Mumbrellacast

Ten ViacomCBS presents its Upfronts for 2022, the third of the FTA networks to do so. (02:46) The team discusses the talent crisis facing the industry, how long it was in the making, and if there is a way out. (18:24) Finally, an interview with Ten ViacomCBS co-leads, chief content officer and executive vice president Beverly McGarvey and chief sales officer, Rod Prosser to discuss the upfronts, investment plans and more. (29:55)

On this week's Mumbrellacast, Tim Burrowes, Calum Jaspan and Emma Shepherd join host, Damian Francis to talk about this week's news. On Tuesday, Seven became the second free-to-air network to present its 2022 Upfront, with around 5,000 people tuning in to see CEO James Warburton and other group executives plus a range of on-screen talent reveal the year ahead. Nunn Media also revealed this week a deal to acquire digital performance agency Alley, in a move that founder and managing director Matt Nunn says gives the agency "full-service media integration", and capabilities no other indie media agencies have in the market. Finally, an interview with Ryancap majority shareholder and founder, Simon Ryan.

The sixth GfK metro radio survey of the year dropped this morning, with lockdowns again proving beneficial for AM radio. The team breaks down the full survey, as well as sharing some insights from Nine Radio's Greg Byrnes and ARN's Duncan Campbell. In a feature published this morning, Mumbrella's Calum Jaspan explored the topic of brands increasingly producing purpose driven marketing space. Are we about to see this trend increasing beyond just safer topics such as vaccines? Advertising spend is continuing to rise beyond pre-pandemic levels as the Standard Media Index described this month’s reporting figures as “extraordinary”.The team discus whether the momentum can be maintained? Finally, director of content Damian Francis talks to Resonance founders Ralph Van Dijk and Ramesh Sathiah about the process that delivered Mumbrella's new sonic identity, as revealed earlier this week.

This week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) report into ad tech highlighted concerns and likely harms to publishers, advertisers and consumers, as a result of Google's overwhelming dominance in the space. Another new business popped up this week, with local holding company, Ryancap launching its latest business, Tightrope, collaborating with old Konrad Spilva's Shadowboxer. TikTok also went live with its first TikTok World, a showcase of products it hopes to push brands and marketers towards, in order to get value from its vast and growing audience. Lastly, Mumbrella's Olivia Kruimel speaks to ANZ's senior manager, customer centricity and capability, Kate Young about the financial institutions marketing function transformation, why scaling personalisation has developed into a central mission for the bank, and how ANZ is future-proofing marketing staff into becoming top marketers.

Over the weekend there was the announcement of two new female CEOs in the advertising world, with Sheryl Marjoram returning to Australia from McCann London to join DDB Sydney and with Kirsty Muddle also stepping into the CEO role at Cummins & Partners. Earlier this week, Deloitte published its tenth edition of the Media Consumer Survey, while in a Year13 study, 32% of Gen Z respondents said they spend one-to-two hours on a streaming service daily. With Foxtel's new Flash service, the team discussed the state of streaming in Australia off the back of these reports, and what Foxtel is planning with its new service. Joan Warner, Commercial Radio Australia’s long serving CEO will step down at the end of March next year. So what does this mean for CRA? And who is likely to step into the role in 2022? Plus, Calum Jaspan interviews Nine’s chief sales officer, Michael Stephenson and head of content, production and development, Adrian Swift following last week's Upfront.

Squarespace's David Lee has turned the tech start-up's creative team into one of the world's most renowned in-house units in the world since he joined from TBWA Worldwide in 2013 as chief creative officer. Yet when speaking on the Mumbrellacast, he says that he doesn't believe in-housing creative is the path most brands should be taking. Later in the conversation, Lee also speaks about his observations from judging at this year's Cannes Lions, the stress of creating a Super Bowl ad, a shifting focus to international marketing and how the product inspires the creative for Squarespace's work.

This week Nine Entertainment Co hosted its virtual Upfront for 2022, and in doing so presented its content slate for the year ahead. Paired with its entertainment offering, there was major focus on technology - particularly Nine Galaxy moving to a CPM model, and a new deal will see Nine's Audience match integrated with Salesforce in early 2022, allowing clients to match and activate customer data to Nine's 14 million signed-in users. The week also began with the news that Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) and GfK will be changing its radio ratings system. The move will see a shift away from a sole reliance on paper diaries towards a new hybrid methodology, Radio360, which combine a mix of listeners wearing an electronic watch meter, e-diaries and live streaming data. Plus, Zanda Wilson chats to Jemma Enright, general manager of City of Sydney at QMS about dealing with the COVID-enforced delays to the rollout of the new City of Sydney infrastructure, the highly digitised nature of the new offering for advert

Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) announced this week that it will adopt a new, hybrid methodology when it comes to measuring radio audiences, with a reliance on paper diaries finally coming to an end. CRA has worked with ratings data provider GfK on a new Radio360 system, which will include a mix of listeners wearing an electronic watch meter, as well as e-diaries, with paper diaries to be slowly phased out. Live streaming data will also be integrated into the multimillion-dollar system from 2022. In this special episode of the Mumbrellacast, CRA chief executive officer, Joan Warner, and GfK ANZ managing director, Dr Morten Boyer, join Mumbrella's Zanda Wilson to break down the changes in greater detail, and discuss the implications of the changes to both media owners and media agencies moving forward.

This week the High Court of Australia ruled media outlets that run Facebook pages are the “publishers” of third-party comments on the platform, dismissing the second round of appeals from the publishers. So where does this leave the defamation case brought against News Corp and Fairfax (now Nine). Former Clemenger BBDO CEO, Nick Garret, has joined Deloitte Digital, teaming up with Matt Lawson and Adrian Mills as the third partner in Deloitte Creative. Today is R U OK? Day - a harm prevention initiative founded by adman Gavin Larkin in 2009, which encourages people to stay connected and have conversations that can help others through difficult times in their lives. Plus, Zanda Wilson chats with Initiative CEO Melissa Fein and national managing director Sam Geer, about the ongoing talent drain facing the marketing industry.

The fifth GfK radio ratings survey dropped this week, delivering a significant boost for AM radio stations, particularly those in locked down cities where listener appetite for news has increased. But things might not be quite that simple. Virgin Australia was the latest airline to tap into a vaccine push in its new brand campaign, unveiled this week. So how does the campaign compare to last week's Qantas campaign, and we look at other new vaccine-based campaigns out now from Telstra and Woolworths. Plus, Calum Jaspan speaks with Havas Group Australia’s Virginia Hyland, Simone Gupta and Laura Aldington, about how the industry shapes up when it comes to diversity and inclusion, and creating better pathways and environments for those entering the industry.

The team breaks down Mike Sneesby's first financial year investor call and questions whether he is still enjoying confidence off the back of his good work as the boss of Stan, as well as why Nine's share prices fell immediately after the call. Ooh Media also revealed financial results this week, with Cathy O'Connor unveiling half-year results for the outdoor company that saw a 23% increase in revenue to $251.6 million. Those results were in line with the wider industry, so what does the back end of the year look like for Ooh Media, and who is going to take a bet on buying Junkee? Qantas has launched a new campaign despite still not having commercial international flights and while much of the east coast of Australia is in lockdown. The team dives into what Qantas and agency Brand+Story did well with this one. Plus, Zanda Wilson chats with Innocean chief executive officer Jasmin Bedir about some new account wins for the Korean agency including Korea Tourism and Supercars.

After taking home Creative, Full Service and PR Agency of the Year at the 2021 Mumbrella Awards, Thinkerbell co-founder Adam Ferrier and CEO Margie Reid spoke to Mumbrella's Calum Jaspan about being independent, the logic behind the full-service model, the "friends with benefits" relationship with PwC and more.

It's a financial reporting special this week on the Mumbrellacast. We break down results from media companies Seven West Media, Southern Cross Austereo, and Here There & Everywhere, as well as holding company Enero Group. This week Optus introduced a new content subscription and membership hub for customers, Optus SubHub. SubHub will complement the recently announced Optus Living Network, and The team discusses whether consumers will bite on SubHub and how much difference it will make for the average Australian household. Plus, Zanda Wilson chats with Meat and Livestock Australia's general manager, marketing and insights, Nathan Low.

Howatson + White co-founder Ant White is set to depart the agency he formed with Chris Howatson just six months after it launched. The team discusses what the implications of White's departure might be for the agency, including what it could mean for key clients. Are Media released its financial report for 2020 this week, showing that advertising revenue has declined but that revenue itself was up $35 million in total to reach $236 million. So how did the publisher manage to grow its revenue despite falling ad spend? This week, industry leaders came together to launch 'The Factsination', a platform designed to debunk myths surrounding the AstraZeneca vaccine and encourage Australians to get the jab. Special guest Dan Monheit of HardHat joins the Mumbrellacast to chat about the ins and outs of the platform, and what he hopes it will achieve. Plus, OzTam chief executive officer Doug Peiffer joins Zanda Wilson to chat about the recent launch of the Virtual Oz (VOZ) television measurement system.

ViacomCBS will launch its new streaming service Paramount+, this week on August 11. The platform will replace the existing 10 All Access, and represents a more serious attempt to compete with global and local entertainment streaming services than its predecessor. The company is led at a local level by chief content officer and executive vice president Beverley McGarvey, and chief operating and commercial officer and executive vice president. Jarrod Villani, who join a special episode of the Mumbrellacast this week. ViacomCBS has already promised a “guaranteed pipeline” of content from overseas, and there have already been local originals announced, and in October, Paramount+ subscribers will get to watch all matches of the A-League and W-League, as well as international matches. McGarvey and Villani dive into the ins and outs of the launch, how they'll measure success, and the points of differentiation for Paramount+ in an already-congested market.

Havas Media Group chair and founding CEO Mike Wilson will stand down at the end of the month. The team discusses what his departure means for the agency group, and whether it will impact future integration for Havas with its parent company, French entertainment giant, Vivendi. Weber Shandwick and Jack Morton Australia confirmed to Mumbrella this week that group managing director Helen Graney bought a majority stake in both agencies earlier this year. So why did the deal go under the radar, and what conclusions can we draw from this and other agency sell-offs by IPG both in Australia and across the Asia Pacific region? Google and Facebook have each unveiled new initiatives to support Australian news journalism. Google will team up with News Corp to create the Digital News Academy, which they say will provide digital skills training and new opportunities for young journalists. Meanwhile, Facebook launched its $15 million news fund and the expansion of its Facebook News product to Australia. The team wonders

Ryan Jon is a jack of all trades when it comes to content. While his day job is hosting mornings on KIIS 101.1 Melbourne, he's also a podcast host and producer, digital content creator, social media marketer, influencer and more. Joining the Mumbrellacast, Jon speaks about his current gig at KIIS in Melbourne and new brekky host Lauren Phillips, as well as his time on breakfast radio in Perth and the journey from regional radio to finally hitting the big time in a metro market. Since departing full-time radio, and before he got his current job, Ryan leaned hard into content creation and growing his sizable social following, and he chats about the benefits and burdens of leaving behind a full-time salary to become a freelancer. Join explains what brands do wrong when looking for an influencer to work with, and on the other side, why influencers shouldn't say 'yes' to every brand who gets in contact.

WPP has confirmed that OMD Australia CEO, Aimee Buchanan, will be taking on the role of GroupM CEO, after the role was vacated by Mark Lollback. The team dives into what the move means for both Omnicom Group and WPP AUNZ, as well as what OMG’s options are to replace Buchanan after her successful run as chief executive. The supermarket wars are heating up again, as Woolworths and Coles take their tussle to more environmentally friendly battlegrounds. Both companies released new brand campaigns over the past week, each with a strong sustainability focus. So which one is winning the battle, and have shoppers noticed the quick transition from plastic toys to long-term sustainability? Week one of the Seven Network’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics coverage has come to an end, and so far the event has been a huge ratings success. There have been teething issues and complaints on social media about the coverage and the 7Plus app, but are these born out of simply being spoilt for choice at these games? Plus, Calum Jaspan chat

New Zealand-hailing Hamish McKenzie co-founded Substack with the goal of helping journalists get paid for writing newsletters. McKenzie worked as a journalist in New Zealand, Hong Kong and the US, and is now based in LA. McKenzie - who has also worked for Tesla, and is the author of ‘Insane Mode’ about the arrival of the battery revolution - joins Mumbrella’s Tim Burrowes to chat about his departure from journalism and eventually creating Substack. Substack is only 4 years old, but is already being talked about in the same way that journalists were talking about WordPress 15 years ago. Its valuation is already close to a billion Aussie dollars. McKenzie goes deeper on the Substack model, and why the platform doesn’t support advertising, something its founders have “no intention” of bringing in. He also speaks about Substack Pro, the company’s international ambitions, and what happens if the founders sell out.

Australian television legend David John Leckie died this week at aged 70, with his family revealing the former Seven West Media (SWM) passed away after suffering a long illness. Leckie is widely credited with turning around Seven’s fortunes in the 2000s. Before joining Seven, Leckie led rival network Nine from 1990 to 2001. So what will his legacy be for television, and the media industry more widely? PwC has released the 20th edition latest Australian Entertainment and Media Outlook, looking back on how internet advertising, the gaming industry, as well as print and television, among others, fared in 2020. The team go behind the numbers, looking at the winners and losers, and asking whether the report is as impactful and effective as it was in the past. In the week coinciding with the Tokyo Olympics kicking off, Seven certainly didn't need the bad publicity that came from one of its reported Big Brother VIP housemates, far-right commentator Katie Hopkins, being deported from the country for failing to adhe