Chapelli's - A Soul of Chapel Street

CLIENT: CHAPEL STREET PRECINCT

OUTLET: STUDIO 10

After 41 years of business, Melbourne’s infamous 24HR café Chapelli’s has flipped the pages of its own history book. Manager of the iconic Chapel Street venue, Lisa James, revealed her own stories on Studio 10. Like the time politely asked a dusty-looking Pearl Jam to eat outside because they were wearing no shoes – she had no idea who they were!

Chapelli’s has been commemorated as an iconic business of Chapel Street by featuring in the precinct’s short-doco series: Soul of Chapel. The series shines a spotlight on its colourful community who have dedicated their life to being custodians of the Precinct’s culture.

The inside story of how celebrities organise alternative quarantine

CLIENT: DR ZAC TURNER

OUTLET: CONCIERGE DOCTORS

DL COMMS client Dr Zac Turner, and his company Concierge Doctors, has become one of Australia's leading facilitators for private hotel quarantine. Concierge Doctors has been responsible for the private quarantine of many high profile celebrities and philanthropists, which comes at no cost to the tax payer and doesn’t take up limited hotel quarantine spaces reserved for Australians wishing to return home.

Alternative quarantine has advantages for the public because it frees up places in the hotel quarantine system, creates direct employment such as private security jobs, and could help Australia and especially NSW position itself as a “massive hub” for film production. Read this story in the Sun Herald for the full background.

Phil Liggett - The Voice of Cycling

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM

OUTLET: SCREENHUB

We've recently wrapped up a great campaign promoting the release of the documentary on one of the world’s greatest sporting commentators, Phil Liggett. Alongside the team at Demand.Film we were able to secure great coverage across TV, Radio and Online news.

Screenhub recently reviewed the documentary saying, "the filmmakers do a fine job of taking what was a relatively quiet life and making it feel bigger."

Booming Business

CLIENT: GOOD EMPIRE

OUTLET: CHANNEL SEVEN NEWS SYDNEY | BRISBANE | PERTH | ADELAIDE

Like many other business success stories, wine distributor VINOMOFO started in a small Adelaide garage. Ten years on and with business booming, founder Andre Eikmeier has turned his sights onto his next business move: social media that aims to save the planet.

Replacing Riesling with awareness, the new app Good Empire will gamify social media trends, such as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, to raise money and awareness.

Australian Facebook alternative LITT just broke another crowdfunding record

CLIENT: LITT

OUTLET: THE AUSTRALIAN | STARTUP DAILY | TICKER NEWS | BUSINESS NEWS

A new Australian equity crowdfunding record was set yesterday with LITT raising $500,000 in just 40 minutes. The company, which is offering $1.5m worth of shares, became the second fastest to raise $1m, hitting that number in 11 hours.

LITT co-founder Brent Thompson says he's recommending any investors who were considering participating in the offer do so before it's too late.

“Everyone in the office was cheering every time we hit refresh on our laptop – our team has worked so hard over the past few years and to have investors now share in our vision can only be described as pure joy!” Mr Thompson said.

Murdoch professor says McDonald’s is partly to blame for terrible-tasting tomatoes

CLIENT: PERTH TOMATO FESTIVAL

OUTLET:PERTH NOW

Have you ever walked into a supermarket and seen a pristine display of ripe, red tomatoes, only to take some home and discover the plastic bag you carried them in would taste better? The mystery of why supermarket tomatoes can look so good and taste so terrible is no mystery at all to Murdoch University associate professor of food science and nutrition Vicky Solah.

“I think it’s kind of the McDonald’s transformation of tomatoes, so they fit into the bun, that has had an influence.”

This humble fruit, which everyone thinks is a vegetable, will be celebrated on Saturday at the inaugural Perth Tomato Festival, to be held in association with the Serpentine Jarrahdale Farmers’ Market in Mundijong.

Popular Aussie App

CLIENT: LITT

OUTLET: WEEKEND SUNRISE

LITT featured on a discussion over Facebook alternatives on Weekend Sunrise. This comes as the Australian-owned and developed social platform has seen an uptick of 83% in new users, with many Australians seeing the upside of community-based social media.

Break-up with Facebook

CLIENT: LITT

OUTLET: THE TODAY SHOW

The Facebook news ban angered Australians, with many calling for a Boycott. The Today Show discussed alternative apps on the program and Tech Expert Trevor Long named LITT the most viable alternative to Facebook for Australians.

Australian rival to Facebook slams social media giant's 'bullying' tactics in banning news as local users 'tired of being pushed around' by big foreign tech flock to the start-up platform

CLIENT: LITT

OUTLET: DAILY MAIL

A home-grown social media network has surged in size after Facebook banned Australian media and users from posting news.

Brent Thompson and Peter Salom woke up on Friday morning to find users for their app Litt jumped by almost 40 per cent after Facebook's announcement. Like millions of Australians, they were outraged at Facebook's bullying tactics in response to the government's proposed law to force tech giants to pay for news.

The company has offered itself as a 'haven' for Australian news papers, news websites, TV networks, radio stations and magazines are 'essential to our democracy'.

Lockdown breaking hearts across Melbourne

CLIENT: CHAPEL STREET PRECINCT

OUTLET: SBS NEWS

The hospitality sector of Victoria is bearing the brunt of another lockdown and it couldn't come at a worse time on the eve of Valentine's Day. For restaurants like Chapel Street's Lover, this has equated to a loss of $40,000 in income. Will Newton from Lover told SBS news he has 148 calls to make, begging diners to move their Valentines bookings a week forward in order to salvage an income.

The moment lockdown was called, DL COMMS hustled in order for Chapel Street to raise their concern over the devastating news. The above story led the bulletin, which was a great success.