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Creating smart, engaging experiences on behalf
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We apply The Washington Post’s award-winning investigative lens and a deep understanding of our audience to create compelling multimedia stories—from concept to production to distribution.

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Our Work

Influencing the influencers requires rich, immersive content with value and a point of view.

The story always comes first; it’s what our audience expects. We focus on the story you want to tell, then couple our investigative chops and immersive storytelling with next-gen tech to tell it—in the very best way for that story.

  • Allstate

    // Millennial Matters

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    Multi-Media Immersive

    Millennial Matters

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    Millennial Matters

    We created a multi-media immersive custom site for Allstate featuring interactive maps and graphics drawing on proprietary data and analysis gathered in partnership with The Washington Post Insights group. The site lays out our findings from a national perspective, with videos highlighting personal perspectives from millennials on the issues they cared about most in the 2016 presidential election.

  • Bank of America

    // Breaking out of the prison cycle

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    Rich-Media Narrative

    Breaking out of the prison cycle

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    Breaking out of the prison cycle

    This rich-media narrative explores the issue of recidivism nationwide, focusing on the impact that youth employment programs can have in breaking this vicious cycle. Custom interactive graphics showcase Bank of America’s work in the space, and personal quotes from those who have benefited demonstrate its effectiveness and commitment to being a part of the solution.

  • AXA

    // Lofty goals, simple steps

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    Rich-Media Narrative

    Lofty goals, simple steps

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    Lofty goals, simple steps

    This rich-media narrative was crafted for AXA to engage a broad audience in a highly visual way with their message of breaking big goals into simple steps. The narrative features a parallax animation experience and interactive slideshow of simple actionable steps to help guide people toward their life goals, including financial ones.

  • Canon

    // Capturing the energy of the city that always moves

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    Immersive Experience

    Capturing the energy of the city that always moves

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    Capturing the energy of the city that always moves

    This immersive experience showcases the capabilities of the Canon G-Series Camera by depicting a young, extraordinarily talented photographer’s creative process. The site experience includes a 'day in the life' mini documentary and a compelling mix of rich photography, user-driven interactions and effects, audio clips, Instagram embeds and illustrative copy.

  • Epix

    // Real Presidents say they’re sorry

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    Rich-Media Narrative

    Real Presidents say they’re sorry

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    Real Presidents say they’re sorry

    This rich-media narrative was created to introduce EPIX’s new original series “Graves” to The Washington Post’s politically minded audience. We created informative custom illustrations exploring instances when former U.S presidents admitted their weakness and found strength in apologizing. Full episodes from the original series “Graves” were playable within the page.

  • Johnnie Walker

    // Path to progress

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    Interactive Timeline

    Path to progress

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    Path to progress

    This interactive timeline aimed to drive video views of the Johnnie Walker “This Land is Your Land” on the site and deepen the brand connection with progressive readers by providing broader context for its message of Hispanic progress. We crafted an elegant frame for the video on a horizontal interactive timeline of defining moments when Hispanics helped shape the American social, political and cultural landscape.

  • Jaguar

    // Rogue moments that rocked our world

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    Interactive Timeline

    Rogue moments that rocked our world

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    Rogue moments that rocked our world

    We created this interactive timeline for Jaguar to capture the brand’s spirit of innovation and transformation. We developed a series of bold pieces, including custom illustrations and cinemagraphs to chronicle radical moments when individuals broke with convention and changed the world.

  • BP

    // All eyes on safety

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    Rich-Media Infographic

    All eyes on safety

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    All eyes on safety

    This rich-media infographic was developed for BP to inform DCDMA readers about the people, technology and processes behind energy safety. The story was told through a combination of custom illustrations, BP imagery and interactive educational hover spots.

What We Do

Great stories, well told. They’re what The Washington Post audience demands. And what your brand needs.

We come loaded with a formidable blend of capabilities. Masterful storytelling. High-tech executions. And the experience to know what to use, and when—all in the service of creating the kind of content that gets read, shared and acted upon. Our formula is simple: Find the brand’s story, then tell it with exactly the blend of words, images and immersive activity it requires. We’ve learned that’s what it takes to get a Washington Post reader emotionally and intellectually engaged.

Recognition

We make work that wins awards.

We’re happy when our clients are happy, of course. The added glow of industry recognition is icing on the cake.

Who We Are

First and foremost, we are storytellers.

At the Washington Post, getting the story right—and read—is deeply rooted in our DNA. It’s hard-wired into our organization, and driven forward by a world-class leadership that brings the latest and greatest technology to support best-in-class news and analysis. We marry these journalistic chops with a story-first mentality and an experimental focus to make your brand objectives come true.

With engaging storytelling, we find the sweet spot where Washington Post readers’ interests overlap with your brand goals.

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