All3Media: Skins
SkinsLife is a community based around the smash-hit E4 show Skins. As well as allowing fans to audition for the show, the site brings the Skins vibe to the web and promotes a series of highly participatory parties.
“We're incredibly pleased with skinslife.com. It's exactly the sort of
site I've been trying to make for years. It was delivered on time and on
budget with little project management from us. Great work!”
Andy Taylor, Head of Digital, All3Media
Channel 4: MobileAct
MobileAct is the cross-platform search for Britain's best unsigned band. In the wake of recent TV voting scandals, it was essential that the mobileAct vote process was rock solid. Mint created a system that recorded all votes in two separate way and securely transferred them to the adjudicator for analysis.
“On a tight deadline, Mint Digital built a robust and scaleable voting
system for mobileAct. The website they created was a key factor in the success of this cross-platform project.”
Sebastian Scott, MD, Princess Productions
ABC Family: Virtual RushVirtual Rush an be only viewed from within the US!
Virtual Rush is a social network based upon the ABC Family dramedy 'Greek'. As well as hanging out in fraternities and sororities, the website offers its members the chance to win a walk on role in the TV show via a series of weekly photo and video challenges
“Virtualrush.com has broken new ground for ABC Family and we're thrilled that it's off to such a great start. The site's just so engaging, and we love that our online audience is having such fun with it, visiting often and staying for longer and longer lengths of time.”
Paul Lee, President, ABC Family
Virtual Rush can only be viewed from within US. Sorry!
Thumbplay community
Social network with a focus on sharing photos for leading US mobile content aggregator.
Press:
Mobile users come out Thumbplay
Peter Suciu, MobileCrunch
Jessica Dolcourt, CNET
Islandoo
Islandoo is the place to apply for Shipwrecked, Channel 4's hit reality TV show.
Press:
“An internet phenomenon to rival the social networking site MySpace” (pdf)
Paul Kelbie, Independent
“Islandoo has developed into a full-blown social networking site” (pdf)
Emiko Terazono, Financial Times
Background on Islandoo
Ogilvy: Calve Topdown
Squeezy Skillz (also known as Calve Topdown) invites you to show off your skills with a bottle of squeezable mayonnaise. The site makes use of BloomBox's multilingual capabilities - one installation runs versions of the site for Spain, Portugual, Italy, Ireland and the UK.
Press:
Hellman's shakes up web content
Danielle Long, New Media Age
MTV Oxjam
Get Seen Get Heard is a new talent initiative that calls out to the nation's up-and-coming music stars to get involved for the chance of recognition on MTV.
“We are delighted with the project... Mint's BloomBox software gives them flexibility and speed to create a site that matched and exceeded our brief.”
Dan Campbell, MTV NE
BBC: Buried Alive
Buried Alive is a web/TV concept that creates a new kind of archive show. In April 2006, Buried Alive won a BBC Content 360 award at MIPTV in Cannes. It is now in development.
“The best project from all the pitch sessions as it really combined user-generated content, community, rich media and potentially mobile.”
Gary Hayes, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production
Channel 4: Shipwrecked
Mint conceived, designed and built this site celebrating Channel 4’s Shipwrecked. Taking the fanzine approach, the site takes the contestants and gets under their skin.
“A consistently excellent site that brings the show to life online and grows in popularity every week.”
Janine Smith, Entertainment Editor, C4 Interactive
