Official MGM Website

The MGM website was a true labor of love. After several years of honing our skill and feature sets on other MGM sites like Stargate, American Gladiators and MGM HD, it was finally time for the MGM dev team to dive into a complete overhaul of both the back-end and front-end of the legendary studio’s official website.

The main problem to be solved here was how to keep users on the site for as long as possible in order to connect with the deep library titles of MGM’s over 4100 movies. Thanks to our friends at Hulu, and the amazing dev team at MGM, we were able to come up with an incredibly compelling site with an infinite amount of info and media for visitors to soak in and enjoy.

A dedicated “Watch Now” section allows users to watch close to 200 titles instantly, right on the site. This was accomplished with an integrated Hulu player and AJAX to allow users to browse, click and watch without having to reload the page.

The “Movies” section features infinite scrolling that continuously loads more movies once the bottom of the page is reached. This allows the user to view all the movies on the site and click through to their title pages.

Title pages allow users to view stills, clips, synopsis, cast & crew lists and awards for each title. Buying and viewing options are also available whether it’s on DVD, Blu-Ray, digital download or free-on-demand, such as Hulu or YouTube (both which play directly on the title page). Users can also share the title on their Facebook profile.

With all this in mind, I invite you to go get lost in the movies. Go have fun at the new MGM.com!