Planes, Bikes, Rugby and a GOAT - Cut to the Chase – December Edition 🎄✨
What a wild few months… The final newsletter of the year lands just as we hit full throttle. The shoots have been wild, the edits electric, and the new projects include some of our proudest work of 2025.
The studio has been (controlled 👀) festive chaos. Someone went all in on decorations again (Lucy, we see you), the coffee machine is doing overtime, and the team is somehow juggling late nights, early calls, and a mountain of Quality Street with surprising enthusiasm.
If you are here for the good stuff, this edition is stacked. 🌟
In this edition ⤵
🚴♂️ Red Bull Peloton: fresh of the edit suit
🥇 N1NO Beyond: the emotional final episode just dropped
🏉 Skyscanner x Scottish Rugby: bringing fans closer to the Autumn Tests
🎬 Kendal Mountain Festival: a special premiere with Focus Bikes
📩 Working together in 2026
🚴♂️ Red Bull Peloton - Brand New!
Can a professional road cycling team create enough power to let an aeroplane take off???
Yes, you read that right. We closed the year with the launch (sorry/not sorry) of another absolutely wild collaboration with our friends at Red Bull.
Red Bull Peloton is the culmination of a lot of planning, research and testing from everyone involved… and the results are absolutely incredible.
The result? Over 20m+ Instagram views and 1m YouTube views in just 7 days.
🥇 N1NO Beyond – Final Episode Wrapped
Eighteen months.
Multiple locations.
A career’s worth of legacy.
And a final episode that hit every one of us straight in the feels.
The final chapter of N1NO Beyond just dropped this week - and it’s an emotional one.
To us, this could be our most special project release of the year. It’s been a journey, and one we’re incredibly proud of. Trust is the backbone of this project, and Nino let us into a moment of transition few athletes ever share publicly.
Go watch it… Enjoy, celebrate, cry. Most likely all three.
🏉 Skyscanner x Scottish Rugby – Making Fans Feel the Moment
The Autumn Nations Series gave us one of our most technically ambitious challenges of the year: build a rapid-turnaround, multi-layered, emotion-led content series that captured the atmosphere of Murrayfield like never before.
Enter Skyzoom.
With four timecode-locked cameras on the stadium roof, live broadcast audio, and a workflow designed for near real-time delivery, we created a zoomable, emotive match experience that didn’t just show what happened, it made people relive it.
Minimal player access. Tight turnarounds. Huge atmospheres.
A perfect storm for creativity.
🎬 Kendal Mountain Festival – A Special Premiere with Focus Bikes & Olly Wilkins
One of this year’s real highlights: taking a very special project to Kendal Mountain Festival.
We teamed up with FOCUS Bikes and the always-brilliant Olly Wilkins to premiere a new film for a very (very) special project. We’re so proud of the film and we know it’s going to really make an impact on the industry - big shout out to the team at Focus for game changing work.
Kendal is one of the most passionate outdoor gatherings in the world - and seeing the room react, laugh, and properly feel the film was something we won't forget any time soon.
Huge thanks to everyone who came along and to the Focus + Olly, Wyn and the crew for trusting us with a story that’s equal parts fun and meaningful.
Stay tuned: it releases online early next year.
💡 Planning Something Big for 2026?
If you’re looking to:
activate a sports partnership
launch something new
build a fanbase with emotional storytelling
Or create a piece of content with real staying power…
We’d love to chat.
📧 Get in touch here at stu@cutmedia.com
Until then — have a brilliant festive season.
Thanks for being part of our year. Here’s to 2026. 🎄✨
