Sky Interactive offers a range of interactive opportunities on the Sky digital platform, including:
- Interactive advertising destinations
- Enhanced television capabilities
- Digital text services
- Customisable "red button" channel menus
In order to provide interoperability of services across launch points and to provide the best user experience with the most efficient use of broadcast resources, Sky Interactive has standardised its platform, using a single, standards-based mark-up language and browser.
The Sky Interactive Developers’ Programme is the primary mechanism to foster, educate and support a community of developers and content providers, and to encourage development of new services for deployment on the Sky digital platform.
The Developers’ Programme delivers a range of services to member organisations to assist them to rapidly acquire and develop the expertise required to build and successfully deploy online interactive services or other browser-based applications.
Membership provides access to a flexible range of services designed to help members gain expertise on the platform quickly and bring their applications to successful live deployment.
Membership is designed to support both the development of shrink-wrapped products and individual services.
Free registration provides access to introductory information and a variety of materials to help members learn more about the capabilities and benefits of Sky Interactive’s platform.
This provides all the documentation, information and platform access privileges required to start developing WML-based services. Additional services, including accreditation, clinics, referral and consultancy, are available to full Developers’ Programme members.
The clinic programme enables member organisations’ development staff to access the expertise of the Sky Interactive development team directly. This provides a valuable way to fast-track application development and to maximise knowledge transfer.
Accredited members become eligible for the Sky Interactive referral programme, where Sky Interactive may, at its discretion, introduce to accredited members potential clients wishing to deploy services on the Sky Interactive platform and requiring skilled partners or products to assist them.
Accredited members can also access Sky Interactive expertise to assist with their own technical and commercial presales, development, integration and implementation efforts. Consultancy services are flexible according to individual requirements, and can include access to Sky Interactive documentation, research, market intelligence and representation of Sky Interactive staff at client meetings, if appropriate.
To find out more about how you can join the Developers’ Programme please
contact Sky Interactive