Belfast agency wins place on multi-million pound BBC framework

Belfast service design and innovation agency Big Motive has been selected for a prestigious multi-year contract.

The only company from Northern Ireland to be selected, Big Motive is one of 12 agencies to join the BBC's newly-formed £5million Design Research roster.

This selection follows a meticulous and highly competitive process involving over 60 other design agencies from across the UK with the goal of sourcing the best talent to collaborate with teams across the BBC for the next four years.

Over the next four years, Big Motive and the other successful agencies will work closely with the BBC to tackle some of the organisation's most significant challenges. The Design Research roster aims to leverage cutting-edge research and design expertise to enhance the BBC's diverse array of brands, events, content and digital products.

Alongside the other successful agencies, Big Motive will work with the BBC to provide expert design research services to support the ongoing development of evolution of BBC's digital products and services, including the BBC Homepage, News, Sport, Weather, CBeebies, CBBC, Bitesize, Sounds, iPlayer and Interactive TV.

Damian Cranney, Big Motive, managing director, said: “We’re thrilled with this news. The BBC has an incredible internal research and design team so to be selected to collaborate with an organisation of this size over a four year term is a big step forward and massively validating for our team.

"But not least, this whole process represents an inspiring commitment to good design and the value it brings to the creation of new digital products, services and content that are not only relevant but responsible, innovative and accessible to the widest possible audience.”