Groundhog Day for Victorian Businesses

CLIENT: CHAPEL STREET PRECINCT ASSOCIATION

OUTLET: CHANNEL 7 NEWS MELBOURNE | CHANNEL 9 NEWS MELBOURNE | CHANNEL 10 NEWS MELBOURNE

Chapel Street traders have shared their dismay at the Premier's reluctance to open up Victorian businesses. Daniel Andrews has not kept up his side of the deal, as Victorians are once again let down and not rewarded for meeting targets that would allow restrictions to be eased.

Members of the retail, hospitality and fitness sector have felt the brunt of the Premier's refusal to open up. They shared their thoughts to TV news on Sunday.

Todd's Return

CLIENT: SOCIAL BASE

OUTLET: STUDIO 10

Former NRL bad-boy turned social media entrepreneur Todd Carney is on a mission to save the careers of current footy players across all sporting codes. With his best mate since the age of four Mitchell Micallef, Carney has come up with Social Base - a social media management app that allows for managers to filter content from their clients.

All together the app could stop controversial posts ever costing player contracts and team sponsorships.

Former NRL player Todd Carney is on a mission to help sports stars avoid scandal

CLIENT: SOCIAL BASE

OUTLET: WEEKEND TODAY

ex-NRL player Todd Carney is on a mission to help sports stars avoid scandals. He has teamed up with life-long mate Mitchell Micallef on a new social media management app, Social Base, which allows for social media managers to veto their clients content before it is ever posted.

Todd Carney and Mitchell Micallef join Weekend Today to discuss whether the app is babying grown men, and how it could potentially save teams losing their vital sponsorships.



Former NRL Star Launches New App

CLIENT: SOCIAL BASE

OUTLET: CHANNEL SEVEN NEWS SYDNEY | BRISBANE | MELBOURNE | PERTH | GOLD COAST

One bad social media post can end a footballer’s career and cost them millions – however thanks to an app called SocialBase, these career-killing posts could soon be a thing of the past. t.

One of the app’s defining features gives social media managers power over their clients to approve all content before it is posted. Ex-NRL Player Todd Carney, one of SocialBase’s early investors, was the man who came up with the idea for the feature – following his own social media scandal that caused his $1.7 million contract to be torn up.

Cleaning up the competition

CLIENT: WHIZZ CLEANING

OUTLET: AUZBIZ TV

Online cleaning marketplace Whizz is bringing tech disruption to the cleaning industry as it gears up for an IPO as early as next year. CEO Anthony Pettiona speaks with AusBiz TV fresh off acquiring local rival Get Jarvis as he looks to expand the platform.

Melbourne business struggle as Victorian lockdown continues

CLIENT: CHAPEL STREET PRECINCT ASSOCIATION

OUTLET: TICKERTV

Melbourne restrictions continue to hit businesses hard - TickerTV Reporter Jack Nyhof took the streets of the Chapel Street Precinct to interview how its businesses are pivoting to survive the lockdown.

Nyhof spoke with florist Honey Bee & Blossom and Chaser's Nightclub - two businesses on the opposite side of the spectrum with Honey Bee & Blossom only 2 months old and Chaser's an iconic location of Chapel Street. Both are living and breathing the same ethos: Support Local.

Victorian Government Called Out for Lack of Contract Tracing Software Integration - Why it could keep Melbourne out of lockdown for longer

CLIENT:COVID TRACER

OUTLET: AUSBIZ TV

COVID Tracer CEO Brian Pham said it was “ludicrous” that the Victorian government had given businesses the option to record customer details on pen and paper or be slugged $280 a month to use its recommended tracing app Salesforce.

“This is not an affordable option for small businesses living through a recession,” he said.

Cleaning platform Whizz whirls its way towards 2021 IPO

CLIENT: WHIZZ CLEANING

OUTLET: AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Rich Lister-backed online cleaning marketplace Whizz is readying for an initial public offering early next year, after last week acquiring its local rival, Get Jarvis.

The business, which was founded in late 2014 and is now led by former Drive.com.au CEO Anthony Pettiona, is an end-to-end platform for vetted cleaners, allowing them to find jobs, bid for and accept bookings, document their work and take payments.

Crop Circles Appear in Parks Across the Chapel Street Precinct

CLIENT: CHAPEL STREET PRECINCT ASSOCIATION

OUTLET: TEN NEWS FIRST MELBOURNE

Restaurants, pubs and cafe owners across Chapel Street are coming up with innovative plans to serve customers outdoors. In collaboration with Stonnington Council, Chapel Street Precinct Association designed parks with social circles taking out the hassle of socially distancing.

Melburnians can now pick up a picnic hamper from a participating Chapel Street venue and head to the park to catch up on some missed out Vitamin D.

Iso-Cray: Short video provides window into how Melburnians are coping with lockdown

CLIENT: MONSTER AND BEAR PRODUCTIONS

OUTLET: 3AW AFTERNOONS WITH DEE DEE

A Melbourne video production company has put together a short video documenting the stages of lockdown.

Monster & Bear put a call out for video submission from Melburnians, and was overwhelmed by the responses providing a rare window into how Melburnians are coping with isolation.

“We went into it with the intention of normalising what everyone was feeling, and we didn’t know what that feeling was going to be,” Creative Director of Monster and Bear, Sarah Hickey, told Dee Dee.

“When we started to receive the material we were finding that everyone, to be honest, was starting to go a little bit crazy.”