What is special about the result for news.com.au is that this is the first time the publisher has pushed its monthly audience above 10m after being close to the milestone previously.

For the month of November, news.com.au’s unique audience was 10,282,698, well ahead of nine.com.au in second place with 8.38m.

There was little change in the overall rankings. The top seven was repeated this month, with The Age moving from #9 to #8, swapping places with Fairfax Digital Regional Network.

The Herald Sun has moved into the top 10 at #10, with The Daily Telegraph dropping out.

The biggest improvers in terms of audience were Daily Mail Australia and The Age, with audiences for both lifting over 1m.

The move comes just one day after the new look Nine media group started trading on the ASX after completing the merger with Fairfax Media last Friday.

Pedestrian.TV will integrate Allure Media’s publishing assets including leading digital brands Business Insider Australia, Gizmodo, Kotaku and POPSUGAR into the Pedestrian group.

The two publishers reached over 2.998 million Australians in October 2018, with 1.227 million in the hard-to-reach under 35 demographic.

The combined Pedestrian Group will be run by its founders, Chris Wirasinha and Oscar Martin.

Chris Wirasinha and Oscar Martin

“The past 13 years have been a wild ride for Pedestrian and we’re pumped to welcome Allure Media into the family to create a clear publishing leader for marketers wanting to target young Aussies,” said Wirasinha.

“The Allure brands provide global insights combined with highly targeted and loyal local audiences around premium categories including business, technology, gaming, entertainment, fashion and beauty.

“The combination of the brands alongside Pedestrian’s existing commercial relationships that include Tinder and Big Flick Energy, and our new TV partnership with 9Go!, will give advertisers unprecedented opportunities to reach more Millennials and Gen Zers than ever before.”

As part of the changes Allure Media’s existing operations will be restructured, with Allure CEO Jason Scott leaving as the two businesses combine operations. This change has led to a number of redundancies within Allure Media, the majority within support functions across the business.

Staff in the combined business will be co-located in Pedestrian.TV’s new Surry Hills offices from January 2019.

Venntifact is a data agency that enables businesses to develop effective data propositions. This includes the creation of data strategies, and the design of effective operating models to help businesses build the teams and processes to deliver powerful, data-driven experiences at scale.

The Venntifact partnership adds a depth of technical experience to Network 10 as it continues to build its data capabilities as part of bringing its sales team back in-house.

Network 10’s general manager of data, insights and analytics Gareth Tomlin said: “Network 10 is rich in audience data – from our broadcast viewers to our digital visitors, our video users to our marketing and social audiences. There is huge potential for us to build valuable insights and strategies that create effective experiences for advertisers and audiences. We’ve made a great start with building our data team and our partnership with Venntifact puts us in a fantastic position to accelerate our data proposition and capability and be ready to go from the first quarter of 2019.”

Venntifact’s director of technology Joey Nguyen said: “As the media landscape consolidates, it is critical to utilise data intelligently and deliver effective advertising to audiences in ways that do not impact the viewer experience. Network 10 has an incredibly engaged audience, rich sets of data, and will now have market-leading technology and data infrastructure. We’re excited to work with them to deliver targeted solutions for advertisers and personalised experiences for viewers.”

Network 10’s chief sales officer Rod Prosser said: “We have big ambitions to be industry leaders in data-driven advertising solutions. We have the audience scale and now, with the support of Venntifact, we can build the capabilities to bring the precision. We’re serious about data and we will continue to partner with experts in the field to help us reach new heights.”

Network 10’s new advertising sales function will leverage CBS systems and technology. The partnership with Venntifact follows the announcement of 10’s partnership with Tealium, a leader in real-time customer data solutions.

Venntifact counts brands such as Xero and Virgin Australia among its current clients. Venntifact is a Tealium Certified Partner in Australia, helping brands take control of their data, and deliver personalised experiences at scale.

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Top Photo: Gareth Tomlin, Network 10 (left) with the Venntifact directors

The documentary is narrated by Logie award winning actor William McInnes and produced by four-time Emmy Award nominee Leighton De Barros and Jodie De Barros, and written and directed by Leighton De Barros and Jonathan Rowdon from WA’s Sea Dog TV International.

The world premiere screening is on Nat Geo Wild Australia, Sundays from December 16 and 23 at 8:30pm AEST (Foxtel and Fetch plus the National Geographic App).

Leighton De Barros has over 28 years’ experience in the television industry, specialising in documentary filmmaking as producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He has won more than 15 industry awards, been nominated for four Emmy awards and worked on a host of films broadcast on Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, CBS America, Smithsonian Channel, National Geographic Channel, ABC TV, Arte France, TVNZ, NHK, Channel 5 and the BBC.

Jodie De Barros began her career in documentary filmmaking in 2007 when she established Sea Dog TV International with partner Leighton De Barros.

As joint CEO, Jodie executive produces, produces and manages the production accounting on all of the Sea Dog TV’s projects.

She has produced many films broadcast by ABC, Nine Network Australia, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, NHK, Smithsonian Channel, Channel 5, TVNZ, Arte France and SWR/Arte Germany.

Jodie also produced Super Predator, the highest rating program for Discovery US’s Shark Week in 2015. She has also worked as an independent production consultant for the Producer Offset Unit of Screen Australia.

Leighton told Mediaweek four years ago he was filming whales off Rottnest Island and stopped on the island for a break. He suggested to the environment manager on the island he would like to do a film on the wildlife on Rottnest Island, Carnac Island and Penguin Island – showing the unique and different animals that inhabit each land mass. The subsequent series was filmed and produced over the following three years. For the first time the entire life-cycle of the Quokka has been captured on film and will be shown to the world.

“William McInnes narrated the series and has done a wonderful job,” said Leighton. “While living and working in Western Australia he spent some time on the island.

“The film is the first of its kind to explore the islands’ wildlife in such detail and capture behaviour never filmed before. The series will screen to an international audience over the coming year.”

Leighton told Mediaweek about some of the production company’s other titles:

“Bushfire Wars – December 2018 – was the highest rating factual program on the night across the Foxtel platform and highest rating show for National Geographic Australia in the last two years.

“Dolphin Dynasty, Wildlife Rescue & Forensics, Super Predator, Birthplace of the Giants, Hello Birdy, On a Wing and a Prayer, Whale Patrol and Shark Bay are some of our other projects.”

Leighton also worked on the first 14 seasons of the US reality series Survivor for CBS America. He has also worked on David Attenborough wildlife series for the BBC.

Leighton noted the production sector in WA is very active:

“The documentary and feature film industry is very vibrant in Perth with a number of high rating TV documentary series running on national and international networks. The feature film sector is extremely busy too with a handful of features in production currently. Simon Baker’s Breath – recently filmed in WA – won gongs at the recent AACTA awards.”

As to what is next from Sea Dog TV, Leighton said: “We have a film on snakes that has been commissioned by National Geographic Wild that will be shooting in 2019. We are also producing a theatrical documentary on the incredible life-story of quadriplegic film-maker Jaimen Hudson and we are producing a blue-chip, live orchestral theatrical film, titled Wild Western Australia that will be narrated by A-list Australian Hollywood talent.”

Here are the highlights from its rebrand announcement:

Over seven years, Urban List reports it has attracted the largest youth audience of any Australian publisher along with a social following of 1.5 million; a crowd drawn from its reportage on urban culture: from local things to do, to global trends influencing design, entertainment, health and travel.

“Urban culture has always been at our core and our understanding of the way the youth market engages with the city and its influence has been key to our growth,” said Susannah George, founder and CEO.

“Of course, when you’re as obsessed as we are with what’s happening in urban culture, connecting audiences and brands to and through it, you need to shake things up to keep fresh. This is that seven year shake up: an ID and stance that re-energises the team, opens new opportunities for audiences and partners, and sets the tone for the future.”

The rebrand launches today through an above the line campaign, “Urban Culture Is:”, which celebrates like-minded creatives who are driving the culture of our cities. The campaign will appear across digital and out of home over the coming months.

“We’re excited to launch our brand platform with the next wave of talent coming through the ranks in Australia’s urban culture scene,” said Jason Stella, Urban List’s head of marketing and experience.

“This campaign – Urban Culture Is: – is a call-out to all urban creators, to join us as we help shape the culture of our cities. We have big plans, and next year will see us extend the platform into a consumer event program, connecting our audience with world-first cultural moments and experiences.”

APN Outdoor currently holds the rights to all external advertising at the Airport, along with internal advertising in T1 International, T1 Domestic, T2 and T3 terminals. The expansion of APN Outdoor’s agreement with Perth Airport follows the landmark five-and-a-half year agreement with Sydney Airport, which extended its advertising assets across all domestic and international terminals, plus external billboards.

APN Outdoor will take on the rights to advertise in T4, where Qantas Group operates its domestic services, on 31 January 2019, marking the first time Perth Airport has worked with one advertising provider across all its terminals. As part of the new agreement, existing advertising assets will be refreshed throughout the terminal.

JCDecaux chief operating officer Andrew Hines said: “We are very excited to extend our partnership with Australia’s western hub, providing a fantastic opportunity for marketers and agencies to connect with the growing number of passengers travelling through the airport each year. It is the fastest growing airport, with passenger numbers tripling in the past 10 years and is part of our commitment to further invest in the Perth market.”

Perth Airport chief corporate services officer Debra Blaskett said: “Currently we see 13.6 million people travel through our airport each year, which is predicted to grow to 20 million by 2026. We have recently completed an extensive $1 billion redevelopment program that has transformed the customer experience at Perth Airport. We look forward to working with JCDecaux on developing the customer journey even further.”

By James Manning

Seven

Home And Away hovered close to 600,000 for a second successive night.

A US episode of Little Big Shots hosted by Steve Harvey then did 427,000.

Two episodes of a Seven favourite, Mrs Brown’s Boys, followed with 415,000 and 396,000.

Nine

A Current Affair started its new week on 773,000 and dropped to 652,000 last night.

The final of Family Food Fight finally arrived in the second week of summer survey with 447,000 watching the Giles sisters win $100,000.

Two episodes of The Big Bang Theory then did 502,000 and 427,000.

10

The Project narrowly had the channel’s biggest audience with 402,000 watching Jeff Goldblum from Los Angeles.

An episode of Ambulance UK was close behind with 399,000.

The US drama FBI was on 290,000 followed by NCIS: Los Angeles on 212,000.

ABC

At 8pm Simply Nigella did 346,000.

The final of My Family And The Galapagos followed with 284,000 and then most of them stayed on for The Real Camilla: Duchess Of Cornwall.

SBS

Some stunning scenery from Yosemite National Park was the highlight from Great American Railroad Journeys. The episode did 257,000.

It was Michael Portillo night on the channel with Portillo’s Great Estates following on 173,000