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Rolling out the red carpet for the Middlesbrough company trusted by the world ’ s biggest brands
BIG BITE
HITS THE HEIGHTS
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busy newsroom . New York City . Oscars night 2021 .
Editors have just hit the publish button to share worldwide news on a brand new tool for the first time . Excitement is in the air as the New York Post starts to bring its millions of captivated readers glitz and glamour updates from the showbiz event of the year .
More than 3,000 miles away in Middlesbrough , at the Albert Road offices of digital powerhouse Big Bite , the excitement from the Big Apple has replaced an understandable amount of nerves .
Big Bite probably never imagined the Oscars countdown would mean so much to them , but the build-up to April ’ s red-carpet event had been peppered with deadlines for them to meet after the hugely influential News Corp chose the firm to develop a new Liveblog tool for one of its biggest publications .
“ We ’ ve worked with News Corp since November 2016 on various projects , but it was awesome to see the live blog tool there – performing perfectly on nypost . com in real-time and to think it was
Big ideas - Big Bite ’ s Phil Saunders
built by our very own engineering team from Teesside ,” said Big Bite ’ s head of client services , Phil Saunders .
“ It was particularly exciting as the Liveblog plugin was the first feature of its kind to be built with the WordPress Gutenberg editor .”
Big Bite was established in 2011 after friends Mark Goodyear , Jason Agnew and Iain McPherson met at Teesside University .
Since 2014 the team have concentrated on building custom solutions for some of the biggest brands in the world using the WordPress platform . Powering
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