Tess Connery

Sydney

Deputy Editor at Mediaweek (Australia)

Deputy Editor of @mediaweekaus, podcast enthusiast, crochet nerd. Probably drinking iced tea right now. Views are mine ✨

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Samsung records highest social engagement of Olympic sponsors

Aug 20, 2024 | mediaweek.com.au | Tess Connery

Olympic sponsors Samsung, Coca Cola, and Toyota have secured the greatest interest online across both reach and engagement, according to data from Meltwater. Samsung stole the show globally gaining the highest reach (189m) and engagement (1.11m) of all the major sponsors. Coca Cola scored the second highest engagement (845k) and Omega the second highest reach (62.8m). Sentiment for all brands was overwhelmingly positive or neutral.
Domain reports $391.1m revenue, digital up, print largely steady

Aug 15, 2024 | mediaweek.com.au | Tess Connery

Domain has reported statutory revenue of $391.1 million, and a net profit after tax of $42.4 million, for FY24. New listings were up in each quarter of the year, led by the Sydney and Melbourne markets.
Bernard Salt joins Boomtown to spotlight 'regional super consumer'

Aug 15, 2024 | mediaweek.com.au | Tess Connery

According to demographer and columnist with The Australian, Bernard Salt, the biggest factor driving major life choices for Australians over the last hundred years has been “the relentless, obsessive pursuit of lifestyle and quality of life.” As a result, he predicts that the next 10 years will be “the time of the regions,” experiencing a surge in population growth and consumer spending as millennials “pass through the peak income earning stage of the life cycle.” Salt spoke on Wednesday at a...
News Corp launches State and Communities Mastheads division

Aug 14, 2024 | mediaweek.com.au | Tess Connery

News Corp Australia has officially launched its State and Communities Mastheads division, led by managing director and publisher, Mark Reinke. Reinke has appointed John Lehmann to the newly-created role of commercial director of the State and Communities Mastheads, which includes the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail, The Advertiser as well as regional, rural and community titles. In this expanded role, Lehmann remains in his existing role of managing director, NSW.
oOh!media appoints Emmalee Crellin to head of data sales role

Aug 14, 2024 | mediaweek.com.au | Tess Connery

oOh!media has appointed Emmalee Crellin to the newly-created role of head of data sales. Crellin will be responsible for leading the company’s data-led campaign solutions, managing client interactions with the network, and helping brands achieve advertising objectives.
Spotify's campaign is for people 'across generations to talk about'

Aug 14, 2024 | mediaweek.com.au | Tess Connery

Spotify Australia and New Zealand has launched its latest brand campaign, Connected By Spotify, featuring the new in-app experience, What’s Your Music Generation, which analyses a person’s Top 50 listened to tracks across the last 12 months to show their true listening generation.
Meta's news choices impact on platform and off

Aug 13, 2024 | mediaweek.com.au | Tess Connery

According to Natalie Harvey, CEO of Mamamia, the work that the government is doing on the joint slate committee into social media “scares the shit out of me.” Speaking at the Women in Media Conference, Harvey said that in Canada, when Meta turned news content off “they wanted to have the content and monetise it, but they didn’t want to pay for it, so the news content got replaced with political content created by general people.” Earlier this year, a University of Canberra digital news report...
News Corp brings sales functions under Client Partnerships team

Aug 12, 2024 | mediaweek.com.au | Tess Connery

News Corp Australia has revealed its client partnerships leadership team, which will work to deliver integrated, end-to-end campaign solutions across the entire News network. The team brings eight key sales functions together. Client partnerships managing director, Lou Barrett, said: “We now have one team who are the absolute best in the business and are committed to evolving our growth strategy.
Cosima Marriner named editor of the Australian Financial Review

Aug 12, 2024 | mediaweek.com.au | Tess Connery

Cosima Marriner has been named editor of the Australian Financial Review, the latest in a series of editorial shuffles at the title. The departure of Michael Stutchbury as editor-in-chief saw James Chessell return to the company to succeed Stutchbury – the Financial Review’s longest-serving editor or editor-in-chief in the masthead’s seven-decade history.
Cosima Marriner named editor of the Australian Financial Review

Aug 12, 2024 | harro.com | Tess Connery

Cosima Marriner has been named editor of the Australian Financial Review, the latest in a series of editorial shuffles at the title. The departure of Michael Stutchbury as editor-in-chief saw James Chessell return to the company to succeed Stutchbury – the Financial Review’s longest-serving editor or editor-in-chief in the masthead’s seven-decade history.