Interactive

Dino Dan gets Ruckus app treatment

Toronto’s Sinking Ship has granted rights to the U.S. mediaco to develop interactive e-books and storybooks in addition to story-based apps based on the popular kids series.

Operation Unplugged plugs in with website launch

Jonas Diamond, exec producer at Smiley Guy Studios, tells Playback Daily about the seemingly ironic strategy behind launching an interactive online hub to promote awareness of technology dependence.

Nelvana expands with digital releases

The kids entertainment production company is this year launching new apps, webisodes and eBooks featuring its popular brands Franklin the Turtle, Max and Ruby and Scaredy Squirrel.

AToMiC: CBC takes off with a new narrative

In its first-ever multi-episodic interactive story game, the broadcaster launches an interactive game for its show, Arctic Air.

CTV gives a Smash preview

In a strategy to grab audience eyeballs and create buzz, viewers will be given a multi-platform preview of the new musical drama’s pilot episode during Super Bowl weekend, ahead of the show’s premiere on Feb. 6.

TVO, TVA and Nick Jr. dig up more Dino Dan

The nets have ordered up an additional 52 11-min eps of the live-action and CGI series from Toronto’s Sinking Ship Entertainment, which is expanding to accommodate the work.

CBC, Google and YouTube among Canada’s most influential brands: survey

Media and technology brands like Apple and Facebook were also amongst the top 10, with Canadians naming Microsoft as the most influential.

Transmedia: Saviour for Canadian TV, or its successor? Part 3

Here’s a surprise: Canada is awash in production dollars for transmedia. In the third and final instalment of our series on cross-platform production, Playback tells producers where the treasure is buried, and how to raise it from funders.

Transmedia: Saviour for Canadian TV, or its successor? Part 2

Playback Daily shows producers how to take advantage of low barriers to entry in transmedia production to develop, produce and distribute content that catches on like catnip with audiences.

Transmedia: Saviour for Canadian TV, or its successor? Part 1

The first in a three-part series of articles exploring how transmedia is encouraging new approaches to content creation, based on collaboration of skills as opposed to “assembly line” production.

Deloitte’s 2012 media and tech predictions

Earlier this week in Toronto, the research company released its forecasts in areas of technology, media and telecommunications.

How transmedia is about creating order out of chaos

Keynote speaker Anita Ondine tells Canadian broadcasters and producers attending the Merging + Media conference in Toronto that transmedia storytelling means breaking down traditional silos.