Save Our Sounds has won gold for Best Cross-Media Promotion or Campaign at the The Radio Academy Promotions & Marketing awards. The project was produced in conjunction with the BBC World Service and AudioBoo, allowing users from around the world to upload endangered sounds directly to the site for playback online and in broadcast.
*From left to right: Steve Martin - World Service Promotions and navigation editor, Colin Babb - Save Our Sounds website producer, Kate Goldberg - Save Our Sounds website editor*
The insight is simple - there are numerous ways to capture the visual world, but barely anything in sound. The BBC World Service is trying to put that right and is asking people to help preserve 'endangered sounds' by recording and sharing them. The recordings are all displayed on an interactive map, developed by Airlock, that allows you to upload audio and place it exactly where it was captured. Other users can then click around and travel the world in sound.
Check out our new mapping service being used in support of BBC Sport's Wimbledon coverage. Better coverage = more fans = British winner?
We'll see (Go Andy).
BBC News has asked us to provide a data visualisation platform for the ever popular Have Your Say section of their site. The tool is intended to provide new and meaningful ways of interpreting the user generated content garnered against breaking news.
