We won a BIMA!

Jollywise went to the BIMA Awards last night at Koko in Camden. We were nominated for three beautiful BIMAs and against stiff competition managed to walk away with one! We won the Special Award - Achievement - Strategy for "The Competition That Rocked" site we did for Spotify and Universal.

We all had a great night; mingling with the Digital Media elite, watching Beardyman perform, and drinking lots and even more once we'd won!

Michael Jackson's This is it - 377 nominations and counting

We've just launched this promotion with our buddies Spotify. We're trying to find out the nations most favourite MJ song. The early front runner is "Man in the Mirror" with the lions share of the voting.

Personally I'm all about songs from "Off the Wall" but hey it's the nations choice. not mine!!

The promotion is a tie up between Sony Pictures and Spotify and the winning entry picked at random, will bag 2 tickets for the Global Premiere of the Michael Jackson's - This is It, plus hotel accommodation and £150 notes spending money.

As far as prizes go.. You can't "Beat It" (you see what I did there?)

Article in Figaro Digital magazine.

We had a case-study in the latest issue of figaro digital magazine. It discusses our work with Spotify.

Check out the full article below:
http://figarodigital.co.uk/CaseStudy.aspx?pkCaseStudyID=011c325f-32cf-407f-9555-737f20807c6b

Spotify iPhone App is finally here (almost)

Spotify have released a video of their iPhone app. Apparently a few reporters have been able to see the app in action as well. It will be available to all Spotify Premium users for free.
The key to the app is the that you will be able to play songs offline, so you can use the app at home, on the train and even on the underground with no connection.

http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/07/27/spotify-for-iphone/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jul/27/spotify-digital-media


EDIT:
A more in-depth review:
http://sharemyplaylists.com/spotify-iphone-app-in-depth-review/

Spotify goes offline

Spotify are developing an Android app that allows you to listen to your music offline as well. Going on the Tube, but still want to hear that funky music - no problem: The app will cache a few tracks for you, whilst you're offline.

Read more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/28/spotify_offline_and_mobile/

The Boat That Rocked Spotify competition blogged

Just came across this interesting blog:
Digital-Examples - "Good Examples of Digital Creativity and Media Usage including online advertising"
And they mention our The Boat That Rocked / Spotify competition. Reading on, it's got some great digital marketing campaigns, useful for inspiration and ideas. I recommend having a read.

http://digital-examples.blogspot.com/2009/04/boat-that-rocked-playlists-on-spotify.html


Talking of Spotify - they've just opened up to 3rd party developers. Now this is where things get interesting:
http://musically.com/blog/2009/04/08/spotify-opens-up-to-third-party-developers/

Jollywise Media Rock the Boat

We recently put together this competition site for the Universal film The Boat That Rocked and Spotify. It's a combination that we think works incredibly well, with playlists for each of the film's main characters on Spotify. Just find out which playlist the mentioned song is on and enter the competition
http://www.thecompetitionthatrocked.com/

Music :) Ally have written about it too:
http://musically.com/blog/2009/03/26/the-boat-that-rocked-gets-spotify-promo-site/

Check out the New Media Age article as well. Although you'll need a login to read the full story.