Acast continues to bolster its local sales capabilities in Australia, announcing six new hires today, including the appointment of Tom Roach as Acast’s local Creative Strategy Lead.
 
This follows Friday’s announcement that Acast and Nova Entertainment had ended their three-year partnership.
 

NOVA Entertainment has launched the trivia-based, play-along podquiz, Quizicle All-Stars.
 
Hosted by comedian Lindsay Webb, Quizicle All Stars features five questions with five seconds to respond, followed by a special guest who then provides their responses and you see how you went against them.
 
The podcast covers a range of topics from sport, music, general knowledge, entertainment and pop culture.
 

NOVA Entertainment have appointed Ben McMillan and Elizabeth Maplestone to two specialist digital audio roles, aimed at providing expert resources and leadership within the business, to service clients’ growing commercial demands and leverage opportunities in the podcast and digital audio environment.

E-commerce platform Hey You is the latest investment recipient of Scaleup Mediafund, Australia’s only dedicated media for equity fund.
 
Hey You is a partnership of two start-ups - the social media app developer, Posse, and the mobile ordering and payment platform, Beat the Q.

Last night the Media-i Awards were held at the Ivy Ballroom in Sydney.

NOVA Entertainment has secured strong digital results across all devices with the number one place in the radio category, the biggest jump in rankings within Australian digital publishers and significant year on year growth since the station launched its new digital platforms.
 

Director of Publicity for Fitzy & Wippa, Chris Sioris today announced her departure from NOVA Entertainment into a new role as Head of Publicity for Paramount Pictures Australia in November.

Can he float like a butterfly and sting like a bee?
 
Probably not but he’s having a go for charity.
 
Next Friday night August 14^th, Nova Entertainment’s National Newsroom Manager Matt De Groot will step into the ring in a fight against depression.
 
Pitch2Punch is a marketing and media industry sporting challenge raising funds and awareness for Beyond Blue.
 

When the Macquarie Fairfax merger happened, 2UE news stalwart Steve Blanda was holidaying in London.
 
With fifty staff to lose their jobs from a number of departments including news, few imagined the man who holds the record for the most number of ACRAs would be among the casualties.
 

RCS, the world’s largest broadcast software company has announced NOVA Entertainment will add Aquira traffic to their array of technologies.