The print and digital publisher, which is still lucky enough to be based on the NSW Central Coast, started life as a crossword and magazine publisher. Over the years its has expanded its product offering and it now is one of Australia’s largest indie publishers with print and digital brands.
Lovatts still boasts about 20 regular crossword and puzzle titles, plus lifestyle brands Breathe and Nourish, and lifestyle and puzzling hybrid Audrey Daybook. It is also building audiences and revenues via the digital brands Creative Bug, Natural Health and The Guild.
“In 2016, Lovatts Media launched its lifestyle arm with Breathe Magazine which proved to be a great success in inspiring mindful living and wellbeing, just as a more conscious way of life began to gain momentum in the wider community,” said Lovatts Media CEO, Rachael Northey.
“Since then, Lovatts Media has remained at the forefront of the mindfulness category with the continuous expansion of our lifestyle magazine portfolio. Our vision as a business is to lead the way in enabling the whole community to adopt a more conscious approach to living by delivering premium bespoke content and inspiration,” Northey added.
LovattsMagazines.com.au brings all Lovatts Media’s lifestyle magazines together in one destination so their readers can browse, shop or gift a magazine or subscription at anytime, anywhere and with any device.
LovattsMagazines.com.au offers readers savings by subscribing to mindful magazines direct from the publisher and exclusive pre-order access to new issues.
Readers can also access previous single issues.
“Our ultimate goal with launching LovattsMagazines.com.au has been to create a single destination for our readers and greater community to conveniently discover a source of mindful inspiration that is relevant to their interests and needs,” said group marketing manager, Kirrilee Taylor.
Northey continued: “We identified a gap in the market for premium mindful living publishing. We’re thrilled to have launched this website and unique offering to consumers. As we continue to expand our mindful brands and titles, our readers can be confident of discovering relevant mindful inspiration sourced from one destination to continue on their journey to living their best life.”
Parry-Okeden takes over from Steve O’Connor, chief executive officer of JCDecaux who is stepping down as chairman after a five-year tenure.
“It has been an absolute pleasure and privilege to work with Steve, who has led the industry in a period of unprecedented growth. Under his leadership, the industry has increased annual revenue from $602 million to $927 million. Steve has led a unified industry and worked on a variety of joint industry initiatives including plans to build a new audience metric, the OMA’s recent industry campaign LOOK UP, as well as the soon to be launched CORE, the industry automated briefing and proposal tool. The industry owes him a debt of gratitude,” said OMA and MOVE chief executive officer Charmaine Moldrich.
O’Connor will remain on the OMA board.
Incoming chairman Parry-Okeden is the co-founder and global chief executive officer of Executive Channel Holdings (ECH) which owns Executive Channel Europe, Executive Channel Deutschland and Australian Media Channel (Media-i).
The following members were elected to the Board:
• Brendon Cook, Chief Executive Officer, oOh!media
• Noel Cook, Chief Commercial and Operations Officer, oOh!media
• Kirsty Dollisson, Managing Director, TorchMedia
• Andrew Hines, Chief Operating Officer, JCDecaux
• Steve O’Connor, Chief Executive Officer, JCDecaux
• John O’Neill, Chief Executive Officer, QMS Media
• Andrew Tyquin, Managing Director, Outdoor Systems
• Chris Tyquin, Joint Managing Director, goa
The MOVE Board appointed the following members in accordance to its Shareholder Agreement:
• Brendon Cook, Chief Executive Officer, oOh!media
• Max Eburne, Chief Commercial Officer, JCDecaux
• Charmaine Moldrich, Chief Executive Officer, OMA and MOVE
• Steve O’Connor, Chief Executive Officer, JCDecaux
• John O’Neill, Chief Executive Officer, QMS Media
• David Scribner, Chief Customer Officer, oOh!media
• Chris Tyquin, Joint Managing Director, goa
Moldrich added, “As we celebrate our 80th year as an association, we are lucky to be working with these outstanding industry leaders. The changing media landscape mandates that we harness the talent of our membership to keep growing the industry. This will come in the form of new technology, as well as new solutions for media planners and advertisers.”
That is the explainer behind why, across the board, audiences for news publishers were down.
In March the market leader, news.com.au, recorded a Nielsen Digital Content Ratings audience of 10.63m. However in April that dipped to 9.63m – exactly the loss of 1m.
The audience data was released earlier this week.
All publishers in the top 10 saw their audiences decline.
There was no change in the rankings of the top eight publishers month-on-month.
The only change in the top 10 was the Fairfax Digital Regional Network exiting the top 10 to be replaced by the Herald Sun with a unique audience of 2.03m.
By Andrew Mercado
BoRhap was a biopic like most of the Aussie TV ones (Hawke, Hoges, Olivia etc) we see, in that the story is told in a linear fashion from childhood to stardom. Rocketman is less traditional given its frequent fantasy sequences and this is also how Fosse/Verdon tells its story (Sunday on FoxShowcase).
We first meet choreographer/director Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) and Broadway legend Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams) at the height of their fame, when they are in love and working together on the set of Shirley MacLaine movie Sweet Charity. In episode two, it’s Cabaret with Liza Minnelli and with a soundtrack like that, this series re-imagines the musical numbers to advance the drama behind the scenes.
Biopics that mix things up like this often do it very well. The Assassination of Gianni Versace told its story in reverse and The Crown bounces all over the place timewise. Fosse/Verdon is so audacious, it even includes graphics about how long each character has left to live. By its fifth episode, it is so assured of itself, the entire hour takes places over just one weekend at a beach house.
Bob Fosse’s “working style” with his female dancers wouldn’t pass muster in today’s #metoo environment and nor should it. But at least it’s not sugar coated here, especially given it is co-executive produced by the couple’s real life daughter Nicole Fosse, alongside Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Wentworth (Tuesday on FoxShowcase) and The Letdown (Wednesday on ABC) are two other shows that tell it like it is. Wentworth looks like it will have a cracking seventh season, especially given it was originally written to be the final one. It’s great to see TV Week featuring three of the characters on their cover with the headline “Who Dies” even though the victim is not on the front of the mag, nor are they featured inside. No plot spoilers here, and no pic spoilers either (but keep an eye out for some lovely tango dancing in the second episode).
The Letdown is one of those comedies that can be frustrating, but when it scores, it kicks a goal. Audrey (Alison Bell) is still very annoying, but there is a fantastic supporting cast that changes from week to week. It’s great to see Patrick Brammall back, now playing a reformed drug dealer, and the fourth episode in Adelaide is a standout. More Noni Hazlehurst though, please.
By James Manning
• Seven News 995,000/953,000
• Nine News 928,000/883,000
• A Current Affair 697,000
• ABC News 653,000
• 7.30 502,000
• The Project 268,000/488,000
• 10 News First 389,000
• The Drum 181,000
• SBS World News 127,000
• Sunrise 268,000
• Today 205,000
The triple play of Home And Away episodes after 7pm helped the channel win another Thursday with over 600,000 across the 90 minutes.
The Front Bar then went to air in southern markets first with an audience of 512,000 – its best ever. The Melbourne audience was 339,000, up from 278,000 last week. Seven is trying to build the Sydney audience, but it was just 18,000 again. The key attraction last night was the wonderful Essendon great Michael Long who is now a true legend on and off the field. He has as many good lines as the program’s hosts. Santo Cilauro was also a great guest.
Britain’s Got Talent aired at different times too with 451,000 after 358,000 last week.
A Current Affair dipped just under 700,000 with a report on the “Mercedes mum”.
The NRL did 388,000 watching the Panthers win – 237,00 in Sydney and 124,000 in Brisbane.
Other markets saw RBT and Paramedics.
MasterChef Australia finally got its man! Contestant Blake became the first bloke eliminated in a cook-off overseen by Ottolenghi on the last night of Legends Week. The audience was 680,000, which was better than Nigella’s last appearance a week ago with 638,000.
Ambulance Australia then did 400,000.
Earlier in the night The Project 7pm was on 488,000.
A Blanche d’Alpuget interview with Leigh Sales was the highlight on 7.30 with 502,000 watching.
Escape From The City visited the Sunshine Coast with 411,000 after 405,000 a week ago.
The UK drama Press then did 208,000 for its FTA premiere.
Walking Britain’s Lost Railways did 168,000.
SBS News (127,000) and Mastermind (117,000) were the channel’s next best.
The miniseries Chimerica launched with a double episode with an average audience of 94,000.
THURSDAY METRO | |||||||||
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ABC | Seven | Nine | 10 | SBS | |||||
ABC | 10.3% | 7 | 21.2% | 9 | 19.6% | 10 | 14.0% | SBS One | 3.8% |
ABC KIDS/ ABC COMEDY | 2.9% | 7TWO | 4.1% | GO! | 2.6% | 10 Bold | 3.8% | VICELAND | 0.9% |
ABC ME | 0.6% | 7mate | 4.1% | GEM | 1.8% | 10 Peach | 2.1% | Food Net | 0.9% |
ABC NEWS | 1.6% | 7flix | 2.3% | 9Life | 2.0% | NITV | 0.4% | ||
7Food | 0.8% | ||||||||
TOTAL | 15.4% | 32.6% | 26.0% | 19.9% | 6.0% |
THURSDAY REGIONAL | |||||||||
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ABC | Seven Affiliates | Nine Affiliates | 10 Affiliates | SBS | |||||
ABC | 9.8% | 7 | 19.7% | 9 | 17.2% | WIN | 10.9% | SBS One | 3.7% |
ABC KIDS/ ABC COMEDY | 3.3% | 7TWO | 5.3% | GO! | 2.7% | WIN Bold | 4.1% | VICELAND | 1.0% |
ABC ME | 1.4% | 7mate | 5.8% | GEM | 3.2% | WIN Peach | 2.3% | Food Net | 0.8% |
ABC NEWS | 1.4% | 7flix (Excl. Tas/WA) | 2.8% | 9Life | 2.0% | Sky News on WIN | 1.7% | NITV | 0.4% |
7food (QLD only) | 0.7% | ||||||||
TOTAL | 15.9% | 34.2% | 25.0% | 19.0% | 5.9% |
THURSDAY METRO ALL TV | |||||||||
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FTA | STV | ||||||||
84.7% | 15.3% |
16-39 Top Five
18-49 Top Five
25-54 Top Five
Shares all people, 6pm-midnight, Overnight (Live and AsLive), Audience numbers FTA metro, Sub TV national
Source: OzTAM and Regional TAM 2018. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) without the prior written consent of OzTAM
Lawson will have a remit to grow the $24.9 million in revenue, which Spotify ANZ made from ads on its free tier in calendar 2018, up only slightly from $24.3 million in 2017, according to documents lodged with the corporate regulator.
Lawson, who will start at Spotify ANZ on June 24, previously ran jobs board CareerOne and business development for Yahoo!7. She will report to Spotify’s global head of markets Cecilia Qvist.
“The past six months has seen the business evolve to take advantage of exciting growth opportunities and to ensure that we have the right structure in place for sustained long-term shareholder value creation,” Nettlefold told shareholders.
“Whilst our business has evolved, our fundamental focus remains on providing premium quality assets that drive financial and operational performance.
“During the six months to 31 December 2018, our diversified quality portfolio continued to deliver solid revenue growth.”
• Statutory Group Revenue was up 9% to $107.6 million,
• Gross profit up 11% to $53.3 million,
• Gross profit margin was 49.5% compared to 48.6% for the prior corresponding period,
• An underlying EBITDA of $22.7 million; and
• Net profit after tax and amortisation was up 9% to $13.5 million.
Nettlefold continued: “Delivering on our strategic plan across our three business segments, underpinned by our quality digital portfolio and proprietary data and analytics platform, we continue to build an industry leading portfolio for growth.
“Taking a more detailed look at each of our three business segments; QMS Australia is thriving, and continues to grow its reputation in the market, characterised by its asset quality, strength of sales team and deep customer relationships.
“In December, we announced a transformational strategic development for QMS New Zealand with its proposed merger with MediaWorks, creating the leading multi-media provider across four platforms: out-of- home, radio, TV and digital. This strategic opportunity will result in a very powerful media combination, providing what we believe will be an unrivalled destination for advertisers to not only build brands, but maximise audience reach throughout New Zealand.
“Reconfirming the terms of the deal, QMS will hold a 40% shareholding in the expanded MediaWorks business. MediaWorks yesterday released its results for FY18 and reported growth in group revenue of approximately $5 million to $305 million and an increase in Group EBITDA of 14.8% to $24.8 million, up $3.2 million on FY17.
“Their targeted strategy to attract the desirable 25-54 year old audience is working;
• Channel 3 is now the number one TV channel for this audience across peak viewing, overtaking TVNZ1 and TVNZ2; and
• Radio represents the top 6 music stations by share for 25-54 year olds.
“This is a positive result in a challenged and disrupted media landscape. Our focus now remains on successfully completing the merger and realising the full growth and potential that the combined capabilities will deliver for the Group.
“QMS Sport’s revenue was $13.1 million for the six months to 31 December 2018, with an underlying EBITDA loss of $(0.3) million. This result reflects the investment made in sport technology and rights during the period, ahead of the strong revenue and earnings contribution expected this year and beyond.
“Our three defined business segments of QMS Australia, QMS New Zealand and QMS Sport – sets us apart from our peers and differentiates us given our attractive growth opportunities.
“The out of home industry continues to be a leading growth sector within the media landscape and our strong business in QMS Australia, is well positioned for continued growth.”
That team of broadcasters looks like it will be even stronger come the next state or federal election the broadcaster covers with news that Sky News political editor David Speers is leaving Sky News and heading to the ABC where one of his duties will be taking over hosting duties on Insiders, replacing Barrie Cassidy who steps down next month.
When reports of Speers’ appointment surfaced in a report from Amanda Meade at Guardian Australia on Thursday, new colleagues of the next host of Insiders were quick to congratulate and welcome Speers to the broadcaster.
Cassidy said of his replacement: “Real coup for the ABC.” He later added it was still speculation ahead of official ABC confirmation.
Nine’s Chris Uhlmann said: “I hear my friend and professional rival David Speers is joining the ABC. He is, without doubt, one of the best in the business. The national broadcaster is lucky to have him and I look forward to many years of good-spirited competition. Congratulations mate.”
ABC Breakfast co-presenter Michael Rowland said: “This is a superb appointment. David Speers will comfortably fill Barrie Cassidy’s big shoes. A true class act! Welcome aboard, mate.”
Cassidy had a segment on ABC News Breakfast this morning. He referenced he only had a handful of programs left to host, and was then asked about his replacement. Cassidy and the hosts praised the journalism of Amanda Meade and then Cassidy confirmed the appointment of Speers: “He’ll be there…eventually.”
Federal Court judge Michael Wigney approved an agreement between the parties on Thursday, when it was revealed the Pirates of the Caribbean star had initially offered to settle the case for $50,000 and a front-page apology.
Rush will receive $1.98 million for economic loss, which tops up the $850,000 in non-economic loss that Justice Wigney ordered the paper to pay on April 11 for publishing allegations of inappropriate behaviour with a fellow actor in 2015-16. He was also awarded more than $42,000 in interest on that sum.
While the Telegraph will now proceed with it appeal against the judgment, the $1.98 million agreement will not be challenged. It avoids the Rebel Wilson scenario, under which the actress lost all but $600,000 of her $4.75 million judgment on appeal because there was insufficient evidence of lost earnings.
Michaela Whitbourn in The Sydney Morning Herald:
While the latest figure was reached by agreement, Nationwide News has launched an appeal against Justice Wigney’s decision rejecting their defence of truth and delivering a comprehensive victory to Rush.
It wants an appeal bench to enter judgment in its favour – which would mean the total damages figure would be overturned – or order that there be a retrial before a new judge.
The Herald/Age’s pollster Ipsos consistently predicted a Labor win – with the final poll published last Friday showing a national two party vote of 51-49 in favour of Labor.
Many months before the election, so therefore not influenced by the polls’ failure, we agreed that we would reassess our arrangements after May 18. From this week we have no ongoing contract with Ipsos or any other polling company.
This is not to say we will never poll again. As chief political correspondent David Crowe says, accurate polling can be an invaluable reality check when journalists are faced with relentless spinning by political parties, interest groups and think tanks.
However, we have a responsibility to put our finite reporting resources into journalism that best serves our readers.
If we do decide to continue publishing polls in the future perhaps we should reconsider the way we report them. After all, polls are even at their very best just a snapshot of a small section of voters at a specific time and place, not a crystal ball.
It will take months for us to work out what we’re going to do at the Herald and The Age. And our decision will take into account what explanation the pollsters can deliver as they work out where they went wrong.
Over three episodes, celebrated actor Noni Hazlehurst will meet six Australians who are grappling with a family secret. Participants will travel around the world uncovering powerful truths about themselves, their families and Australia.
SBS director of TV and online content Marshall Heald said: “Every Family Has A Secret explores the family relationships and secrets that divide a household, introducing us to a diverse group of Australians who are seeking closure on their past. The series is full of shocks and surprises, but it’s also heartfelt and heart-warming. Noni Hazlehurst is one of Australia’s most iconic personalities, and in her role as presenter she brings her trademark elegance and warmth to the show. We are thrilled to be bringing this series to our audiences.”
From Taiwan to Romania and beyond, six Australians will discover the truth behind a gripping family secret.
Intimate secrets are unearthed, estranged family members are reunited and lives are forever changed in the emotional and confronting new series.
The three-part series is produced by Artemis Media for SBS, with funding from Screen Australia and Screenwest.
Every Family Has A Secret premieres at 7.30pm Tuesday 25 June, and will air over three weeks.
Fittingly, Dalton will have beside him another Australian who has already made the same journey. Born in Blacktown, in Sydney’s west, award-winning actor, writer and director Joel Edgerton has signed on as a producer.
Edgerton will be joined by Kerry Kohansky-Roberts from American film production giant Anonymous Content, Sophie Gardiner from Anonymous’s new British offshoot Chapter One and Troy Lum from Australia’s Hopscotch Features.
Dalton, a feature writer on The Australian, will be executive producer. His involvement with the script has yet to be decided. “That’s the next step: talking to writers, including me,’’ he said.
Starting on Thursday, May 30 on 9GEM, Nine will deliver 53 nights of prime-time action: the ICC One Day International World Cup, the Women’s Ashes Series, and the Men’s Ashes Series, all broadcast live from the UK.
Nine’s World Cup coverage will be hosted by Rebecca Maddern, former Australian captains Mark Taylor and Lisa Sthalekar and Australian great Ian Healy.
The commentary team will include heavyweights of world cricket such as influential Indian batsman Sourav Ganguly, two-time women’s World Cup winner Melanie Jones, one of the greatest batsmen of all time, Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara, experienced Nine broadcaster Mark Nicholas, all-time great fast bowler Wasim Akram, and former Australian and New Zealand captains Michael Clarke and Brendon McCullum.
The Women’s Ashes series commences on July 2 when the reigning champions, Australia, led by superstars Alyssa Healy, Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry, head into enemy territory as the number one team in the world. This innovative series will include one test match, three ODIs, and three T20 contests to decide the ultimate victor.
Following this, the Australian men’s cricket team defend the iconic urn against England in the five-Test Ashes Series that begins on August 1, live from the UK.