Welcome to the final Start the Week podcast of 2022, in which Tim Burrowes and Abe Udy look back on the ten biggest stories of the year.

Brand PR crises of 2022:

* Unmade: Has Qantas got a brand crisis or just a PR problem?

* Unmade: Optus writes a new chapter in the crisis handbook

The big marketer moves:

* Unmade: Biggest CMO move of the year - Thinking Smart

* Unmade: Lisa Ronson departs one of the biggest CMO roles, but how to mark her Coles scorecard?

* Unmade: Marketers on the move - Melissa Hopkins to SWM

The AFL TV rights renewal:

* Unmade: Why Seven and Foxtel are willing to pay $40,000 per minute for the AFL deal

The Market Herald saga:

* Unmade: The Unmade podcast: Jag Sanger of The Market Herald on buying Gumtree and Carsguide, and launching a newspaper

* Unmade: Inside the The Market Herald's civil war

The ABC’s audio audience decline:

* Unmade: Is the ABC's next generation of radio listeners coming through? Not according to the ratings

* Unmade: Triple J's youth audience has fled. And no, it's (mostly) not the internet's fault - they've switched to commercial radio

* Unmade: Australia's most influential radio show has never had fewer listeners. The ABC's audience problem is getting worse

* Unmade: The collapse of Patricia Karvelas’ RN audience

Musk’s Twitter purchase:

* Unmade: Why Elon Musk's Twitter takeover will probably fail

* Unmade: Rich, talented arseholes

* Unmade: Elon’s Twitter bloodbath begins

* Unmade: Musk's 'thermonuclear' threat to advertisers

The legal year:

* Unmade: Media's season in court: How The Teacher's Pet changed Australia's podcast landscape

The year of audio:

* Unmade: What we learned from Listnr

* Unmade: The economics of podcasting

* Unmade: Mamamia takes on the podcast giants

Netflix moves in to advertising:

* Unmade: The Netflix U-turn

The year in Unmade:

* Unmade: Two awards, a fraud, and an unwelcome exit: the messy trajectory of Unmade’s startup phase

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Welcome to the Start the Week podcast, looking at the agenda for the week ahead. Today:

* Ten closes on cricket rights

* Another chaotic weekend inside the brain of Elon Musk

* Paul Barry set for Media Watch record

Today’s episode feature Tim Burrowes and Abe Udy

Further reading:

* Australian Financial Review: Ten vows to ‘restore cricket to former prominence’ after $200m+ bid

* The Australian: Cricket chiefs face final pitches for broadcast rights

* The Australian: Paul Barry signs on to top Media Watch record

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Welcome to the Start the Week podcast. Today:

* Anti-siphoning lobbying goes into overdrive

* Will TikTok and YouTube be pulled into the News Media Bargaining Code?

* What the Balenciaga scandal says about fashion mags

* Musk’s feeble “Twitter Files”

* The war at The Market Herald

Today’s episode feature Tim Burrowes and Abe Udy

Further reading:

* Sydney Morning Herald: TikTok, YouTube could be targeted under Australia’s media code

* Australian Financial Review: Seven, Nine, Ten fight to keep sport on free to air TV

* The Australian: ‘Outdated, anti-competitive’: TV’s anti-siphoning laws face overhaul

* New Daily: Balenciaga’s reputation in tatters after ‘creepy’ photo shoot

* New Daily: What Balenciaga’s BDSM controversy tells us about high fashion’s dire problems

* Wired: The Twitter Files Revealed One Thing: Elon Musk Is Trapped

* Unmade: How the ASX’s fastest growing media company imploded

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Welcome to the Start the Week podcast, recorded first thing on Monday, looking at the agenda for the week ahead. Today:

* Winners and losers of the TV ratings year

* All change at A Current Affair and Today

* Mick Molloy’s return to Triple M

Further reading:

* Australian Financial Review: TV ratings spark fighting and soul-searching among executives

* The Australian: Seven casts a wide sports net

* Mumbrella: OzTam ratings 2022: Seven retains total audience crown, while Nine keeps key demos

* Unmade: In praise of The Project - why teatime telly still matters to the networks

* The Australian: Intrigue grows over how Ten plans to redeploy Lisa Wilkinson

* Unmade: Can Molloy win over Sydneysiders from 700km away?

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Today’s edition features highlights from last week’s live event in Melbourne where our panel discussed the year just gone, and the outlook for marketing in 2023.

Last Tuesday saw Unmade’s first live event in Melbourne, with 70 or so guests joining us at the Grace Darling in Collingwood for on on stage debate about the industry’s direction of travel.

The panel featured Nick Garrett, partner at Deloitte Creative; Naomi Johnston, GM of Havas Media; Richard Curtis, owner of Futurebrand Australia and Andrea Dixon, head of marketing at DocuSign.

Among the questions the panel raced through were: the work and people that impressed them in the year just gone; what the word ‘brand’ now means; the state of talent and recruitment, the economic headwinds that seem set for 2023; and reasons for optimism.

The event was sponsored by Beatgrid.

Even more thanks than usual for the podcast edit go to Abe’s Audio, who salvaged our low-fi backup recording into something useable.

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Welcome to the Start the Week podcast looking at the agenda for the week ahead. Today:

* Lisa Wilkinson leaves The Project

* Chris Dore leaves The Australian

* Peter Fray takes a break from Crikey

* Elon Musk gives up on brand safety, and reinstates Twitter’s most toxic - Jordan Peterson, Donald Trump, Kanye West and Andrew Tate

* How the sausage is made in newspaper readership data

Further reading:

* Sydney Morning Herald: Top News Corp editor departed after lewd comments towards woman

* Sydney Morning Herald: Crikey editor-in-chief on indefinite leave after journalism awards incident

* Unmade: #RIPTwitter?

* Bloomberg: Twitter’s Survival as a Subscription Service Depends on Apple and Google

* The Australian: Readership: The Australian stays well ahead of rival in latest Roy Morgan research

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In today's episode of The Unmakers, Unmade’s Tim Burrowes talk to Jamie Harding, founder and CEO of streaming platform Theatrix.

Theatrix targets arts-loving consumers who want to recapture the experience of attending the theatre, at home.

Still at an early stage, the platform has launched and begun to sign up subscribers at a fee of $8 per month.

The content offered by Theatrix is filmed arts performances including theatre and dance.

In the interview, Harding talks about how Theatrix was conceived, and the challenges of launching a streaming platform at the height of Covid. Theatrix is currently undergoing an investment round aimed at widening its reach.

Today's episode of The Unmakers was edited by Abe's Audio. If you're an unmaker with a story to tell about how you're changing the media and marketing world, we’d love to hear from you on [email protected].

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Welcome to the Start the Week podcast, looking at the agenda for the week ahead.

Today:

* Cricket, Olympics and tennis rights play out

* Who won the TV ratings week

* Why 2GB moved on from Jim Wilson;

* Kyle & Jackie O’s unusual ratings jump

* Communications minister on the stalled media regulations

* Did the news media bargaining code work?

* More chaos at Twitter

Further reading:

* The Australian: Cricket Australia eyeing off a pre-Christmas broadcast rights deal

* Sydney Morning Herald: Olympic bosses fly in to negotiate Games broadcast deal

* Nine / OzTam: Weekly TV ratings wrap

* Unmade: The mystery of Kyle & Jackie O

* Australian Financial Review: Media giants flush with Facebook-Google money like the new normal

* SMH: ‘Stuck in a rut’: Diversity rules to be overhauled in major media reform

* SMH: Meta Australia braces for impact of global job cuts

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If you’re in Melbourne, don’t forget to take a look at out Marketing in 2023 event, which is next week.

I’ll be back tomorrow with Tuesdata for our paying members.

Have a great day.

Toodlepip…

Tim Burrowes

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Welcome to the Start the Week podcast, recorded first thing on Monday, looking at the agenda for the week ahead.

Today:

* Twitter lays off half its staff, including most of the Australian team

* Musk threatens ‘thermonuclear’ retaliation against marketers who cancel advertising;

* Nine closes in on tennis rights extension as cricket bidding opens

* The ABC prepares for radical management restructure

Today’s episode features Tim Burrowes and Abe Udy. As always, we’d love to hear what you think at [email protected]

Further reading:

* Australian Financial Review: Nine on verge of new Australian Open deal, as Cricket accepts bids

* Sydney Morning Herald: ABC boss David Anderson to restructure organisation, shift to BBC model

* Marketing Week: Mark Ritson - Five lessons on how not to do pricing from Elon Musk’s Twitter

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Welcome to an audio-led edition of Unmade.

Today’s interview features Ooh Media boss Cathy O’Connor reflecting on her first two years with the company, while further down we have the details of a red day on the Unmade Index.

In today’s Unmade interview, I chat to Cathy O’Connor as she approaches the two year mark with Ooh Media.

We cover a lot of ground, beginning with her reminding me that when she took the job I’d (wrongly) suggested she might find it boring, after the excitement of running Lachlan Murdoch’s radio company Nova Entertainment.

We discuss Ooh’s pledge to make public spaces better in the wake of the backlash to QMS’s City of Sydney rollout; the adjustment from running a private business to an ASX-listed company; why she’s the only female CEO of a big media company; her decision to sell Junkee; and her agenda for the Outdoor Media Association after boss Charmaine Moldrich departs next year.

We also cover off the announcements from last week’s Ooh Outfront event - including the push into retail media through ReOoh, a tie up with Tennis Australia; measuring creative effectiveness in outdoor, and buying out of home advertising programatically.

We also cover what O’Connor did not know when she took the job, and what she’d like to change about the industry. It’s a packed 36 minutes.

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Tim Burrowes

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