The COVID-19 pandemic and its various impacts have generated a range of data narratives as governments and media seek to understand and explain what is happening and what might happen. Rarely has a single story dominated the news in a way that makes almost all other subjects insignificant. To keep things accessible, governments across the … Read More
An Incalculable Loss – The New York Times visualisations are contemporary and highly responsive on large and small screens in tune with their diverse readership. A compelling narrative is informed by memories from thousands of obituaries and shines a light on the human loss, like the 87-year-old Green Bay Packers season ticket holder or the … Read More
Coronavirus Infographic DataPack – The data narrative and design experts list their loves as science, journalism, truth, and beauty. Their audience-centred COVID-19 DataPack delivers leading-edge visuals which encourage learning and foster a deeper understanding in the viewer. The pioneering Infection Trajectories can be configured by average or total daily deaths and cases in alluring 7-day … Read More
Tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus – – Visuals are delivered inventively and at the highest quality, both clear indicators of how much investment has been made into the global information company’s graphical content. A look behind the presentation interface reveals an impressive host of technologies in play to analyse data and structure information. … Read More
Coronavirus Disease Dashboard – The World Health Organisation is ground-breaking in how it shares its data in a variety of formats as a bonus to the engaged viewer. Views are customisable with advanced search by country, territory or area and the design has a modern aesthetic impact. There is a unique Explorer screen, providing progressive … Read More
Tracking the global outbreak – – The messages behind the BBC visuals are compelling and clear. Like a growing number of media organisations, they have a dedicated visual and data journalism team who enables the delivery of up-to-the-minute data stories. The experience is exceptional across all devices, particularly with contemporary maps and intuitive scroll functions. … Read More
My good pal and data art superstar Peter Crnokrak mapped artistic and scientific creations to the last 500 years of history, like you do, and revealed creativity flourishes after conflict occurs. I wonder if isolation will have the same impact as destruction seems to. Amazon and Netflix are kicking it for obvious reasons but to … Read More
There is one book that I would take to a desert island with me. It’s not the complete works of Shakespeare, James Joyce’s Ulysses or Tyson Fury’s Behind the Mask. It’s a toff life! It is the newspaper epic Pictures on a Page by ex-Sunday Times editor Harold Evans and it is a pictorial and … Read More
Fairy tales are often spoken about the humans who are categorised as Generation Z. For those who can’t be bothered to google, Gen Z is a term or weapon to describe 2.5 billion people, aged between 7 and 23, younger siblings of millennials, whose parents were probably into the Happy Mondays, Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy … Read More
In 2014, OTT success was mainly attributable to Netflix. In 2020 OTT success, is mainly attributable to Netflix. Every three months the Netflix big beasts slouch away from their streaming media server farm to reveal quarterly earnings and subscriber counts, which are quickly followed by financial and media analysts writing about new viewing habits and … Read More
@mediacells Running as a candidate in the UK 2019 elections must be a neurotic pursuit. There are stories being told about you, sometimes spun by invisible storytellers. The substance of the stories is at best dubious and at worst malevolent and if you want to change the message, you first need to influence the influencers. … Read More
Mauricio Pochettino had five and a half successful years as Head Coach at Tottenham Hotspur. He failed to win any trophies but the team and the Club undeniably moved forward, better squad, new stadium and training ground. Meanwhile, Jose Mourinho, a pantomime villain at Spurs for his time at Chelsea, had been sacked from the … Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has banned Powerpoint presentations in meetings. Not only that, but meetings start with each attendee sitting and silently reading a six-page memo for the first 30 minutes. People take notes then discuss the memo. This group reading process is necessary because “executives will bluff their way through the meeting as if … Read More
We’re very excited to announce that Mediacells has been appointed by Southampton FC to support the continuing transformation of their digital output. The new agreement will see Mediacells develop a single source social media analytics platform to deliver compelling content that acquires and retains fans. Performance Analytics will deliver Saints a 360-degree, near-live view of … Read More
The BBC has announced an update of the iPlayer, the 4th since its launch 12 years ago. Where the iPlayer had a 40% share of streaming audience 5 years ago, it’s now down to 15% due to the Netflix effect – even before the launch of Disney Plus and Apple TV in the next 6 … Read More
The UEFA Champions League Group Stage returned this week – the biggest annual football tournament in the world with elite stars playing each other in the most popular sport. So how should the industry measure their digital footprint and engagement? What constitutes success? The classic ‘big number’ on the press release? Or something more granular, … Read More
Can a fan ever be happy to be called a customer? Do they actually care about anything outside the pitch itself? Can the football business ever build something truly authentic for the devoted hardcore? Tottenham Hotspur have taken a £1bn gamble that the answer to these questions is a resounding ‘Yes.’ On the evidence of … Read More
What a week. There’s now 3.6bn mobile internet users worldwide, according to eggheads at the annual gathering of mobile digital in Catalonia #MWC. I traded Barcelona for Hollywood this year to cover a data story on the Oscars 2019 which my brilliant Mediacells colleagues have transcended into a stunning visual narrative. Cadillac lit the touchpaper … Read More
There are lots of predictions at this time of year, particularly in digital circles. Google is predicting that users will spend more time watching online video in 2019 than in front of the television. Is this a surprise to anybody? Mediacells anticipates pioneering media experiences, like Netflix Original’s format-subverting Bandersnatch, will transform traditional viewing habits … Read More
