Microsite Design & Custom Development For De Agostini
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Introductory information
Please draw your organisation.
We are a collectible magazine publishing organisation based in London. We',re part of the De Agostini Group, which is Italian-owned. We',ve been in business in the U.K. for the last 40 years. We vary from regular magazines in that our products have a limited number of issues to a series.
What is your position?
I',m the marketing director.
Desired goal
Could you draw the business challenge that you were trying to address with Activate Media?
We',ve been working with them for at smallest three or four years now. We didn',t have an in-house digital or Web design team at all, so we',ve outsourced all to different agencies. They',re delimitedly the best website design organisation that I',ve used for a long time, however.
Provided solution
Could you draw the aim of their involvement in biger detail?
They',ve worked on a number of websites for us, some very single ones for testing our products, very basic and used principally to obtain subscribers. We',ve also had two projects where we worked with them on a more intricate platform, which implicated a much more interactive access. We always get Activate Media to design our websites owing they can be veritably creative and inventive, but quiet within the licensor',s guidelines to form a good website.
I don',t know what technologies they utilized but, for me, that was the loveliness of working with them – that they knew all. They could do the design and outgrowth – excellently all. They are very proactive in provisions of very good scheduling, too. Not only are they efficient, they',re also veritably pliant with their clients. Our business is last diminutive, and they',ve been able to fit to changes in requirements. I',ve veritably appreciated that front of their labor access.
How did you come to work with Activate Media?
Activate Media was referred to us by a helper of a friend, so we gave them some jobs to delicate for on our Web design side of the business, and we',re veritably pleased with the results.
Can you give a perception of the size of the start in financial provisions?
In total, it',s probably between £100,000 and £150,000 [approximately $158,000 and $238,000].
What is the terminal result of working with Activate Media?
They',ve completed numerous projects for us, and we maintain an ongoing relationship with them. We have an in-house design arm, but they get overloaded sometimes. So, anything intricate or extra sexy that we need, or anything we can',t get done in a regular way, my leading call is to Activate Media.
Results achieved
Could you share any statistics, metrics or user feedback from this project?
I don',t have any statistics to share, but the feedback that we',ve accepted has always been real. Most of the commentary that we',ve gotten back from our end users has been kindred to the new design and ease of navigation. We',ve been very satisfied with that owing their user interface and user experience [UI/UX] apprehension was one of the key drivers behind choosing them. Internally, we',ve also gotten a lot of real feedback. They',ve always been able to liberate assigned work on time and within our specified budget, which is fantastic. There have been a few separate occasions when we',ve discovered some bugs or malfunctions and they',ve always been able to fix them within a reasonable timeframe. There',s always been a perception of urgency with their work. I',m personally very impressed with the level of ownership they take on their projects.
When working with Activate Media, is there anything that you',d attend sole almost their practice?
They seem to know what I want even when I',m not excellently sure myself, which is big. They',ve worked very closely with us on a number of licenses. Activate Media is just veritably very good at putting something unitedly for licensor approval. We',ve had big responses from our clients like Lucasfilm and ",Star Wars", concerning their work. They get right within what the client wants without us having to give them a detailed brief. We can keep it excellently loose, and they always come back with something that is just right.
I ponder they',re cost powerful, too. We get hard websites without paying an excellent fortune, so you want to go back to them anew. You know you',re going to get a good website that works precisely how you want it for a very reasonable cost.
They',re very easy to work with – very pliant, upfront, and pellucid. If we give them a brief, and we have a limited budget, they',ll draw specifically what can or cannot be done within that budget. We always get high-quality labor from them. They always come back to us straightaway. If anything, they chase me for things, and I very rarely have to chase them for anything. They',re one of my favorite suppliers owing I get what I want.
In review, are there areas in which you ponder they could better?
No. They',re efficient, innovative, pliant, and good at liberateing on budget. If there are any issues whatsoever, they let me know almost it. I can',t veritably ask for any more, to be honorable.
What advice, if any, would you give to a forthcoming client of theirs?
I ponder you can',t go unfit with a good, clear, and powerful brief and timelines. If you have flexibility in the deadline, it',s always advantageous to be upfront almost that. They will not abuse it. They will work within your timelines, but give you breathing space if you need it. They do precisely what you need an agency to do.
