Australia has had a long history of street press media, beginning in the 1980s. Most street press have been centred around music and gig guides, but subjects have also included movies, fashion, and food. Each major city in Australia had at least two music street press at some point, and they were at their most popular during the 1990s.
68-601: During the height of their popularity most were initially tabloid size , and printed on newsprint with glossy covers. Later titles shrunk to A4 size magazine. One of Australia's earliest street press was TAGG – The Alternative Gig Guide , which ran between 1979 and 1981. It was originally published in Melbourne before a Sydney edition was launched in 1980. In Melbourne during the 1980s, Beat Magazine and Inpress were both published weekly, with Beat first published in 1986 and Inpress following two years later. Beat
136-613: A B2B resource showcasing and tracking artists and songs played on Triple J radio. Launched in 2006 by Paul Stipack, it created a large archive of statistics of every song played by Triple j over 12 years. It was possible to see an artist's trajectory from their first airing to full rotation. Owing to changes in the music industry, including the need to track many other sources, such as Spotify , and other tools, such as Shazam , Radiomonitor , and AirCheck , its usefulness diminished, and it ceased operation in January 2019. The Brag Media retained
204-580: A 97% match rate. The database contains over 330 million official, deep-linked music credits across 105 million pages. Vinyl.com is an online record store which launched in 2023. It allows music fans to buy records and explore liner notes, offering over 50,000 records across all genres. The platform is powered by Jaxsta Official Music Credits. Serenade produces physical and digital collectables that have served over 200 artists worldwide including Liam and Noel Gallagher , Muse , Sum 41 , Twenty One Pilots and Thirty Seconds to Mars . Their Smart Formats combine
272-590: A Melbourne edition in 2003. They downsized from their tabloid style magazine to A4 glossy in 2004 and later rebranded to scenestr in 2014, also changing from weekly to a monthly schedule. In 2015 they launched in Adelaide, Sydney in 2016, Perth in 2017, and relaunched in Melbourne in 2018. In 2021 they claimed to be the only national street press group. Other publications included Australian Musician , and Music Feeds . The number of copies each street press distributed
340-464: A broadsheet. Its sister publication, Meia Hora has always been a tabloid, but in slightly smaller format than O Dia and Lance! . The more recent usage of the term 'tabloid' refers to weekly or semi-weekly newspapers in tabloid format. Many of these are essentially straightforward newspapers, publishing in tabloid format, because subway and bus commuters prefer to read smaller-size newspapers due to lack of space. These newspapers are distinguished from
408-528: A catalog of vinyl records across all genres with verified creative contributions metadata on every album. Jaxsta rebranded as Vinyl Group Ltd in December 2023 to better reflect its expanded operations. In January 2024, Vinyl Group completed the acquisition of The Brag Media, a publishing and events business with about 10 million monthly active users (MAUs) across its brands, significantly enhancing Vinyl Group's reach and sales opportunities. The acquisition deal
476-452: A crowded commuter bus or train . The term compact was coined in the 1970s by the Daily Mail , one of the earlier newspapers to make the change, although it now once again calls itself a tabloid. The purpose behind this was to avoid the association of the word tabloid with the flamboyant, salacious editorial style of the red top newspaper. The early converts from broadsheet format made
544-818: A dedicated Mumbai tabloid newspaper, Mumbai Mirror , which gives prominence to Mumbai-related stories and issues. Tehelka started as a news portal in 2000. It broke the story about match-fixing in Indian and International Cricket and the sting operation on defence deals in the Indian Army. In 2007, it closed shop and reappeared in tabloid form, and has been appreciated for its brand of investigative journalism. Other popular tabloid newspapers in English media are Mid-Day , an afternoon newspaper published out of and dedicated to Mumbai and business newspapers like MINT . There are numerous tabloids in most of India's official languages. There
612-502: A fortnightly schedule in 2019. Following issue #1695's publication on March 11, 2020 Beat paused their print edition until in May 2022 editor when Lucas Radbourne announced the print issue had returned, and was available freely again as a monthly magazine. In Sydney, The Brag also ceased publication in March 2020. But while most street press did so without a formal announcement, The Brag released
680-486: A new magazine Evolver . When Revolver's publisher threatened to sue due to the new magazine's similarities to theirs, Evolver was renamed The Brag . This new title was briefly owned by Furst Media until 2016, and was published weekly until 2017 when it became fortnightly, then monthly, and in 2018 moved to quarterly. Also in NSW, Newcastle's Reverb ran from 2006 to 2012, and became an online only publication from 2013. During
748-530: A newspaper for the British Columbia market. The Canadian publisher Black Press publishes newspapers in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta in both tabloid ( 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (260 mm) wide by 14 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (368 mm) deep) and what it calls "tall tab" format, where the latter is 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (260 mm) wide by 16 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (413 mm) deep, larger than tabloid but smaller than
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#1733106776861816-399: A print magazine in 1994, went fully online in 2013. It changed hands once in 2009 and again in 2017, when it was acquired by Jake Challenor, who served as its publisher and editor. In February 2022, The Brag Media purchased TMN , with Challenor joining The Brag Media as executive editor, B2B . In February 2023 Challenor departed Brag and set up a new PR agency, Sound Story. J Play was
884-522: A statement in February of their coming closure. March 2020 was also the date of The Music ’s most recent issue, and in October 2021, Handshake Media (previously Street Press Australia) announced they had sold The Music to SGC Media, owners of online music titles Purple Sneakers and Country Town . Time Off was separately sold to Sean Sennett, who had run the magazine through the 1990s, with plans to relaunch
952-499: A street press magazine focused on music creation and audio production, launched in 1993 and is printed by Furst Media as a national street press. In 1989, 3D World began in Sydney, and ran until 2011. The magazine focused on dance music and club culture. Its main competitor was The Brag , published by Furst Media . 3D World was purchased by Street Press Media in 2009, and they expanded to Melbourne and Brisbane in 2010 before closing
1020-553: Is Bulgar , but some are written in English, like the People's Journal and Tempo . Like their common journalistic connotations, Philippine tabloids usually report sensationalist crime stories and celebrity gossip, and some tabloids feature topless photos of girls. Several tabloids are vernacular counterparts of English broadsheet newspapers by the same publisher, like Pilipino Star Ngayon ( The Philippine Star ), Bandera ( Philippine Daily Inquirer ), and Balita ( Manila Bulletin ). In
1088-586: Is a publishing and events company with a focus on music. As of 2024 The Brag Media represents iconic titles like Rolling Stone Australia , The Music Network , Variety , and Billboard , and reaches over 30% of the Australian population each month and produces events like the Rolling Stone Awards. In June 2024, after being acquired by the Vinyl Group, Girgis left the business, and Jessica Hunter
1156-438: Is a social-professional network and talent marketplace, helping creatives in over 180 countries find collaborators and monetize their work. The platform has introduced features like Credits and Verification, integrating Jaxsta Creator features into Vampr Pro subscriptions. Jaxsta is a database of official music credits, offering subscription, API, and freemium access. It supports rights holders with recording matching, achieving
1224-756: Is also a recipient of the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards , a former director of Air New Zealand (NZE: AIR) and the third women to list a company on the NASDAQ . Ben Katovsky, a non-executive director , is the CEO of Hipgnosis Song Management, responsible for overseeing the operations and strategy of the Hipgnosis Songs Fund and other related entities. Steve Gledden, Managing Partner of Straight Bat Private Equity, and Ken Gaunt, Director of Sydney Seaplanes , also serve as non-executive directors, while CEO Simons
1292-602: Is an Australian music technology company. It is traded on the Australian Securities Exchange . Its subsidiaries are Jaxsta (a music credit database), Vampr (a music networking platform), Vinyl.com (an online record store), The Brag Media (a publishing and events business), Mediaweek (a trade media publication that reports on the business of media in Australia) and Serenade (a Web3 pioneer of physical and digital collectibles). Vinyl Group started as Jaxsta which
1360-520: Is an all youth tabloid by the name of TILT – The ILIKE Times. In Indonesia, tabloids include Bola, GO (Gema Olahraga, defunct), Soccer (defunct), Fantasy (defunct), Buletin Sinetron (defunct), Pro TV (defunct), Citra (defunct), Genie , Bintang Indonesia (Indonesian Stars) , Nyata , Wanita Indonesia (Women of Indonesia), Cek and Ricek , and Nova . In Oman, TheWeek is a free, 48-page, all-colour, independent weekly published from Muscat in
1428-519: Is circulated mostly among blue-collar labourers . Compact tabloids, just like broadsheet - and Berliner -format newspapers, span the political spectrum from progressive to conservative and from capitalist to socialist . In Morocco , Maroc Soir , launched in November 2005, is published in tabloid format. In South Africa , the Bloemfontein-based daily newspaper Volksblad became
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#17331067768611496-472: Is largely of editorial style; both red top and compact tabloids span the width of the political spectrum from socialism to capitalist conservatism , although red-top tabloids, on account of their historically working-class target market, generally embrace populism to some degree. Red top tabloids are so named due to their tendency, in British and Commonwealth usage, to have their mastheads printed in red ink;
1564-595: Is still being published fortnightly in Canberra and is the longest consecutively running street press which is still in print in Australia. Tabloid (newspaper format) A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet . There is no standard size for this newspaper format . The word tabloid comes from the name given by the London -based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to
1632-626: The Boston Herald . US tabloids that ceased publication include Denver's Rocky Mountain News . In Australia , tabloids include The Advertiser , the Herald Sun , The Sun-Herald , The Daily Telegraph , The Courier Mail , The West Australian , The Mercury , the Hamilton Spectator , The Portland Observer , The Casterton News and The Melbourne Observer . In Argentina , one of
1700-520: The Daily Star and the Daily Mirror . Although not using red mastheads, the Daily Mail and Daily Express also use the 'tabloid journalism' model. In contrast to red-top tabloids, compacts use an editorial style more closely associated with broadsheet newspapers. In fact, most compact tabloids formerly used the broadsheet paper size, but changed to accommodate reading in tight spaces, such as on
1768-925: The New York Post , the Daily News and Newsday in New York, the San Francisco Examiner , The Bakersfield Californian and La Opinión in California , The Jersey Journal and The Trentonian in New Jersey, the Philadelphia Daily News , the Delaware County Daily Times and The Citizens' Voice , The Burlington Free Press , The Oregonian , the Chicago Sun-Times , and
1836-594: The Berliner format (2008–2013) and now adopts a compact format with 32 pages during the week and 48 pages on Saturday. In Bangladesh , the Daily Manab Zamin became the first and is now the largest circulated Bengali language tabloid in the world. In Georgia , the weekly English-language newspaper The Financial switched to a compact format in 2005 and doubled the number of pages in each issue. Other Georgian-language newspapers have tested compact formats in
1904-646: The Netherlands , several newspapers have started publishing tabloid versions of their newspapers, including one of the major 'quality' newspapers, NRC Handelsblad , with nrc•next (ceased 2021) in 2006. Two free tabloid newspapers were also introduced in the early 2000s, ' Metro and Sp!ts (ceased 2014), mostly for distribution in public transportation. In 2007, a third and fourth free tabloid appeared, ' De Pers ' (ceased 2012) and ' DAG ' (ceased 2008). De Telegraaf , came in broadsheet but changed to tabloid in 2014. In Norway , close to all newspapers have switched from
1972-526: The Nice Matin (or Le Dauphiné ), a popular Southern France newspaper changed from Broadsheet to Tabloid on 8 April 2006. They changed the printing format in one day after test results showed that 74% liked the Tabloid format compared to Broadsheet. But the most famous tabloid dealing with crime stories is Le Nouveau Détective , created in the early 20th century. This weekly tabloid has a national circulation. In
2040-475: The Southern Philippines , a new weekly tabloid, The Mindanao Examiner , now includes media services, such as photography and video production, into its line as a source to finance the high cost of printing and other expenses. It is also into independent film making. The Berliner format, used by many prominent European newspapers, is sized between the tabloid and the broadsheet. In a newspaper context,
2108-485: The 1918 reference to smaller sheet newspapers that contained the condensed stories. Tabloid newspapers, especially in the United Kingdom , vary widely in their target market, political alignment, editorial style, and circulation. Thus, various terms have been coined to describe the subtypes of this versatile paper format. There are, broadly, two main types of tabloid newspaper: red top and compact . The distinction
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2176-563: The 1980s Time Off was published in Brisbane , after starting as a campus newspaper at the University of Queensland in 1976. It became a widely available bi-weekly title from March 14, 1980. Rave Magazine was also published in Brisbane, starting in 1991 and ran for 1047 issues until 2012. Scene Magazine was started in 1993 in Brisbane, and focused on dance music to differentiate themselves from
2244-471: The J Play database of 40,000 songs, 11,000 artists, and 15,000 playlists . The Industry Observer , launched in 2017, was a trade magazine for the music industry. It was merged into The Music Network in July 2022. For the quarter ending March 31, 2024, Vinyl Group reported a revenue increase of 218% quarter-over-quarter to $ 1.86 million, partly due to the integration of The Brag Media. As of March 31, 2024,
2312-616: The Jaxsta product and our community and creative relationships". Before joining Jaxsta in July 2021, Appleton had been the Senior Vice President Marketing Australasia at Warner Music Australia . Josh Simons, founder and CEO of Vampr, and former indie-rock musician with his band Buchanan , was appointed CEO and succeeded Appleton on 29 June 2023. Linda Jenkinson is the Chairperson of the board for Vinyl Group. She
2380-522: The Sultanate of Oman. Oman's first free newspaper was launched in March 2003 and has now gone on to gather what is believed to be the largest readership for any publication in Oman. Ms Mohana Prabhakar is the managing editor of the publication. TheWeek is audited by BPA Worldwide, which has certified its circulation as being a weekly average of 50,300. In Pakistan, Khabrain is a tabloid newspaper popular within
2448-414: The assets of Serenade, a UK-based digital collectibles startup, including the shares of its UK subsidiary. Vinyl Group Ltd focuses on leveraging technology to enhance music networking and collaboration. The company's portfolio includes Vampr, a platform for music professionals to connect and collaborate, Jaxsta, a database of official music credits, and Vinyl.com, a chart-accredited record store. Vampr
2516-609: The banner of the National Street Press in 2009, but the companies remained separate. Perth's X-Press was merged with The Music in 2015, but continued to be printed under its own name. X-Press was later put up for sale in April 2016. In 2017 The Brag was acquired by Seventh Street Media , and they ran The Brag alongside music websites Tone Deaf , The Industry Observer , and Rolling Stone Australia . Scene Magazine , which had started in Adelaide in 1993, created
2584-570: The black working class. It sells over 500,000 copies per day, reaching approximately 3,000,000 readers. Besides offering a sometimes satirical view of the seriousness of mainstream news, the Daily Sun also covers fringe theories and paranormal claims such as tikoloshes , ancestral visions and all things supernatural. It is also published as the Sunday Sun . In Mauritius , the popular afternoon newspaper Le Mauricien shifted from tabloid (1908–2008) to
2652-576: The broadsheet to the tabloid format, which measures 280 x 400 mm. The three biggest newspapers are Dagbladet , VG , and Aftenposten . In Poland , the newspaper Fakt , sometimes Super Express is considered as tabloid. In the United Kingdom, three previously broadsheet daily newspapers— The Times , The Scotsman and The Guardian —have switched to tabloid size in recent years, and two— Daily Express and Daily Mail —in former years, although The Times and The Scotsman call
2720-729: The broadsheets it also publishes. In the United States , daily tabloids date back to the founding of the New York Daily News in 1919, followed by the New York Daily Mirror , and the New York Evening Graphic in the 1920s. Competition among those three for crime, sex and celebrity news was considered a scandal to the mainstream press of the day. The tabloid format is used by a number of respected and indeed prize-winning American papers. Prominent U.S. tabloids include
2788-590: The change in the 1970s; two British papers that took this step at the time were the Daily Mail and the Daily Express . In 2003, The Independent also made the change for the same reasons, quickly followed by The Scotsman and The Times . On the other hand, The Morning Star had always used the tabloid size, but stands in contrast to both the red top papers and the former broadsheets; although The Morning Star emphasizes hard news , it embraces socialism and
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2856-422: The company had $ 2.901 million in cash and cash equivalents. The company aims to achieve profitability through synergies and efficiencies from its acquisitions. On April 28, 2022, it was announced that Jaxsta founder Jacqui Louez Schoorl would step down as CEO and former Chief Marketing Officer Beth Appleton would be Jaxsta's new CEO. The Music Network reported that "the change will allow Louez Schoorl to focus on
2924-493: The compressed tablets they marketed as "Tabloid" pills in the late 1880s. The connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small compressed items. A 1902 item in London's Westminster Gazette noted, "The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals." Thus tabloid journalism in 1901, originally meant a paper that condensed stories into a simplified, easily absorbed format. The term preceded
2992-517: The country's two main newspapers, Clarín , is a tabloid. In Brazil , many newspapers are tabloids, including sports daily Lance! (which circulates in cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo ), most publications currently and formerly owned by Grupo RBS (especially the Porto Alegre daily Zero Hora ), and, in March 2009, Rio de Janeiro-based O Dia switched to tabloid from broadsheet, though, several years later, it reverted to being
3060-544: The early 1990s. Tabloid journalism is still an evolving concept in India's print media. The first tabloid, Blitz was started by Russi Karanjia on February 1, 1941 with the words "Our Blitz, India's Blitz against Hitler !". Blitz was first published in English and then branched out with Hindi , Marathi and Urdu versions. In 1974, Russi's daughter Rita founded the Cine Blitz magazine. In 2005, Times of India brought out
3128-410: The first serious broadsheet newspaper to switch to tabloid, but only on Saturdays. Despite the format being popular with its readers, the newspaper remains broadsheet on weekdays. This is also true of Pietermaritzburg's daily, The Witness in the province of KwaZulu-Natal . The Daily Sun , published by Naspers , has since become South Africa's biggest-selling daily newspaper and is aimed primarily at
3196-582: The format " compact " to avoid the down-market connotation of the word tabloid . Similarly, when referring to the down-market tabloid newspapers the alternative term " red-top " (referring to their traditionally red-coloured mastheads) is increasingly used, to distinguish them from the up- and middle-market compact newspapers. The Morning Star also comes in tabloid format; however, it avoids celebrity stories, and instead favours issues relating to labour unions . In Canada many newspapers of Postmedia 's Sun brand are in tabloid format including The Province ,
3264-479: The lower middle class. This news group introduced a new paper, Naya Akhbar which is comparably more sensational. At the local level, many sensational tabloids can be seen but, unlike Khabrain or other big national newspapers, they are distributed only on local levels in districts. Tabloids in the Philippines are usually written in local languages, like Tagalog or Bisaya , one of the listed top Tagalog tabloids
3332-497: The magazine in 2022. scenestr reported in October 2021 they were the "largest – and only remaining – street press group in Australia", and had returned to printing copies of their magazine in mid-2020 in five states and territories "where COVID and prevailing conditions have permitted". They continue to be published in 2022. Mixdown has continued to be printed bi-monthly by Furst Media and made available nationally. They published their 318th issue in December 2021. Elsewhere, BMA
3400-400: The major daily newspapers, in that they purport to offer an "alternative" viewpoint, either in the sense that the paper's editors are more locally oriented, or that the paper is editorially independent from major media conglomerates. Other factors that distinguish "alternative" weekly tabloids from the major daily newspapers are their less-frequent publication, and that they are usually free to
3468-472: The more rock focused Rave and Time Off . They would later rename themselves as scenestr and become national in the 2000s. Perth 's X-Press started in 1985 as a weekly title, later shifting to monthly in 2014, and the city also had their own edition of Drum Media starting in 2006 . BMA Magazine began publishing in Canberra in 1992, and is still publishing in 2022 as a fortnightly title. Drum Media
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#17331067768613536-580: The new name came a smaller A4 size and a less frequent publication as The Music went monthly, shifting their focus away from being a weekly local gig guide. In 2018 Street Press Australia ceased to exist, and their assets were taken over by Handshake Media who continued to publish The Music on Australia's east cost. Furst Media's titles such as Beat and The Brag had been the major competitor with Street Press Australia in their cities, but never expanded further or merged their titles nationally. Instead they joined Beat, The Brag, Rave, dB, and X-Press under
3604-423: The newspapers will draw their advertising revenue from different types of businesses or services. An upmarket weekly's advertisers are often organic grocers, boutiques, and theatre companies while a downmarket's may have those of trade schools, supermarkets, and the sex industry. Both usually contain ads from local bars, auto dealers, movie theaters, and a classified ads section. The Brag Vinyl Group Ltd
3672-435: The personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and junk food news . Celebrity gossip columns which appear in red top tabloids and focus on their sexual practices , misuse of narcotics , and the private aspects of their lives often border on, and sometimes cross the line of defamation . Red tops tend to be written with a simplistic, straightforward vocabulary and grammar; their layout usually gives greater prominence to
3740-460: The picture than to the word. The writing style of red top tabloids is often accused of sensationalism and extreme political bias; red tops have been accused of deliberately igniting controversy and selectively reporting on attention-grabbing stories, or those with shock value . In the extreme case, tabloids have been accused of lying or misrepresenting the truth to increase circulation. Examples of British red top newspapers include The Sun ,
3808-530: The print edition the following year. It was then revived in August 2011 as Three Magazine, an iPad -only magazine . It had been removed for the App store by 2014. Sydney also had On The Street , which began in 1981 before its staff led a mass walkout and started a rival publication Drum Media in 1990. A similar story occurred when Sydney's Revolver closed in 2003, after six years of publication, and its staff created
3876-517: The term Berliner is generally used only to describe size, not to refer to other qualities of the publication. The biggest tabloid (and newspaper in general) in Europe, by circulation, is Germany's Bild , with around 2.5 million copies (down from above 5 million in the 1980s). Although its paper size is bigger, its style was copied from the British tabloids. In Denmark , tabloids in the British sense are known as 'formiddagsblade' (before-noon newspapers),
3944-445: The term compact was coined to avoid the connotation of the word tabloid , which implies a red top tabloid, and has lent its name to tabloid journalism , which is journalism after the fashion of red top reporters. Red top tabloids, named after their distinguishing red mastheads , employ a form of writing known as tabloid journalism ; this style emphasizes features such as sensational crime stories, astrology, gossip columns about
4012-503: The two biggest being BT and Ekstra Bladet . The old more serious newspaper Berlingske Tidende shifted from broadsheet to tabloid format in 2006, while keeping the news profile intact. In Finland , the biggest newspaper and biggest daily subscription newspaper in the Nordic countries Helsingin Sanomat changed its size from broadsheet to tabloid on 8 January 2013. In France ,
4080-740: The use of NFC and NFT technologies. Mediaweek is an online trade website serving the Australian media industry. It provides news regarding the Australian newspaper, television, radio, magazine and outdoor advertising industries. The Brag Media is a publishing and events business established by Luke Girgis in early 2017 as Seventh Street Media Pty Ltd, with the acquisition of the privately-owned music publications, Tone Deaf , The Brag , and J Play . Other brands owned or operated by Seventh Street Media, were The Industry Observer , Gig Guide , The Music Network , IndieWire , Variety Australia , Epic Digital (founded in 2019 ), Funimation , Enthusiast Gaming and HypeBeast . The Brag Media
4148-487: The user, since they rely on ad revenue. Alternative weekly tabloids may concentrate on local and neighbourhood-level issues, and on entertainment in bars, theatres, or other such venues. Alternative tabloids can be positioned as upmarket (quality) newspapers, to appeal to the better-educated, higher-income sector of the market; as middle-market (popular); or as downmarket (sensational) newspapers, which emphasize sensational crime stories and celebrity gossip. In each case,
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#17331067768614216-496: Was also distributed in Canberra from Sydney. Starting in 1996, Pulse NT was published in Darwin and called themselves, "The Northern Territory's first street mag: local, national, international music and reviews." It was published monthly by Pulse Street Press. In 2006 the owners of Inpress formed Street Press Australia and took over The Drum Media and Time Off , before merging them all together in 2013 as The Music . Alongside
4284-690: Was appointed head of The Brag Media. Former senior contributor Lars Brandle was appointed head of content. Tone Deaf was established in 2009 by Nicholas Jones, and soon became a major online music magazine , with a readership of more than 400,000. It covers contemporary music of many genres, and includes news, interviews, reviews, and other feature articles. The title was acquired by Seventh Street Media in January 2017, along with The Brag (formerly published by Furst Media) and J Play. In 2019, Tone Deaf was, according to B&T Magazine , "the number one music publisher in Australia, reaching 5.43 million Australians per week". The Music Network , founded as
4352-619: Was appointed to the Board as the sole Executive Director on 16 May 2024. The company has received substantial investment from music licensing company Songtradr , who first invested in 2020 and have steadily increased their holding over time to become a significant shareholder. Billionaire, founder and CEO of WiseTech Global (ASX: WTC), Richard White, is currently the largest shareholder. According to company disclosure in June 2024, Robert Millner , Chairman of Soul Patts (ASX: SOL), also participated in
4420-707: Was audited by the Audited Media Association of Australia (AMAA) through their CAB brand which verifies and provides distribution data to media companies. Street press magazines would report their weekly distribution numbers as CAB audited, and would occasionally call each other out over displaying their numbers incorrectly. By 2020 no titles reported CAB audited data anymore, and instead displayed rounded numbers on their websites or inside each magazine, if at all. In 2020, during Australia's lockdown period , due to COVID-19, most street presses stopped printing and moved completely online. In Melbourne, Beat had moved to
4488-579: Was founded by Rob Furst and published by his company Furst Media, while Inpress was published by Street Press Australia. Both companies would go onto own and run multiple street press titles across Australia. Forte was started in 1991 by Anton Ballard and Robert Bufton as a regional gig guide, similar to Beat . It was published in Geelong and distributed to Ballarat, Bendigo, Castlemaine, Geelong, Surfcoast and Warrnambool. In 2015 Furst Media became their publisher, starting with issue #619 on August 20. Mixdown ,
4556-499: Was listed as a public company on the ASX on December 28, 2018. In February 2023, the company announced it would acquire Vampr , a music networking platform that connects musicians and industry professionals. The acquisition was completed in June 2023. Vampr’s founder and CEO Josh Simons initially joined Jaxsta as Chief Strategy Officer and was subsequently appointed CEO on 29 June 2023. Jaxsta launched Vinyl.com in May 2023, offering
4624-495: Was valued at $ 8 million and was supported by an $ 11 million funding facility. In August 2024, Vinyl Group announced it would acquire media and marketing trade publication Mediaweek for $ 500,000 in cash and $ 500,000 in shares. In September 2024, the company acquired Funkified Entertainment Pty Ltd, bringing The Brag Media events in-house through a deal valued at up to $ 2.5 million, consisting of both cash and scrip. Simultaneously, it completed an all-scrip acquisition for 100% of
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