Nick.com – LaunchPad Communicator

Nickelodeon developed the LaunchPad communicator to keep their users engaged with the many brands and content available on Nick.com.

• Anonymous permission enables COPPA-compliant messaging to young audience
• MyNick Page shows clickable links to buddies, Nick Points, messages, collections and themes
• What's New, Games, Shows, and TurboNick content channels
• 10 user-selectable skins for different shows and characters
• Animated desktop SpongeBob ScreenMate character, with more on the way
• Slide-up desktop alerts keep users engaged
• ThinkDesktop CMS dynamically adapts Nick.com Flash components

Fox Ice Age – The Meltdown

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has released a new version of the Ice Age ScreenMate to promote the launch of the DVD for Ice Age – The Meltdown.

• Classic ScreenMates now featuring Ellie, Crash and Eddie
• Select ScreenMate characters from easy-to-use branded interface
• The user can watch clips from the movies
• Includes pictures, buddy icons and wallpapers
• New content generates a clickable desktop alert
• Movie photo gallery
• Send-to-friends enables viral pass-along

Fox Family Guy Volume Four ScreenMate

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has released a new version of the Family Guy ScreenMate to promote the launch of the Family Guy Volume Four DVD.

• Classic ScreenMate now with two new desktop animated characters
• All new soundboard featuring over 100 sounds
• Use the soundboard to build a sentence and then send it to a friend
• Watch Family Guy video clips in the application
• Wallpapers and buddy icons

Warner Home Video Ant Bully ScreenMate

The Warner Home Video Ant Bully ScreenMate brings the movie experience to the desktop with support from Jelly Belly.

• Watch clips from the movie
• Interact with movie character ScreenMates on the desktop
• Incorporates images from promotional partner Jelly Belly
• Listen to movie character quotes on a soundboard
• Movie pictures, wallpapers and buddy icons
• Interactive ant-based navigation

Harry Potter Time-Turner (Communicator and ScreenMate)

To promote the DVD release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Warner Home Video and ThinkDesktop developed the Harry Potter Time-Turner communicator. This multifunction desktop entertainment application is focused on the 16 day period leading up to the release and features a sweepstakes, trading cards and entertaining puzzles, multimedia and a desktop character.

Product features include:

• Promotion for opportunity to enter the Time-Turner Sweepstakes.
• Users are kept up to date with their Harry Potter Token Zone trading card collection when they log in through the Time Turner.
• One-click installation of Harry Potter wallpaper and AOL Instant Messenger icons.
• A puzzle challenge game rewards the user with a lengthy video clip from the film new video puzzles are made available every two days.
  • I've also included the key to solving the first puzzle in the Harry Potter Video Challenge:
    • 1: Red haired student
    • 2: Witch with red thing on leg
    • 3: Spider head
    • 4: Spider on skates
    • 5: Pointing guy
    • 6: Spider back
  • Make sure to select your video speed in the upper left corner of the video.
• A windowless desktop character based on the shrunken head from the movie dangles from the top of the screen and entertains the user
• The Sound Board features audio clips of many of the movie's characters.