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The Emmy Awards
About Client:
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is an organization responsible for presenting the annual Emmy Awards for outstanding work in the field of television production. The Emmy Awards have been presented annually since 1949 and reported 12.4 million viewers for its September 2011 broadcast.
Situation:
With the hopes of enhancing viewers’ Emmy-watching experience, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences wanted to create an iPhone app that would give users access to the vast amounts of information available about both the current and past Emmy Awards. An important issue on the table was the ability to update the content for each year’s show without having to completely change the application.
Solution:
Due to an extremely tight time frame, Truelogic’s iOS team and our international partner Devious Media built the app from scratch in a quarter of the time normally required for an app of this caliber, and for one-tenth of the price. Using Drupal as the CMS, the app was developed to access the content created, entered and managed by the webmasters of Emmys.com. As a crucial feature of this app is the ability to access and view videos of all Emmy-related events, Truelogic re-coded all the Academy’s videos that were hosted on Brightcove so that they can be viewed on future iOS mobile devices as well as on today’s versions of the iPhone, iPad, and iTouch. And thanks to Drupal’s web services, any information uploaded to the Emmy website is automatically loaded onto the app, keeping it completely up-to-date with all the news the user might be interested in.
The Emmy iPhone app features:
- additional information, photos, and videos of each nominee. If it’s on the Emmys.com website, it’s on the app!
- LIVE streaming of Backstage at the Emmy Awards footage.
- photos of all Academy of Television Arts and Sciences events including Nominations, Red Carpet, Creative Arts Awards, "An Evening With", TV Academy Honors, Hall of Fame, etc.
- exclusive videos of all the aforementioned events - more than 840 videos to date!
up-to-the-minute news about the Academy and its events.
- links and subscription options to the Academy’s Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube pages.
Technologies:
- Objective C
- JAVASCRIPT/AJAX
- PHP
- MySQL
