Talent Corp releases the 2022 Top Talent Report

Podcaster and TV personality Hamish Blake is Australia’s No. 1 broadcast personality as voted by consumers, while Australia’s ‘Greatest Showman’, Hugh Jackman has topped the overall list of celbriries , the 2022 The Top Talent Report reveals.

Hamish Blake was also the only broadcast personality to make the top 10 overall talent list this year, in sixth position.

The Top Talent Report was commissioned by media and marketing agency Talent Corp in conjunction with Lewers Research and details the latest findings of the Australian Talent Index

The Index is a first of its kind in Australia, the talent measurement system captures consumers’ awareness of, and attitudes towards a range of Australian talent, including celebrities, actors, broadcasters, sports stars, and politicians. The nationally representative survey included more than 5,000 Australians who rated 300+ personalities and provided comments on how they felt about a personality*.

The Talent Index is calculated by subtracting the proportion of people who disliked a personality from those who liked or loved them, giving each a score ranging from -100 (universally disliked) through to +100 (universally liked). Jackman is a clear winner, with his score of +74 rating 13 points clear of second ranked Chris Hemsworth on +61.

Top 10 Broadcast Media Talent 2022

1. Hamish Blake +43
2. Dr Chris Brown +40
3. Georgie Parker +34
4. Andy Lee +33
5. Guy Sebastian +32
6. Shane Jacobson +31
7. Manu Feildel +30
8. Carrie Bickmore +30
9. Bruce McAvaney +25
10. Miguel Maestre +25

Top 10 Overall Talent 2022

1. Hugh Jackman +74
2. Chris Hemsworth +61
3. Nicole Kidman +52
4. Margot Robbie +47
5. Ash Barty +46
6. Hamish Blake +43
7. Liam Hemsworth +43
8. Cate Blanchette +43
9. Eric Bana +42
10. Michael Caton +41

Talent Corp Managing Director, Mark Noakes, said: “When an audience trusts a celebrity, this acts as a shortcut for consumer decision making. This is the power of ambassador marketing.

“The ability of a trusted or popular celebrity to deliver return on investment for a brand is well established. A way to match that presenter with a brand, much less so. The Australian Talent Index seeks to change that by providing the industry with a first of its kind, up-to-date and accurate picture on media, entertainment and sports talent. It really is a valuable way for brands and agencies to match, rank and compare talent for campaigns and ambassador roles.

“The propensity for marketers to use social media followers as a way to measure a talent’s worth was alarming for us. Followers and engagement rates are meaningless insights in terms of how an audience will respond to a personality. Consequently, our main motivation for developing the Index was to provide the industry with a system that was not only robust and reliable but would provide real and meaningful consumer insights. Using this data and automated AI analysis, Talent Corp can now also accurately inform businesses which celebrities align most closely to their target audience and their brand.”

Lewers founder and CEO, Lisa Lewers, said: “We are excited to be involved with the Australian Talent Index and 2022 Top Talent Report project from its inception. We have captured sentiment across 300 currently working Australian mediapersonalities, actors and athletes referenced against 12 consumer attitudes and 17 industry sectors as well as a range of geographic, demographic, occupational and consumer interests.

“It is the first study of its kind to leverage AI to understand the breadth and depth of the emotions Australian talent evokes – from love to hate and everything in between. It’s a comprehensive lens into how talent makes Australians feel.”

Celebrity endorsement is big business, with brands investing millions in associating with a well known personality with their brand. Hamish Blake and his wife Zoe Foster-Blake recently partnered with Tourism Australia and its own campaign testing found that 74% of respondents recognised the brand by the end of the campaign, with the highest point of brand recognition being with Hamish and Zoe.

Hugh Jackman’s partnership with RM Williams helped increased the company’s earnings by almost 50% in just 12 months after engaging the actor as global brand ambassador in 2019. Jackman’s ambassadorship was fundamental to the company’s expansion into new international markets.

*Methodology: A survey of nearly 5,000 Australians were asked their opinion on a range of personalities across media, broadcast and sport. The TalentCorp Australian Talent Index ranges from -100 to +100 based on how recognisable and liked a personality is (the higher the number the better). Lewers also asked people to provide a few words to describe how they felt about each personality. These words were classified into emotions based on an extensive library of over 20,000 words and phrases to identify how people feel about a personality. As a final step, respondents played a type of word association game to understand their gut reaction to different personalities.

For further information contact:

Rochelle Burbury
Third Avenue Consulting
0408 774 577
rochelle@thirdavenue.com.au

About Talent Corp
Formed in April 2020 by former Macquarie Media executives, Talent Corp is a specialist agency that actively aligns brands across a broad range of activities including Brand Ambassadorships, Influencer Campaigns, Media Campaigns, Content Creation, Speaking Engagements and more. Underpinning everything is a sharp focus on driving increased media and marketing ROI for brands via the power of trusted messages. TalentCorp.com.au

Talent Corp commissioned The 2022 Top Talent Report in conjunction with Lewers Research in 2022 which captures consumers’ awareness of, and attitudes towards a range of Australian talent, including celebrities, actors, broadcasters, sports stars, and politicians.

About Lewers

Lewers is a research, insights and strategy firm established in 2005. It adopts a unique approach to research to provide insights that create clarity. Critical thinking underpins the team’s approach. This centres upon getting to the heart of the problem so that individuals have the courage to make the right business decisions. Lewers has considerable experience across a diverse range of industries and is adept at both quantitative and qualitative research. The over-arching objective on any engagement is to equip organisations with everything they need to make well informed, commercial choices for the future. Lewers.com.au