Year-to-date box office is tracking 8% ahead of last year after Q1, with admissions similarly up 7%. Revenue from cinema ad sales house DCM also grew 7% during the quarter.

Mark Frain says Australian TV is on course to lose $200M of ad budget in the next two years but can turn that into a $200M inflow with better measurement and lower friction trading.

Signals promising to optimise creative are mostly noise, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling snake oil. You’re being pitched a flywheel, but you’re being sold a hamster wheel, says CreativeX’s Paul Brown. 

The latest Digital Publishers’ Revenue Index Report found that total digital publishing revenues grew for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q4 2025, even as this growth was captured by a minority of titles.

In the digital age, physicality still counts. We need to remind ourselves that we live in a physical world by designing for senses such as texture, sound and resistance. It’s what youth generations crave.