There have been two internal promotions to the leadership team at PHD Melbourne – Kathryn Weatherlake and Lizzy O’Connor.

Australia's low use of renewable energy means it has one of the highest advertising emissions per capita globally. Former Oracle exec June Cheung, just named as Scope3’s Sydney-based Asia Pacific lead to spearhead the advertising emissions measurement firm’s plans for the region, has Australia’s biggest advertisers like banks, telcos and supermarkets at the top of the list to reduce their carbon impact from ad spending.

A prominent UNSW Law & Justice faculty academic, Dr Katharine Kemp, has published a paper recommending News Corp, Nine and Seven be scrutinised under Australian Consumer Law for their use of terms like “anonymous” and “de-identified” when talking about consumer data. The publishers, which reject Dr Kemp’s findings, claim to distinguish millions of Australians for advertising purposes using vast troves of behavioural data.

Indie customer experience agency CX Lavender has appointed Adam Washington, formerly the consumer practice lead at Orchard, as its new CEO.

A year from rebranding 10 All Access, Paramount's ANZ boss Beverley McGarvey says Paramount+ subscriber growth is way ahead of expectation. She dismissed speculation that US parent is considering offloading the broadcast business to concentrate on streaming underlining free-to-air's value in driving subscription growth and to get a second squeeze of value from its content investments. Meanwhile, as Disney Plus and Netflix race to launch ad-funded models, she claimed Paramount+ had got there first.

For 11 months, former Havas Worldwide MD Alex Carr and M&C Saatchi S&E ECD Jon Kelly have been working for their own brand and experience consultancy, Queen Charles. They’re now launching it publicly.

Television roared back after the initial Covid pullback, but there are signs that surge is slowing. Total TV ad revenue growth dropped from more than 27 per cent to seven per cent year-on-year, while BVOD decelerated from 74.8 per cent growth in the first half of 2021 to 43.9 per cent. 

Telstra, Coles, Suncorp, Virgin and Unilever brands Rexona, Dove and Omo are among the brands to partner with newly launched social platform WeAre8, which pays users to view ads. On its current estimates, the company says it pays $0.30 – and donates $0.02 to charity – for every minute of advertising a user watches.

After six years at Pedestrian Group, Vanessa Lawrence will soon move to New York to join Pedestrian’s co-founder, Chris Wirasinha, on his new business, Linkby. The platform raised $5m earlier this year, and connects brands’ content to publishers in a marketplace.