Tornado provided services for a very diverse range of clients, including;

• Logica & CMG (end-to-end corporate communications)
• Shell Plc (end-to-end corporate communications)
• Rolls Royce (facilitating internal communications and masterclasses)
• Emap Plc (streaming Kiss100 and 13 other UK regional radio stations)
• The Royal National Institute for the Blind (utilising voice recognition to make searchable archives)
• Merrill Lynch (consulting and executing on communications strategy)
• Cisco Systems (producing global video webcasts for IPTV)
• Christian Aid (enabling global reporters to publish video easily)
• Tate Modern (pioneering indexed, searchable video)
• Penguin, Random House (creating "podcast" vehicles to market audiobooks
• Glastonbury (broadband webcasting from the Festival to 700,000+ viewers)

Tornado always broke new ground in combining design and technology into usable communication. It provided real solutions to its clients, won business from companies 100x its size, and kept them.

Its most "important" work included webcasting the UK Prime Minister's announcement of the Iraq war for Number 10, before it was released to the media, and Morgan Stanley's disaster recovery webcasts after 9/11.

TESTIMONIALS

“Yahoo! has found Tornado's services to be top-notch. Tornado is a professional, experienced entity and a valued partner”,
Yahoo! Broadcast

“I would recommend them to anyone undertaking a project involving streaming media of any size”.
Emap Plc

“Tornado processes, staff, technology and above all customer focus all operate at the highest level”.
Loral Cyberstar

Tornado raised £750K in March 2000, grew its revenue year on year by ~50% and was sold to Servecast Ltd in 2003 having carried out hundreds of webcasts, development and production projects.

Tornado's branding and design won D&AD recognition as "Best of British Design".
 

attheraces was a £300m venture between Channel Four, Sky Sports and Arena Leisure. With the remit to address "all platforms" (including TV, print, PDAs, mobiles and the web), Tornado created all its visual branding materials. The brand mark, above, won D&AD recognition for "Best of British Design".

David Brook Director of Strategy and Development Channel Four commented, “Tornado's understanding of the brand we are creating was way ahead of the competition. We have built up an excellent working relationship in a short space of time and have created a truly original and compelling identity which will help to move the sport of racing forward across the globe.”

A method of presenting and cross-linking of hundereds of hours of interview footage. Tornado created the format, added bleeding-edge voice-recognition natural language search, designed and built the solution.

Honor Harger Webcast Curator Tate Modern commented, “Tornado’s combination of technical and design expertise is exceptional.”