October 18, 2022

Press Release

THE TELLY AWARDS LAUNCHES 44th ANNUAL CALL FOR ENTRIES!

For More Information, Contact:

Ashley Lamatrice, ashley@trustcollective.com

Emily Morris, emily@trustcollective.com

TRUST, 646-452-3388

 

The Telly Awards Launches 44th Call for Entries by Celebrating the Opportunity for Creativity to Be Bold, Different, and Stand Out with the Theme, “Break Through the Static”

World’s largest awards show for excellence in video and television across all screens introduces new judges from Marvel Studios and Sony Music, new categories across Virtual Production, Corporate Social Responsibility and Pro Bono

Early entry deadline is December 9, 2022

 

New York, NY (October 18, 2022) — The Telly Awards, the world’s largest award honoring excellence in video and television across all screens, is embracing the idea of standing out above the rest across the creative landscape by launching its 44th annual call for entries with a simple, yet profound call-to-action: “Break Through the Static.” 

Regarding the meaning behind the new campaign slogan, The Telly Awards Executive Director Sabrina Dridje explains, “This year’s theme signifies the industry’s evolution by highlighting the great work emerging from the adoption of new skills, tools, and workflows, as well as new ways of thinking. While this has certainly led to exciting developments, it’s also created challenges in distinguishing oneself amidst the surge of output. With this year’s Telly Awards, we want to celebrate creatives who do things their own way and stand out — not blend in.”

Expanding on its mission to highlight and honor the efforts of video and television creators who amplify important social issues within the community, The Telly Awards is rolling out more relevant categories including Corporate Social Responsibility and Pro Bono. The Telly Awards is also recognizing those who have flourished in the ever-changing environment of virtual production by unveiling even more specific Craft categories such as Virtual Art Direction, Use of Motion Capture, and Digital Environments. Documentary and Animation categories will be broken into Long Form, Short Form, and Series to recognize the different approaches these formats require.

To further showcase breakthrough creativity, The Telly Awards is excited to announce the expansion of live in-person screening events, taking place in New York, San Francisco, London, and Atlanta and featuring work from the likes of The Mill, Gibson, WeTransfer, Square, and more.

To help mark the industry’s transformation and champion those who’ve embraced sustainable and regenerative practices, The Telly Awards has aligned with Green the Bid (GTB), a non-profit grassroots organization that has played an incremental role in helping agencies, brands, production and post companies as well as independent creatives increase their levels of sustainability by shifting to zero-waste and carbon-neutral practices. GTB will be collaborating with The Telly Awards on various programming, including a curated panel at SoHo House NYC in November 2022. 

In addition to GTB, the new roster of Telly Awards partners include SeriesFest, a non-profit organization that champions and empowers artists at the forefront of episodic storytelling. Like GTB, SeriesFest will also join forces with The Telly Awards on several programming initiatives, including on The Telly Awards Podcast, as well as hosting networking and pitching workshops to engage UK creators and an event at its flagship festival in Colorado.

The Telly Awards continues to curate a diverse roster of well-established, highly regarded leaders and innovators across the worlds of advertising, media, and video to serve as judges. This year’s group includes Katie Hinsen, Director of Production Technology, Marvel Studios, Felicia Pride, founder and Head Honey of HONEY CHILE (and Producer on Grey’s Anatomy), Kaki Stergiou, Head of Content of Legacy Recordings, Sony Music, Derick Rhodes, Vice President, Vimeo Experts, Nancy Xu, Virtual Production Producer, Epic Games, Fred Volhuer, Co-Founder, Atlas V, and Emma Hamilton, Producer and Assistant Director, Marshmallow Laser Feast, a London-based, virtual reality-focused collective.

Along with the awards competition, The Telly Awards is continuing fascinating conversations with the return of The Telly Awards Podcast, in which two guests with similar expertise in different disciplines share their craft, discuss their differences, and find common ground when it comes to storytelling. This year’s enticing lineup of episodes, which will be released through the fall, include Video Journalism vs Cinematic Documentary with Jika Gonzalez from Vice News and Kristy Guevarra-Flannagan of Chuparosa Films, Film Programming for Festivals vs. Cinemas and Sustainability Production Practices: On vs Off Set.

Also continuing this year, “Hot Takes” — The Telly Awards’ original monthly interview series in which a chosen industry leader and expert offers an unfiltered, unrehearsed response to a hot button topic within their field. The new and improved third season of “Hot Takes” will include episodes featuring Neil Carty, Head of Cosm Labs on the Impact of True Immersive Media and what new formats it can create for consumers, Ashish Verma, Global Head of Media at Bloomberg Studios on how brands have an opportunity to change the way we see content by developing relationships with their audiences in unprecedented ways, as well as an episode on Sustainability — specifically the implementation, effects, and impact of sustainable practices in video production at a holistic level featuring Becky Morrison, CEO and Founder of The Light.

Founded in 1979 to honor commercials made for cable and local TV, The Telly Awards has continually refreshed its categories to honor the evolving, broad range of work being made — including branded content, social video, animation, and immersive content — working with industry experts to identify categories where new platforms play an increasingly important role in the ways stories are being told.

Last year, The Telly Awards addressed the ever-changing industry landscape by introducing new categories including Workplace Culture, Hybrid Events, Education & Training, Recruitment and Sustainability, and ultimately received over 11,000 entries while seeing an increase in global submissions from Australia, Mexico, across Europe (Germany, Spain, France) and Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan). Winners included some of the world’s most notable video content producers, including ViacomCBS, Warner Bros. Worldwide TV Marketing, Sony Music Entertainment, Microsoft, ESPN, PBS Digital Studios, Mytonomy, Freethink, Nice Shoes, CTRL5, Feed the Children, Square, Crunchyroll, and Fast Company.

To enter your work in the 44th Annual Telly Awards, head to www.TellyAwards.com. The deadline for early entries is December 9, 2022 (final deadline is February 24, 2023), and the winners will be announced May 23, 2023.

Website

www.TellyAwards.com

Social Media

Facebook /TellyAwards

Twitter @TellyAwards

Instagram @TellyAwards

YouTube /TellyAwards

About The Telly Awards:

The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, Stash Media, Production Hub, and The Gotham.

May 24, 2022

Press Release

43rd Annual Telly Awards Winners Announced!

For More Information, Contact:

Sabrina Dridje, sabrina@tellyawards.com

Dina Graham, dina@tellyawards.com

 

ViacomCBS, Warner Bros. Worldwide TV Marketing, Nice Shoes, Chop & Hue, Feed the Children, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, FORTUNE Brand Studio, Sony Music Entertainment, Microsoft, and ESPN among Telly Winners

Al Jazeera Media Network wins “Telly Company of the Year” for second year in a row

New York, NY (May 24, 2022) — The Telly Awards, the world’s largest honor for video and television content across all screens, announced this year’s winners, including a variety of top-tier brands and organizations as well as smaller media companies such as ViacomCBS, Warner Bros. Worldwide TV Marketing, Sony Music Entertainment, Microsoft, ESPN, PBS Digital Studios, Mytonomy, Freethink, Nice Shoes, CTRL5, Feed the Children, Square, Crunchyroll and Fast Company. This year’s edition received over 11,000 entries and saw an increase in global submissions from Australia, Mexico, across Europe (Germany, Spain, France) and Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan).

Founded in 1979 to honor commercials made for cable and local TV, The Telly Awards has continually refreshed its categories to honor the evolving, broad range of work being made — including branded content, social video and animation — working with industry experts to identify categories where new platforms play an increasingly important role in how stories are being told. In recognition of the industry’s continuing evolution, The Telly Awards reinforced its commitment to showcasing the many outstanding ways video is being used in this ever-changing landscape by introducing a suite of new categories, including Workplace Culture, Hybrid Events, Education & Training, Recruitment and Sustainability.

“The workforce has changed so much. New companies have come out of this time, others have shifted their offerings and employees are also looking for new ways of working — and video is being utilized more than ever to address these shifts,” explains Tellys Executive Director Sabrina Dridje. “The culture of a company has never been so critical to attract and retain talent — whether it’s new ways of remote working, placing purpose at the center of a businesses key values or providing Employee Resource Groups for communities to gather and support each internally. This year’s incredible group of winners perfectly exemplifies the many artful and unique ways video is being used to tackle these timely topics. By introducing our new categories, we’re continuing to deliver on our mission of constantly evolving with the changing industry and the world.”

Among the winners in the new categories, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Microsoft and The Walt Disney Company, Europe & Africa, won big in Workplace Culture. Johns Hopkins Medicine’s “When The Dust Settles” stars RN Nurse Manager Robin Lewis-Cherry, MSN, as she performs spoken word poetry honoring her colleagues’ courage, commitment, sacrifices and resilience during the pandemic. In Hybrid Events, Left Field Labs and ViacomCBS Consumer Products took home the top honors, the latter for “ViacomCBS Consumer Products Virtual Partner Summit,” a recap of their virtual partner presentation utilizing UNREAL Engine to create a virtual stage for presenting updates on their shows. PBS, CTRL5, The Department of Veterans Affairs, American Documentary Inc, Setter Studios and Grounded brought home the gold in Sustainability, which highlights the many ways video and television is being used to center stories around environmental issues — a powerful way to disseminate critical information about the current and future state of the planet.

Meanwhile, in Education & Training and Recruitment, two key areas where video is becoming increasingly used to attract, educate and retain top talent, winners for the former category included work from the likes of Accenture Productions, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs and the American Theatre Wing, while Stanford University and Johns Hopkins Medicine took home the top honors in Recruitment.

The Telly Awards also announced Al Jazeera Media Network’s Digital Division as Telly Company of the Year for the second year in a row. With work including “Decoded with Amr Waked” to “Mexico’s Missing Sons ” and “Out of Sight in Kashmir” told through the eyes of displaced children, the Telly top honors reflects how influential the media company is with their powerful, unique form of reporting and storytelling. Al Jazeera Media Network’s work this season continues to embody what it means to create compelling, gold standard video journalism.

Finally, it was another standout year for the “People’s Telly Awards”, which are given to the most-loved pieces chosen by The Telly Awards’ audience. Winners include Al Jazeera: “Al Jazeera Investigations – All the Prime Minister’s Men”, the National Parks Conservation Association’s “One Park. One Story. Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park,” and Operation Smile: “A Window to the World: The Anthony L. & Hideko S. Burgess Interactive Learning Center.”

To further reinforce its commitment to produce and share stories that highlight its diverse community, the Telly Awards launched new endeavors including The Telly Award Podcast, which brought together industry experts like Felicia Pride, writer and producer of ABC’s hit show Grey’s Anatomy and Navid Khonsari, game writer and producer of household Rockstar games Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne, to share insights, debate their differences and find common ground in their forms of storytelling. The Tellys also reinstated the extremely popular Tellys live experiences, which featured work from the likes of The New York Times and The Atlantic. “Each of these events were attended by the diversified body of The Telly Awards, including larger corporate agency entrants as well as smaller independent creators and production companies,” says Dridje. “Our podcast and live events are some of the best ways for us to be able to bring together these groups, increase our brand awareness and strengthen bonds between our current clients as well as develop relationships with new partners and entrants — all while showcasing the very best work from our community.”

 

View the 43rd Annual Telly Awards Winners Reel below:

Highlights from this year’s Telly Gold Award winners include:

Branded Content

  • Freethink won for “Catalysts” in Campaign: Social Responsibility
  • FORTUNE Brand Studio won for Salesforce and FORTUNE Brand Studio presents THE ECOPRENEURS “Ep1: SeaTrees” in Video/Cinematography
  • Innocence Project won for “Happiest Moments” in Campaign: Not-for-profit

 

Non-Broadcast

  • Mytonomy won for “Cochlear Implants” in Education & Training
  • Sony Music Entertainment won for Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGree (Official Music Video)” in Use of Archival Footage

 

Commercials/Marketing

  • Microsoft won for “Power On: The Story of Xbox” in Games
  • Playstation won for “Star Wars” in Games
  • Taxi Film Production won for Tourism & Events Queensland – “Days Like This” in Directing

 

      Series/Shows/Segments

      • Hearst Media Production Group won for “The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation” in Museums & Galleries
      • The Walt Disney Company, Europe & Asia won for “Disney Jr. Xmas Multiproperty Spot” in Fully Animated Piece
      • WETRANSFER  won for Aline – “The French Dispatch” in Use of 2D Animation

       

        Immersive & Mixed Reality

        • Nice Shoes won for Audi: ”E-Tron Showroom” in Use of AR

         

        Social Video

        • PBS Digital Studios won for “Popular Words Invented by Authors” in Education & Training
        • Sesame Workshop won for “Dia de Los Muertos/Day of the Dead Song” in Children

         

        For More Information, Contact:

        Ashley Lamatrice, ashley@trustcollective.com

        Emily Morris, emily@trustcollective.com

        TRUST, 646-452-3388

         

        Website

        www.TellyAwards.com

         

        Social Media

        Facebook /TellyAwards

        Twitter @TellyAwards

        Instagram @TellyAwards

        YouTube /TellyAwards

         

        About The Telly Awards:

        The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, Stash Media, Production Hub, and We Are Parable.

        October 26, 2021

        Press Release

        For More Information, Contact:

        Ashley Lamatrice, ashley@trustcollective.com

        Emily Morris, emily@trustcollective.com

        TRUST, 646-452-3388

         

        The Telly Awards Teams with Adobe MAX 2021

        Awards show for excellence in video and television sponsors this year’s virtual Creativity Conference

         

        NEW YORK, NY (October 26th, 2021) – The Telly Awards, the world’s largest honor for excellence in video and television across all screens, is teaming up with Adobe® MAX 2021 – The Creativity Conference taking place online October 26-28.

        As a sponsor, The Telly Awards will offer the Adobe MAX community an opportunity to engage with Telly executives, learn more about the awards program, and receive category recommendations on their entries for the 43rd Annual Awards.

        The Telly Awards will also premiere the second season of “Hot Takes,” its monthly video interview series, during the virtual conference about creativity, technology and entertainment. The episode features Camille Chu, Creative Director at Buck Design, Los Angeles, who discusses the responsibilities of creative leaders and how new graduates and aspiring designers can navigate the challenges presented as a result of the pandemic.

        “Collaborating with Adobe Max this season allows us to connect with the hugely talented Adobe community – the motion graphics artists and animators who delight us with their work and are all potential or existing Telly Award winners,” said Sabrina Dridje, Executive Director of The Telly Awards. “As we continue to showcase those at the forefront of our digital creativity, connecting with the Adobe community allows us to share our existing educational and inspirational content as well as find new talent to showcase across our original programming.”

        Attendees will also have the opportunity to enter two Telly Awards sweepstakes. One is to win two tickets to an exclusive, in-person November screening in New York. The other is to enter work for consideration to be featured at a future Telly Awards screening premiere.

        Founded in 1979, The Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens and are judged by the Telly Award Judging Council, a group of leading video and television experts from some of the most prestigious companies in entertainment, publishing, advertising, and emerging technology, such as WarnerMedia, NBC News, Framestore NY, and Vimeo to name a few.

        The winners of The 42nd Telly Awards included Jennifer Garner’s “Pretend Cooking Show” series, RadicalMedia’s “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at The Cecil Hotel” documentary series, Partizan’s “Fantastic Voyage” campaign for Adobe Photoshop, as well as initiatives from Netflix, Microsoft, Conde Nast, HBO Latin America and Nickelodeon, among others.

        In addition to the “Fantastic Voyage” campaign, Adobe was honored with several Telly Awards this year, including a gold for a promotional video for AI & Personalization, a gold for a social media video, “Falling in Love,” for Adobe After Effects®, and a gold for a promotional video, “Creativity for All.”

        View all of the winners of The 42nd Telly Awards at www.tellyawards.com/winners.

        The 43rd Telly Awards is now open for submissions. The early entry deadline is December 10th, 2021. Enter at www.TellyAwards.com.

        Social Media

        Facebook /TellyAwards

        Twitter @TellyAwards

        Instagram @TellyAwards

        YouTube /TellyAwards

        About Adobe MAX

        Adobe MAX (October 26-28, 2021) is a free, virtual, and global creativity conference designed to refuel creative passions, inspire, educate, entertain, and foster relationships across the global creative community. Featuring more than 400 sessions, keynotes, technology sneaks and workshops from creative luminaries, inspiring celebrities, musicians and like-minded peers, Adobe MAX offers endless opportunities for seasoned creative pros, students, and hobbyists to take their creative skills to the next level. Notable speakers and presenters featured throughout the conference this year include Chloe Zhao, Kenan Thompson, Henry Golding, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Casey Neistat, Young Thug and Imagine Dragons, among others.

        About The Telly Awards:

        The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, Stash Media, Production Hub, and Independent Filmmaker Project.

        October 19, 2021

        Press Release

        The Telly Awards Launches 43rd Annual Call For Entries!

        For More Information, Contact:

        Ashley Lamatrice, ashley@trustcollective.com

        Emily Morris, emily@trustcollective.com

        TRUST, 646-452-3388

         

        The Telly Awards Launches 43rd Call for Entries With All-New Judges from EA and Bloomberg, New Categories including Hybrid Events, Workplace Culture, and Sustainability, and New Podcast and Interview Series

        World’s largest awards show for excellence in video and television across all screens heralds the return of the video and television community in a transformed world with a nationwide campaign, “A New POV”

        Early entry deadline is December 10, 2021

        New York, NY (October 19, 2021) — The Telly Awards, the world’s largest award honoring excellence in video and television across all screens, is celebrating a reinvigorated content creation community and the power of storytelling by kicking off its 43rd annual call for entries. 

        In response to an unprecedented time in which companies and creators have retooled their offerings and workflows, representation is shifting across the industry, and more diverse voices are taking the lead behind the camera, the Tellys has announced new categories including Workplace Culture, Hybrid Events and Sustainability. In addition, the 43rd Telly Awards features expanded categories reflecting new production techniques including  Remote Production, Virtual Events, Animation, and D&I and Social Impact. 

        To mark this year’s edition and the renewed creative spirit that encompasses it, the Telly Awards has unveiled an all-new campaign that fittingly embodies the theme of “A New POV.” Tellys Executive Director Sabrina Dridje explains, “Our industry has adapted in difficult times by developing and implementing new skills, new workflows, new tools, and a new sense of perspective on what is achievable in a transformed world. As our community continues to focus on the important work of storytelling, it has embraced a perspective that values innovation, agility, equity, and tenacious creativity.”

        And as the television and video community reemerges, so do the Tellys live experiences, as the organizers are also thrilled to announce the return of live screenings. This year’s visual program will feature work from the likes of The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Nice Shoes, and Sony Music, and will take place in major venues in NYC and also tour other venues and cities in 2022, including NAB.

        The new creative skill sets and perspective is coupled with the arrival of a new, esteemed set of Telly media and event partners including The Video Consortium, a global nonprofit network dedicated to supporting and connecting voices in documentaries and video journalism that is also partnering with the Tellys on the live screenings; The Future of Film, which consists of an online community, podcast, and an annual summit that has welcomed high-profile Hollywood producers like Andrew T. Jones (The Mandalorian), Jason Blum (Blumhouse), and Adobe Max. The Commercial Directors Diversity Program (CDDP), whose mission is to reflect the commitment to effect change and increase the representation of minority and women directors specializing in commercials and marketing communications, has also joined as a supporter of this year’s awards.

        The 43rd Telly Awards entries will once again be evaluated by a diverse roster of judges consisting of top-tier leaders and innovators in the worlds of advertising, media, tech, and video. Among this year’s first-time judges are Ashish Verma, Global Head of Bloomberg Media Studios, EA Executive Producer Joe Lynch, Viewstream CEO John Assalian, Ghetto Film School Chief of Strategy and Partnerships Sharese Bullock-Bailey, Baobab Studios Senior Editor Vanessa Rojas, and Carol Madrigal, Senior Motion Capture Animator at Weta Digital.

        Organizers have also unveiled The Telly Award Podcast. Each episode of the podcast, is hosted by Tellys Executive Director Sabrina Dridje and features two guests with similar expertise in different disciplines. The unique platform creates space for plenty of insightful conversations as the guests share their craft, debate their differences. and find common ground in their forms of storytelling. The first episode of the podcast, for instance, is dubbed “Editors: Reality TV vs. Virtual Reality” and features a lively discussion between two well-established editors from these respective mediums: Fernando Ramirez — a reality television editor with over a decade of editing household names such as 90 Day Fiancé and Jersey Shore  — and Vanessa Rojas, Lead Editor from Baobab Studios, a renowned interactive animation studio with credits from the likes of Pixar and Oculus VR. 

        In conjunction with The Telly Podcast, the Telly Awards is keeping the conversational theme going by renewing last seasons’ launch of the monthly interview series dubbed “Hot Takes,” which features a chosen industry leader and expert offering an unfiltered, unrehearsed response to a hot button topic within their field. Hot Takes kicks off in October with Buck Design, where Creative Director Camille Chu speaks on the responsibilities of creative leaders to cultivate new talent and what up-and-coming designers can do to best face the challenges presented by an inundated industry. In subsequent months, Tellys judge and Ghetto Film School’s own Sharese Bullock-Bailey discusses the advantages of a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) in November, while in December, Alloy Studios Director Dimitri Lazarus explains why television content creators should look beyond broadcast as an end goal.

        Founded in 1979 to honor commercials made for cable and local TV, The Telly Awards has continually refreshed its categories to honor the evolving, broad range of work being made — including branded content, social video, and animation — working with industry experts to identify categories where new platforms play an increasingly important role in the ways stories are being told.

        As a result, last year, the Telly Awards saw a 15% increase in entries from the previous year, with growth driven by a significant rise in remote and virtual productions. Winners included top video content producers including Netflix, Microsoft, Condé Nast, HBO, Nickelodeon, BET Digital, and BBC Global News. 

        To enter work in the 43rd Annual Telly Awards, visit www.TellyAwards.com. The deadline for early entries is December 10, 2021, and the winners will be announced in May 2022. 

         

        For More Information, Contact:

        Sabrina Dridje, sabrina@tellyawards.com

        Dina Graham, dina@tellyawards.com

         

        Website

        www.TellyAwards.com

         

        Social Media

        Facebook /TellyAwards

        Twitter @TellyAwards

        Instagram @TellyAwards

        YouTube /TellyAwards

         

        About The Telly Awards:

        The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, Stash Media, Production Hub, and Independent Filmmaker Project.

        May 25, 2021

        Press Release

        42nd ANNUAL TELLY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

        For More Information, Contact:

        Marc Cruz, marc@trustcollective.com

        Ashley Lamatrice, ashley@trustcollective.com

        Emily Morris, emily@trustcollective.com

        TRUST, 646-452-3388

         

        The 42nd Annual Telly Awards Honors Winners Netflix, Jennifer Garner, HBO Latin America, Microsoft, RadicalMedia, Condé Nast, Adobe, Nickelodeon, and Partizan

        Continued surge in remote and virtual productions embodies ingenuity of creative leaders while Al Jazeera Media Network takes home esteemed ‘Telly Company of the Year’ award

         

        New York, NY (May 25, 2021) — The Telly Awards, the world’s largest honor for video and television content across all screens, has announced this year’s winners, including Jennifer Garner’s “Pretend Cooking Show” series, RadicalMedia’s “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” documentary series, Partizan’s “Fantastic Voyage” campaign, and much more. Under this year’s “Your Stories Defy The Limits” theme, standouts encompass the artistic and technical innovations that have surfaced in direct response to the challenges presented by 2020 and 2021. Additional winners range from Netflix, Microsoft, Condé Nast, HBO Latin America, and Nickelodeon to BET Digital, Adobe, Playstation, BBC Global News, and PAPER.

        Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by the Telly Award Judging Council, a group of leading video and television experts from some of the most prestigious companies in entertainment, publishing, advertising, and emerging technology, such as WarnerMedia, NBC News, Framestore NY, and Vimeo to name a few.

        View all of the winners of The 42nd Telly Awards at www.tellyawards.com/winners.

        The 42nd annual Telly Awards received a 15% increase in entries from the previous year. The growth was driven by a significant rise in remote and virtual productions, with many brands taking to animation for the first time. The Telly Awards is also proud to name Al Jazeera Media Network as this year’s ‘Telly Company of the Year’. A trailblazer in bringing to life limit-defying content, Al Jazeera’s breadth of work, particularly its “A Day in Wuhan” and “Stricken Beirut” along with “About Cinema” series, perfectly embodies the creativity and storytelling efforts the Telly Awards have long shined a spotlight on.

        “In the face of a year like no other, the visual storytelling community has continued to defy the limitations of our new world. Achievements have been both societal, such as embracing social media platforms to raise awareness about injustices and promote solidarity for movements, as well as geographical, like developing fully remote pipelines for dispersed teams”, says Telly Awards Executive Director Sabrina Dridje. “This year’s submissions doubled down on what we already know about the industry. Creativity cannot be stopped. Collaboration will always prevail. New ideas and stories will always find a way to break through to an audience.”

        In recognition of the industry’s evolving cultural change, The Telly Awards continued its commitment toward supporting the talent, voices, and narratives of underrepresented artists around the globe. At the start of the season, The Telly Awards welcomed Ghetto Film School and UK-based We Are Parable as media partners. This mission was also reflected within the international and multidisciplinary judging lineup, which was bolstered by the joinings of Shalini Sharma of NBC News, Ryan Honey of Buck, Andrew Wareham of Taxi Group Australia, Karyn Spencer of Whalar, Amy Tunick of WarnerMedia, Jamie Elden of Shutterstock, Kavita Lokchander of Thrive Global, Meghan Oretsky of Vimeo, and Andrew Rowan-Robinson of Framestore NY.

        On the heels of a hugely successful virtual screening series, The Telly Awards has also rolled out its first-ever original and monthly interview series to further celebrate creators who have pushed the boundaries of possibility. Entitled “Hot Takes”, it features unfiltered discussions presented by a chosen industry expert. The latest installments include “Will Change The Future of Content and Media?” from Josh Ness of Verizon 5G Labs and “Brand Strategy In a Post-Pandemic World” from Dushane Ramsay of Square, with many more to come.

        Finally, it was a standout year for the ‘People’s Telly Awards’, which are given to the most-loved pieces chosen by the Telly Awards audience and, this year, received the most public votes in the history of the category. Winners include Square’s “Black Owned”, a stirring film series chronicling the lives of Black business owners across three of the nation’s most populous cities, the Walt Disney Company’s “Cooking with Pixar”, and WeTransfer’s “Doubt. Create. Repeat.” global brand campaign. The latter boldly calls on the creative community to harness feelings of doubt in pursuit of their ideas.

        View the 42nd Annual Telly Awards Winners Reel below!

        42nd Annual Telly highlights from this year’s winners include:

        Use of Stock Footage

        • The Walt Disney Company won for “Star Wars: The Animals Strike Back” in Branded Content
        • Adobe won for “Adobe Care Help Channel” in Non-Broadcast
        • Les Beaux Films won for “Bob Dylan Retrospectrum – On The Road” in Non-Broadcast
        • Viewstream won for “Meet Zazu” in Online Commercials

        Virtual Events & Experiences

        • PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs won for “Face the Facts: Election 2020 Youth Town Hall” in Online
        • Christie’s won for “ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century | Livestream” in Online
        • CK Productions won for “Tomorrowland – Around The World – First Digital Festival” in Immersive & Mixed Reality
        • Jump! Creative won for “YouTube: Dear Class of 2020” in Social Video

        Influencer & Celebrity

        • Viacom Velocity won for “Bad Boys For Life – Couples Therapy” in Social Video
        • CBS Interactive won for “The Late Late Show: Best of Gordon Ramsay & James Corden” in Social Video
        • The-Artery won for “The Small Things (ft. Snoop Dogg) | SodaStream” in Branded Content
        • FORTUNE won for “Collin Morikawa – The Sky’s the Limit” in Branded Content

        Remote Production

        • The Walt Disney Company won for “Our Star Wars Stories” in Branded Content
        • ViacomCBS won for “U.S. Cellular – Fathers On the Frontline” in Non-Broadcast
        • Nickelodeon won for “Staff Meeting Quote Tape” in Non-Broadcast
        • Partizan won for “Pictures” in Branded Content

        Museums & Galleries

        • Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture won for “gOD-Talk 2.0: Digital #BlackFaith” in Social Video
        • J. Paul Getty Museum won for “The Getty Villa” in Non-Broadcast
        • Christie’s won for “Jonathan Yeo Studio Visit” in Branded Content
        • Litton Entertainment won for “The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation” in Television

        Website

        www.TellyAwards.com

         

        Social Media

        Facebook /TellyAwards

        Twitter @TellyAwards

        Instagram @TellyAwards

        YouTube /TellyAwards

         

        About The Telly Awards:

        The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, Stash Media, Production Hub, and Independent Filmmaker Project.

        October 20, 2020

        Press Release

        The Telly Awards Announces 42nd Annual Call for Entries!

        For More Information Contact:

        Marc Cruz, marc@trustcollective.com

        Nathan Pollard, nathan@trustcollective.com

        TRUST, 646.452.3388

         

        The Telly Awards Announces 42nd Annual Call for Entries With New Categories Celebrating Diversity, Social Impact, and Remote Production

        Creativity prevails as world’s largest award for excellence in video content across all screens honors ingenuity in the midst of change with new theme, “Your Stories Defy The Limits”

         

        New York, NY (October 20, 2020) — The Telly Awards, the world’s largest honor for video and television across all screens, today opened its annual call for entries with a host of new and expanded categories that seek to spotlight the cultural change, social impact, and creative innovation that has defined this unprecedented year.

        Entries are being accepted now at www.TellyAwards.com. The early deadline is December 11, 2020.

        Mirroring the industry’s rapid evolution amid a range of challenges (specifically live action filming), these new additions include editorial/animation-driven categories like Use of Stock Footage, Virtual Events & Experiences, Influencer & Celebrity, Remote Production, and Museums & Galleries, who have turned to finding audiences online. Series has also grown to incorporate the already existing Diversity & Inclusion, Social Impact, and Animation sub-categories, along with more standard expansions like Online and Television Series which now includes Food & Beverage, Beauty & Lifestyle, Education, and Discovery as well as genre-based categories like Sci-Fi, Horror, True Crime, and Reality.

        The theme of this year’s awards is “Your Stories Defy The Limits”, encompassing the creativity and storytelling efforts that surfaced in response to the unique challenges presented by 2020.

        “This year has been like no other. Despite the immense changes and challenges we have all faced, many inspiring feats of creativity have persevered, both because of and in response to this changing world”, explains Telly Managing Director Sabrina Dridje. “We have seen new workflows to accommodate remote production, spikes in the use of animation in the absence of live production, and continued reminders that video and television on all platforms can be used to share, educate, and inform important global and societal issues. Through this unstable time, we have seen, time and time again, that your stories have both defied the limits of deep challenges and also embraced opportunity.”

        In recognition of the need for an industry shift, The Telly Awards is also adding two new media partners, Ghetto Film School and UK-based We Are Parable, to reaffirm its commitment to supporting the work of underrepresented artists. Ghetto Film School is an award-winning nonprofit with locations in New York City, Los Angeles, and London that seeks to educate, develop, and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers, placing the support of diverse talent at the heart of all they do. Also a champion of diverse storytelling, We Are Parable is an award-winning film exhibition company that provides audiences with opportunities to respond to and experience Black cinema in culturally relevant, memorable, and innovative ways. They have worked with Disney, the British Film Institute, StudioCanal, and Altitude, as well as filmmakers such as Ryan Coogler, Idris Elba, Amma Asante, and Academy Award-winner Spike Lee.

        Unlike previous years, but in true 2020 fashion, the third installment of the complementary Telly Awards global screening series will be held virtually with a lineup of diverse content across branded, animation, short-form documentary, and more, curated specifically to echo this year’s theme. The Tellys will begin rolling out the work in a reel format for those who RSVP in early November, culminating in a livestream and Q&A with many of the content creators and producers on November 18, 2020. Additional screenings will be held in February and April of 2021. The program will also be featured online at NAB NYC, which runs from October 19-29, 2020, and will feature work by WePresent, The New Yorker, The Juilliard School, Narratively, and We Are Parable.

        Entries for the Telly Awards will be evaluated by members of The Award Judging Council drawn from a diverse mix of advertising, media, tech, and video industry leaders. The Tellys have long prioritized empowering and championing underrepresented voices, curating a lineup of judges from diverse backgrounds, countries, and cultures to ensure that work is judged in a fair manner and is representative of creative talent across the globe. Among this year’s first-time judges are Shalini Sharma of NBC News, Ryan Honey of Buck, Andrew Wareham of Taxi Group Australia, Karyn Spencer of Whalar, Amy Tunick of WarnerMedia, Jamie Elden of Shutterstock, Kavita Lokchander of Thrive Global, Meghan Oretsky of Vimeo and Andrew Rowan-Robinson of Framestore NY.

        Founded in 1979 to honor commercials made for cable and local TV, The Telly Awards has continually refreshed its categories to honor the evolving, broad range of work being made — including branded content, social video, and animation — working with industry experts to identify categories where new platforms play an increasingly important role in the ways stories are being told.

        Last year, The Telly Awards received over 12,000 entries from top video content producers including Viacom, Google, Condé Nast, CBS Interactive, Verizon, BBC, Partizan, RYOT, and AJ+.

        To enter work in the 42nd Annual Telly Awards, visit www.TellyAwards.com. The deadline for early entries is December 11, 2020. Winners will be announced in May 2021.

        Website

        www.TellyAwards.com

        Social Media

        Facebook /TellyAwards

        Twitter @TellyAwards

        Instagram @TellyAwards

        About The Telly Awards:

        The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, Stash Media, Production Hub, and Independent Filmmaker Project.

         

        May 27, 2020

        Press Release

        41st Annual Telly Award Winners Announced!

        For More Information Contact:

        Marc Cruz, marc@trustcollective.com

        Nathan Pollard, nathan@trustcollective.com

        TRUST, 347.416.6045

         

        The 41st Annual Telly Awards Honors Winners Sony Music, Partizan, HBO Latin America, ESPN Films, BBC, iHeart Media, Narratively Creative, Warner Bros., and Disney

        COVID-19 content creativity takes center stage as CBS Interactive is named ‘Telly Company of the Year’ for second year in a row 

         

        New York, NY (May 27, 2020) — The Telly Awards, the world’s largest honor for video and television content across all screens, has announced this year’s winners, including Jeff Buckley’s “Sky Blue Skin” music video from Sony Music Entertainment, Partizan’s Hewlett Packard “Print the Holidays” Christmas commercial (helmed by French director Michel Gondry), and the exciting psychological deepdive “Do We Have Free Will?” from BBC Reels, as well as a short branded documentary from Square. Under this year’s “Telly Awards Winners Tell Great Stories” theme, standouts encompass directors, editors, animators, producers, technologists, and more across a wide range of industries, company sizes, and regions including Viacom Velocity, Autodesk, HBO Latin America, Adult Swim, Condé Nast, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, Bone+Gold, and Beauregard Media, along with international work from the likes of Culture Trip and Christie’s Auction House (United Kingdom), Taxi (Australia), Al Jazeera (Qatar), and FJ Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

        Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards honors video and television made for all screens and is judged by the Telly Award Judging Council, a group of leading video and television experts from some of the most prestigious companies in entertainment, publishing, advertising, and emerging technology.

        View all of the winners of The 41st Telly Awards at www.tellyawards.com/winners.

        Additionally, the Telly Awards is once again spotlighting years of achievement in multi-platform narratives by naming CBS Interactive as the ‘Telly Company of the Year.’ A leader in pioneering insightful and inspiring video content online and off, properties such as 60 Minutes Overtime on CBS News and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert along with branded content for the likes of Google, Oculus Quest, and Toyota perfectly exemplify this year’s theme celebrating the inspiring power of storytelling.

        “Our work exists to highlight and honor exemplary storytelling across all screens,” explains Telly Awards Managing Director Sabrina Dridje. “And now is a more important time than ever to give a platform to those creators bringing us global stories. Last season, we were blown away by work that highlighted social injustice and celebrated diverse work cultures, including pieces that showed us the excellent work being done by humanitarian groups around the world and international communities striving for more equal playing fields for the marginalized. As our season came to a close during the pandemic, however, we were equally impressed by the work that was being produced in this difficult climate to continue to highlight stories that otherwise would not find an audience.”

        The diverse array of this year’s winners speaks to the continued growth in creative approaches to the rising digital video production, storytelling, and distribution landscape. To continue broadening its reach across social and digital video artists and spaces, the Telly Awards has expanded its industry partnerships to include VidCon and Social Media Week. This year’s content was judged by a panel of the most diverse and elite group of television and video industry leaders in the awards’ history, including HP Global Head of Virtual Reality Joanna Popper, Vice President of Production at Complex Networks David Weinstein, and Edelman Creative Newsroom Director Annie Granatstein.

        Building on the categories of years past, the 41st Telly Awards has added a suite of new ‘Immersive & Mixed Reality’ categories. Winners in this suite include “Star Wars: 5G Sith Jet Trooper” from immersive media company RYOT and “Bonfire” an interactive film voiced by comedian Ali Wong, from VR animation company Baobab Studios. Additionally, in order to better celebrate the increase in social video and documentary work that addresses global issues, two new categories — ‘Social Impact’ and ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ — were also added. 

        When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many pieces dealing with the fallout of the crisis were submitted, spanning fully animated explainer videos, stunning drone footage of empty cities, and a heartfelt and inspiring choreographed Zoom performance from The Juilliard School. The latter features over 100+ of the school’s alumni, including legendary musician Yo-Yo Ma, performing “Bolero” utilizing their unique talents to showcase the incredible power of art to draw people together, even in a time of unprecedented separation.

        To further celebrate storytelling across all screens, The Telly Awards also ran the annual ‘Film & Video Night’ screening series throughout the 41st season — curated from past winners, judges, and partners. Programming featured standout work from the likes of CNN’s Great Big Story, droga5, Square, WeTransfer, RadicalMedia, and independent artist and animator Andrew Myers with hugely successful screenings in New York, Toronto, London, and Amsterdam. As the COVID-19 pandemic began to unfold, the Tellys pivoted to share this work online in the form of a Facebook Watch Party, safely continuing to bring engaging and relevant content to the community it serves. All of this work can still be enjoyed on the Telly Awards Facebook page.

        41st Annual Telly highlights from this year’s winners include:

          Immersive & Mixed Reality
        • RYOT won for “Star Wars: 5G Sith Jet Trooper” in Use of Interactivity
        • Baobab Studios won for “Bonfire” in Animation
        • Al Jazeera Media Network, Digital Division won for “Still Here” in Social Impact
        • Dell Technologies won for Alienware “Unleash The Power” VR Experience in Use of Interactivity
         

        Branded Content
        • Narratively Creative won for “The Story of Your Name” in Branded Content: Fully Animated Piece
        • Partizan won for Hewlett Packard’s “Print the Holidays” in Branded Content: Art Direction
        • SoulPancake won for “Class of 2019” in Series: Non-Scripted
        • Apartment Therapy won for “The Journey Home” in Campaign: Business-to-Consumer
         

        Television Series/Shows/Segments
        • American Documentary won for “America Reframed: Intelligent Lives” in Diversity & Inclusion
        • Smithsonian Channel won for “America in Color: Coming to America” in Use of Archival Footage
        • PBS won for “For Sama - Featurette” in Documentary
        • NASA/Hubble won for “NASA’s Incredible Discovery Machine: The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope” in Use of Archival Footage
         
            Non-Broadcast
          • Sony Music Entertainment won for Jeff Buckley’s “Sky Blue Skin” music video in Non-Broadcast: Art Direction
          • Culture Trip won for “Send It Worldwide - Culture Trip x GoPro” in Cinematography
          • Accenture won for “Health Tech Innovation ” in Direct Marketing
          • AJ + won for “Locked Up For Being Poor” in Documentary: Series


          Online Series/Shows/Segments
          • BBC Reels won for “Do We Have Free Will?” in Online: Documentary Series
          • Sesame Workshop won for “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” in Children
          • Great Big Story won for “Shine” in Webseries: Documentary
          • Condé Nast Entertainment won for “RuPaul Answers Increasingly Personal Questions | Slow Zoom | Vanity Fair” in Directing
           

          Social Video
          • Beauregard Media won for ”SHEROES” in Social Video: Sports & Leisure
          • The Juilliard School won for “Bolero Julliard” in Arts & Entertainment
          • J. Paul Getty Museum won for “Getty Unshuttered Artists” in Public Service & Activism
          • Malala Fund won for “Malala Fund’s ‘Roll Call’” in Not-For-Profit

          Website

          www.TellyAwards.com

          Social Media

          Facebook /TellyAwards

          Twitter @TellyAwards

          Instagram @TellyAwards

          YouTube /TellyAwards

          About The Telly Awards:

          The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, Stash Magazine, and Digiday, VidCon and Social Media Week.

          October 22, 2019

          Press Release

          The Telly Awards Kicks Off 41st Call for Entries!

          For more information contact:

          Marc Cruz, marc@trustcollective.com

          Nathan Pollard, nathan@trustcollective.com

          TRUST, 347.416.6045   

           

          The Telly Awards Kicks Off 41st Call for Entries 

          With Launch of Immersive & Mixed Reality Categories and Global Expansion of Original Video and Branded Content Screening Series

          World’s largest award for excellence in video content across all screens unveils nationwide campaign – “Telly Award Winners Tell Great Stories” – calling on creators across all regions and languages to enter

          Early entry deadline is December 6th, 2019

          New York, NY (October 22, 2019) – Following its 40th anniversary as the world’s largest honor for video and television content across all screens, The Telly Awards today opened its annual call for entries, offering several exciting new categories that signal the continued growth in creative approaches to the rising digital video production, storytelling, and distribution landscape. To show its commitment to this creative expansion, The 41st Telly Awards has unveiled its new suite of Immersive & Mixed Reality categories, which embrace media from VR, 360 video, and AR. Along with new Social Impact categories, the awards will also introduce an expansion of its Diversity & Inclusion categories.

          This year, the 41st edition of the Tellys is rolling out an all-new campaign dubbed “Telly Award Winners Tell Great Stories”, which celebrates the award’s origins in local and regional commercials, as well as their inclusive, platform-agnostic theme and message. Ever-changing and adapting to the evolution of the industry, The Telly Awards have taken that very message and gone global, recognizing the democratization of who is able to make work. “For this season, due to the explosion of work made for all screens all around the world, we want to ensure that entrants all over the globe understand that we are eagerly inviting entries from all territories, whether English speaking or English-subtitled work. We’re making a concentrated effort to look for work beyond the US,” says Tellys Managing Director Sabrina Dridje.“We also want to highlight that all types of creators, from editors and directors to animators and those producing content on new platforms, are vital parts of the storytelling process. They can all tell great stories and so all have the potential to win.”

          “Telly Award Winners Tell Great Stories” will be anchored and amplified by the second installment of the Telly Awards’ video and film screening series. Reflecting the global message of the award, the screenings will not only take place in major U.S. markets such as New York (November 7th at Kickstarter HQ), Los Angeles, and Las Vegas (April 2020), but in prime international capitals including Toronto (November 13th), Berlin, London, and Amsterdam (Spring 2020).

          With Storyhunter as its media partner once again, The Telly Awards’ 45-minute “Film and Video Night” screening program will feature a range of content across branded, animation, and short-form documentaries from notable companies including RadicalMedia, Droga5, Great Big Story, Stash Magazine, WeTransfer, Passion Pictures, CultureLabel, Hickies, and Square. This includes a piece directed by Academy Award nominee Mike Mills and a Telly Award-winning piece narrated by Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning actress Emma Thompson

          Telly Awards entries will be evaluated by members of The Award Judging Council drawn from a diverse mix of advertising, media, tech, and video industry leaders. Among this year’s first-time judges are Annie Granatstein from The Washington Post, Joanna Popper from HP, Andrew Wareham from Taxi, and David Weinstein from Complex Networks. 

          The Telly Awards also announced expanded partnerships with industry leaders NAB, Stash Magazine, and StudioDaily, as well as new partnerships with Social Media Week and Catalyst Content Festival. 

          Founded in 1979 to honor commercials made for cable and local TV, The Telly Awards has continually refreshed its categories to honor the evolving, broad range of work being made — including branded content, social video, and animation — working with industry experts to identify categories where new platforms play an increasingly important role in the ways stories are being told.

          As a result, last year, The Telly Awards received over 12,000 entries – a 10% increase from the previous year – from top video content producers including Viacom, Google, Condé Nast, CBS Interactive, and Verizon.

          To enter work in The 40th Annual Telly Awards, visit www.tellyawards.com. The deadline for early entries is December 6th, 2019. Winners will be announced on May 20, 2020.

          Website

          www.TellyAwards.com

          Social Media

          Facebook /TellyAwards

          Twitter @TellyAwards

          Instagram @TellyAwards

          YouTube /TellyAwards

          About The Telly Awards

          The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, StudioDaily, Stash Magazine, and Digiday.

          May 21, 2019

          Press Release

          40th Annual Telly Award Winners Announced

           

          For more information contact:

          Marc Cruz, marc@trustcollective.com

          Nathan Pollard, nathan@trustcollective.com

          TRUST, 347.416.6045   

           

          The 40th Annual Telly Awards Celebrate Multi-Screen Winners Netflix, Condé Nast, DC Entertainment, Univision, AJ+, Adult Swim, CNN, Verizon, T Brand Studio and Viacom


          CBS Interactive recognized as Telly’s first ever Company of the Year while Branded Content and Social Video take center stage

           

          New York, NY (May 21, 2019) – Marking its 40th anniversary as the world’s largest honor for video and television content across all screens, The Telly Awards announced this year’s winners, including animated, environmentally-conscious standouts like Passion Pictures & CNN’s “There’s a Rang-Tan in my Bedroom“, live streaming favorite DC Entertainment’s “DC Daily Live with Kevin Smith”, Netflix’s drag show music video of Dolly Parton’s legendary “Jolene” and CBS Interactive’s viral juggernaut for “The Late Late Show with James Corden: The Biggest Baby Shark Ever” starring a crooning Josh Groban and Sophie Turner. A resurgence of documentary filmmaking also prompted top honors for a diverse range of companies: ESPN, AETN, AJ+, HBO Latin America, and PBS.

          Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards honors video and television made for all screens and is judged by The Telly Award Judging Council; a group of leading video and television experts from some of the most prestigious companies in entertainment, publishing, advertising, and emerging technology.

          View all of the winners of the 40th Annual Telly Awards winners at www.tellyawards.com/winners.

          Also, for the first time ever, The Telly Awards has crowned a Telly Company of the Year: CBS Interactive – recognizing years of achievement across platforms with video content from its many properties like Chowhound, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and CNET who created the widely shared video “Mark Zuckerberg explains the internet to old people”. Their commitment to creating great work, online and off, truly embodies the full breadth of platforms and screens the Tellys honor.

          This year’s winners not only represent a further broadening of the online landscape to embrace more documentary, scripted and even episodic pieces, but an increased focus on Branded Content and innovative new platforms like VR and Social Streaming.

          “We spend a lot of time listening to the creative community and our industry to better understand where the opportunities are for storytelling, and Social and Branded Content rose head and shoulders above the rest,” said Telly’s managing director Sabrina Dridje. “CBS Interactive especially should be commended for its approach to social and online video. These are areas that take a specific set of skills to produce great work, and as an organization honoring video and television content, spotlighting their efforts is fundamental to our mission.”

          In addition to a refreshed mission and recent rebrand, this year’s Telly Awards boasted a new roster of judges, comprising the most diverse and elite group of television and video industry leaders in the award’s history.  Entries were evaluated by jury members from creative powerhouse Droga5, next generation motion picture studio Ryot, Condé Nast, Framestore, Vimeo, Vice, A&E Networks and more.

          Indicative of their renewed multi-screen focus is the VR category, which recognized Google’s “Back to the Moon”, an animated fairytale adventure that celebrates the life and art of French illusionist and film director Georges Méliès, and BBDO DUBLIN’s “Consequences” which shows the tragic results of a night of drinking and driving. Tribeca and New York Film Festival favorite “Fire Escape” also won VR gold for its gripping story centered on solving a murder mystery.

          Meanwhile, newer studios and networks also found success with Stept Studios, Blue Chalk Media, and SoulPancake picking up awards in various categories.

          In Online and Social Video, publishers made their mark with Wired, Vogue, Vanity Fair and Bon Appétit all being recognized. Additionally, Verizon Media earned 4 golds for their in-depth online video profiles “This Tattoo Artist Has Been Inking for 46 Years”, “Anthony Mancinelli: The World’s Oldest Barber” and webseries “Real Life Love”.

          Additional 40th Annual Telly highlights from this year’s winners include:

          Branded Content

          • National Geographic won for "A Wild Lager Story" in Videography / Cinematography
          • Passion Pictures & CNN won for "What is Beauty?" in 2D Animation
          • Univision Communications Inc. won for "Target Holiday" in Commercials
          • WeTransfer won for "Breaking The Circle" in Directing
          • Dow Jones won for "Chasing Ambition" in Campaign: Branding

          Social Video

          • Condé Nast won for Wired's "Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises" in General: Education & Discovery
          • PBS Digital Studios won for PBS Digital Studios "It's Okay to be Smart " in Series: Education & Discovery
          • AETN won for "Native American Campaign" in Series: Culture & Lifestyle
          • AJ+ won for "Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women" in General: News & Information

          Television

          • AETN won for "We Are One" in Sports
          • CBS Interactive won for "Paul McCartney Carpool Karaoke" in Comedy
          • ESPN Films won for "30 for 30 Shorts: Locked In" in Documentary: Individual
          • HBO Latin America won for  "O Negócio" in Directing
          • Adult Swim won for "Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle - Walkthrough" in Use of Humor

          Online Series/Shows/Segments

          • PBS Digital Studios won for "Do We Need a President of the United States | America From Scratch" in Social Issues
          • Viacom Media Networks won for "Real Life Love" in Webseries: Documentary
          • Culture Trip won for "Hungerlust" in Documentary: Series
          • The Daily Show with Trevor Noah won for "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" in Entertainment
          • Fast Company & Inc Magazine won for "Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper turned their chemistry into a side career" in Entertainment

           

          Website
          www.TellyAwards.com

           

          Social Media

          Facebook /TellyAwards

          Twitter @TellyAwards

          Instagram @TellyAwards

          YouTube /TellyAwards

           

          About The Telly Awards

          The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, StudioDaily, Stash Magazine, Storyhunter, ProductionHub, VR/AR Association, The Wrap and Digiday.

           

          # # #

           

          October 23, 2018

          Press Release

          MARKING 40TH ANNIVERSARY, THE TELLY AWARDS KICKS OFF CALL FOR ENTRIES

          For information contact:

          Jenny Chang, jenny@pkpr.com

          Randi Rosenbloom, randi@pkpr.com

          PKPR, 212.627.8098

           

          MARKING 40TH ANNIVERSARY, THE TELLY AWARDS KICKS OFF CALL FOR ENTRIES

          WITH LAUNCH OF ORIGINAL VIDEO SERIES & NEW BRANDED CONTENT CATEGORIES

          World’s largest award for excellence in video & TV across all screens unveils new nationwide campaign – “A Story For Every Screen” – with event series, judges, and partnerships

          Early entry deadline is December 7th, 2018

           

          New York, NY (October 23, 2018) – Kicking off its 40th year as the world’s largest honor for video and television content across all screens, The Telly Awards today launched its annual call for entries with new categories honoring outstanding work in serialized branded content and live video.

          The call for entries launches alongside a 40th anniversary campaign dubbed “A Story For Every Screen.” The celebration will include a new original online video series and a national film night series in major markets throughout the U.S., including Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.

          Reflecting the recent revitalization of The Telly Awards for the multi-screen era, the monthly series will feature interviews with executives representing the full range of video producers, including Vimeo, Dow Jones, iNK Stories, Fast Company, Inc., the American Theatre Wing, Eko, PwC, and Juniper Jones.

          To further advance the industry, The Telly Awards will partner with Storyhunter to support “A Story For Every Screen” with a national film night series showcasing the world’s most innovative television and video work for all screens. Featuring a range of content, including branded, animation, and short-form documentaries, the films will be created by companies including Vice, Great Big Story, National Geographic, and RYOT Studios. Taking place in Chicago (November 7th), New York (November 14th), Los Angeles (March 2019), and San Francisco (April 2019), the series will also include conversations about emerging video and television trends with leaders from Framestore, host of the Chicago screening, Gizmodo Media Group, host of the New York City screening, National Geographic, and Great Big Story.

          Telly Awards entries will be evaluated by a roster of judges drawn from a diverse mix of television and video industry leaders. Among this year’s first-time judges are David Gerlach from A&E Networks, Kate Dohaney from Dow Jones, Courtney Coupe from Great Big Story, and David Lennon from Vice.

          The Telly Awards also announced expanded partnerships with a selection of key industry leaders including IFP, ProductionHUB, The WrapPro, and VR/AR Association.

          Founded in 1979 to honor commercials made for cable and local TV, The Telly Awards recently renewed itself for the multi-screen era. Throughout 2017-2018, the Tellys refashioned its categories to honor the type of work being made by leading producers, including branded content, social video, and animation, and worked with industry experts to identify categories where technology plays an important role in the ways stories are now being told.

          “The last two years have been an exciting renewal period for The Telly Awards, and we’re proud to cap it off with a 40th anniversary celebration that will not only showcase the Tellys online, but also bring a live sampling to audiences in the nation’s biggest cities,” said Tellys managing director Sabrina Dridje, who was tapped to lead the ambitious revitalization. “We’re excited to celebrate 40 years as the industry’s top honors with a fresh identity that reflects the dynamism and vitality of the industry we honor.”

          The revitalization efforts included a new branding initiative reflecting video’s omnipresence on screens of all shapes and sizes, as well as a new editorial platform that allows industry leaders to share best practices, analyses, and opinions on creating, distributing, and monetizing video and television. The Telly Awards also launched a new winners gallery to serve as a showcase for the most innovative work done by Telly Award winners since 2014.

          Last year, The Telly Awards attracted more than 12,000 entries from top video content producers including Conde Nast, Showtime, Refinery29, RadicalMedia, and Ogilvy & Mather.

          To enter work in The 40th Annual Telly Awards, visit http://www.tellyawards.com/. The deadline for early entries is December 7th, 2018. Winners will be announced in May 2019.

           

          Website

          www.TellyAwards.com

           

          Social Media

          Facebook /TellyAwards

          Twitter @TellyAwards

          Instagram @TellyAwards

          YouTube /TellyAwards

           

          About The Telly Awards

          The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, StudioDaily, Stash Magazine, and Digiday.

           

          # # #