ryan on the sale of RyanCap
RyanCap founder Simon Ryan returns to the Mediaweek Heavy Hitters podcast. He talks to Mediaweek editor-in-chief James Manning about the recent sale of the RyanCap business. Simon details the changes and opportunities that come with the new owner. He also talks about the state of the Australian…
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Hubbl: Complete guide with Hubbl CEO Patrick Delany
The new streaming device Hubbl was launched this week at a Sydney event hosted by Foxtel and Hubbl chief executive Patrick Delany. In this interview with Mediaweek's James Manning, Delany gives an insight into what the Foxtel Group is hoping to achieve with the new device. You will hear Delany in...
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Four Blokes Talking Tech: Mediaweek podcast reunion
As Trevor Long and Stephen Fenech launch a new podcast – Two Blokes Talking Electric Cars – Mediaweek celebrates with them for the new title. Long and Fenech were first heard on a Mediaweek podcast over a decade ago before they decided to partner on the Two Blokes Talking Tech podcast. In this...
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Fetch TV CEO Scott Lorson on the future of TV
Scott Lorson from Fetch TV speaks with Mediaweek’s James Manning on how his business is making TV easy. The platform’s chief executive shares his thoughts about where Fetch TV sits on a constantly evolving TV landscape. Fetch TV is marketing hard as it welcomes former Telstra TV customers to the...
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SXSW Special - Paul Blackburn and Nick Morgan
In the final episode of the Heavy Hitters SXSW series before the event starts, Trent talks to News Corp's Paul Blackburn and Vudoo's Nick Morgan about some of the stand out parts of the conference. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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SXSW Special - Lottie Laws and Hannah Fillis
Ahead of their panel at SXSW- Retails Leaders on the next evolution of shopping- Pinterest's Lottie Laws and Mecca Brands' Hannah Fillis join Trent Thomas to talk about how consumer shopping expectations have changed and where there’s room for retailers to innovate. See omnystudio.com/listener…
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SXSW Special - Seven's Mel Hopkins and Kurt Burnette
In this episode of Heavy Hitters SXSW, Trent talks to Seven's CMO Mel Hopkins and CRO Kurt Burnette about the companies Seven House and its yearly upfront that will both be taking place at SXSW. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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SXSW Special - Osher Günsberg
Ahead of Osher Günsberg's two live recordings of his hit podcast 'Better Than Yesterday' at SXSW, Günsberg joins Trent Thomas to discuss his appearance. He also chats about the Masked Singer Australia and The Bachelors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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SXSW Special - Colin Daniels and Cameron Roberts
In the first episode of Heavy Hitters SXSW, Trent Talks to SXSW Sydney MD Colin Daniels and Cameron Roberts, Sydney Strategy Lead at RyvalMedia about what to expect from the first SXSW in the APAC region, and how to get the most out of it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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.
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