Mumbrellacast

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