Advertising, Marketing & Communications

Struggling TV broadcaster and takeover target Ten Network is hoping for a pick-up in the advertising market this financial year.

Digital media is growing its presence in WA's mass market as familiar names fight to stay relevant.

A local tech startup is planning to be the next big thing in social media.

The bids are in but would-be buyers of Network Ten appear to be playing hard ball.

More than 400 people are set to lose their jobs at the ABC as the public broadcaster seeks to offset federal government funding cuts.

Jobs are to go at the ABC as the national broadcaster works out how it will operate with $254 million less in government funding over the next four years.

Seven West Media is warning of a 10 per cent a slide in its first-half profit due to softer-than-expected television advertising.

While its rivals are agitating for an overhaul of media ownership laws, Seven is preaching caution.

Network Ten has been the unloved step-sister of Australian TV in recent years but a string of would-be fairy godmothers are lining up to give the struggling broadcaster a Cinderella-like makeover.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has quit the board of the Ten Network.Mrs Rinehart, who is one of Ten's major shareholders, will be replaced on the network's board by John Klepec.

Bitcoin trader Digital CC has claimed a profitable entry into the computer-generated currency sector, highlighting a $630,146 profit for three and a half months of business, despite the vehicle through which it conducted a backdoor listing recording an $11.8 million loss for the financial year.

Falling commodities prices have hammered Seven Group Holdings' results, with the Kerry Stokes-led company reporting a 46 per cent fall in full year profit to $261.1 million.

Seven West Media has posted a $149.2 million profit for 2013-14 helped by cost cuts and improved television earnings, which helped it turn around its $70 million loss a year earlier.

Mix 94.5 has continued to retain its lead as Perth’s favourite radio station while 92.9 lost 1.3 per cent of its listeners, according to the latest radio survey.

Tourism Western Australia has announced a partnership with cummings&partners as its new strategic marketing and communications agency.

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Perth technology entrepreneur Zhenya Tsvetnenko is taking another of his ventures public with a second reverse takeover of a struggling mining stock in four months.

Mix 94.5 has retained its lead as Perth’s favourite radio station while Triple J lost the most listeners, according to the latest radio survey.

Former iiNet boss and 40under40 winner Michael Malone has joined the advisory board of specialist investor relations advisory firm Market Eye.

Scoop Publishing has continued to expand its product line in a sign that founder David Hogan has no intentions of slowing the growth of Western Australia’s most recognised lifestyle magazine publisher.

Ten Network boss Hamish McLennan still believes he can turn the struggling broadcaster around, but says he needs more time.

Ikon Communications has confirmed it is closing the Perth office and will handle the demands of its local clients from Sydney and Melbourne.

Seven West Media is back in the black after the television, magazine and newspaper company posted a $150 million half year profit.

Journalists and lawyers will soon be able to use electronic devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones to access the internet and social media in Western Australian courts.

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Australian of the Year Ita Buttrose has offered a bleak assessment of the level of diversity in the business sector, despite decades of effort to get more women to the top of industry.

A cross-continental dispute and trademark tug-of-war between former colleagues has emerged over the rights to the business name Guns For Hire.

Automotive Holdings Group has agreed to become the major sponsor of the Melbourne Football Club in a three-year deal.

Seven West Media chief executive Tim Worner is hopeful of improved market conditions in December but says the broader ad market remains short and unpredictable.

Rupert Murdoch's newspaper publishing business News Corporation has reported a net profit of $US38 million ($A40.60 million) for the first quarter.

Fairfax Media has avoided a second strike and potential boardroom spill, but its directors still have not won the support of major shareholder Gina Rinehart.