$10,000 for making one video? Maybe it’s time to switch careers

$10,000 for making one video? Maybe it’s time to switch careers

If you want to earn money,forget medicine,law and engineering – play Minecraft on YouTube,or post lifestyle TikToks to start raking in serious coin.

  • byKayla Olaya

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Anatomy of a jingle:Where have advertising’s catchiest earworms gone?

Anatomy of a jingle:Where have advertising’s catchiest earworms gone?

They’re cheesy,sometimes annoying,but always catchy. In the golden days of Australian advertising,jingles dominated radio and TV. Are they gone forever?

  • byHannah Kennelly
Stigma is still forcing some women to dodge these products… period

Stigma is still forcing some women to dodge these products… period

Once,ads for sanitary products banked on women’s sense of shame. Now,period ads showing stigma are well and truly out of favour.

  • byWendy Tuohy
Rowland in the deep on Labor’s big gamble
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Gambling

Rowland in the deep on Labor’s big gamble

It should have been a political win for Labor to curtail ads that annoy voters. Instead,questionable political management put the government on the defensive.

  • byPaul Sakkal
The multimillion-dollar fight over 18 billboards on a busy Sydney road
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The multimillion-dollar fight over 18 billboards on a busy Sydney road

The prime advertising spot is at the centre of a four-year fight over the vexed question of how much motorists’ eyeballs are worth.

  • byMichaela Whitbourn
The best and worst companies to cancel a subscription with

The best and worst companies to cancel a subscription with

A new report calls for opting out of subscriptions to become as easy as opting in.

  • byMadeleine Heffernan
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Growing number of Labor MPs jockey for Murphy’s law ad ban

Growing number of Labor MPs jockey for Murphy’s law ad ban

TV and gambling executives spent the week in Canberra trying to water down a proposed two-per-hour limit on TV ads and a digital blackout.

  • byPaul Sakkal
How 90-second fashion films became the biggest thing in Hollywood

How 90-second fashion films became the biggest thing in Hollywood

Timothee Chalamet and Scarlett Johansson might be cashing in,but these luxury ads really are worth watching.

  • byTom Shone
Seven threatens Amber Harrison with legal action over remarks about Four Corners interview

Seven threatens Amber Harrison with legal action over remarks about Four Corners interview

With cultural issues at the Seven Network in the spotlight,its parent company has revealed a huge slump in full-year profits.

  • byCalum Jaspan
‘It’s too much’:Howard urges tobacco-like ban on gambling ads
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Gambling

‘It’s too much’:Howard urges tobacco-like ban on gambling ads

The former prime minister and sports fan says the spread of gambling and the social harm from it is a serious issue for our country.

  • byPaul Sakkal
‘Wombat of Wall Street’:The ad guru selling Australia to the world

‘Wombat of Wall Street’:The ad guru selling Australia to the world

David Droga has created ads for The New York Times,Barack Obama,Puma and The White House. Now he will test his world-famous talents on Australia.

  • byCalum Jaspan