Welcome to MOTHERLODE MEDIA. We are a digital content company, specialising in building centralised digitised media archives and creating compelling social media channels and digital marketing campaigns.
  • The Beatles Live Project.

    The first stage of the development of THE BEATLES LIVE! PROJECT, an Apple authorised project, has begun! Digging deep into the world’s TV and radio archives and fans’ basements and attics, the hunt is on for never-before-seen media captured during The Beatles’ concert tours dating back to October of 1963—when…

  • Vinyl Player for Beatles Stereo Remasters launch

    New Vinyl Player

    Built with prod4Ever in Boston.  Sweet promotion for the Beatles vinyl release!

  • Magical Mystery Tour Digital Marketing Campaign

    Magical Mystery Tour Digital Marketing Campaign

    None of us knew our destination, as in the mystery tours of our childhood, but we had a very enjoyable few days and then returned to London to sort out all the footage we had shot. It turned out to be a wacky, impromptu romp that puzzled a few people…

  • New Vinyl Release Visuals

    New Vinyl Release Visuals

  • Yellow Submarine Blu-ray, DVD and iTunes Release

    Yellow Submarine Blu-ray, DVD and iTunes Release

    http://yellowsubmarine.com/ http://www.thebeatles.com http://www.facebook.com/thebeatles Full parallax scrolling website build, social media campaign, video production, banners, ads, email, ecommerce – full end to end delivery of digital marketing campaign rolled out this month. David and Louisa did amazing job on design and build. Lisa produced great content for the social media campaign…

  • Give Me The Money And I’ll Shoot!

    Give Me The Money And I’ll Shoot!

    We helped out a friend Nicola Lees and her brilliant book on film funding published by Bloomsbury. We found and photographed this old camera, and designed the cover. You can get a copy from Amazon here: http://smarturl.it/givemethemoney

  • Check out the new countdown page at YellowSubmarine.com!

    Check out the new countdown page at YellowSubmarine.com!

  • Breaking the Barrier

    Living with a range of disabilities, a group of young people get the chance to go surfing in Devon, most of them for the first time. Hosted every summer by a dedicated group of volunteers, Breaking the Barrier gives young people a chance to don a wetsuit, ride a wave,…

  • National Geographic Education Video

    National Geographic Education Video

    An archive and a business in one.  We built a simple backend database system using our custom CMS application VarioHub, and a new front end design to showcase all the films produced by National Geographic. The films are subsequently marketed for licensing to education publishers globally.

  • Robbie Williams Image Bank, for IE Music: Digital Archiving

    Robbie Williams Image Bank, for IE Music: Digital Archiving

    We sourced and digitised the entire official photographic career of Robbie for his management.  The images were sourced from photographers and record labels and scanned for archiving and use in promotion, new products and merchandise. Using a custom implementation of Variohub, we set up a secure database for authorised staff…

  • Digital media encoding and digitisation project

    HMV: get closer: Digital Asset Management, Marketing

    Building this project with LBI, Cake and other agencies involved research and build in content, streaming technologies, rights, commercial relationships, database development and social media. We were commissioned to source and preparing all the audio visual assets for this incredibly ambitious social network/film and music encyclopedia. We worked with all…

  • The Beatles Rock Band

    The Beatles Rock Band

    We conceived and built versions 1 and 2 of this trivia game built in conjunction with Idea Junction and MTV. We also managed the build of the website with Harmonix which went on to win a Webby 2011!

  • The Beatles Digital Archiving

    Apple Corps and The Beatles: Digital Archiving

    The creation of a digital archive was essential to the preservation and future use of the large photography collection built up at The Beatles company, Apple Corps. This priceless archive of photography, capturing the career of the most famous band in the world, was scanned, retouched, catalogued and stored in…

  • The London Review Of Books Digitisation Project

    Digitisation of the London Review of Books

    The London Review of Books has the largest literary magazine subscription in Europe. We were asked to consult on a digitsation programme of every article published and how to use Optical Character Recognition tools to automate the process. The archiving needed to produce accurate copies of the articles in a…

  • Universal Music Stores: merchandise photography and image processing

    Universal Music Stores: merchandise photography and image processing

    Building merchandise archives takes time and effort.  Creating visual assets for the large number of Universal artists and their ecommerce stores also took a great deal of meticulous tracking and project management, ensuring details such as product codes, image links, product descriptions were 100% accurate. We produced images for all…

  • The Concert for Bangladesh

    The Concert for Bangladesh

    Digital marketing campaign and website build for this unique concert and for the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF. The Concert for Bangladesh was the first benefit concert of its kind in that it brought together an extraordinary assemblage of major artists collaborating for a common humanitarian cause – setting the…