A recent report by appfigures found that 2017 saw the first decline in the number of available iOS apps whilst the number for Android is still growing, and there has been a decline in numbers of non-native apps. Quality is outplaying...
Swansea shortlisted in the Sports Business Awards 2018...
With significant experience in user experience, design and delivery of ecommerce projects, Other Media are the multi-award winning trusted pair of hands that an institution with the gravitas of UAL needed to make this project a success....
What makes our industry exciting is the pace of change. It seems that every week there is a new piece of software released, a new best practice design, or even a new hardware device. Any of these new developments needs to be considered ...
For the past 4 years the design team at Other Media have been working better, faster and more efficiently inside Adobe Illustrator. It has been a staple tool in our creative process for all of our UI screen designs, illustrations and ico...
1 agency, 2 clients, 3 projects, 4 award nominations Other Media are delighted to have been shortlisted for 2 awards in the Sports Technology Awards for our work with Premier League football club, Swansea City, and a further 2 awards in ...
With AI becoming more sophisticated and accessible, will this allow AR to find its feet and will we really be using voice commands to manage day-to-day life, and what about all the buzz around Bitcoin and Blockchain?...
Since launching earlier in the year, we have been working hard behind the scenes with the team at Sports Alliance and Ticketmaster to integrate mobile ticketing into iOS and Android versions of the Swansea City app. Launching today, this...
Other Media’s Nick Oates was recently invited to Singapore by Hyper Island to build an AI-powered chatbot which would form the centrepiece of a learning day to support business transformation at Axiata (one of Asia’s largest telecomm...
We’ve trawled through the details so that you don’t have to and brought you a succinct guide about what the regulations mean, why they are being introduced and, most importantly, what you need to do now....
James Burke, Production Director here at Other Media, has been talking with Econsultancy’s Ben Davis about the clever use of notifications and contextual mobile in football apps, as well as the player app winning praise from the Premie...
Apple Watch Series 3. Apple TV 4K. iPhone 8. iPhone 8 Plus. iPhone X. All these devices are Apple’s early Christmas treats. iPhone X is here. Pronounced “iPhone 10”, the latest incarnation of Apple’s iconic smartphone is the tent...
George Crabb takes a look at how a publisher has successfully embraced digital transformation, amongst other happenings at telecoms, media and technology (TMT) conference. A fascinating day spent at the Ovum Digital Futures 2017 conferen...
We work with Chelsea Football Club on a number of projects and are always looking for new ways to engage with fans. We recently launched an all-new 3D seating planner, the first of its kind to be developed by a sporting venue. The intera...
Connecting a community of fans with a forward-thinking football club by bringing tailored, engaging content to fans’ fingertips. After leaving the English Football League’s digital platform Swansea FC are exploring tailored, bespok...
Transforming a player manual into an easily accessible app to engage new players and support their mental wellbeing When new players sign for Swansea City Football Club they currently receive a book with useful information about the club...
Tips from the brands identified in dotmailer’s Hitting the Mark benchmark report as succeeding in the world of email marketing On a rather balmy summer afternoon, what better way to spend a few hours than in an air-conditioned office w...
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An example of a client, that we have worked with for many years, embracing the video revolution is the ECB. The ECB is the single national governing body for all cricket played in England and Wales. The ECB Cricket app posed the challeng...
12,000 customers in 48 hours? The social media giants know it, psychologists have long known it, and so we all should be paying attention to what makes us pay attention Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter…they’ve all turned their at...
How to train your puppy to sort newspapers from pizza flyers Ok, so we didn’t actually train a puppy, we trained an algorithm to sort documents, but that doesn’t sound as fun or useful. Useful, though, is hugely underplaying the importa...
Voted Guru of the Day, the Vollebak website has been recognised by the Web Guru Awards for its design, development, creativity and innovation. The Web Guru Awards’ mission is to “explore and identify the talent, dedication, assiduity o...
Other Media Honoured For Best Mobile Sites and Apps – Sports category in the 21st Annual Webby Awards. Other Media and Arsenal FC are delighted to announce that the Official Arsenal app has been honoured for Best Mobile Sites and Apps ...
7 years ago, the Football League recognised that embracing digital solutions for effective engagement with fans was essential. To this end, Other Media developed an app for the Football League for clubs to offer to fans to enhance the ex...
At Other Media we typically work with two powerful, industry standard, open source content management systems (CMSs), Drupal 7 and WordPress. Both platforms allow us to develop great websites that cater to our clients’ needs and goals. H...
As a frontend developer, your homepage could be looked at as one of the lunchtime football teams. Everyone’s bags and blazers are piled into makeshift goals on either end of the playground and you’re the team captain with first pick....
Simpler, clearer, faster. These are the aims of the Government’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) framework for agreements between public sector buyers and suppliers for digital services delivered through its Digital Marketplace. Other Med...
As Harvard Professor, Ted Levitt, put it: “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.” Other Media has developed a reputation as one of the most innovative digital agencies in the UK, with a track...
Last Friday I was invited to take a tour of the newly opened GFSmith show space in swanky W1, (Central London) to learn more about their papers, their process, and the history of the company. I was met by our local rep Alyson. We chatted...
On 9th January 2007, Steve Jobs walked on stage to present an Apple keynote. He introduced the world to three new products. A widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communicator. Th...
Last night I had the honour of being invited to the Christmas Circus event hosted by Fedrigoni, a fine Italian paper manufacturer with a global presence at their Imaginative Papers Studio on Clerkenwell Road. Despite Other Media working ...
After its introduction in the US alongside iPhone 6 at the end of 2014, Apple Pay has gradually been replacing people’s wallets around the world. It may have first been limited to mobile payments where your iPhone or Apple Watch can ta...
Following on from James Burke’s post about the Quantcast Supernova 2016 event at The Brewery we thought that it was worth highlighting some of the key messages coming out of what was a very insightful day. The overriding message was th...
I’m always down for a design related event and last night supplied me with the opportunity to see graphic designer and typographic wordsmith Anthony Burrill take to the floor at Apple’s flagship Regent Street store for an inspiring t...
SupernovaUK provides a unique opportunity to catch up with online innovations in the digital media business. Matt Jeoffroy and James Burke, along with around 600 leading advertisers, publishers and advertising agencies headed off to the ...
Other Media Chairman and Hyper Island Founder, Jonathan Briggs, reflects on emerging digital trends after his recent trip to Silicon Valley. “I was in San Francisco and Silicon Valley recently working with a French Business School. A...
Production Director James Burke and Senior PM Kat Szczepaniak went along to the cool side of town last night for the latest “Agile for Agencies” meet up in the Manifesto offices in Shoreditch. With a beautifully cute office dog trotting ...
We are very proud of the partnerships we have with the leading businesses in eCommerce and really do welcome the opportunity to catch up with our partners outside the normal work environment. One such opportunity presented itself with Fe...
Other Media in partnership with Arsenal FC have just launched the latest version of the Arsenal app for IOS and Android, which allows fans to personalise their matchday experience through the use of notifications. Fans can now choose on ...
According to at least one definition, sadly summer is over. But for us at Other Media, the Summer of Sport continues, and we’re not the only ones who think so. Apple’s latest special event saw the unveiling of several exciting new pr...
It recently occurred to me that I use Adobe Illustrator in my day-to-day role at Other Media as my go-to software for most design tasks. Naturally I use Photoshop for editing photos and InDesign for laying out my documents (and on the ra...
The Olympic Games, the greatest sporting spectacle in the world, where more than eleven thousand athletes compete for those shiny discs of gold, silver and bronze. The 2016 event in Rio, Brazil has provided an idyllic backdrop to some br...
Other Media are on the move and in more ways than one. After 15 years as residents of Bermondsey Street, seeing the place transformed from shabby to chic, it was time to move and think about the sort of space that we wanted for the agenc...
Over the past few years we have seen a move from website use to dedicated apps and the subsequent rise of responsive and adaptive sites to cater for an increasingly mobile digital audience. We’re now past the tipping point where more u...
Here at Other Media we are a team of big sports fans. So, for us, it’s been a great summer. Euro 2016, Wimbledon, the Tour de France – there really has been something for everyone. As digital innovators ourselves, it’s been fascinating t...
On Tuesday 12th July I had the pleasure of being invited to a virtual reality showcase event held at Gramercy Park Studio. Along with Bill Galloway, Creative Director at Other Media, I found myself in an awesome central London studio s...
As thousands of cyclists prepare for Ride 100 at the end of July, our very own Matt Jeoffroy was featured in the Sunday Telegraph about his family who are all riding together for the first time – the first family to have three generat...
When major sporting events come around the governing bodies always have the same conundrum; “How do we attract and engage with new fans while continuing to support and retain our existing ones?”. Tour de France, Wimbledon tennis and UEFA...
We have a fascination for data at Other Media, whether it is sports results, getting more out of Google Analytics, lead generation or dashboards. We’re always looking for ways to help our clients identify patterns in their businesses a...
Introducing the ECB A 10-year relationship with ECB allows an intelligently developing website and Mobile Apps all under strategic guidance from Other Media. The ECB is the single national governing body for all cricket played in England...
Author: Bill Galloway For years I have been searching for pixel perfection. It made sense. Raster based images ruled the digital design process. So I spent hours painstakingly crafting designs, immaculately naming layers and defining pre...
A recent report in UK medical journal The Lancet highlighted obesity as a bigger health crisis than hunger (http://www.thelancet.com/global-burden-of-disease) and our diet and misinformation about what we are eating is at the heart of...
The launch of ECB Cricket Live for iPad continues our relationship with the England and Wales Cricket Board, helping to keep cricket at the forefront of the digital world. ECB Cricket Live allows fans to follow the game on their iPad lik...
It’s a given that online businesses should be appealing to their mobile and tablet customers. The desktop share of web traffic is only going one way. A few years ago, talk in the industry was all about whether you should have a mobile ...
As with all new or emerging technologies, there are bound to be those with opposing views and opinions on how beneficial, superficial, useful or even gimmicky a product will be. The Apple Watch is by no means an exception to this rule. W...
When Apple announces a new class of product to the world, two thoughts invariably come to my mind and I am sure the minds of most of the Apple developer community. First, when can I get one? Second, when can I start making apps for it? T...
It’s a given that online businesses should be appealing to their mobile and tablet customers. The desktop share of web traffic is only going one way. A few years ago, talk in the industry was all about whether you should have a mobile ...
Developing for Apple watchIntroducing Apple watch Like many serious watchers of the digital universe, the team at Other Media is very Apple-aware and we are fortunate to have developed a great working relationship with the brand. Apple...
We scored a big hit last year with the multi award-winning ‘Wonders of Universe’ app for Harper Collins and we’re pleased to be able to follow it up with the latest in the series – Wonders of Life. The new app complements Wonders of th...
We have decided to publish our Social Media Benchmarking Template to engage both clients and other digital agencies in helping us decide the essential components of a digital strategy. We are helping many clients with their digital strat...
What is accessibility? When evaluating the quality of a site’s user experience, accessibility is a crucial factor. Put simply, it refers to the site being made usable for everyone; regardless of their ability or disability. Right now, t...
