200 reasons why people choose 'Life Off Grid"

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE ONLINE

Why do people choose to live in homes that are not connected – by design or by default – to established electricity or gas networks?

It’s a question that we have asked here on One Step many times. But for Phillip Vannini, producer of the Canadian 2015 documentary Life Off Grid, it’s a question he asked at least 200 times, between 2011 and 2013, as he travelled to every province and territory in the country visiting “off-gridders” in their homes.

For screening times go to https://tugg.com.au/life-off-grid/

followit Is Like Instagram For Property Hunters

CLIENT: FOLLOWIT
OUTLET: LIFEHACKER

followit is a new app for Android and iOS that pitches itself as the Instagram of real estate. Instead of following friends and celebrities, you follow houses in specific streets and suburbs where you want to live. Here’s how it works.

As its name implies, followit uses the “follow” mechanic made popular by social media platforms. From within the app, users can follow specific houses, streets, suburbs and real estate agents to receive live updates and notifications. Once set up, they will only see properties that tick all the right boxes.

followit’s main claim to fame is its sense of immediacy — properties that fit the user’s criteria appear on the app as soon as they are listed online. (Traditional property sites like Domain purportedly take up to two days for listings to appear after they have been uploaded by a real estate agent.) This is thanks to an automation process that allows participating agents to instantly upload listings to followit’s portal with the click of a button.

Students gather at Bondi Beach

CLIENT: BIGGEST ENGLISH LESSON
OUTLET: SEVEN NEWS

As the benefits of the mining boom fade Australia is riding another economic wave with international education generating billions of dollars. Damien Smith reports.

Thousands flock to English class at Bondi

CLIENT: BIGGEST ENGLISH lesson
OUTLET: SBS NEWS

About 3000 international students heading to Bondi Beach for what they hope will be the world's biggest outdoor English lesson.

Beat the housing scrum

CLIENT: FOLLOWIT
OUTLET: THE AUSTRALIAN

A new Australian app promising to change the way Australians ­interact with real estate listings is set to launch nationally under the guidance of a former Facebook and Amazon executive.

followit, an app and desktop platform that gives users a push notification whenever a property they’re interested in is on the market, is backed by Macquarie Bank. Most major Australian real estate firms, including, LJ Hooker, Century 21, and Belle Property have already signed on.

Real estate coach and followit executive director Michael Sheargold describes it as a live communication platform for the real estate industry and consumers.

Education revenue soars to become Australia's $20 billion export

CLIENT: BIGGEST ENGLISH LESSON
OUTLET: AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Export revenue from international students, driven by the lower dollar, has soared 13 per cent in 2015 to make education a $20 billion export industry.

In trade figures released on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said total spending by international students in Australia – including course fees, accommodation, living expenses and recreation – was $19.2 billion in 2015, up from $17 billion the previous year.

Phil Honeywood, executive director of International Education Association of Australia, said the data showed international students were making a significant contribution to the economy at a time when resource exports were flagging.

Next week the international education industry will promote itself by holding what it bills as the world's biggest English lesson on Sydney's Bondi Beach. Organisers say the event, on February 12, is expected to attract 3000 international students.

Aussie fans help Rooster Teeth YouTube stars create movie history

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: CHANNEL 7 NEWS

A film made by a group of YouTube stars known as Rooster Teeth will screen in Australia this week, and it is set to change how movies are made.

'Lazer Team' is being billed as the first successful crossover movie from YouTube thanks to donations from fanatical Aussie investors.

Move over Star Wars - This is the hottest film you've probably never heard of.

"[It’s] sort of a buddy sort of SciFi comedy with four idiots," Rooster Teeth’s Gavin Free said.

These ‘idiots’ usually do shows on video games and their 'Rooster Teeth' YouTube channels have 25 million subscribers.

It all started as fun online but it's turned into big business and it's a wake up call for mainstream cinema.

Conde Nast Traveler Instagram Takeover

CLIENT: NORTH BONDI SURF LIFESAVING CLUB
OUTLET: CONDE NAST TRAVELER (USA)

North Bondi SLSC worked with Condé Nast Traveler and did a takeover of its Instagram account to commemorate Australia being awarded top destination for 2016.  The media deal was managed by DL COMMS and gave exposure to 722,000 people! The world's most read travel magazine worked with 30 iconic Australian organisations and influencers over the month of January. 

Engagement: 30,000 likes 660 comments
Below are the images used to showcase surf lifesaving to the world!

Rooster Teeth's Burnie Burns On The Record-Smashing Feature Film 'Lazer Team'

CLIENT: TUGG
OUTLET: GIZMODO

With more than 25 million YouTube subscribers, Rooster Teeth have been making online content since it was possible to — and keeping generations of online audiences engaged over a 13 year period is no easy feat. Now the studio is on the cusp of something very new and very big: premiering a crowdfunded, original content feature film in cinemas globally, including 70 in Australia.

Gizmodo Australia spoke with Rooster Teeth creator Burnie Burns about Lazer Team, crowd-supported projects and bridging the gap between online and offline audiences.

Lazer Team is not just Rooster Teeth‘s latest pet project. It is record breaking, being able to claim fame as the highest demanded and most sold movie in the history of cinema on demand in Australia.

followit - the new real estate platform that lists properties in real time

CLIENT: FOLLOWIT
OUTLET: SKY NEWS BUSINESS

Chris Adams from followit discusses the country's first live real estate platform that gives renters and buyers up-to-the-second property information the moment it is listed.