Beginning with the distribution of animation software on the Internet, dpa began developing interactive graphics in 1998. In both content and on the technical side, the agency was concerned to marry its competence as a provider of up-to-date and accurate news with technology and visuals worthy of the Internet.

dpa-InfoActive is tailored as an ideal complement to dpa-Online providing an interactive supplement to the multi-media supply of news. Subscribers to dpa-Online receive a significant discount if they subscribe to dpa-InfoActive as well.

Flash technology enables web providers to integrate dpa-InfoActive into their own websites. The updating of content, for example with the final results of a major sports event or the latest array of meteorological data, is performed automatically by dpa-info.com via the Internet. Customers' editorial staff can thus concentrate on their proper journalistic job.

Online customers have proved highly impressed at the lengthy stays that web-users make amid dpa-info.com's graphics. The technology used enables the customer to have other actions triggered when the end-user activates new Flash content, e.g. the insertion of advertising banners or the counting of page impressions.

dpa-InfoActive is produced in English, Spanish and German. Further language versions can be produced by dpa-InfoActive subscribers in co-operation with dpa-info.com with minimal effort.

dpa-InfoActive combines news with entertainment and gives the Internet user a way to experience interactively the world events around us. dpa-InfoActive offers a wide range of different graphics categories in English, Spanish and German.

Standing features include a world weather module as well as a horoscope module. The travel weather graphic comprises weather forecasts for more than 400 cities and places worldwide that are of interest to the business traveler and the tourist. Weather data, consisting of general outlook, temperature, wind direction, wind speed and precipitation, are updated on a daily basis.

The horoscope graphic contains daily private and business horoscopes with plenty of background information like the history of the Western as well as the Chinese horoscope, the history of astronomy and astrology and the presentation of the star constellations - all of this in an attractive graphic setting.

Animated News Graphics cover breaking news on a timely basis such as accidents, natural disasters and phenomena and illustrate complex developments and processes in an easy-to-understand way. Examples of animated news graphics include items about solar eclipses, the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in 2000 and the destruction of the Mir space station in March 2001.

Interactive Graphic Packages are more complex and illustrate either big events like the soccer world championship and other sports contests or topics of global interest, such as economic affairs or diseases like AIDS and foot-and-mouth disease. These packages include in-depth information, quizzes, mini-games and other interactive elements. In the case of sports events, of course, the graphics will be continuously updated with results throughout the entire season/event.