Clock is a digital agency.
We build experiences that people love.

But we're more than that. We're a relationship enabler — using technology to help our clients share what makes them unique.

We always strive to create
something new and valuable.

We believe the best way to do this is to understand the needs
of the people who use our products. So, we are inquisitive
and always seek the truest path to create something
relevant — something true and honest.

We collaborate in everything we do.

We collaborate with our clients — using our expertise to bring
to life their knowledge, and we collaborate with the people who
use our products — ensuring constant evaluation and iteration.

We are Clock.

We’re designers, technologists, creatives, techno-creatives,
architectives and all the smudgy bits in between.

Clock, build better.

Clients

  • News International Logo
  • Times+ Website
  • Times+ Mobile app
  • Eat Out website
  • Eat Out mobile app
  • Sun Perks Website

News International

Clock are a retained digital partner for News International working across a variety of campaigns and projects for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and Times+.

Recent collaborations include Eat Out – a premium dining experience, Sun Perks – a rewards scheme for Sun readers and of course our retained work on Times+ which we have developed through its various iterations from launch in 2008.

  • Shortlist Logo
  • Emerald Street Website
  • Shortlist.com Website
  • Stylist.co.uk Website

Shortlist Media

We started working with the Shortlist Media team in 2010, when we were engaged to create digital versions of their hugely successful lifestyle magazines, Shortlist and Stylist. Since then we have helped plan and launch the daily email service Emerald Street as well as advise on all things pixel.

  • Stonegate Logo
  • Scream Website
  • We Are Yates Mobile App
  • We Are Yates Website

Stonegate Pubs

Stonegate Pub Company operates nearly 600 pubs across the UK. As their digital partner Clock help define strategy and manage the delivery of all projects.

To date deliveries have included; a destination for each venue (including the launch of over 300 websites in one day), a Yates’ mobile application, a custom analytics tool for the entire estate’s social media activity and of course constant digital evangelism.

  • BBC Logo
  • Recipe Planner Website
  • Match of The Day Website
  • BBC 5 Live Web Widget
  • BBC 5 Mobile App

BBC

Over the years we’ve delivered some fantastic projects for the BBC. One obvious highlight is The 5 live Football Player – an application that syndicates 5 live content across 3rd party sites, social networks and mobile. Another highlight is the BBC Recipe Planner – allowing users to search hundreds of online recipes by celebrity chefs via an online application and some newfangled thing called Facebook.

  • Channel 4 Logo
  • Channel 4 Intranet
  • Channel 4 Radio Website
  • Channel 4 Corporate Social Responsibility Site

Channel 4

Clock have worked with Channel 4 since 2007 when we were engaged to redevelop the C4 Radio site. Since then we’ve worked on numerous projects including the award winning Channel 4 Intranet, with a remit to be innovative, experimental and distinctive Channel 4 wanted an intranet that reflected their unique brand and working closely with their team we developed a truly ground-breaking product.

  • Boomeran Logo
  • Boomerang Website
  • Boomerang Website Looney Tunes
  • Boomerang Website

Turner Broadcasting

Turner Broadcasting selected Clock as their digital agency for a re-launch of the entire online presence of their pre-school channel, Boomerang TV, across 12 countries in 10 languages. Turner wanted to create an exciting destination that reflected their vibrant channel with games, competitions, social functions and downloads with a focus on usability.

News International

News International Reading Paper
News International Logo

Shortlist Media

Shortlist Media Girl
Shortlist logo

Stonegate Pubs

Close up of the Yates Pub
Stonegate Logo

BBC

Close up of the BBC 5 Doctor Who
BBC Logo

Channel 4

Channel 4 John Snow
Channel 4 Logo

Turner Broadcasting

Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes
Boomerang logo

BLOG

Scaling Node.js and MongoDB on Joyent Cloud

Posted on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 @ 08:12 GMT in tech-blogs by Michael Cronnelly

Here at Clock, we recently deployed a large Node.js and MongoDB application for a client to Joyent's cloud platform, designed for horizontal scalability. This document gives a brief overview of the configuration, and observations in the setup. We are not explaining how to design a scalable application; it's assumed that any Node instance can correctly handle any request at any time, and therefore sessions (or any other shared data) are available to all of them. We store the session data in the...

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