Influxis® develops and powers FWA’s 24/7 live streaming web app that introduces top ad agencies
June 21, 2011
The FWA launches a customized web app for the Favourite Website Awards’ 24/7 live streaming project that showcases 80 ad agencies from 28 countries.
FWAwebTV is a 24/7 live streaming project that showcases 80 of the world’s award winning interactive ad agencies from 28 countries. Each agency gets a one-hour slot of the live streaming schedule to introduce the agency. For subsequent rotations, these agencies will offer tutorials and other informative webcast sessions.
FWAwebTV is a brainchild of Rob Ford, the founder of the FWA, and it provides a real-time glimpse of what goes on in these top ad agencies every day. “Having such a huge network of award winning agencies at FWA, I just knew there was an opportunity to do something live to add to thefwa.com website. After speaking to some of the top FWA winners, I immediately realised this was indeed a good idea,” said Ford.
Pascal Leroy and Group94, a Belgian web design company, designed the website under the guidance of Rob Ford, and Influxis handled the web application development and hosting. Influxis was able to integrate the application with the FWA’s membership system, and it also developed FWAwebTV’s exclusive chat app Live Shout Box.
“As thefwa.com is a Flash site, I knew I wanted to use Flash Media Server for this project and Influxis was my #1 choice,” commented Ford.
Influxis also custom built FWAwebTV’s scheduling system where it automatically switches the live streaming to the respective agency at a scheduled time for a smooth transition from one stream to another. Also, a full mobile version of the service will be launched in the next several days.
“I am thrilled to have been able to help out Rob and Pascal in building such a great real time portal. It is incredibly addicting to watch, I’m sure new people get hooked everyday,” said Richard Blakely, Influxis CEO. “I have also learned a lot about different agency cultures by watching the streams, it reminds me that fun, creative office culture is important.”
The FWA’s goal is to continue to provide this unique creative platform for the world’s top ad agencies and let them organically grow FWAwebTV into something bigger and greater. To experience this live streaming, visit www.thefwa.com/fwawebtv.
