This document is a weekly round-up of media news produced by MediaScope and distributed to over 2,300 subscribers each Friday morning. It provides summaries of the major market moves, people moves, and advertising spend revenue for the week. Major stories this week include Match Media acquiring the NRMA Motoring & Services business, speculation of a potential merger between Nine Entertainment and Southern Cross Austereo, and SMI reporting a 3.7% increase in overall advertising spend for October.

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Market
moves
this
week…
-­‐
Match
Media
picks
up
NRMA
Motoring
&
Services
business
-­‐
Market
speculaEon
of
a
potenEal
merger
between
Nine
Entertainment
&
Southern
Cross
Austereo
-­‐
UM’s
Sam
Geer
wins
the
2015
APG
Planning
Idol
compeEEon
in
support
of
charity
–
Reachout.com

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Market
moves
this
week…
-­‐
US
parenEng
site
‘MomtasEc’
launches
as
‘MumtasEc’
in
the
Australian
market
-­‐
The
ABC
will
join
Seven
&
Nine
by
live
streaming
its
main
channel
from
December
1
-­‐
NewsLifeMedia
acquires
beauty
website
–
Primped.com.au

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SMI
release
ad
spend
revenue
for
October…
-­‐ Overall
adverEsing
spend
increased
YOY
3.7%
to
$750.2m
-­‐ TV
+
4.2%
to
$374.9m
-­‐ Digital
+
11.7%
to
$151.7m
-­‐ Outdoor
+
19.9%
to
$81m
-­‐ Radio
-­‐.01%
to
$53m
-­‐ Newspapers
-­‐
20.2%
to
$59m
-­‐ Magazines
-­‐
14.3%
to
$23m
-­‐ Cinema
+
24.4%
to
$4.2m

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People
moves
this
week…
-­‐
Ewilina
Jones
joins
Carat
Sydney
as
group
business
director
-­‐
Google
appoints
Kevin
Ackhurst
as
director
of
agency
-­‐
Lion’s
Mad
Tapper
is
elected
Chairman
of
industry
associaEon
AANA

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People
moves
this
week…
-­‐ Michael
Miller
&
Peter
Tonagh
take
up
top
jobs
with
News
Corp
-­‐ Prue
Cox
has
been
promoted
to
Chief
Commercial
Officer
with
NewsLifeMedia
-­‐ The
Australian
newspaper’s
editor
Chris
Mitchell
steps
down
ager
24
years