The Jackal is an exclusive and upmarket lifestyle media brand targeted towards the affluent, urban male audience. The media brand’s the Jackal Magazine does away with traditional newsstand magazines and their circulation model and adopts a free distribution model, making the Jackal the UK’s second biggest upmarket men’s magazine. The media brand also runs a creative studio and has worked on projects covering brand direction, content strategy, print, film and digital. The Jackal's combined digital audience is about 45,000, and it has worked with over 40 luxury advertisers already.
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£182,842
Unbound disrupts traditional publishing through a crowdfunding model, empowering readers to support authors' creativity while fostering a digital community. Their unique approach allows the publishing of diverse, creative, and daring works, providing readers with exclusive experiences not found in conventional bookshops. With a rapidly growing market since the pandemic, Unbound engages thousands of supporters worldwide, offering exclusive content like podcasts and newsletters, reaching over 340,000 readers globally, alongside broader sales in bookshops and online platforms. They also hold licenses to publish and distribute books, exploring potential film and TV opportunities based on authors' rights.
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£168,038
Live&Loud is an ultimate entertainment booking service for venues and artists. It acts as a digital broker ensuring artists and venues get all the benefits of live music, hassle free. From event planning to booking live gigs to promotion, Live&Loud provides all the tools and help to its clients, saving them time and money. Till date, the company has worked with more than 13,000 artists, arranged over 5,000 events and has built strong ties with some of the UK’s leading hospitality brands. Backed by the former CEO of Sony Music & EMI and run by an industry experienced team, Live&Loud is constantly working towards capitalising the UK live music market.
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£517,310
Fix Radio is the UK's first commercial radio station targeted at tradespeople. They will be initially highly targeted towards the London market of 650,000 tradespeople before expanding nationwide. Currently there is £30 million spent annually on radio advertising targeted at this market.
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£269,000
Chew is a live streaming community built for DJ's. Chew allows DJ's to share their mixes and help them to build a worldwide fan base.
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£215,019
Providing musical-entrepreneurs with the tools and facilities to succeed and thrive in the media industry. The Rattle offers new and upcoming musicians and technologists with a mentorship and community to help them run their own music businesses in the new digital world.
The Rattle is currently processing more than 800 applications and has already accepted over 100 candidates for membership that have come from numerous backgrounds with various aspirations. Since February 2018, the company has seen their monthly revenue grow by more than 300% to over £11k. The Rattle is expanding their business to Los Angeles, with New York City planned soon after.
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£1,112,210
Captive Media is a technology company that has created a smart way of advertising in mens restrooms. They have installed screens with built-in movement sensors in a number of pubs and clubs all over the the UK. This technology enables the user to for example, play a game handsfree while peeing or watch an interactive advert from a number of different companies.
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£242,901
An audio trading platform enabling music lovers to buy and sell CDs, vinyls and cassette tapes. iHaveIt aims to be the prime location for audio listeners to collect and trade physical mediums with each other. Since launching in June 2018, more than 100,000 visitors have reviewed over 1.6m items.
Partners of the business include Gardners and Proper music. This has enabled both brand new and pre-owned products being listed. The platform is free-to-use and revenue is generated via a 6% commission to sellers on any sales made. A future revenue stream starting next years will be comprised of advertisements and marketing.
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£48,280
Like a lot of young independent British film companies, 721 Productions had only a modest budget with which to enter the $36 billion global film industry in 2014 (an industry that seems recession proof given that global box office revenues have seen a 22% increase since 2009).
Despite the low budget, director Paul Emmanuel still produced a piece of brilliance with ‘The Maid’ - a romantic drama that hit the silver screen in early 2014 and subsequently went on to pick up various film accolades, including multiple awards, a nomination for Best UK Feature Film and screenings at the prestigious London and New York film festivals.
Since the overwhelming response to what was 721 Productions' very first film, the team has been hard at work on its latest film ‘Secrets of the Lost Souls’.
Paul Emmanuel is once again steering the ship second time around – albeit with a greater depth of industry connections and knowhow compared to the first. He is working alongside other talented and versatile filmmakers David C. G. Hare – who himself has built an impressive career over the past 15 years – and the award-winning cinematographer Steven Marshall who has over 9 years experience in his field and has worked on movies screened at film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Berlin.
The latest film production will cost £80,000 – you'd be forgiven for thinking that that's a small amount for the production of a movie. But with advanced digital cinema technology available to modern-day filmmakers at reasonable prices, costs can be contained. The film ‘Paranormal Activity’ for example, cost $15,000 to make and grossed over $107,000,000 at the box office – testament not only to the relatively small investment these types of productions need, but also to why Horror/Action genres are widely recognised as offering the highest rates of return on investment in the movie industry.
Like Paranormal Activity ‘Secrets of the Lost Souls’ is a supernatural horror thriller aimed at the more lucrative US market.
Production is scheduled to begin early next year and 721 Productions wants to make investors become part of the journey – one featuring ongoing film updates, special mentions, exclusive screenings, site visits, film previews and a wrap party. How far you travel on that journey with the production team depends on how much you invest.
Investors pledging money to this pitch will receive exciting investor rewards and shares in a movie from what is an emerging British film production company. Check out the 'rewards' section for more details.
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£24,700
THE MUGHALS is a prime-time entertainment drama series for international television, recreating for a modern audience the most vibrant ruling dynasty the world has known, in the genre of such hits as THE TUDORS and ROME.
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£22,400
