The Play Archive

Stories, research, and play — curated daily.

An editorial inkwell of 538 interactive pieces, visual essays, and slow experiments worth your evening.

Play

A 12-minute vertical essay on how readers actually move through a page, told in margins.

Hands-on HTML experiments you can fork, break, and mail back to the editors.

Research memos from Clickmedios correspondents in Bogotá, Berlin, and Bangalore.

Looped video pieces scored by independent composers, refreshed each Friday.

Weekly multiple-choice where every wrong answer teaches you something real.

Reader-submitted desktop screenshots of the archive mid-discovery.

Play is not a side tab. It is where Clickmedios tries out the ideas that later shape our reporting tools, layouts, and audio formats.

Every entry is hand-tagged by an editor and dated twice: once uploaded, once revived. Old work returns when the news does.

Clickable timelines, scrollytelling prototypes, and calculators that respect your data.

Longform visual pieces paired with sound, illustration, or both at once.

Independent makers, illustrators, and researchers pitch us on Tuesdays. We answer by Friday.