Stephen Wright is TrinityP3’s Media Business Director, responsible for managing and facilitating some of this country's most high-profile media pitches for more than a decade. He is here to discuss the implications for media agencies and their pitches based on the State of The Pitch Australia Research results.
Since the pandemic, there has been an increasingly vocal call from agencies worldwide to ditch the pitch and trade media have run headlines and opinion pieces claiming the pitch is broken and even dead.
As Australia and APAC’s leading pitch consultancy, we noticed that while there were plenty of opinions, there was very little data on this topic, so we undertook our own research called The State of the Pitch in Australia. Run from June to December last year, the report makes it interesting to read what is going on and what is going wrong with pitching. You can download your copy of the State of the Pitch Australia Report for free at www.trinityp3.com/state-of-the-pitch/ 
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Stephen Wright And Darren Discuss The State Of The Media Pitch In Australia

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Arvind Hickman is the features and analysis editor of marketing trade media title B&T. He is a journalist and editor with experience across sport, HR, constructions and most recently media and marketing. 
The advertising model is broken when it comes to news media. The major tech platforms, particularly Google and Facebook (AKA Alphabet and Meta) stand accused of undermining the news media publishers, with some governments intervening to support news media.
But, it is not just news media that has been impacted. Even the marketing and advertising trade media has suffered from the shift in advertising revenue to the major platforms. Some publishers have transformed their business models away from advertising to events, subscriptions, awards, events, membership fees and other paid models with mixed success.
Arvind provides an industry insider perspective on the challenges and opportunities for the trade news media industry.

Listener's note: Since the publication of this podcast, Michael Lynch, Publisher of Campaign Brief, has reached out to inform us that the outlet has now ended its "pay to play" policies*, which saw the publisher require agencies/media owners seeking to have their media release published on the site to sign up for advertising packages of between $750-$2000 (or $550 if you wanted a one-off news story that would lead that day's CB Daily Bulletin). The change (which, to our knowledge, was not publicly announced at the time) coincided with Campaign Brief switching off its anonymous comment thread**, following massive pressure from the creative agencies*** who made the difficult decision to boycott the publication****. TrinityP3's position on play-to-play remains that all trade publishers should disclose their commercial arrangements in line with AANA regulations***. 

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* https://mumbrella.com.au/agencies-considering-pulling-out-despite-campaign-brief-apology-questions-arise-around-pay-to-play-model-852207 
** https://campaignbrief.com/change-starts-today-campaign-brief-introduces-stricter-comment-moderation-policy/ 
*** https://mumbrella.com.au/pressure-mounts-as-leo-burnett-saatchi-saatchi-special-australia-and-more-pull-the-plug-on-campaign-brief-853681 
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