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Interactive
Annebots gets greenlight from Amazon Studios
The animated kids pilot (pictured) from Toronto-based Sinking Ship Entertainment will be produced as a full series, to be available exclusively on Amazon’s instant video streaming service.
Temple Street, Secret Location win at AToMiC
Buck Productions, Rogers Media and the CBC also earned prizes at the 2013 awards, which recognize breakthrough achievements in advertising, media creativity, technology and content (Stanfield’s The Gitchhiker pictured).
NFB filmmaker named MIT visiting artist
Katerina Cizek will work with the institute’s OpenDocLab to develop the next production in the NFB’s multimedia Highrise project.
ideaBOOST unveils spring cohort
Projects including Wondereur (pictured), Motion Panels+ and Lightning Platform will participate in the spring session of the CFC Media Lab’s business accelerator program.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of May 5
This week we see how Degrassi’s social-media managers were able to get online attention by prompting fans to chose a favourite episode while The Borgias and Top Chef Canada also fared well.
Minority Media’s Papo & Yo wins big at NUMIX Awards
The Quebec multimedia kudosfest also gave Apartment 11 Productions the best convergent production prize for its kids-based Cross Country Fun Hunt product (Papo & Yo pictured).
Rockies nominations for Canuck TV and digital projects
Homegrown series Bomb Girls and Seed (pictured) and interactive agency Secret Location are among the Canadian nominees for the awards recognizing the best in international programming.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Apr. 28
The final episode of Big Brother Canada‘s social media campaign notched a breakout 123,000 interactions last week, well trouncing both The Borgias and Bomb Girls online executions.
Weekly roundup: Series returns, sales and foreign service
The briefs this week include news of numerous award wins, Rookie Blue‘s season return date and that Montreal’s Chloe Wilde (pictured) has been named a new Much VJ.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Apr. 21
This week we see Big Brother Canada bested by pre-season-return Rookie Blue social media activity, while the Juno Awards also caused a spike of chatter.
Showcase launches Continuum Interactive
The convergent experience, developed with Toronto-based Secret Location, incorporates Vine videos and social media sharing and voting to influence the outcome of the second season finale.
Kirstine Stewart on plans for Twitter Canada
The former CBC EVP English services talks to Playback about plans for a local Twitter arm as she takes the reins as managing director of Twitter Canada.
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