Sport1 Interactive has won this year’s “Best use of Interactive TV” NMA Effectiveness award. The award was announced at the NMA ceremony held in London on 28 June.
The judging panel was “impressed and amused by the service, which they found to feature good depth and breadth of content. They felt its success owed a lot to the smooth user experience and that it provided true interactivity.”
For further information, please see my portfolio entry for Sport1 Interactive.
Summary: My First Home is a programme on RTL4 aimed at first-time home buyers in the Netherlands. When the red button appears on screen, viewers can push the red button on their remote to access more information about Rabobank’s products and services and also request that Rabobank contact them with more information at a later date.
Role: storyboard and interaction design, art direction, project management, application build.
I’m delighted that Sport1 Interactive has been nominated for an International Emmy Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Interactive TV”. Other nominees include BBCi and Connect TV. The winner will be announced during the MIPTV Conference in Cannes.
Summary: Discovery Channel viewers are invited to press red to find out more about the Beyond the limit series. The application presents background information about the making of the programme, facts about Everest and biographies of the climbers. The viewer can participate in a quiz and enter a prize draw for a chance to win a prize.
Summary: This application allows viewers to vote for which artists and films they think should win an Oscar in this year’s Academy Awards. The voting application can be reached by pressing the red button during a 60 second interactive commercial, or by pressing red at any time while watching one of the Film1 channels. The application also allows viewers to link to UPC’s instant upgrade application in order to subscribe to the Film1 channel package. The results of the poll are announced on-air during the live Oscar’s commentary and published on the Film1 website.
The application has been nominated for the NMA Award for Best Use of Interactive Television.
Summary: Viewers could vote for their favourite console games with the winners being announced live on the internet. After making their selections, the viewer could carry on watching the channel or link directly to the UPC Interactive Games Portal. Over 20,000 users voted using the service.
Role: storyboard and functional specification; project management; application build.
Summary: Viewers of MTV’s channels in the Netherlands can vote for their favourite artists in 14 awards categories via the red button. The voting results are collated with the votes via TMF’s website and the winners announced at the TMF Awards Ceremony at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam.
The application has been nominated for the NMA Award for Best Use of Interactive Television.
Summary: Since taking over production of the Sport1 interactive service in Jul 2006 I have added new features such as an 8 screen mosaic allowing viewers to choose coverage from 8 different games. Live data feeds with statistics from new football competitions have been integrated and I designed and built the Spot the Ball game. The service has been nominated in the Interactive Services Category in the 2007 International Interactive Emmy Awards. It will compete alongside the UK’s BBCi and Israel’s Connect-TV service.
Role: storyboard; application build; conceptualisation, design and build of Spot the Ball game.
Client feedback:“I worked with Patrick on a number of award winning interactive applications including Sport1 Interactive. Patrick has always been easy to work with and willing to go the extra mile to get things completed on time.” June 2, 2008
Summary: This is the first interactive service on UPC’s new digital platform to integrate a live content feed. The service is available 24/7 via the red button on the EuroNews channel. The news stories, business and economic news and weather information are updated from a live feed every 10 minutes. The application is now live in Austria, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland as well as the Netherlands
Role: storyboard and functional specification; GUI design; project management; application build; live data feed integration.
Client feedback: “Patrick has been very creative and extremely efficient when we created and when we put EuroNews’ Interactive TV service up to date. His work was very professional and he showed a deep and detailed knowledge – and furthermore he is fun to work with!”
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A multi-disciplined interactive designer/developer with a passion for creating engaging user-experiences.
