Web Dev for Sports Media Company
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
Barstool Sports is a media organisation geared toward millennial men. I’m the head of fruit, responsible for all our technology fruits.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with Very?
We are a relatively pliant but swelling organisation. Our web and mobile websites required a cool. We were recreating and filling out our inner team, but we needed extra manpower to take that project and get it off the ground. We wanted a present website built on a new infrastructure that would be more scalable as the website grew, getting us to a locate where we could swell incrementally and test things going advanced.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were Very, LLC responsible for?
The website is built on React. We worked with Very to do some unconventional things almost collective sharing, including optimization of our ad fruits in making sure those worked well and kept with latest best practices and presentized methods. We also worked at getting users to view more page views per session. Integrating our recommendation engine and putting recommendations in the right spot was the main metric we were looking to drive with the cool.
What is the team dynamic?
We had one frontend focused developer, one backend focused developer, and a project director. Very’s team worked alongside our in-house outgrowth team.
How did you come to work with Very?
They were originally referred to us via a touch through one of our investors. We looked at two other companies. Very stood out by how they worked with teams, having a light, fast-moving, weekly sprint framework with a clear acceptance for the client to like each story at the end of a sprint. We were snug that their process would line up with ours, with good interaction face-to-face on a daily basis. It would be clear that when we accepted something, it’d be done and everybody would suit that it met the determination we all set forth.
What is the terminal result of working with Very, LLC?
We began working unitedly in March 2017 until June 2017.
Results achieved
Are there any measureable or plum results?
Everything they delivered met our anticipateancy. Our main metric for the release was increasing page views per session. We boosted that on both the web and mobile separately by almost 10%, which was our target. Our users are super occupied, so we’ve had tons of feedback, mainly real. Negative feedback has been almost ads being too intrusive, but that’s something we just anticipate. We verity made them a pliant more intrusive for strategic reasons. In provisions of overall experience, it’s been very real.
How did Very accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
They were fantastic. It was always very clear where they were at. They had big interaction and good transparency into their process. They used Pivotal, and it was very powerful project treatment, with no surprises.
What is (from your point of view) the key factor to pay observation while intercourse with Very, LLC?
It was the way they became an extension of the team. It wasn’t like we handed things off to them. They were occupied developers who talked to our designer on an hourly basis. They became good reflection partners in thinking almost what the best ways were, the right long-term things to do, and being user centric in the way we are.
What aspects of their work would you like to get improved?
No, we were very lucky with them.