Innovation Portfolio
Alicia Keys
- Facebook application for Sony BMG, for Facebookers to share advice with their friends, to celebrate Alicia Keys’ latest album, As I Am
- The app is the first ever artist-endorsed, socially powered self-help tool
- More details in the launch blog post.
Hallam Foe
- Hallam Foe Voyeur widget, promoting romantic comedy movie Hallam Foe
- Prototype widgetsphere PR/marketing mini-site on Netvibes platform
- Automatically collects content from social nets: Flickr, MySpace profiles
- Includes official news, trailer and photos, press coverage and fan blog posts
- Users can share widget virally with other Netvibes members
- More on the launch blog post
Flashmob video
- Original Futurescape mini-doc of Flashmob taking over a train station
- Soundtrack with Creative Commons licensed music
- Chosen by MTV for their user-generated content show, Best. Show. Ever.
JigsawUK – the wiki for UK digital media start-ups
- Shortlisted for the New Statesman New Media Awards, Innovation category
Mad For Toys – search 250 of the UK’s top online toy stores
- As featured in Toy News, December 2006
Live Net Music – search for live music online
- “The Radio Times for the Internet” (Guardian Online) and see LNM’s MySpace profile
Coronation Street and Emmerdale - adapting UK's top soaps for the Web
- Addressed conflicting audience demands for both suspension of disbelief in the fiction and behind-the-scenes information
- Fictional characters continue direct relationship with viewers as Web site hosts
- Familiar locations - streets, homes, shops and pubs - keep viewers immersed within the fiction
- Games and competitions matched with appropriate settings (quizzes set inside pubs)
- Outside the fiction, viewers able to interact extensively via voting, forums, live chat and competitions
Screenshot: character hosts quiz, note navigation via street icon top right
Screenshot: interior of Emmerdale's Woolpack pub
London Bridge iTV e-mail
- A UK first: fiction via multimedia e-mail-to-television for London Bridge soap
- E-mail was fictional local newspaper about show's stories and characters
- Progamme broadcast twice weekly, e-mail sent as third webisode
Screenshot of gossip column: who loves who
Time Machine Electronic Programme Guide
- Highly innovative interface to all UK television channels
- Integrated streaming video clips
- Radical alternative to conventional grid-based television listings
- Winner, Best Software Design, Cable and Satellite Show
Screenshot: navigating listings via genre (outer ring) plus time and day (inside the ring)
Trouble
- Three series of original online soap, No.1 Trouble Street, for teen channel Trouble
- Presenters cast as fictional characters, storyline seen through each character's eyes
- Winner, Most Innovative Web Site, Cable and Satellite Show
Screenshot: left navigation leads to each character's view of the storyline
Virus Wars
- Integrated television and online sci-fi show concept
- Created by Futurescape and top comics artist D'Israeli (Matt Brooker)
- Selected for development via European Multimedia Labs
Screenshots: view of The Scape city and character Peneluna
Bravo
- First UK cable and satellite channel on the Web, targeting 18-34 males
- Gothic atmosphere to match channel's edgy brand
Runner-Up, Most Innovative Web Site, Cable and Satellite Show
PlayboyTV
- Site pioneered streaming video for marketing and was highly successful in attracting new subscribers for the channel
In brief
Concept to launch for a range of television sites:
The Children’s Channel
- Launched with nationwide live chat connecting viewers with TV stars
Discovery Home and Leisure
- Presenter-led design featuring channel's popular expert hosts
European Business News
- Teletext-to-Web news service and live stock market data
First Resort
- Interactive television prototype for travel retail service
The Parliamentary Channel
- Teletext embedded within Web site
Popcorn - the world’s first cinema site for kids
- SWOTS analysis to support the case for launching it
An Interactive Guide to Digital Television
- CD-Rom explaining digital television, for Accenture and its clients
