Sanctuary New Media
Sanctuary New Media is a full-service web agency. Located within the Sanctuary Group, we offer web-based services to internal and external clients, both within and outside of the music industry.
Portfolio
Tiny Dancers
Using artwork assets created by the band, we created this playful, home-made looking mailer template for Parlophone. This was designed to be integrated into the company’s internal publishing system, allowing label staff to update the text content themselves. Built with mailer-friendly XHTML & CSS!
Platinum Travel
A thoroughly modern mini site to outline the capabilities of Platinum Travel, the tour managers’ favourite travel agency, using the most strict web standards whilst being both extremely usable and with high search engine visibility. Flash was used to create a little excitement and to retain a sense of movement on an otherwise static site.
The purpose of the site was to provide contact information and links through to the latest booking information and luggage allowances, and to raise the profile of the agency online.
Trojan Records
Complete overhaul of the Trojan website and brand identity, launched to tie in with the label’s 40th anniversary. Includes online shop and radio player.
The new site, built to the most strict web standards and including full e-commerce functionality, is both extremely usable and boasts high search engine visibility. The whole thing is driven by our powerful Content Management System and also includes a Flash-powered online Radio player, fully updatable by label staff.
Sanctuary Licensing
We developed this B2B site to promote Sanctuary’s valuable assets available for licensing. Sanctuary Music represents one of the largest independent music catalogues throughout the World with approx 150,000 recordings. The catalogue is vast and covers most genres of music.
Our site allows users to preview MP3 samples of tracks available for licensing and add them to a fully-customisable ‘project’.
Sanctuary Group Intranet
We undertook the huge task of building a fully-formed Intranet for the Sanctuary Group, which was deployed internationally across all offices. Powered by the same flexible CMS behind all of our websites, staff are able to post news bulletins, download HR documents, post to the notice board, upload useful files, and use the Intranet as a central digital hub for all things related to staff and the company.
Unlike our websites, however, the Intranet is intrinsically tied in to digital services used throughout the Group, such as the employee database (for staff searching functionality) and several HR-centric administration systems.
intranet.sanctuarygroup.com (Sanctuary login required)
The Cooper Temple Clause - ‘Waiting Game’
As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting artists’ and labels’ marketing campaigns, we designed this eye-catching, HTML-based e-mail that was sent out to the thousands of names on The Cooper Temple Clause’s mailing list.
Like all of our HTML e-mails, our focus was on portraying the message with minimal fuss and strong aesthetics. The mailer provides links to instantly buy all physical and digital formats and uses a subtle animation to cycle through the packshots of versions available.
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After the sucess of the first mailer, we were commisioned to build another along the same theme (this time using the album artwork) to promote the band’s in-store signings and performances, and this was then tied into an animated banner for users to place on their MySpace profiles.
sanctuarynewmedia.com/mailers/tctc-waitinggame/2.html
sanctuarynewmedia.com/mailers/tctc-storeSignings/signings.html
sanctuarynewmedia.com/mailers/tctc-storeSignings/banner.html (banner)
Sanctuary Records US
The US division of Sanctuary Records needed a brand new site to reflect their change in roster and company, so we provided a brand new, standards-compliant site.
The old Sanctuary US site was extremely outdated and unfriendly to search engines, which meant bad visibility on the web. We rejuvinated the label's online presence by crafting a whole new site and powering it all with our powerful but simple-to-use Conent Management System.
COMING SOON
Sanctuary Records UK
Clean, elegant, and packed with information, the Sanctuary Records Uk site was produced with both public-facing and BtoB functionality in mind, and crafted with future-proof web standards and ease-of-updating in mind.
We were commissioned by Sanctuary Records UK to build a site that acted as a comprehensive catalogue for their releases, suitable both for the consumer and business users. The site also makes use of our powerful Content Management System to tie products with artists, related new stories, and other releases, making for a seamless user experience.
Sanctuary Group
For Sanctuary’s corporate site, we focused on usability and search engine visibility, building the site with standards in mind to aid both of these goals.
The neat and informative Sanctuary Group site is the hub for all things Sanctuary and the massive variety of services the Group offers. From company information to employment opportunities, from investor relations to links for external sites; everything is here and presented in search-engine-friendly, extremely usable manner.
Sanctuary Classics
The relatively cheap build of a publishing tool based site containing a simple bespoke e-commerce solution.
Sanctuary new media created original photography for use in the top navigation. The site is a view on data in a sql database which is pivotal to the working of Sanctuary Classics.
Robert Plant
Creation of a destination site for Robert Plant containing all solo releases including galleries and tour date management.
Our bespoke publishing tool was employed and the artwork was created especially by Grahame Baker Smith who designs a lot of Robert's artwork for the strange sensation releases. The translation into a flash storyboard was carried out by Sanctuary New Media. The rest of the site was created to be standards compliant and as semantically correct as possible for good search engine positioning.
Services
Websites
We build accessible, standards-compliant, search-engine-friendly websites guaranteed to work across all browsers and platforms, and we power them all with a Content Management database developed in-house over a period of 5 years, to allow webmasters to keep their sites up to date at all times with no intervention from us unless you need guidance.
While we are keen to stress the importance of standards-compliance to our clients, we also use Flash to deliver content where suitable. This can vary from embedding a simple Flash Video file into a page to building a fully immersive Flash-based experience for a more multimedia-driven site.
On top of this, we also provide fully integrated e-commerce functionality.
Online Marketing Tools
Give your products an online push with interactive promos. We make e-cards & microsites (for focused, campaign-specific content), adverts (banners, skyscrapers, MPUs, overlays, etc.), games, and any type of compelling, attention-grabbing content you could imagine. Data capture, stats and ‘send to a friend’ functionality can all be incorporated to help spread your message.
Email Marketing Tools
We manage mailing lists with thousands of subscribers, and can capture as little or as much data from your subscribers as is necessary for the project; from simply an e-mail address to full name, mobile number, postal address, gender, etc. These sign-ups can also be built into competitions as an incentive for users, or can offer immediate incentives upon completion of the sign-up process, such as a free download.
Subscribers to mailing lists receive our vibrant, eye-catching HTML emails, enabling you to get your message to your audience in the most appealing way. But as a chief concern of ours is usability, we can provide text-only alternatives to HTML e-mails for maximum exposure.
Streaming Media
We can encode and host video and audio streams in a variety of formats, and offer bespoke web-based audio / video players for you to approve, share, or use multimedia content.
Data Services
We have MS certified database skills with expertise in MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Access and Excel, covering:
- website and bulletin board migration onto our servers
- customer databases and mail-outs
- label copy management
- all manner of data manipulation and querying
- advice on business systems and implementation
- e-commerce
Web Hosting
We have dedicated web servers that cater for big and small sites alike, and costs are kept down using the economies of scale a large group can bring to bear. We have both Linux and Windows based servers, and expertise in operating / maintaining both.
Enhanced CDs
Working offline, we are also able to provide multimedia content for ECD and kiosk delivery. Our enhanced sections have appeared on many recent ECD single releases from Sanctuary Records.
Contact
Get in touch
To engage Sanctuary New Media for your latest web project please use the contact form displayed here to get in touch, or call Matt Brewer on:
- T: +44 (0) 207 300 1890, or
- M: +44 (0) 7786 398 431
We will arrange an initial meeting to discuss features and budgets and then provide you with a full costed specification prior to commencement of work.
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