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Telly Awards Resources Page

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, and Film & Shorts.

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Season 47 Snapshot

This page features everything you need to know about our current season including facts and assets.

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You can contact our customer service lead, Lauren Adkins, at 212-970-0223 or email at customerservice@tellyawards.com

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Last season’s Season 46 Winner’s Resource page featured badges and banners can be found here.

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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.

Classic Assets

A collection of classic Telly Awards assets.

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Square

Promotional Image for the Horizontal

Horizontal

Promotional Image for the Spinning Colors Trophy

Spinning Colors Trophy

Promotional Image for the Spinning Gold Trophy

Spinning Gold Trophy

Promotional Image for the Three Trophies Spinning

Three Trophies Spinning

Promotional Image for the Hand Trophy

Hand Trophy

Promotional Image for the Managing Director Amanda Needham

Managing Director Amanda Needham

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, and Social Video.
  • 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, MSG Sphere Studios, Bustle Digital Group, Billion Dollar Boy, Netflix, Shutterstock, Unit 9, Whaler, Meta Creative Shop.
  • Long standing partners of The Telly Awards include: the Gotham Institute, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Stash, NY Women In Film and Television (NYWIFT), Los Angeles Post-Production Group (LAPPG), Production Hub, Green the Bid, Video Consortium, and Series Fest. New Partners this season include FWD-Doc, Runway AI Film Festival (AIFF), ReelAbilities Film Festival, Film Fatales, Portrait and Kinema.
  • Past Winners include: Accenture, Adult Swim, AirBnB, Audible, Adobe, BET Networks/BET Digital, BritBox, Crunchyroll, Condé Nast, Bloomberg, The Walt Disney Company, ESPN, The European Union, Feed the Children, FORTUNE Brand Studio, FEMA, Frameless, Gaumont, Pixar Animation Studio, HBO, Media.Monks, Microsoft, NASA, National Geographic Society, Netflix, Partizan, Paramount, PBS Digital, UFC, RadicalMedia, Sony Music Entertainment, The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Square, Delta Airlines.
  • Global entries include work from across Europe, including Sweden, Spain, Greece and Germany and from across Asia including Korea, Singapore, China and the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, the  United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
  • In addition to the award program, the Telly Awards hosts year-long programming. The Telly Awards presents ‘Throughlines’, our conversation series, that taps into the Telly’s unique position as a connector across verticals to explore trending topics. 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.

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