Plug-In Media
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- Founded
- 2003
- Employees
- 11-50
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About Plug-In Media
Plug-In Media is a digital production studio founded in Brighton, United Kingdom, in 2003. It creates interactive entertainment and animated content for children and families, combining storytelling, design, animation and software development across games, applications and television. Its work spans commissioned productions for broadcasters and educational platforms alongside the development of original intellectual property.
The studio designs and develops HTML5 and Unity games, educational web experiences, mobile applications and animated content. Its production capabilities include 2D and 3D animation, character design, scriptwriting, music composition and sound design, supporting projects that bring creative and technical disciplines together. Interactive storytelling and educational content are central areas of its work, with additional capabilities in virtual and augmented reality.
Interactive entertainment and learning
Plug-In Media has produced work for the BBC, including CBBC, CBeebies and BBC Bitesize, as well as Nickelodeon, Turner Broadcasting, Sky Kids and Sesame Workshop. Its interactive portfolio includes preschool play, early learning, curriculum-based experiences and browser games. Projects such as Big and Small House, ZingZillas and Get Well Soon Hospital illustrate its work extending broadcast properties into interactive experiences. Educational productions include Earth Squad Go!, Back in time with... Exciting Explorers and the early learning games Labuntina: Sounds and Numbers.
Original characters across formats
In 2012, the studio expanded into original children's IP creation with Tee and Mo. The preschool property began as a suite of ten CBeebies web games before expanding into mobile applications, books, music videos, a YouTube channel and a 50-episode 2D animated television series co-produced for CBeebies and Canada's TVO.
This progression reflects the studio's approach to developing characters and stories across interactive and linear formats. Its activities encompass both full-service commissioned development and original IP production and co-production, connecting game development with animation and children's media.
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Leadership and production team
- Dominic Ellis Minns is Co-Founder, Director and Creative Director.
- Juliet Susan Tzabar is Director, Managing Director and CEO. The detailed company history records that she joined in 2006.
- The core permanent creative, technical and production team is supplemented by specialist project freelancers.
Industry recognition
The report credits the studio's portfolio with more than 40 award nominations and five BAFTA awards. These include the 2009 Children's BAFTA for Interactive for Big and Small House and the 2010 Interactive award for ZingZillas. Tee and Mo: Help Our Little World won the 2018 Children's BAFTA for Short Form, the first BAFTA win for the studio's in-house brand.
Production collaboration
In 2022, Plug-In Media partnered with Blue Zoo Productions to establish Brighton Zoo, extending its production relationships into a dedicated 2D episodic animation operation. The joint venture focuses on broadcast series and platform-native content.
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Where Plug-In Media is based
- Brighton and Hove, England, United Kingdom
Brighton offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: Chandos House, 3rd Floor, 26 North Street, Brighton, BN1 1EB, United Kingdom Current sole primary operating studio and overall company headquarters. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: Unit E, 8th Floor, New England House, New England Street, Brighton, BN1 4GH Opened: 2022 Closed: 2025 Former studio premises used from 2022 to 2025. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 3rd Floor, St Augustine's Centre, Stanford Avenue, Brighton, BN1 6EA Opened: 2019 Closed: 2022 Former studio premises used from 2019 to 2022. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 2nd Floor, The Colour Rooms, 12 Richmond Parade, Brighton, BN2 9PH Historical studio premises identified as pre-2019; exact opening and departure years are not established. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 85 Gloucester Road, North Laine, Brighton, BN1 4AP Earlier creative space; exact occupancy dates are not established.
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