Ken Burns Portfolio (PBS)
Challenge
With over three decades of filmmaking, tens of thousands of photos, film clips, audio tracks, and documents - Metal Toad's challenge was to create museum quality digital archive - and an easy to navigate website.
Solution
The site is responsive and translates large visuals and animation across all devices. An open source DAM (NotreDAM) was selected to enable years of sustained, iterative improvements without licensing fees.
Impact
Site visitors now can create a truly custom experience from Ken Burns vast treasure trove of assets.
“Whenever we partner with Metal Toad on a project, it's with a great sense of relief—like that's one less thing we need to worry about. Metal Toad has our back. They always come through for us.”
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BUSINESS PROBLEM
The sales team at ABC was feeling a lot like substitute teachers, bogged down with cumbersome old tech and processes at crucial moments.
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
A clear solution emerged: a single app that the sales team could use with any mobile device or computer
IMPACT
The new system revamped the entire sales process, making it faster, easier, and more efficient.
BUSINESS PROBLEM
Whenever a big sweepstake was launched, avid fans would descend on the website and often overtax its servers.
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
Moving the site’s servers to the cloud provided the elasticity Wheel of Fortune needed.
IMPACT
When the team launches new sweepstakes, preventative scaling is used to double, triple, or even quadruple their capacity to match expected traffic.
BUSINESS PROBLEM
DC Entertainment site is routinely crawled by third parties looking for security vulnerabilities or new leaks ahead of announcements.
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
ML Log evaluation. We started by setting up a data pipeline that replicated the manual process Metal Toad had been doing for years
IMPACT
Quickly identified new threats. The ML Log Monitoring solution quickly found two groups of IPs for evaluation.
BUSINESS PROBLEM
Fox needed a transformation to streamline operations, maximize efficiency, and optimize coordination.
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
The new platform will replace legacy systems with a solution that unifies viewer experience and aligns operations across the enterprise.
IMPACT
Fox now has in hand the detailed plan they need to make Fox Mississippi a reality.
BUSINESS PROBLEM
When approaching Metal Toad for a potential partnership, they made it clear that their current website was falling short.
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Search results were stale, poorly ranked, and simply not delivering the content that users demanded.
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