Digital Video Case Studies

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden is The National Trust’s most visited property. Our video explains the heritage and restoration work being undertaken and the many attractions on offer to visitors. As well as being available on the website, it will be used in one of the BBC’s Countryfile programmes later in the year.

Business Link Yorkshire, the government funded business support agency, wanted to improve how they engage with individuals and SMEs. We made videos in our Leeds studio and on site, including vodcasts of top business guru’s such as Lord Sugar, Mary Portas and Dr James Bellini.

With 130,000 visitors in 2009, The Great Yorkshire Show is the country’s leading agricultural event and an important flag-bearer for the industry. For those who cannot attend in person, such as ex-pats overseas, we’ve been streaming the Show live since 2006 – 10 hours of broadcasting for each of the three days, one of the longest continuous streams in the UK.

Tennants is a national auctioneer with an international reputation, and is taking positive steps to increase its global reach. We developed a state-of-the-art website catalogue system and then filmed one of Tennants 3 days Fine Art Sales. The video, introduced by Managing Director Rodney Tennant, shows the fascinating mix of items the firm attracts.

Carpenters Hall, in the heart of the City of London, is a prestigious location for meetings, conferences, exhibitions and banquets. This promotional video, produced by our WebVU team, provides an online tour of Carpenters Hall and encourages venue organisers to consider Carpenters Hall for their next event and make bookings.

When you are the world’s largest manufacturer in your field, your customers look to you to lead by example. In this case it was better installation training and ‘carbon footprint’. IKO’s online Shingles Training Centre is in 15 languages and saves thousands of miles of travelling each year by IKO staff. The cost of the videos was recouped in months.

Birse, a division of Balfour Beatty, is a specialist in water, coastal and transport engineering, and the holder of many industry awards. The company wanted to show what it does and how. We filmed with Birse’s MD at locations around the UK, including on site at a sewage works in London and on the foreshore below the Blackpool Tower.