Since making the move back from London this year, Sophie consults for SKMG, but outside of work she’s a reader, a re-reader (Fran Lebowitz forever) and someone unafraid of the occasional YouTube spiral - even if she’s reluctant to tell us which one. She has the kind of relationship with newspapers that borders on religious devotion and the kind of coffee schedule that would excite the dullest of baristas.

By day, he’s a designer at Entropico. By night (and often very late night), he’s a K-drama aficionado, anime loyalist and chess.com struggler still chasing an ELO worth bragging about. He’s the kind of friend who will send you a link to some esoteric research zine, a Qendresa track that will stay in your head for weeks, and a TikTok reel that’s either a stroke of genius or a complete algorithmic cock up. Often both.

If there’s a cultural moment happening, odds are Jeeven Singh is all over it. He’s the type of friend you see tagged in last night’s gig photos, this morning’s exhibition opening and somehow at a cafe meeting before you’ve finished your Coco Pops. A brand strategist guy – most recently Ksubi and Depop before that – Jeeves has a sixth sense for where the cool stuff lives and how it works.

If our COMMPRESS MediaDiets were an Olympic sport, then Kate O’Loughlin is now officially the poster child for them. She consumes content with all the grace of someone shotgunning a Red Bull before their yoga class, bouncing from TikTok brainrot to existential news podcasts to fantasy smut audiobooks all before you can make it out of bed.

He’s not your average ideas guy. Jerome Williams is a Melbourne-based ex-agency art director turned born-again dyslexic, freelance writer (his words, not ours) and one who treats media like a topographical map: something to be traversed, questioned and occasionally fished from.

As the very talented Media Editor at Mediaweek, Tash Lee is someone who the SKMG team works with on a regular basis. So, while we (in part) know her, we thought this COMMPRESS: MediaDiet would give our dear readers a chance to as well.

Best known as the drummer keeping time for Australia’s finest (right now: Royel Otis, currently mid-world tour), Tim Commandeur is also the solo artist behind Channings, a music producer for brands and agencies and a pottery enthusiast on the side, because, of course, he is.

SKMG’s newest Group Account Director, Tess O’Brien, has spent the past decade-plus telling stories about the built world from New York to London and has now brought her property and built environment expertise home with a client roster that reads like the architectural digest of your dreams.

A cyclist. A French student.

A man grieving Richard Glover’s radio slot.

HR superstar (and occasional SKMG Head of P&C) Brendon McKeon takes us through a week of screen time, streaming services, and secondhand bike browsing for our seventeenth issue of COMMPRESS: MediaDiet.

Aleks Trkulja is a certified Sex, Relationships, and Body Image Therapist from Sydney who loves to yap, write, and overshare – exactly the kind of qualities that make for a top-tier COMMPRESS: MediaDiet.

Senior Account Director at Entropico and unofficial commissioner of the Smooth Brain Afternoon Club, David Bostelman builds campaigns for Google by day, runs 10Ks by dawn, and ends his nights at The Darlo ordering Reschs with seasoned precision.

In case you haven’t heard of her, Ella Yarnton is a freelance creative producer who’s worked for the likes of Nike, Estée Lauder and Amazon Music. She’s a food whisperer, lowkey radio star, and the founder of Gather Berlin, a dinner series turning meals into cultural diplomacy.

Richard Akingbehin is a British-Nigerian artist, curator and DJ living in Berlin. He goes by the DJ name Richard Akingbehin because he needs no other name. He kind enough to take time out of his day as the co-founder of Berlin radio station - and community hotspot – Refuge Worldwide to chat to us for our 13th issue!

We chat to Amy Anderson, the General Manager of online and physical fashion powerhouse Above the Clouds.

She’s also a self-proclaimed reading format purist, something we will let you figure out the meaning of as you read on below.

Let’s face it: there’s clearly enough US election coverage out there, so what better time to binge it than during the countdown week? We put that challenge to our own GM, Sam Somers, a person from a completely different country who has a somewhat uncomfortable and inexplicably vested interest in the political rollercoaster that is American democracy.

For our 10th issue, SKMG’s co-founder and partner, Andrew Knowles, has finally let the cat out of the bag and completed his own COMMPRESS: MediaDiet with all the gusto of a man with a point to prove… That he loves niche content almost as much as he loves K-pop. And that he digests a lot of both on a daily basis.

Sometimes you come across people who just really (like really) have their act together. You know the types; those who can squeeze in a book they don’t even know if they like next to a yoga class followed by a gossip podcast, all while they’re TikTok-ing, Strava-ing, news-reading, liking, commenting, texting back and even visiting hardcore shows.

It’s exhaustingly admirable. It’s very Nell Barabas.

Scott Purcell is the Co-Founder of Australia’s largest men’s lifestyle site, Man of Many, a CFA Charter holder, an ex-senior financial analyst and a guy who has an almost unhealthy obsession with YouTube, self-help podcasts and seemingly any piece of media with the word “business” in its title.

Forbes Australia’s Editor-In-Chief, Sarah O’Carroll, puts us all to shame. Today we give you a glimpse into the media habits of a digital consumption machine, an Irish-born superstar who somehow finds the time to both take in and deliver business and financial news, every single day.

Much like Paul Newman, SKMG has it’s own brand of secret sauce, in the form of one Sam Hillman, who oft sits behind the scenes (from New York) furiously scribbling the best quips, remarks and all manner of pleasant paragraphs that our dear readers of COMMPRESS have come to know and love.