CLIENT: UNSTOPPABLES
OUTLET: SKY NEWS BUSINESS
Unstoppables Founder Julio de Laffitte on how small business can benefit from third party endorsements
Supermodel Agyness Deyn takes us behind the scenes
CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: THE MORNING SHOW (CHANNEL 7)
Her blonde pixie hairstyle catapulted her into the modelling world. At the peak of her modeling career she shifted her focus from fashion to film - a move that's proved to be 'electrifying'.
[note: Top UK Model, Agyness Deyn, has delivered a critically acclaimed performance as a woman living with epilepsy in her debut film, Electricity, which is exclusive to the cinema on demand platform, Tugg.com.au. Electricity is a film epilepsy authorities believe will have a dramatic effect on the way the condition is perceived.]
Sunrise Weather abseils down 33 storey building to raise awareness for leading drug rehab centre
CLIENT: SIR DAVID MARTIN FOUNDATION/TRIPLE CARE FARM
OUTLET: CHANNEL 7 SUNRISE
Sunrise Weather presenter, Edwina Batholomew, scales down Sydney Investa building to help raise awareness and funds for the Sir David Martin Foundation, which supports Australia's leading drug rehab centre for youth. During the morning's five crosses, Edwina speaks to CEO Alex Green, recent graduate, Saige, mountaineer, Andrew Locke and Terry Hewett, the man in charge of the abseiling.
On-demand cinemas save box office: hosting your own movie nights a big hit
CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: GOLD COAST BULLETIN
HOSTING your own movie night at the cinema is proving to be the biggest box office hit of the year, with smart hosts even making money from it.
Just this week alone the new service accounted for the sale of $70,000 worth of cinema tickets around Australia, with hosts who managed to fill their theatre receiving 5 per cent of box office takings.
Founded in the US, online service TUGG allows the “promoter” to pick the film, date, time and cinema for their screening.
Why the big banks were wrong to ditch Bitcoin
CLIENT: UNSTOPPABLES
OUTLET: SKY NEWS BUSINESS
Julio De Laffitte speaks with Dan Murphy about Bitcoin's break-up with the big banks.
Unstoppables co-founder out to debunk the “myth” of startups being too risky
CLIENT: UNSTOPPABLES
OUTLET: SMART COMPANY
With startups and innovation policy currently at the forefront of Australian politics, it’s important investors and traditional industries are also brought into the conversation, Unstoppables co-founder Julio De Laffitte says.
What De Laffitte calls “the Malcolm Turnbull effect”, is very positive for the country, he says, but the government needs to ensure collaboration going into the future.
“This is only one side of the coin,” De Laffitte says.
Empty cinemas no more
CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Most of us have been there. You walk into an empty cinema and it’s just you and the sticky floor.
But if David Doepel has anything to do with it, solitary viewing will be a thing of the past.
As the rights holder to Tugg Australia, Perth-based Mr Doepel wants to put the cinema into the hands of the audience.
In what he describes as the Airbnb for cinema, Tugg enables an everyday person to become a film’s promoter, with punters essentially hiring a cinema and selling it through their personal networks via the Tugg online platform.
Agyness Deyn ditches catwalk for gritty role in indie film Electricity
CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
With her unassuming brown hair and quiet sensibility it’s hard to recognise Agyness Deyn these days.
She looks nothing like the platinum pixie-haired punk who perennially graced high fashion tomes and the runways of New York and London for the best part of the last decade.
Now 32, she has hung up her modelling portfolio and thrown herself into acting.
And the industry seems more than happy to embrace her, with a slew of indie and Hollywood films set for release in the next two years.
Deyn’s latest project, a film called Electricity, sees her play a woman with epilepsy, something which she found both eye-opening and confronting.
Tugg's GoDigital deal to give Aussie films access to Netflix and iTunes
CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
An Australian online platform that helps get independent films screened in cinemas has secured a partnership with US digital film distributor GoDigital, which it says will give Australian filmmakers more chance of getting seen on Netflix and iTunes.
New technology allows viewers to stream on the silver screen
CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: NATIONAL 9 NEWS
The rise of streaming services, such as Stan and Netflix, has meant Hollywood movies are available from your home and now that same technology is being used in cinemas allowing you to control what you see on the silver screen