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ITV

Online Buzz Coverage of the FA Cup Final

thrudigital helped ITV with their online buzz coverage of the FA Cup Final. We created a social application that was integrated into the ITV Football website which produced a cool visualisation of mentions of Chelsea and Everton players on Twitter.

Mentions of players were represented by dynamically resizing bars, and the amount of overall team chatter was represented by dynamically resizing team logos. Goals scored were also dynamically updated on screen as well as a running score. After the match, users were able to replay the match and scrub along the timeline to see how Twitter buzz related to activity in the game.

The project received an unprecedented level of interest, with upbeat media coverage from around 50 online publications, including TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, The Guardian, PC Advisor and Computer Weekly. The online buzz around the FA Cup turned #facup into a global trending topic on Twitter.

Church of England

Lent Facebook application

Love Life Live Lent is a book published by The Church of England’s publishing company with a list of activities that you can do for lent.

To enable people to share their activities and to promote the book, we built a Facebook application for The Church that allows users to select an activity and post it to their newsfeed. By doing so, they also get a nice badge to show on their profile to demonstrate their involvement.

In addition to submitting activity within the application, users can also share their activity through twitter which is all displayed in the same activity stream within the application.

TravelScoops

Bespoke Online Community

David Henderson approached us with a concept for an online community for those that love to travel and we created TravelScoops.

TravelScoops allows a user to create a multi-stop trip, invite their friends and share content or scoops.
Every destination you can imagine is available in our database, all with latitude and longitude co-ordinates so that we can trace a users trip on the map. We’ve even got flags for each country to add an extra little touch.

To lower barriers of sign-up and to introduce extra viral features we’ve integrated Facebook connect allowing users to sign in using their Facebook details, easily invite their Facebook friends and post content back to Facebook.

Number 10

Facebook application

The communications team at 10 Downing street make very good use of online communities and social media and a Facebook application was the next step for them.

The application aggregates content from a variety of sources into one page for Facebook users to view.

In addition to the latest news from their website the application also features their latest tweet, the latest photos from flickr and also the latest video from Number 10 TV.

The application integrates with several points of a users profile once installed and also makes the most of some of the latest features of the Facebook application platform.

unifysport.com

Bespoke Online Community

James Steele is a pretty huge fan of Chelsea but he’s even more passionate about the amateur sports teams he plays for. He felt this market was particularly underserved online and in the run up to the Olympics he wanted to do something about that.

unifysport.com is an online community celebrating all that is amateur sports. We’ve all had mud on our shorts and been dumped with the teams laundry, and this is where you can let the banter commence.

The site allows you to easily manage and communicate with your team, pick the squad for the upcoming fixture and to really kick-off the changing room chat you can even rate each of your teammates performance.

NHS

Know Your Limits Widget

For the NHS Know Your Limits campaign we were asked to build a widget that educated users on the number of units they drink in an evening.

The widget was integrated into the campaign as the units calculator, and was portable to multiple platforms.

The widget can easily be shared on a huge range of possible social networks, including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.

Universal Pictures

Mamma Mia

For the release of the Mama Mia film thrudigital were asked to create a number of widgets and Facebook applications. We featured the trailer and the ability for a user to select their next holiday location and post a countdown to it on their social network profile, along with a weather report using Google’s weather API.

While we were at it, we also negotiated a joint venture with Gigya which saw the creation of 13 different language versions of the interface. This allowed Universal Pictures to rollout the campaign in 30 different territories.

The campaign site has been removed so unfortunately you can’t see the widget any more.

idiomag

idiomag

idiomag is a personalised magazine that aggregates quality content from hand-picked contributors and then delivers a personalised magazine to each individual reader, based on their interests.

We have been working with the idio team on an ongoing basis over the last couple of years helping them with development of their personalisation algorithms, their UI and also in their marketing efforts.

Church of England

Email newsletter

While working on a Facebook application with The Church, we started discussing their email communications. We quickly learnt that, while they were very consistent, their design didn’t promote all their activities as well as it could and they had no way of tracking success rates.

We designed The Church a template that clearly promoted their social media activity and allowed using updating and management of text and photo content. Using the thrumailer email system they also now have a load of juicy stats to work on. Interestingly the first newsletter that went out received a 40% open rate.

The widget can easily be shared on a huge range of possible social networks, including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.

About Us

A team of nerds, creatives and strategy ninjas based in central London, building websites, social networks, widgets and social media apps.

We have a portfolio that is good enough to make a male peacock blush, and some killer outside-the-box products...in a box.
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