It’s that Oscar time of the year again, when everyone gets dressed up and cries mascara into their Gucci. And to celebrate we’ve just launched the brand new Play.com Movie Awards Widget!
This snazzy little app lets the great movie going public scroll through the 2010 Oscar nominations in all the leading categories, view trailers and even vote thumbs-up or down for their favourite films. Who needs an awards committee? Read More…
It’s not just DVDs and Blu-rays that benefit from our video banner services. We’ve just produced 3 new video game banners for Play.com to advertise the new releases: Aliens Vs Predator, Bioshock 2 and Dante’s Inferno.
Video games have slowly become as narrative driven as any movie or TV show, and most now feature an array of leading characters and a big fat storyline to boot – which lends itself perfectly to our video banner services. Read More…
Anyone remember our article entitled 3D animation excellence? If you do, I’m sure you’ll be very pleased to hear that our logo animation for games developer Natural Motion is set to featured in the new game ‘Backbreaker’.
‘Backbreaker’ is the upcoming American football game (well it’s not really football is it?) from NaturalMotion. It’s been built using their euphoria engine that uses full 3D character animation to generate animations as the game is played – so every tackle is unique and not a recording. Read More…
Our recent email marketing success for 2K Games – a mail-out for the ‘Borderlands Moxxi’s Underdome Riot’ download pack, which resulted in a 30% conversion rate, has lead us to look into the reasons why email marketing has become such an essential part of many businesses’ marketing strategy:
It’s global – It doesn’t matter if your customers are in Outer Mongolia or inner Macclesfield, your mail-out will reach them for exactly the same cost, in exactly the same condition, and in roughly the same amount of time. Read More…
We’ve just finished our latest Video Banner for Play.com, this time for the new to DVD feature ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’.
The story’s set in a town where food falls from the sky. Flint Lockwood’s an inventor who’s desperate to create something that will improve everyone’s life – and somehow manages to turn water into food. Read More…
Ahoy me hearties! Hang on that’s pirates…never matter. It’s me The Blog Master and I’m back to spread yet more words of cyber wizardry to all ye merry gentle-persons – this time about that majestic application Magento that everyone keeps making such a fuss about.
T’was just last year when we all noticed Magento dramatically multiply by the ecommerce dozen, with scores of websites converting to the ecommerce application. Read More…
Our latest project for Play.com – a widget application for their clothing channel – has resulted in 18% of people visiting the service making a purchase.
Why such a high conversion rate? Well our Clothing Widget lets you choose clothes from Play.com’s fabulous range, add them to your virtual wardrobe and then arrange them creatively on a mannequin to see what stylish outfit you’ve selected. Read More…
We are a versatile bunch here at The Pixel. We can do just about anything that looks visually beautiful. And you might not have known this, which is our fault and not yours, but we’re also a dab hand at 3D animation videos.
Just take a look at what we’ve done for our clients and friends at Natural Motion, the game developers/animation pioneers. Natural Motion entrusted in us the honour of producing their new logo animation. Read More…
We’ve just launched our brand new service to provide ecommerce development using the successful Magento application. Take a look at our brand new website for a more detailed explanation of exactly what we offer: http://www.thepixel.com/magento/.
The service will be affordable to both small and large businesses, whether new to the internet or established traders, and will feature the vast array of facilities present in the Magento ecommerce platform. Read More…
Hello there my friendly little web hermits. Do you recall me boasting of our success in a time not so long ago, at achieving the Site of the Day honour from The CSS Awards?
No? Never-matter, as it’s old hat. Our score of 8.09 was bold enough to defeat all web design specialist foes (and worthy competitors they were…) to gloriously present us with the Site of The Month award. Site of the Day is so last blog. Read More…
