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NewsBest Social Media & Digital Marketing Campaign: BRIT Awards 2016
Somethin’ Else’s round-the-clock Brits campaign unified Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Vine and YouTube resulting in an “impressive, creative and truly cross-platform strategy.”
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NewsBest Popular Factual Programme: Charlie Hebdo: 3 Days That Shook Paris
Commissioned within two months of the Paris attacks of January 2015, Ursula Macfarlane’s moving film mixed interviews, news footage and eyewitnesses’ own mobile phone recordings to piece together the shocking events.
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NewsBest Content Partnership or AFP: Formula E Season 2 Digital
Working with world feed partner Aurora Media, plus brands including BMW, Visa and Microsoft, Little Dot distributed race content to social platforms and created a daily schedule that included technology explanations, driver interviews, lists and infographics, celebrity-led content, behind-the-scenes material and news.
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NewsBest Specialist Channel: CBBC
With a fresh look that sought to remind older children that there is still a place for them on the channel, judges said CBBC is “always inventive, clever, engaging and rewarding”.
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NewsBest Digital Programme Support: Formula E Season 2 Digital
The all-encompassing campaign was complimented by the judges for its “success in driving audiences through innovative execution of a comprehensive audience-first strategy”.
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NewsBest App or Website for Channel, Strand or Genre: At the Races
Simplestream have created an accessible, comprehensive app offering a range of brilliantly executed features for horse-racing fans - earning itself four and a half stars in Apple’s App Store
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NewsBest Sports or Live Event Coverage: League of Legends World Championship
The BBC’s move into e-sports for its coverage of the four-day League of Legends World Championship, an online video-gaming tournament at Wembley, proved a major success for the broadcaster.
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NewsBest Game: Operation Ouch: The Snotapocalypse
Created to support the fourth series Operation Ouch!, the endless game was brilliantly integrated with the TV programme and played more than 1 million times in its first four weeks.
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NewsBest Entertainment Programme: Murder in Successville
A “fantastically innovative comedy” which generated a massive Twitter buzz and unanimously impressed the judges with its originality.
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NewsPuttnam: ISPs and digital giants should fund public service content
Lord Puttnam’s Future of Public Service Television report has called for the creation of a public service content fund that is bankrolled by digital conglomerates and internet providers.
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NewsFountain Studios closure date confirmed
The date for the closure of Fountain Studios has been confirmed, with the next series of The X Factor set to be the last show to shoot at the facility.
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NewsPuttnam: Don't privatise C4
Channel 4 should not be privatised in full or in part, says former deputy chair Lord Puttnam.
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NewsPuttnam calls to scrap licence fee
The BBC’s licence fee should be replaced, its royal charter abolished and government intervention curtailed to protect the corporation’s independence, according to Lord Puttnam.
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NewsPanorama editor heads to Oxford University
Panorama editor Ceri Thomas is leaving the BBC after 24 years.
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NewsBBC wants digital expertise as it mulls iPlayer log-in
Tony Hall is keen to add digital and marketing expertise to the corporation’s new unitary board to help guide the MyBBC project.
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NewsHall: BBC has cut spend on top talent by 25%
The BBC has cut the amount it pays its highest earning on-screen talent by £2.3m, Tony Hall has revealed.
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NewsBBC's Traffic Cops moves to C5
Channel 5 has picked up long-running blue light show Traffic Cops after 14 series on the BBC.
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NewsAmazon acquires Steven Soderbergh drama
Amazon has acquired the UK rights to Steven Soderbergh’s high-end escort drama The Girlfriend Experience.
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NewsNickelodeon launches evening block
Nickelodeon is establishing an evening programming block to target teen audiences.
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NewsPiers Wenger appointed BBC head of drama
Channel 4 head of drama Piers Wenger has been appointed BBC director of drama commissioning after four years at the ad-supported broadcaster.