Most of us can be bought or sold. And sometimes, that actually feels good. We're all coerced and serenaded by advertising, an industry devoted to changing our minds and our behaviour. But advertising is not the only industry that wants to get inside our heads and move the furniture around which brings us to spin, branding, and image control.
It looks like going down to the wire as South Sydney fight for their first finals berth since 1989. The new co-owners have caused many things to change - some for the good, some not so much according to others.
From the moment he burst onto the stage in the 1970s, dashing corporate raider Robert Holmes a Court captured the public's imagination with his brilliance and daring. He was the enigmatic and dazzling outsider with a romantic, hazy Rhodesian past - admired, feared and loathed in almost equal measures.
In the final episode, the stakes could not be higher as Willie takes his perfect recipe to the head buyer at a major supermarket. Everything rests on one man's decision to secure the order.
We may think power resides with Presidents and Prime Ministers, in palaces and parliaments, but it doesn't. It lies with the men who control the world's bond markets. After the rise of banks, the birth of the bond market was the next big revolution in the history of finance. Today the global market for bonds is still bigger than all the world's stock markets put together.
Every four years, the cream of the world's advertisers come together for the greatest marketing event in history - two weeks of elite competition played out while the whole planet looks on. This year it's in London and for the brands taking part, their very presence is a testament to years of dedication and focus, of sweat and toil. What do they want for their efforts? Gold, gold, gold! They want to bring home glory, to pit themselves against the best on the planet, to be worthy of the event's eternal motto: Swifter, Higher, Stronger, Richer.
Hosted by comedian Wil Anderson, Gruen Planet looks at the dark arts of spin, branding, advertising and image control. In advertising they call it a brand extension - Gruen Planet - the latest show in the Gruen stable, will run an x-ray across the world each week, unpicking the stories that affect us all. Important topics in this episode include the industrial PR battle between management and labour, and how to rebrand a famous business empire when the respected figure-head, now deceased, was the brand himself.
Hosted by comedian Wil Anderson, Gruen Planet looks at the dark arts of spin, branding, advertising and image control. Important topics in this episode include the global influence of social media to affect a retailer's public reputation, and the uneasy relationship between business, public relations, marketing and the not-for-profit sector.
And so, another Olympic Games comes to an end. The last notes of the Closing Ceremony drift away on the wind, the flags are carefully stored for next time, the post-event athlete orgy slumps into exhaustion, the caravan moves on ... and everyone is left to count the cost. Or the profit.
In this CNBC Original, Maria Bartiromo takes viewers Inside The Mind Of Google for a rare look at the world's most powerful technology company and its crown jewel, the Google internet search engine. This is the fascinating story of how two grad students, in barely a decade, took a one-time research project and turned it into a global technology powerhouse changing the way we interact with information, the Internet, and each other.
We're running out, and we don't have a plan. This is the story of how our civilisation's addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world's top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion, our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.
All the nutritious goodness of an episode is jam-packed into a handy snack-sized package.
We delve into the ways that the maker-culture is changing how we make, buy, share and sell things. From the DIY ingenuity of the 'makers movement' to governments using small scale makers to drive jobs and economic development.
This series taps into the boom of the contemporary art scene and new artists. Find out why, in this eclectic, informative and educational art series, people buy art? Experience the excitement and energy surrounding the art world following a wide range of artists from performance art, author and architects. We ask the question do you have to love art or has it become a pure investment for the nouveau riche?
Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today's global trading systems.
noma australia is an enticing three-part adventure series that will document the inspirational journey behind one of the most anticipated culinary events of 2016 the opening of noma australia restaurant at Barangaroo, Sydney. With exclusive access, the cameras follow Ren Redzepi and his international team, as they forage, taste and imagine their way through an avalanche of flavours on their Australian adventures. The journey follows the relocation of one of the worlds greatest restaurants from Copenhagen to Sydney to create an original menu that reflects the unique and vibrant Australia landscape. The stories behind the dishes will be revealed, and audiences will be invited to experience just what has inspired the noma team in their expedition across Australia and to Sydney. Episode Two: In the second episode, work continues at the restaurant; from the building of the kitchen and dining room, to the development of the menu in the noma test kitchen. As the project continues, the noma team explore the sights and sounds of the Sydney foreshore whilst gaining a different perspective on what the city has to offer. Follow the conversation on twitter: #nomaaustralia
Gordon Ramsay travels across the US to fix some of its most horrendous hotels, troubled inns and struggling resorts. He will endure hotels at their worst, all so unsuspecting guests don't have to.
Treasurer Scott Morrison will deliver his first Federal Budget speech live from the House of Representatives.
Life is full of opportunities to learn new things, no matter what your age. Explore these videos as part of Community Colleges Australia's lifelong learning programs and enrich your knowledge of the world.
From Bathurst to Jabiluka, or gold to uranium, mining has reshaped Australia's landscape, economy and society. Explore the boom times and busts of life when miners move in or move on.
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