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Volatility in the radio ratings; Our retail media program revealed

Tim Burrowes
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Cat McGinn
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Seja Al Zaidi
Aug 29, 2023
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Welcome to a midweek update from Unmade.

Below, we explore some unusual gyrations in yesterday’s radio ratings, and even further down, Seven’s share price hits another three-year low on the Unmade Index.

Unmade: media and marketing news is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

Reduced price earlybird tickets expire for our retail media conference REmade tonight. See the program and book tickets on the REmade website.


Full program for REmade announced

Cat McGinn, curator of REmade - Retail Media Unmade writes:

We can today announce the detailed program for the next edition of Unmade’s retail media conference REmade, which takes place in Sydney on October 11.

The program has been developed to offer insight and relevance to all marketers, no matter whether they are in the early stages of retail media transformation, or seeking to optimise their capabilities. The agenda also aims to broaden the scope of understanding of retail media networks, beyond the grocery category.

The lineup features industry-leading speakers who have been at the forefront of retail media innovation. They'll delve into its potential, sharing success stories, the obstacles and challenges overcome in building a successful retail media network, best practices, and forecasting trends. 

Our first REmade event brought the retail media community together. As speakers said, a rising tide lifts all boats. It’s an incredible opportunity to network, exchange ideas, and discover collaborative possibilities.

And we are also offering a reduced price via our earlybird tickets, which expires at the end of today.

Our program:

Amplifying the retail media opportunity 

Newly formed premium retail media business David Jones Amplify and retail
media experts Sonder will discuss the journey they took to value, build and operationalise a retail media business from scratch. They will address the opportunities they uncovered, the challenges they faced and the solutions they found that worked best.

​The panellists include: 

  • Angus Frazer, Founding Partner, Sonder

  • Melissa Polglase, Head of Category and Retail Media, David Jones Amplify

  • Liz Ormando, Buying Manager, David Jones Amplify

Levelling up: lessons and learnings two years into omnichannel  

Two years into the retail media adoption curve, learn how The Warehouse Group is optimising its retail media network to deliver a true omnichannel experience through partnerships, evolving practices around measurement and standardisation, and dialling up the impact of the connected network on and offline.

  • Bel Harper,  Executive Group Director - Product Strategy at oOh!

  • Phil Bonanno,  Client Partner - Meta

  • Troy Townsend, CEO, Zitcha

  • Alex Lawson, Head of Market Media, The Warehouse Group

How marketplaces are changing the game through network effects

The Europe-based Colin Lewis will return to the event to discuss how marketplaces are booming globally to become one of the most significant parts of global eCommerce. Two-thirds of global eCommerce transaction volume is concentrated within six players - and all are marketplaces.

etailers such as Carrefour, Walmart and Boots are all adding marketplace capability to deliver more choice and convenience, achieve scalable growth without increased inventory cost and most of all, create a flywheel for their retail media business.

During this keynote, Colin will offer insights and practical use cases about how Australian brands and retailers can tap into this phenomenon and why retail media is the flywheel that powers the success of marketplaces.

The Connected Customer

Retail media leaders share their approach to customer data and experience in the omnichannel journey in this panel discussion. The panellists will offer a deep dive into changing consumer behaviours, buyer expectations, and share engagement strategies across physical and digital touchpoints.

Hear how Uber and Booktopia use data to engage with audiences at different moments across the buying journey, developing omnichannel approaches built on deep understanding of the customer to deliver client outcomes.

Gai LeRoy, CEO of IAB, will reveal insights from new IAB research into customer trends and how to best harness this data to create seamless, integrated experiences for today's connected consumers.

Panellists: 

  • Adam Freedman - Head of Brand and Communications, Booktopia

  • Matthew McGinley -  Senior Client Partner, CPG, Uber

  • Gai LeRoy, CEO, IAB

Meet the retail media leaders

Once again the heads of Australia’s biggest supermarket retail media businesses will share the same stage, joined by Brandcrush’s co-founder Teresa Aprile, to close the conference with predictions about the next phase of retail media evolution, their expectations for the sector and the challenges the industry will face over the economic downturn.  They will also be joined by a marketer, to be confirmed shortly

  • Mike Tyquin, managing director of Woolworths’ Cartology;

  • Paul Brooks, general manager of Coles360;

  • Teresa Aprile, co-founder and GM, Brandcrush



Champagne and raised eyebrows in the new radio ratings

The Fifi, Fev & Nick show took Fox to Melbourne’s number one in FM breakfast

Tim Burrowes writes:

Yesterday’s radio ratings release delivered some of the most volatile numbers we’ve seen for a while. Some of the blips and bumps:

  • Gold FM’s Christian O’Connell lost his lead in Melbourne to Fox’s Fifi Box, Brendan ‘Fev’ Fevola and Nick Cody;

  • 2GB’s Ray Hadley lost 26% of his average audience in Sydney in a single survey;

  • Kiis FM’s Kyle & Jackie O Show lost more than 100,000 from their cumulative listening number;

  • ABC Radio National’s Breakfast jumped from its second lowest audience on record to its best in a year;

  • Mix overtook Triple M for top station in Adelaide;

  • Nova rose to an astonishing 18.1% share of Perth listening

As is always the case when there’s a big swing, some of those who have lost out have raised questions about whether the issue is really a rapidly changing audience habit, or an issue with the methodology. Given the arrival of Radio 360, seeking to integrate streaming listening into the data, back in June, that’s a more reasonable question than usual.

Let’s start there….

Ray Hadley’s correct to be asking questions

Ray Hadley, who presents Sydney’s 9am to noon slot on Nine’s 2GB in Sydney, got the most headlines yesterday.

His listening share fell by 4.2 percentage points, from 17% to 12.8%. That was despite his cumulative audience - how many tune in at some point across the week - hardly moving, falling from 334,000 to 332,000. However, his average listening fell from 119,000 to 88,000, a drop of 26%.

Although he retained number one in his timeslot, Hadley told his listeners yesterday: “I know we have a new methodology, but someone better explain to us in the radio industry how every station in Sydney can go down by such a mammoth amount.

“Statistically you can’t go down by 4.2, and I’ve gone back through my records over 19 years, and I’ve never gone down by 4.2 … it’s ridiculous.”

I chuckled at that point that every station is going down at once. When it comes to share, everyone’s battling for the same pie. If one station loses share then another gains it. Silly Ray.

Except…

He’s right.

The GfK data doesn’t include the full 100% share - some listening doesn’t appear in the survey because the station’s owners haven’t paid to be there - for instance, Bill Caralis’s Super Radio Network, home of John Laws, or community radio.

To address Hadley’s complaint, in Survey 4, the published stations amounted to 84.8% of the share. In yesterday’s Survey 5 numbers, that dropped to 81.2%.

If there’s a decent theory for such a swift change, I’d love to hear it. (Paging Steve Allen…)

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Not that 2GB’s owner Nine Radio can complain too loudly about this volatility through. Its Melbourne station saw a similarly hefty 3.1% percentage point increase in listening to 3AW Breakfast with Ross Stevenson and Russel Howcroft. That was off the back of a 14% jump in the number of average listeners from 146,000 to 166,000.

Every now and then you get a one-off survey with some anomalies, so the remarkable jumps in share should probably be treated that way, for this survey at least.

RN Breakfast recovers a little

Listening to ABC Radio National has picked up a little after hitting the doldrums.

This survey saw average audience lift from 49,000 to 57,000. That’s still an unacceptably low number, but an improvement nonetheless.

Speaking of the ABC, share of listening to its metro stations improved in four out of the five cities (with ABC Adelaide the one exception).

The Kyle & Jackie O rocketship recaptured by gravity

The cumulative numbers for Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson on Kiis have defied reasonable explanation for the last year or so.

We’ve now had two surveys in a row where they’ve come back down, from the high of 921,000 to the new (still remarkably high) number of 755,000.

Kyle & Jackie O Show cume | Source: GfK

We may never get a reasonable explanation of what drove it so high in the first place.

The cume winners

Speaking of which, the Kyle & Jackie O show still tops the market for one city cume.

This is the top five nationally:

  1. Kyle & Jackie O - Kiis FM ,Sydney - 755,000

  2. Fifi, Fev & Nick - Fox FM, Melbourne - 675,000

  3. Bogart Torelli - Smooth FM, Sydney - 589,000

  4. Ben, Liam & Belle - Nova Melbourne - 581,000

  5. Fitzy & Wippa & Kate Richie - Nova Sydney - 573,000

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Seven’s freefall continues on the Unmade Index

The Unmade Index remained narrowly in the red yesterday, dropping 0.12% to land at 623.6 points. The Index monitors the daily performance of ASX-listed media and marketing stocks.

IVE Group and Seven West Media dragged the Index down with respective drops of 2.84% and 1.67% in share price. The last time Seven’s market capitalisation was this low was in December 2020.

Despite the overall encroachment into red territory, more stocks lifted rather than dropped in share price yesterday. Enero rose 6.21%, while Southern Cross Media lifted 1.34%.

Pureprofile saw a 6.90% increase in share price, while ARN Media lifted by 0.57%.



Coles this morning announced the return of the big red hand, confirming Unmade’s story of August 9. Read our analysis before it goes behind the paywall:

The Coles big red hand is back. Customers will see through it unless margins are trimmed too

Tim Burrowes
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Aug 8
The Coles big red hand is back. Customers will see through it unless margins are trimmed too

A few weeks back, I had one of those conversations where I found myself arguing for what I hadn’t realised was a minority view until I opened my mouth.

Over lunch with some executives, the talk turned to Australia’s most effective advertising campaigns. I nominated the Coles’ Down Down campaign which began in 2012.

I argued that while it never won awards for creativity, it deserves to be recognised as a key plank in Coles overtaking Woolworths.

Read full story

Time to leave you to your Wednesday. We’ll be back with an audio-led edition of Unmade tomorrow, in which Seja Al Zaidi talks to former ABC Insiders host Barrie Cassidy in an interview which may create a ripple or two.

If you’d like to support Unmade please consider becoming a paying member.

And don’t forget to got your ticket for REmade - Retail Media Unmade before the price goes up at the end of today.

Toodlepip…

Tim Burrowes

Publisher - Unmade

tim@unmade.media

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Get the sample size and composition right, select a data-collection technology that will deliver reliable data at an agreed frequency, give it a year or 18 months to settle in before anybody starts cracking fizzy wine bottles to celebrate. Something's wrong, and needs fixing. It has been for eons. Please don't tell me the listener data is still being recorded by diaries. Sailing ships were pretty much done by the end of the 19th century.

Who's on the JICRAR?

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Love a challenge! A 3.6 point drop in all subscriber share, in one survey is not something experienced in a long while, if ever. FIFA WWC/Matilda's have been more disruptive to media habits than the market realises, but still cannot explain this. My guess, like yours Tim...the vagaries of survey sampling.

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