Start the Week: Netflix in Oz; Variety mag Down Under; and do Ten’s Saturday ratings woes even matter?

Welcome to Unmade’s new Start the Week podcast, dedicated to looking ahead to the week in media and marketing.

Today’s topics:

• What was the boss of Netflix doing in Australia?;

• Variety mag coming to Australia;

• Why The Iconic ditched its marketing boss role

• What we learned about the ASX companies last week

• Does it matter that Ten was sixth channel on Saturday night?

• John Croll’s return to the media monitoring market

This marks the pilot episode of Start the Week, and features Unmade’s Tim Burrowes and Damian Francis.

Further reading:

• Netflix boss Reed Hastings on ‘Byron Baes’, regulators, and the looming streaming ‘shakeout’ – SMH

• Entertainment outlet Variety set for local shores – SMH

• Goodbye chief marketing officer, hello new era – The Australian

• 104 Weeks Later – Unmade

• ‘Not an option’: Media monitoring veteran leaving Australia behind – AFR