Active Services

Active applications allow viewers access to information when and when they want it. From brand association through to showcasing long form content, there is opportunity to involve your brand with these highly popular services:

  • FOX SPORTS News Active
  • Sky News Active
  • Weather Active

Voting Services

Interactive Voting applications are becoming increasingly popular. These applications are always associated with a wider viewer "call to action" by the channel, where viewers' votes influence an outcome.

For example, Australia's Next Top Model, viewers are asked to vote for the model they would like to win.

Voting Services

Sponsor integration can include multiple sponsor logos that are displayed on most of the screens in the application. Voting via the red button is much quicker and easier than SMS/phone.


Other Active Services

Multiview – V for Me

Now a prominent feature on the Channel (V) platform, V For Me offers the viewer 3 additional channels of content along with the Channel (V) Home Channel.

Every Saturday from 8am until 12pm, Channel (V) provide; The (V)ault – A focus on the greatest moments aired on Channel (V), (V)s New Music – showcasing the latest music videos and (V)s Best Bits – highlights of the key moments in programming for that week.

Multiview

FOX8 ANTM Chat App

This year the red button offered a unique interactive Chat Application for Australia's Next Top Model called 'Chat On'. It was a revolutionary 'chat with the show' experience where viewers could truly interact with ANTM by sending their comments to screen while watching, through the FOX8 website, mobile site or simply via an SMS from their mobile phone.

Accepted messages appeared in near real time in the lower third of the TV screen so viewers didn't miss any of the action & could keep up with what the nation thought LIVE throughout the shows. It was completely FREE to 'press red' and watch/read Chat On.

FOX8 ANTM Chat App

FOX8 Play A Long App

Last year Australia's Next Top Model where the first show to use the PlayAlong Application.

Branded as GAME ON it was Australia's first-ever, true play-along interactive application. Viewers were able to hit the red button to give their opinions on key events within the show by following the easy on-screen prompts as the drama unfolded on-screen. At the end of each episode, fans saw if their opinion matched the judges by guessing who got eliminated. After the show all the opinions expressed by Australian viewers were posted up immediately to be viewed on the ANTM online and mobile sites.

The most recent usage of the PlayAlong Application has been this year for FOX8's kooky gameshow, Banzai. Viewers were invited to PlayAlong with Banzai's interactive game every week for fun as well as having a chance to win an Xbox.

To play Banzai and enter the competition all viewers had to do is press the red button when watching Banzai and bet on the outcome of the shows crazy challenges. At the end of the show were given a secret code word to submit online. Banzai was free to play.

FOX8 Play A Long App