2010 NBC Winter Olympics

What happens when you need to pull together three Fortune 500 companies, a worldwide event, previously untethered device experiences, and the introduction of new real-time communications?

Keep it simple, make it attractive, empower the user. All in three months time. Oh, and answer to the President of NBC Sports, the CEO of AT&T while making nice with Eddy Cue at Apple for placement.

My team designed and implemented the first of its kind iPhone application that combined real-time streaming video, both closed and open social networks, video, news, Twitter, Facebook, photo and result feeds in a fun, addictive application.

This application became the fastest app in history to 1 million downloads, and the became the benchmark sports and event app of 2010. 

Stats included:
• 1.8m downloads in 17 days
• 4+ star rating – 265,273 reviews  
• 96,000,000 messaging API calls
• 41.5m pages views