The List and InDaily announce pioneering partnership for Adelaide festivals

•  The List, InReview and InDaily will join forces in Adelaide this summer to create the biggest independent review platform
• Free, open access and independent journalism will be given a boost in South Australia
•  The editorial team plans to review over 200 shows collectively

UK-based arts publisher The List and South Australian reviewing site InReview have announced a new partnership to expand coverage of Adelaide’s festival season. Together, they’ll create a unique platform for championing artists through fair and unbiased reviews, published on the news website InDaily every day.

For the first time, The List’s Adelaide festival reviews will be hosted on the InReview strand of InDaily’s site, pooling resources and giving both publications the chance to cover significantly more shows during Mad March. Both publishers will seek to help Festival-going audiences make more informed decisions, creating a vital eco system for independent publishers at a time when the future of arts journalism requires decisive and disruptive action.

After being a fixture of Scottish culture since 1985, The List has spent the past three years building its presence in Adelaide. Its Adelaide Summer Festivals Guide and Adelaide Winter Festivals Guides have provided extensive, entertaining coverage of highlights from arts, culture, food and drink, becoming an invaluable guide to Adelaide’s year-round Festival programme. Beyond print and media, The List Festival Party has cemented itself as the ultimate way to kick off the Adelaide Fringe, offering an evening of drinks and entertainment that champions the diverse array of entertainment that makes Fringe season special.

InDaily, owned by innovative publisher Solstice Media, has remained a champion of high-quality local arts journalism in South Australia. Its InReview strand has published hundreds of pieces of original critique and journalism enjoyed by more than 60,000 readers each month.

Jo Laidlaw, editor of The List Adelaide Festival Guide, said: ‘This ground-breaking partnership means The List and InReview can support more shows by reaching more people with more reviews over the festival season. We’re thrilled to be working with the phenomenal team at InReview who do so much to keep South Australia’s wonderful culture alive year-round.’

Walter Marsh, editor of InReview, said: ‘From Adelaide to Edinburgh, festival season is all about connecting artists with audiences, and this new partnership between InReview and the seasoned festival-heads at The List will help our independent reviews and arts journalism reach even more readers and arts lovers. You can find us online, in your inbox, and in the crowd from opening night to the final curtain.’

The List

The List is a multi-award-winning free arts, culture and events magazine that has been helping Glasgow and Edinburgh residents ‘get a life’ since 1985 and it offers the UK’s largest events website. After nearly closing its doors in 2020 due to the pandemic, the magazine fully relaunched in March 2022 under the newly formed List Publishing Ltd, thanks to new investment and a successful crowdfunding campaign. The List won Best Relaunch at the 2023 PPA Awards and then went on to add international publishing to its list of accolades with the introduction of the award-winning Adelaide Summer Festivals Guide and The List Adelaide Winter Festivals Guide. It continues to grow its events arm with ListLive and the award-nominated List Festival Party and Hot 100 events.

The List’s Website: https://list.co.uk/adelaide-festivals The List’s Instagram: @thelistau, @thelistuk
The List’s Facebook: @thelistmagazine
The List’s TikTok: @thelistuk

InReview

InReview is a unique non-profit arts journalism project designed to nurture professional arts reviewing in Australia, particularly for areas in which the practice is under threat. The project originated in South Australia and has expanded to Queensland, with a focus on local arts and culture reviewing and journalism. InReview grew out of a concern about the ongoing decline of local journalism, with specialist areas like arts reviewing under particular pressure. We believe that professional and rigorous reviewing is a crucial part of cultural practice, helping artists and arts companies to be the best they can be. InReview publishes free-to-access reviews and journalism every week for the benefit of the arts sector, audiences and the community, covering the full breadth of arts and culture practices.

InReview’s Website: https://www.indailysa.com.au/inreview InReview’s Instagram: @InReviewAU
InReview’s Facebook: @InReviewAU

Schwartz Media has entered into a heads of agreement to sell its daily news podcast, 7am, to Solstice Media.

The sale comes as 7am celebrates significant year-on-year growth and after again winning Best News and Current Affairs Podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards.

Schwartz Media’s chief executive and editor-in-chief, Erik Jensen, said: “In the six years since we launched 7am, it has grown to be Australia’s no. 1 news podcast. It has set the standard for audio journalism, telling stories with depth and sensitivity. Solstice Media is the perfect buyer and I look forward to seeing 7am thrive under its new ownership. The sale will allow us to focus on the continued success of The Monthly and The Saturday Paper.”

Solstice Media’s managing director, Paul Hamra, said: “We had been looking to add respected journalism projects to our product mix and audio was a logical next offering for our audience of over 1.5 million readers. 7am is the right fit. We are excited to keep developing 7am into Australia’s leading daily news podcast.”

Solstice Media is a digital news publisher with over 50 staff around the country. It owns The New Daily and InDaily in South Australia and Queensland and a number of magazines and lifestyle sites.

Since its launch in 2019, 7am has frequently been Australia’s no. 1 news podcast. It is currently ranked no. 18 across all podcasts in Australia, with more than 900,000 monthly downloads.

Solstice Media plans to formally take ownership of 7am from July 1, with the intention of continuing with its current team and format.

Nova Entertainment will continue its exclusive representation of 7am for advertising sales.

Starting on Wednesday, June 8th InDaily will publish a 4pm version of its popular Express email – bringing readers up to date with the latest breaking news from South Australia, interstate and overseas.

The morning edition of Express will continue to be delivered to readers’ inboxes at the start of each weekday, with a strong focus on breaking local news and the most important developments from further afield.

Our flagship 12.30pm edition will be the place to access our most impactful journalism: exclusive breaking news stories, investigations, deeper explorations of important issues, our new current affairs podcast, intelligent opinion, and more.

You’ll notice some other changes from this week: the InReview arts magazine will shift to Saturday mornings and CityMag will be delivered to subscribers in the mornings instead of afternoons.

We will reintroduce our food newsletter, The Forager, as a monthly compendium of the best food and wine news and reviews from our full suite of titles: InDaily, CityMag, SALIFE magazine and InReview.

We’ll also provide subscribers with a new monthly round-up of news and features from South Australia’s regions.

The daily “What we know today” news blog, which we began in the early days of the pandemic, will be replaced by more comprehensive breaking news reportage.

Subscribers will be able to easily access the day’s breaking news via our two Express editions, the 12.30 flagship bulletin, and a dedicated place on our website. Details will be in the daily emails.

As always with InDaily, our work will be free to access, either by subscribing to our emails or simply visiting indaily.com.au

Our work remains fiercely independent and dedicated to our community.

Existing Express subscribers don’t need to do anything further to access the 4pm edition.

For anyone not already a subscriber, they can select a range of free options from our subscriber page.

Advertising opportunities remain — sponsorship of the top and bottom banners and/or medium rectangles. Sponsored content will continue to feature.

If you have any questions or would like any further information, please contact a member of our commercial team.

Thanks for reading and supporting InDaily.

InQueensland has today announced the acquisition of leading lifestyle masthead The Weekend Edition to create a dominant digital news and lifestyle media company.

In a coup for Queensland readers and commercial partners, the acquisition creates an audience of 80,000 subscribers and more than 500,000 monthly combined  website visitors.

InQueensland publisher Peter Atkinson said the merger created a quality weekend supplement for InQueensland subscribers.  

“Both InQueensland and The Weekend Edition are renowned for their teams’ knowledge of Queensland and the topics that matter most to Queenslanders,” Mr Atkinson said.

“Our stable of specialist writers and respected columnists write with genuine insight on the big stories affecting our state and this cross-pollination will cement our reputation as a growing, respected media channel.

“Rounding out InQueensland’s Monday to Friday business, political and cultural commentary, The Weekend Edition will become its literal self – a quality weekend supplement for InQueensland readers.”

Since launching in February 2020, InQueensland has emerged as a vital news platform in Queensland, attracting some of the state’s most respected journalists as contributors including Dennis Atkins, Madonna King, John McCarthy, Robert MacDonald, Craig Johnstone and Rebecca Levingston. 

The acquisition follows last month’s announcement of InQueensland’s broadcast partnership with Ten News First and continues the independent masthead’s Queensland expansion.

You can view The Weekend Edition here: theweekendedition.com.au

InDaily signs broadcast partnership with 10 News First

Growing South Australian digital news website, InDaily, has announced a broadcast partnership deal with Adelaide’s 10 News First.

The arrangement will see 10 News First video news stories, news updates and breaking news broadcast on InDaily’s website platform and distributed to its subscriber database daily.

InDaily has over 60,000 registered subscribers who engage daily with its news. It is ranked at No 22 on Nielsen’s Digital Media Ratings, with a monthly unique audience of 777,000.

InDaily is operated by Solstice Media, who also publishes SALIFE, CityMag, InQueensland and The New Daily.

Solstice Media’s Managing Director, Paul Hamra, said its audiences were highly engaged, absorbing the site’s breaking news and commentary.

“Our readers also want video content around local, national and world events to complement their online experience. 10 News First was the perfect partner as it does not publish its own digital news service.

“So, it is a win win for us and for the 10 News First brand to amplify its content to our news-hungry audience and for InDaily to enhance its offering to readers.

Head of Digital News & Strategy, 10 News First, Rashell Habib, said: “We’re excited to partner with InDaily and work together in delivering news as it happens, across multiple platforms.”

The 10 News First video content will be enabled through JW Player allowing both parties to commercialise the video with pre and post roll advertising.

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Our arts platform, InReview – by the numbers

Since it successfully launched back in February, South Australia’s newest home for arts journalism has published more than 164 stories from 49 contributors. The first 10 editions of the weekly eDM, sent to more than 60,000 registered subscribers have covered 24 art forms and generated a quarter of a million page views. Average time on page has been an impressive 2m 40s.

Over the festival season we published 67 reviews of Adelaide Fringe and Festival performances combined and we continue to work with Writers SA on ‘A Year in Review’ which sees Australian book reviews published at least once monthly. 

Our most read article covered the Illuminate Adelaide program launch but the story that generated the biggest reader response was ‘Adelaide needs fearless critics’ which was written by respected arts executive Rainer Jozeps.

InReview has been warmly welcomed to the arts ecosystem by our arts colleagues, arts practitioners, audiences and readers and we look forward to seeing our coverage evolve over the next 12 months.

SALIFE now in Coles, new Premium Property on sale August 5th

We’re excited to announce that SALIFE magazine is now even more widely available than ever before. From May 6, SALIFE magazine will be available in Coles supermarkets in South Australia. For more than 17 years, SALIFE devotees have known they can get their own monthly copy by subscribing or visiting their local newsagent or Foodland supermarket – and last year we added 36 select Woolworths stores to our distribution. However, these 56 new Coles distribution points will introduce thousands of new potential readers to SALIFE magazine every month. 

SALIFE Director of Sales Brooke Seward said, “We were excited to see a significant 8% increase in retail sales of SALIFE magazine – bringing new readers to SALIFE in a challenging marketplace.”

SALIFE Homes and Interiors Magazine is to become SALIFE Premium Property, on sale August 5th. The much-loved annual has always been an essential guide for South Australians thinking of building, renovating or redecorating, but our coverage has now expanded to include editorial coverage on SA’s booming real estate market. SALIFE Premium Property will be bursting with design inspiration, showcasing the favourite rooms of South Australian designers, alongside beautifully-presented product pages featuring the latest in home decoration, furniture and homewares. As always, SALIFE Premium Property will explore some of the most aspirational private homes in the state, essential reading for all those looking for inspiration or perhaps just dare to dream.

CityMag June edition

CityMag’s February Festivals Edition was a hit with readers and advertisers alike! The June edition will feature this year’s 40 Under 40 finalists while also exploring youth and young Adelaide: the institutions and organisations that are shaping Adelaide’s future leaders, across education, business and the arts. It will as ever be your trusted guide into what is new, exciting and worth paying attention to in the city’s hospitality scene, from upcoming food and drink producers to the best bars and eateries. 

On street date: June 10

Events program update

We finally got to celebrate the achievements of individuals, groups, organisations and towns that have made significant contributions to regional South Australia at the delayed Regional Showcase awards night at O’Leary Walker Wines in the Clare Valley. The event allowed the state’s regions to come together at an awards night to acknowledge the collective impact on South Australia. The 30 finalists and six individual award category winners were awarded on Friday evening at an event that also recognised the AgTown of the Year, announced by Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development David Basham. The 2021 program is underway and we’re always on the look out for relevant stories from the regions.

In February and March we ran a number of themed boardroom lunches, hosted by Daniela Ritorto, attended by selected businesses featured in last year’s South Australian Business Index program. The lunches generated plenty of discussion across the various themes, providing additional content and coverage for our sponsors.

This year’s 40 Under 40 awards program launched in March, highlighting the innovation, commitment and diversity of the State’s young leaders. More young South Australian businesspeople have put their hands up than ever before, despite a shorter nomination period than last year. More than 600 referrals and 200 completed applications have been received in this – its fourth year. A panel representing the South Australian business community is in the process of judging the nominees against the selection criteria, with the winners to be announced at a gala dinner on Thursday June 10 at the Adelaide Convention Centre and featured in the June edition of CityMag. Tickets are on sale now! 

Agreements signed with Google and Facebook

As a political battle raged between Google, Facebook and the Federal Government over its mandatory bargaining code designed to force the tech giants to ‘pay for news’, Google launched its News Showcase product in Australia. It features news content from a range of Australian publishers, including InDaily and our sister sites InQueensland and The New Daily. Designed to bring value to both publishers and readers by providing a licensing program that pays publishers to curate content for story panels across Google services, it also gives readers more insights into the stories that matter. This initiative offers an opportunity for us to continue growing our audience for important local content while providing us with access to new markets and additional commercial benefits.

Not to be outdone, following the passing of the Mandatory News Media Bargaining Code in Federal Parliament we signed a letter of intent with Facebook to pay for its public interest journalism. We were one of the first independent news publishers the only South Australian-owned news publisher to sign an agreement with Facebook.

Solstice digital now even easier to buy

You can now plan and buy campaigns across the Solstice Media network using Adslot and VizTrade, platforms designed to deliver greater workflow efficiency and effectiveness to the digital media market, making it even easier to book digital campaigns with us.

You can of course contact our friendly advertising team direct or on 08 8224 1600 or by emailing [email protected].

A new home for the arts in SA

Beginning in February 2021, South Australia will have a new home for arts journalism, with the launch of Solstice Media’s InReview.

InReview will be a new site under the banner of InDaily devoted to arts reviews, news, features and commentary, written by South Australia’s most experienced and credible arts journalists and critics. New content will be published daily, with a free weekly newsletter distributed to our database of subscribers. InReview content will also appear in our print products, CityMag and SALIFE.

With South Australia’s arts calendar growing and getting more exciting each year, we believe it deserves the best, most comprehensive and credible coverage. InReview will provide that, filling a growing void in SA journalism.

InDaily

InDaily has reinforced its position in Nielsen’s Digital Content Ratings, now consistently ranked at #24 nationally in the Current Events & Global news category, averaging a monthly Unique Audience of 552,000 for the July-September quarter.

Solstice Media has signed up for Symphony and Adslot Media, platforms designed to deliver greater workflow efficiency and effectiveness to the digital media market, making it even easier to book digital campaigns with us.

CityMag

October saw the return of the much-missed print version of CityMag, with an upbeat ‘green shoots’ edition, featuring the businesses and consumers who kept the city’s metabolism moving throughout our recent COVID-induced hibernation. It also celebrated this year’s 40 Under 40 finalists and winners, profiling the emerging leaders of SA’s business community and highlighting their new ideas and energy.

CityMag’s 2021 Festivals Edition will help you navigate the breadth of local talent – in comedy, theatre, music, visual art and more – and how to use this time of year to support Adelaide’s most under-rated arts venues and organisations. We’ll also have previews of the major shows travelling into Adelaide from further afield, with interviews offering insight into the minds of creators and will hit the streets on February 18.

SALIFE

With themed titles running throughout the year, SALIFE further cemented itself as the leading go to publication for parochial South Australians who love where they live and are engaged in their local communities.

SALIFE launched a new Premium Property platform, reaching a broad, qualified audience looking for quality properties, investments and new developments. The site features detailed property listings, a digital newsletter and expert social media amplification, giving advertisers the opportunity to promote their listings across the InDaily and SALIFE audience.

Complementing our increasingly popular prestige property coverage across our print and digital products, Premium Property connects vendors, agents and the reader to the best properties on the market, while also bringing to life relevant real estate stories. 

SALIFE also launched a new-look Weddings Gallery providing a more engaging reader experience.

Lockdowns shifted many readers focus to their garden, popularity of gardening this year saw the SALIFE Gardens and Outdoor Living Magazine fly off the shelves across nurseries statewide. Printed seasonally this title has been inspiring gardeners for over 10 years.

Covid threw the SALIFE Food and Wine title into a spin earlier in the year. The decision was made to move the launch date from April to November resulting in one of the largest publications we have released. With such a captured focus on intrastate travel SALIFE Food and Wine has proven to be incredibly popular.

SALIFE Homes and Interiors launched at the HIA Gala awards dinner November 7 to over 1000 guests. Showcasing the very best in interior design and residential home in South Australia this magazine contains the most valuable information every renovator, decorator or new builder is seeking.

Events

It’s been a busy period for our events program, honouring SA’s top businesspeople at InDaily’s annual 40 Under 40 Awards, highlighting the innovation, commitment and diversity of the State’s young leaders. We also counted down SA’s top 100 companies in InDaily’s South Australian Business Index program, providing detailed insight and analysis of the local economy.

The ‘Parafield Cluster’ caused the delay of our annual Regional Showcase event, celebrating the achievements of individuals, groups and SA businesses that have made significant contributions to regional SA. The Regional Showcase event is now scheduled for February 26.

Welcome to the team – Annabel

And finally – please welcome our newest team member, Annabel Borchardt.

She has been appointed to head up our events program and comes to the role after three years as trade and events manager in the London Office of the Agent General of SA. 

In the UK, she supported the Agent General’s work to promote SA businesses and identify opportunities in the UK and the EU for those companies. She ran the office’s events, including the South Australian Club – a unique venture aimed at connecting people and businesses interested in what the state has to offer. Prior to this, she worked for Brand SA and consulting firm Ernst & Young managing the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year program.