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New Year Revolution
revolution.channel4.com/
31 days. 3 life changing revolutions. A fresh crop of C4 talent blazing a trail and an army of comrades following in their wake. January 2012 saw more than 60,000 users pledge to Get Fit, Stop Wasting Money, or Try Something New while the videos they posted on YouTube clocked up over 350,000 views.
Blog posts
New Year Revolution 11 January 2012 -
StickyGram
stickygram.com/
StickyGram transforms your Instagram images into fridge magnets. Since its inception in early 2011 the business has sent more than 500,000 magnets across the globe to over 90 countries.
Blog posts
Instagram + magnets = 6 October 2011 -
Olly & Polly
ollyfactory.com/
Olly and Polly are web-connected robots. Olly turns pings into pongs and Polly turns retweets into sweets. The first Olly prototype was developed by Foundry, Mint Digital’s first ever graduate scheme. It won the 2012 Ideal Home Inventor award and has made significant waves across the tech community.
Blog posts
Foundry: Inventors of the Year 21 March 2012
An Evening with Mint Foundry 24 October 2011
Foundry 8 August 2011 -
The Sexperience 1000
sexperienceuk.channel4.com/the-sexperience-1000
Sexperience 1000 is an interactive journey through the sexual experiences of a thousand British individuals. Combining the ultimate in functionality and design, this nifty visualizer scooped the coveted BIMA award for Use of Data, Mashups & Data-Visualisation while also picking up a nomination for the BIMA Grand Prix.
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The Sexperience 1000 17 August 2011
We won a BIMA! 11 November 2011 -
Innovation Hotel
innovation.ihgplc.com
Innovation Hotel is a showcase of Intercontinental Hotel Group's ideas in sustainable tourism.
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IT'S MY TIME
casting.benetton.com
IT'S MY TIME is a global casting competition for Benetton. An international phenomenon: 65,000 entrants uploaded over 500,000 photos in 36 days. The site delivered 56 million page views.
"When we first started talking to agencies about creating an online casting competition for Benetton, Mint Digital immediately stood out from the crowd. Where others talked about technologies, Mint talked about communities and how best to create, grow and manage them. With Mint's experience of social media campaigns we designed and implemented an online fashion competition for Benetton which way exceeded our expectations in terms of reach and engagement."
Andy Cameron, Executive Director, Fabrica
Blog posts
A statistical review 25 May, 2010
IT'S:UX:TIME 9 March, 2010
IT'S MY TIME - 48 hours and 1.3m pageviews later 10 February, 2010 -
Quotables
quotabl.es
Quotables aims to reinvent the quotations dictionary for the 21st century. It has four aspects: a utility for saving quotes, an indicator of what is on the collective mind, a growing reference source and a community of language lovers.
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Quotables: hiring in Scotland 4 August, 2010
Love a good quote 29 July, 2010 -
LivePitch
mintdigital.com/livepitch
LivePitch is a real-time football stats visualisation iPad app, built as a experimental prototype to celebrate the World Cup, using data from Picklive.
Blog posts
LivePitch 17th June, 2010
Mint's iPad Challenge 7th May, 2010
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Sexperience
sexperienceuk.channel4.com
Sexperience is an online encyclopedia of the nation's sexual experiences. Targeted at teens, it has created an open dialogue around sensitive issues and confronted them head on through extensive video content.
Commissioned by Channel 4, the Sexperience site has enjoyed over 7 million visits generating in excess of 40 million page views and the average time spent on site is a whopping 8 minutes 36 seconds.
Blog posts
Sexperience Awards 21 May, 2012
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About The Sexperience Quiz (But Were Afraid to Ask) 3 June, 2011
RTS nominations for Landshare and Sexperience 13 October, 2009
Sex sells. Mint Delivers. 7 April, 2009
Sexperience hits the Gee spot 12 September, 2008 -
Landshare
landshare.channel4.com
In collaboration with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage, Landshare connects people who want to grow their own veg with people who have got land to spare.
Blog posts
Hugh + Keo + C4 + Six to Start + Mint = Landshare 24 February, 2009
Land shared 14 April, 2009
Landshare gets a nomination 28 May, 2009
RTS nominations for Landshare and Sexperience 13 October, 2009 -
Orange unsignedAct
unsignedAct is a nationwide competition to find the best unsigned musical talent in the UK.
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Orange unsignedAct is live! 13 August, 2008 -
SkinsLife
SkinsLife is a community based around the smash-hit E4 show Skins.
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TV + social web + parties = SkinsLife 20 February, 2008 -
Picklive Football
football.picklive.com
Play Picklive Football while watching a live match on TV. Pick 3 players and get points for everything they do on the pitch: passes, tackles, goals and corners. See how well you read the beautiful game.
Blog posts
A glorious month of Picklive 11 June, 2010
Football3s becomes Picklive Football 15 March, 2010
Football3s is go 2 February, 2010
Football3s Bank Holiday Bonanza 22 May, 2009
Beat the goalie 18 April, 2009 -
Osama Loves
osamaloves.channel4.com
Osama Loves is a mission to discover the sunnier side of Islam.
Blog posts
Osama Loves 26 June, 2008
The Sun loves Osama Loves 23 July, 2008
Love for Osama 30 January, 2009 -
River Island: Style Insider
www.styleinsider.riverisland.com
Style Insider follows eight Insiders as they reveal the hottest River Island fashions, share fashion tips and attend exclusive parties.
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Mints in Fashion 13 June, 2008 -
Radio Pop
Radio Pop is social radio for the BBC’s radio stations where you can catalogue and share what you and your friends are listening to.
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Mint is Top of the Radio Pops 29 September, 2008 -
weplay
www.weplay.com
weplay is a sports network for children, and is one of the biggest sites Mint has ever built.
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mobileAct Unsigned
mobileAct Unsigned is the cross-platform search for Britain's best unsigned band.
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mobileAct website 9 November, 2007
Envy and Other Sins win mobileAct 28 December, 2007 -
Squeezy Skills
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.
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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.
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Virtual Rush
Virtual Rush is a social network based upon the ABC Family dramedy 'Greek'.
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Genuine cross-platform entertainment? 8 January, 2008
From one Mint to another... 1 December, 2008 -
Big Brother's Big Ears
Big Brother's Big Ears was a twice-weekly radio talk show aired throughout Big Brother 9. The site provided a platform for users to ask and vote up / down user-generated questions to guests of the show while they were being interviewed by presenters, Iain Lee and Gemma Cairney.
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Get Seen Get Heard
Get Seen Get Heard is a talent initiative that calls out to the nation's up-and-coming music stars to get involved with MTV.
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New BloomBox site: MTV's Oxjam 19 December, 2006 -
Islandoo
Islandoo turns casting for Channel 4's Shipwrecked into a social web experience.
Blog posts
Islandoo: powered by BloomBox 12 September, 2006
Islandoo buzz 27 September, 2006
Islandoo in the news 25 October, 2006
"Now the best talent is online" 16 February, 2007
Islandoo opens up 03 October, 2007 -
Thumbplay
www.thumbplay.com
Thumbplay is a social network with a focus on sharing photos for the leading US mobile content aggregator.
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Thumbplay community launches 6 September, 2007
