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Kyle Sandilands Live - Subscriber estimates

 Been trying to figure out how many subscribers the new Kyle Sandilands show has. There are estimates out there saying there are 55,000 subscribers which I think are overblown. Kyle himself has said revenues of around 2 million based on subscribers, but he is a known exaggerator so is probably gilding the lily a bit. So lets analyse. One of the most common metrics to an estimate is instagram followers. The show currently has 101 K followers of Instagram. Research seems to indicate that around 2-5% of these followers are likely to be subscribers, so based on this metric, we are looking at 5055 subscribers, and revenues of $505K. Seems a bit unders. The other metic is downloads of the app. Currently, according to Sensortower, there are less than 5K download of the app on android and around 9K downloads of the app from App. If we assume 100% of app downloaders are subscribers, we are looking at 14 K subscribers, or revenues of $1.4M. Getting closer. I think the real answer is probably...
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Rise of One Nation - Bondi Shooting has turbo charged the support

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 Been looking at the NewsPolls to try and uncover what has led to the rise of One Nation support. Here is the graph As you can see, biggest surge in support was during December last year. Bondi shooting was on the 14th of December 2025. Do the math. This support is not going to vanish anytime soon.
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The Decline of the Kyle and Jackie O show in Sydney

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 Kyle has always claimed he was the most successful broadcaster in Australia which made him think he was untouchable. That might have been the case when he was on the up, but for the last 2 years, his ratings, even in the Sydney fortress, have been on the decline Has been losing almost 8500 listeners every survey since 2023. Maybe young people dont wont to listen to two 50+ crusties talking about sex, drugs and woowoo anymore.
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ARN Media's case against Kyle Sandilands

 ARN Media finally cancelled the Service Agreement with Kyle Sandilands. Why are they able to do this you ask? Bullying. Under Australian Law, even contractors must adhere to Company OH&S policies that generally cover bullying. Without seeing Kyle's Service Agreement, you can pretty much guarantee that there would be a clause in there that states as much and that a breach of that clause would constitute severe misconduct which would be grounds for termination of the agreement. So ARN Media must have concluded that the events of Feb 20 were in fact bullying and a breach of policy. That would explain the direction for Kyle not to contact Jackie O (which is standard in bullying allegations) The fact that Kyle claims that this behaviour was normal is beside the point. Bullying is not about intention. Its about whether a reasonable person would feel bullied by the behaviour. Its also different in that this time, Jackie is believed to have made a formal complaint, which she did not d...
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Atlassian Job costs - Less about AI and more about Revenue per Employee metric

 Atlassian has announced employee cuts to the tune of 1600 people. But is it about AI, or more about fixing bad management. In the last 3 years, the FE's have increased by 3113 workers, from 10,726 to the current level of 13813.  Atlassian now has a Revenue per Employee metric of $356953. Compare this to say other SaaS platforms like ServiceNow ($441,395) or Salesforce (472,652) and Atlassian is looking a bit employee fat. The cuts will bring back numbers to 2024 levele and make this important metric more reasonable compared to its peers (if it can keep subscription revenue growing) So once again, the specter of AI is really just a fig leaf to improve past mistakes of over hiring.
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Australian IT Managed Services Companies by Revenue (2023-2024)

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 Time to update the companies again (Revenue figures in AUD $ from the ATO) The major takeaways - IBM Revenue continues to fall off a cliff. Hard to believe that 10 years ago, they had revenues of over $4 billion a year - Accenture now the leading IT Service Provider in Australia - Fujitsu has improved
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Why ARN Media Need to get rid of the Kyle and Jackie O show

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