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The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 13,000 entries globally.
Winners are selected for recognition based on excellence in the following areas: Branded Content, Commercials & Marketing, Immersive & Mixed Reality, Non-Broadcast, Online and Television Series, Shows & Segments, Social Video, Film & Shorts, and Animation.
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Capture the Original
At this year’s 47th Telly Awards, we want you to Capture the Original inspiration of your core creativity, while seizing the limitless potential of the current moment to express it. Across business, branding, broadcasting, and the arts, there’s never been a greater need for original IP, and there’s never been more ways to manifest, augment, and transform it. Show us how you’re engaging with this inflection point in creative history while letting your original inspiration shine through.
Season 47 Assets
Season 47 Highlights
- The 47th Annual Telly Awards season theme is “Capture the Original.”
- New categories this year include Animation, Generative AI, Digital Out-of-Home, and Vertical Video.
- New jurors this year include Tamara Kruger(Head of Creator Strategy and Content, YouTube), Steve Eddy (Director of Production, Netflix), Farra Kober (VP Content, BBC Storyworks), Cristóbal Valenzuela (Co-Founder and CEO, RunwayML), Warren Cohen (VP, Head of Video and Audio, New York Post) and David E. Cid (Head of Experiential Marketing, Remezcla) among many others
- Our programming includes a our virtual and in-person conversation series “Throughlines” to explore trends across social, brand and production.
- New partners include Animation World Network (AWN), Skwigly, VIEW Conference, and London ACM SIGGRAPH. Each of these organizations works to connect filmmakers and brands across the industry with funding, community and distribution opportunities.
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Telly Awards Facts
- The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 13,000 entries globally.
- Winners are selected for recognition based on excellence in the following areas: Branded Content, Commercials & Marketing, Immersive & Mixed Reality, Non-Broadcast, Online and Television Series, Shows & Segments, Social Video, Film & Shorts, and Animation.
- Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council – an industry body of over 250 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks including Adobe, RunwayML, IMAX, Netflix, HBO, Shutterstock, BBC, WNBA, and Meta Creative Shop.
- Partners of The Telly Awards include: the Gotham Institute, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Stash, NY Women In Film and Television (NYWIFT), Production Hub, Green the Bid, Video Consortium, Series Fest, FWD-Doc, Runway AI Film Festival (AIFF), ReelAbilities Film Festival, Film Fatales, Portrait, AWN, View Conference, Skwigly, ACM SIGGRAPH, Seed & Spark, and Kinema.
- This season’s winners include: Paramount TV, Warner Brothers Discovery, FOX Entertainment, Citizens First Bank, MoMA, Oliver Wyman, Mayo Clinic, Sony Music, TED, Al Jazeera, Amazon Leo, Variety, PETA, United Talent Agency, People Inc., Olympic Channel, AccuWeather, ABC News, Alter Ego, Dude Perfect, Portland Trail Blazers, Washington Commanders, Harvard Business School, Newsweek, Modern Post (edited)
- Past Winners include: Accenture, Adult Swim, AirBnB, Audible, Adobe, BET Networks/BET Digital, BritBox, Condé Nast, CNN, The Walt Disney Company, ESPN, The European Union, Feed the Children, FORTUNE Brand Studio, FEMA, Frameless, Gaumont, Golden State Warriors, HBO, Media.Monks, Microsoft, NASA, National Geographic Society, Netflix, Partizan, Paramount, PBS Digital, RadicalMedia, Sony Music Entertainment, The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Square
- Global entries included work from across Europe, including Sweden, Spain, Greece and Germany and from across Asia including Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and China and the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
- The 2026 Telly Media Company of the Year is Asharq Network, a 24/7 television channel and news portal powered by Bloomberg with a focus on regional and global economics across the Arab world and beyond. The Telly Media Company of the Year is the organization with the most success in the Annual Telly Awards competition, across Gold, Silver and Bronze.
- The 2026 Telly Production Company of the Year is Ox Productions. This honor goes to the production company that earns the Golds, Silvers and Bronzes across multiple verticals, demonstrating excellence across all screens.
- In addition to the award program, the Telly Awards hosts year-long programming. The Telly Awards Throughlines series presents micro conversations with experts reframing our industry on a macro level, and Hot Takes, our original video series, features unfiltered, unrehearsed responses to hot-button topics. Our global screening series is a touring industry event where large corporate agencies and small, independent creators and production companies come together each season to screen excellent short-form work we curate from our winners, partners and judges.
- The Telly Awards is based in NYC and its Managing Director is Amanda Needham. She can be reached at amanda@tellyawards.com.