INMA's virtual Media Subscriptions Summit (February 11-25) will focus on COVID gains and new growth paths.

IDEA, organisers of Australia's Digital Show, have decided to wind up the association in 2022, "whether they've run out of money or not".

German publisher Medienhaus Aachen has coordinated editorial and subscription data, doubling the latter in 2020.

Healthcare data provider IFA and ppi Media's 'Digital Services by ppi Media' unit are moving to the next phase of a complex digitisation project.

Publisher Morry Schwartz is showing he knows - as Kenny Rogers famously put it - what to keep and what to throw away.

Despite concessions, Australia's news media bargaining code is still unworkable, Google says.

Ohio-based Presteligence has announced an automated page-building feature for its My News 360 hosted service.

Brightcove has appointed Jennifer Smith as chief marketing officer, which she joins from a similar role at Alfresco Software.

News Corp units in the US are joining their antipodean colleagues in appreciating the benefits of a joint print-and-digital promotion.

Australia's agency advertising spend fell only 4.8 per cent in October, prompting Standard Media Index to pronounce that it was "well and truly leaving the COVID crisis behind".

A survey among 2506 Australian consumers has found that 74 per cent believe that brands lie to them in their marketing communications.

German publisher Funke Mediengruppe is extending its software rollout after completing a project phase for Hamburger Abendblatt's magazines.

Public broadcasters the ABC and SBS are likely to be included in Australia's proposed revenue-sharing code of conduct for digital platforms after all.

With terms like API, cookies and third-party data, you'd need a reading age of 17 to understand TikTok's privacy policy... but you only need to be 13 to sign up.

Changes in YouTube's terms of service mean the Google-owned company will start including advertising on videos in the US, even if they are not part of its partner programme.

The issue of what's advertising and what's not is in question after the Australian Council on Smoking and Health raised concerns over a series of Philip Morris-sponsored articles in The Australian.

Streaming platform Fastly says newly upgraded POPs in Sydney and Melbourne delivered an increase of 1400 per cent in peak bandwidth for Network 10 during the Melbourne Cup carnival.

With little comment on it other than Google and Facebook criticisms, the Australian government's media bargaining code is set to become law in the form in which it was proposed last July.

Audio streaming subscription service Spotify Technology has announced it is buying podcast advertising and publishing platform Megaphone.

Jarrod Villani formerly with KordaMentha - the company that restructured Australia's Network Ten and took it through voluntary administration and sale - is to be co-lead of the resulting US-owned business, now ViacomCBS ANZ.

You may be accustomed to telling Siri what to do, but what about taking her advice... and taking a holiday?

A draft voluntary code to tackle disinformation from tech giants' group DIGI "fails to meet expectations", according to reports.

Video platform Brightcove has launched a new business-focussed brand in a bid to distance itself from cat videos and UGC.

Naviga Inc has sold its Acquire Media aggregation and distribution business to global risk assessment firm Moody's Corporation.

New data shows that almost 2.5 million Australians are now using TikTok, equivalent to 10.5 per cent of the population aged six years or older.