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…

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 Onli…

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 …

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.

What Vinomofo co-founder Andre Eikmeier did next

CLIENT: GOOD EMPIRE

OUTLET: THE AUSTRALIAN

Adelaide-based entrepreneur Andre Eikmeier co-founded Vinomofo in his Adelaide garage and turned it in to a global success story now worth over $100m, and he‘s now turned his focus to his next venture – a tech platform taking inspiration from the ‘i…

Adelaide-based entrepreneur Andre Eikmeier co-founded Vinomofo in his Adelaide garage and turned it in to a global success story now worth over $100m, and he‘s now turned his focus to his next venture – a tech platform taking inspiration from the ‘ice bucket challenge’ and viral TikTok videos.

Mr Eikmeier says his new app, Good Empire, is – in his own words – about ‘gamifying good humaning’. He said his app is focused on tackling global apathy toward saving the planet and human rights by encouraging its users to create TikTok-like challenges around a social cause.

He said he’s taken inspiration from the ’ice bucket challenge’ that raised an estimated $220m to tackle motor neurone disease.

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.

Interest is LITT for app

CLIENT: LITT

OUTLET: THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

The WA-based founders of LITT are gearing up to launch a $1.5 million capital raising after interest in the platform doubled in the past two weeks. Records are set to break as the company begins its investment round. Expressions of interest in LITT'…

The WA-based founders of LITT are gearing up to launch a $1.5 million capital raising after interest in the platform doubled in the past two weeks. Records are set to break as the company begins its investment round.

Expressions of interest in LITT's crowdfunding effort soared on the back of the #deletefacebook trend, which was sparked after the tech giant blocked all Australian news from its site over its refusal to pay for content.

LITT has over 18,000 members and 460 businesses, two weeks ago there were 9000 businesses.

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…

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.

Friends Flee Facebook in hunt for new social media

CLIENT: LITT

OUTLET: HERALD SUN | DAILY TELEGRAPH | ADELAIDE ADVERTISER

Social Media Analysts say "anti-Facebook sentiment" is at its highest after the company's bold move to ban hundreds of pages from its platform in Australia.

Alternatives such as Australian-made network LITT, an Australian start-up that launched last year and promises to reward members with credits for watching ads and offer more reporting tools.