Clients, Financiers and Partners
Social Media Solutions: When fans talk, we listen. Using a wide range of cutting edge social media techniques, our team engages fan communities on your behalf. This ongoing dialogue will either confirm your judgment or take you completely by surprise.
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APTN
Driven by a national broadcaster, this online campaign drew together submissions from First Nations writers across the country. After a viral marketing driven call-to-action, our studio crowdsourced three works from a niche online community that went into production as graphic novels. These stories are now being developed for their cross-media potential.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Astral Media Harold Greenberg Fund
Increasingly, comic books have become de facto starter vehicles for genre entertainment in films, television series and videogames. Interested in the intersection of this trend with the proliferation of web 2.0 techniques, the Harold Greenberg Fund worked with Z2H to identify and fund the development of an original property with the most online “heat”.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund
Drawing on support from the Bell New Media Fund, our product designers created a niche “mixed media magazine” for fans of the acclaimed television series Heartland. Featuring a series of orchestrated interactions, this digital magazine allows fans of the show to enjoy a unique television companion piece featuring music, video and great game-like applications.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
British Columbia Film
In order to expand production capacity and develop methodologies suitable for the production of comics as motion, mobile, digital or print media, our technical team worked with BC Film to develop a digital readiness plan. The investment in knowledge management has yielded a measurable upgrade in process management and technical workflow.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
CFTPA
The Canadian Film and Television Producer's Association has partnered with Z2H on a number of community outreach endeavors across Canada, To date they have supported us in organizing seminars in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Toronto &emdash; all designed to help film and television executives and producers better understand the potential and pitfalls inherent in new media technologies and platforms.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Department of Foreign Affairs
As part of a series of collaborations leading up to the Imperial visit, Z2H created a trans-Pacific partnership that took the digital form of a social network celebrating the cross-cultural connections between the two countries. Using manga as the creative link, our creative team developed eight non-fiction stories by undiscovered writers to make up a distinctive digital anthology.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Dream Detective Media Properties
This is a property that is literally on its way from zero to hero. Working closely with the production partners, the Z2H team has been crafting this brand new property in a very new media way. In addition to developing the visuals and effects to support the rich world of the story, the team has developed a series of social media apps to drive fan traffic and build buzz among investors.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Electronic Arts — Bioware
The digital marketing campaign leading up to the launch of the long-awaited game Star Wars: The Old Republic centered around a serialized comic developed by Lucasfilm and Dark Horse. Needing a memorable user experience, Bioware contracted Z2H to digitally publish the series in English, French and German via a licensed version of our proprietary comic viewer.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Halifax Films
This Hour Has 22 Minutes is one of the longest running and most successful social satires running on CBC. What Z2H brought to the party was a translation of their wit and wisdom to the digital space. The digital “briefing book” was published weekly throughout the run of the show and featured mini-games, quizzes and Facebook-style apps to highlight their irreverent writing.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Kinosmith
The documentary film Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, Rebel shows this iconic figure in a brand new — and completely unexpected — light. To build audience interest in this serious treatment of a highly controversial character, Z2H developed a social marketing campaign that let fans make their clicks count and help get this bold new film into theatres across North America.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
National Screen Institute
Z2H forged a campaign with the National Screen Institute and leading videogame studios to develop a new cadre of working creatives. This process created a springboard whereby writers well-versed in traditional linear media were able to cross-over the interactive form. Electronic Arts, Radical Entertainment, Next Level Games and Disney's Propaganda Games were among the corporate partners.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
OUT tv
This highly innovative initiative uses crowdsourcing techniques to let film afficiandos program television content for the GLBT community. The core of the experience is an entirely new social viewing experience that gives viewers the ability to comparatively and collaboratively rate brave new films from up and coming filmmakers.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Province of New Brunswick
In partnership with the province of New Brunswick, Z2H created Comix 101, an award-winning educational program that uses a combination of social networking and online storytelling to get kids excited about more than just reading comics… it gets them excited about writing their own! After a four month period of in-class instruction and distance learning mentorship, four books were published as a short series of digital comics by kids, for kids.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Rainmaker Entertainment
Over the course of twelve months, our creative team worked with the senior stakeholders at this leading animation studio to develop an award-winning viral marketing campaign. Aimed at reviving a storied animation franchise, this campaign included fan feedback on the forthcoming feature film, the creation of an online webcomic, and the launch of a ReBoot microsite on its way to enrolling more than 20,000 online fans.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Seven 24 Films
Working in tandem with the creative team at Seven 24 Films, Z2H created a niche social network for fans of the acclaimed television series Heartland. This award-winning social network allows fans of the show to connect with the producers and each other via standard web 2.0 techniques. At the same time, online fans can work together to develop new works of user-generated content.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio
Telefilm Canada
Executed in partnership with Telefilm Canada, the objective of this campaign was to issue a national call-to-action aimed at undiscovered screenwriters. After an extended period of creation and crowdsourcing, 15 new entertainment properties were identified and developed as a digital comics catalogue. Several of these works are now being refined for their commercial potential.
- Data Mining
- IP Development
- Virtual Studio