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May 22, 2018Article, News, Adobe, eCommerce, Magento
Adobe Puts Magento into its Shopping Cart
Adobe’s proposed purchase of Magento for $1.68 billion is an interesting move and one that fits into its development from start-up Open Source solution to fully-fledged industrial strength ecommerce system....
May 11, 2018Article, News, Uncategorized, bitcoin, blockchain, Ticketing
Blockchains: From Bitcoin to Ticketing
Most of us know of blockchain in the context of cryptocurrency, but now there is a promising use being trialled at the Russia 2018 Football World Cup to keep secure records of ticket transactions, possibly signalling the beginning of...
April 27, 2018News, Award, Drapers, Vollebak
Other Media and Vollebak Win Best Website Design at the Drapers Digital Festival
At the Drapers Digital Festival, surrounded by other fashion brands achieving great things with digital, the vollebak.com website, that we truly loved creating, was crowned Best Website Design. We're really rather chuffed!...
April 23, 2018News, Android, App, Apple, customer experience, Mobile, Mobile App
The Importance of Customer Experience in Mobile Apps
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...
March 12, 2018Article, News, eCommerce, education, UAL, User Experience
UAL Short Courses Appoint Other Media to Streamline Online Sales
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....
February 27, 2018Article, News, Design, process, software
Design kids in a candy shop
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 ...
February 23, 2018Article, News, Design, process, sketch, software
We’re moving to Sketch for all of our UI design, but Illustrator isn’t dead yet.
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...
February 19, 2018Article, News, Android, Award, Design, e-commerce, iOS, Website
Other Media Shortlisted for 4 Awards at #STA2018 and #DrapersDigitals
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 ...
January 31, 2018Article, News, Ai, Chatbots, cryptocurrency, Digital Trends, GDPR, personalisation, voice
2018: Thoughts on the year ahead
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?...
January 19, 2018Article, News, Android, App, Digital, Football, iOS, Sport, Swansea, Ticketing
Swansea City become the first UK football club to offer In-App ticketing
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 Official Swans app. Launch...
January 17, 2018Article, News, Ai, Chatbots, Learning, Machine Learning
Using AI Chatbots to Support Learning
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...
November 17, 2017Article, News, GDPR
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR): Essential Guide
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....
November 1, 2017Article, News, App, Econsultancy, fan engagement, Football, Mobile, Sport, Wellbeing
Econsultancy on fan engagement and player wellbeing
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...
September 14, 2017News, Apple, iOS, iPhone
Saying hello to the future of mobile.
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...
September 13, 2017Article, News, Digital, Digital Trends, Event, news
Keep calm, the revolution is coming
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...
September 12, 2017Case Studies, News, Design, Responsive, Sport, User Experience, Website, Wordpress
Chelsea FC 3D Stadium Viewer
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...
August 15, 2017Article, News, fan engagement, Sport
Best in Class: Sports Fan Engagement
A few things to think about when considering how you approach fan engagement and a round up of some clubs and events that are successfully engaging with their fans...
August 15, 2017Article, News, App, fan engagement, Football
Swansea FC Fan App: What fans need – any time, any place
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...
July 9, 2017Article, News, App, Football, Health, iOS, Mobile, Mobile App, Sport, Wellbeing
Swansea City FC Lead the Field with New Player Information and Wellbeing App
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...
June 21, 2017Article, News, Dotmailer, email, Email Marketing, Marketing
Email Marketing: 11 Top Tips from the Brands Capitalising on Automation
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...
June 12, 2017Article, News, AR Kit, Digital, Digital Trends, iOS
Apple Ups the Ante in Augmented Reality at WWDC 2017
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May 25, 2017Article, News, Content, iOS, Mobile, Sport, Video
Video Clips Enhance In-Play Match Info
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...
May 24, 2017Article, News, App, Content, Engage, iOS, Mobile, Sport, Video
Video Content – Why is everyone using it?
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...
May 1, 2017Article, News, Ai, algorithm, email, just now, Machine Learning
Machine Learning: A competitor email experiment
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...
April 27, 2017Article, News, Award
Vollebak Triumphs Web Guru Awards
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...
April 18, 2017Article, News, Android, App, Award, iOS, Sport, Webby
Other Media honoured in Webby Awards
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 ...
March 21, 2017Article, News, Android, Football, iOS, Mobile, Mobile App, Sport
Why does a football club need an app?
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...
February 7, 2017Article, News, Development, Digital, Drupal, Expert, Opinon, Project, Tech, Wordpress
Drupal or WordPress?
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...
January 31, 2017Article, News, css, html, itcss
ITCSS – The inverted triangle, CSS the right way up
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....
January 27, 2017Article, News, accreditation, CCS, G-Cloud, Government, JTBD, Supplier Standards
We’ve been approved by the Crown Commercial Service Framework
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...
January 27, 2017Article, News, Approach, JTBD, Strategy
Jobs to be Done (#JTBD)
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...
January 13, 2017Article, News, Creative, Design, Event, Exhibition, Paper, Print
Paper, Paper, Everywhere!
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...
January 9, 2017News, Apple, iOS, iPhone
Happy Birthday iPhone
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...
December 14, 2016Article, News, Design, Digital, Event, Print, Social
The Fedrigoni Christmas Circus
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 ...
December 6, 2016Article, News, Apple, Apple Pay, Digital, Digital Trends, e-commerce
Five Ways Apple Pay Changes Ecommerce
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...
November 30, 2016Article, News, Digital Trends, Insights, Machine Learning
The rise of the machines: emerging themes from Supernova UK 2016
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...
November 25, 2016Article, News, Apple, Design, Event, Typography
Work Hard & Be Nice to People
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...
November 23, 2016Article, Justnow, News, data
SupernovaUK Highlighted our Strengths
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 ...
November 8, 2016Article, News, data, Digital Trends, Insights
Reflecting on Emerging Digital Trends
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...
October 7, 2016Article, News, Agile, Project Management, Scrum
Other Media attend Agile for Agencies meet up
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 ...
October 4, 2016Article, News, eCommerce, Feefo, JSON, Magento
Taking in the Feefo View – from the 22nd floor
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...
September 16, 2016Article, News, iOS, Mobile, Mobile App, Sport
Arsenal App Update
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 ...
September 8, 2016News, iOS, Sport
Apple’s September of Sport
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...
September 1, 2016Article, News, Adobe, Design, Illustrator, Workflow
Why I Work Faster and Better with Adobe Illustrator
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...
August 19, 2016News, Branding, Design, Sport
Going for Olympic Logo Gold
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...
August 5, 2016News, Studio Culture
We’re on the move
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...
August 3, 2016Justnow, News, iOS, Sport
One app or two?
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...
July 27, 2016Article, News, Sport
A Digital Summer of Sport
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...
July 26, 2016News
An Other Reality
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...
July 18, 2016News, Other Media, Sport, Studio Culture
Ride 100 for Other Media employees!
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...
July 8, 2016News, Services, Sport
Home Win for UEFA
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...
June 20, 2016Justnow, News, data, Services
Exploring “real-time” data at Other Media
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...
January 9, 2016News, Sport
ECB Cricket Live sets the bar for sports apps
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...
January 9, 2016News
A farewell to designing in Photoshop
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...
January 9, 2016News
Can I Eat it? goes free to help combat increases in obesity and food allergies
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...
January 8, 2016News
ECB iPad update
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...
January 8, 2016Justnow, News, Services
RWD is easier for analytics
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 ...
January 7, 2016News, Sport
Designing for Apple watch
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...
January 5, 2016News, Sport
Developing for Apple watch
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...
June 20, 2015News
Responsive Web Design: Is it worth it?
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 ...
April 8, 2015News, Sport
Introducing Apple watch
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...
January 9, 2012News
Wonders of Life wins iTunes ‘Editors Choice’ on both sides of the Atlantic
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...
June 17, 2010News
Social Media Benchmarking Template: how to help a client plan their strategy
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...
June 17, 2010News
Web Accessibility – Designing for inclusivity
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...