Viral Spiral | U-Soap Media
Viral Spiral is a live cross-media game show in which studio contestants compete with members of the TV audience to solve clues which have been hidden around the internet. Studio and home teams compete for cash prizes by using search engines, social networks, mapping and media aggregators to find fragments to answer questions posed by
a convivial host. It’s pub quiz meets Alternate Reality Game
via Anneka Rice in Treasure Hunt. The majority of the audience doesn’t play, but enjoys the studio banter and live messages from players. No other live TV show uses the internet in this way.
U-Soap Media is a new Bristol based production company that has been set up to ride the leading edge of change in the broadcast industry. It was founded by Rik Lander and Jon Dovey who are partnered by Greg Browning. Rik Lander has a long track record as a media innovator, having been instrumental in the creation of 1980's video art movement scratch video, creator of an early web drama, magic-tree (2000) and director of several interactive web series including the BBC's teen web soap Wannabes. Jon Dovey is a professor of screen media at the University of the West of England and a leading academic in the fields of computer gaming and interactive media. Greg Browning is successful mover and shaker in West of England media and producer of the feature film, the Full Monteverdi.
Who else was commissioned in 2009?
Cyber-therapy | HMC, Drake Music and bibic
Mapping Software 1.0 | AntiVJ
AudioEnable | Nomos Media and Radio in Schools
The Generator | Indie Mobile
Street Art Dealer | C6.org and Steal from Work
