The People have Spoken
By Tim.The winners of the 11th annual Webby Awards were announced today, and in our business, all eyes were on the Online Film & Video group of categories, where we had four nominations in play. For every category, there’s a juried award and one chosen by popular vote, and sometimes both go to the same nominee, but most of the time they’re different.
Fast Lane Daily, our daily automotive news network, won the People’s Voice Award for the Sports category, in a category that also included nominees from CBS Sportsline, Heavy, and HBO Sports. Congratulations to everyone here at Next New Networks who worked on Fast Lane Daily this past year, especially the core team of Emil, Mike, Ian, Alan, Gene, and Derek D, the ultimate good sport. Below is a special video the team created for the Webby judges and voting public, and it’s a fun recap of how far they’ve come.
Our congratulations to some other great People’s Voice winners in Online Film & Video:
Drawn by Pain, by our buddy Jesse Cowell (check out his Indy Mogul interview from last week), won for BEST USE OF ANIMATION/MOTION GRAPHICS.
You Suck at Photoshop, from My Damn Channel, otherwise known as Emil’s favorite web show, won People’s Voice Awards for both COMEDY: LONG FORM OR SERIES and HOW-TO AND DIY (where our own ThreadBanger was also nominated).
A special shout out to the now-classic Lonelygirl15, from the newly funded (and like us, Spark Capital investment) EQAL — they won the People’s Voice for BEST DRAMA SERIES, against tough competition including their sister show, Kate Modern, and Electric Farm’s awesome Afterworld, which I have to admit I was rooting for (I helped launch the show back in 2006). And finally, to our friends at Hometown Baghdad, who were nominated for an insane four Webbys, and won two three of them — congratulations, that’s an awesome achievement.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
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May 6th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
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May 6th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Congrats on the win, Tim and team at NNN!! Well deserved. And Hometown Baghdad actually won three awards…we’re still a bit in shock and super excited. I’m looking forward to seeing you at the awards!
May 6th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
congrats. this is very cool!
May 7th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Thanks Tim!
Pleasure getting to know you guys. Working with Erik and Justin was a blast.
-Jes
*btw quick typo - it’s the 12th annual awards*
May 7th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Congrats FLD!!!!!!!!!!!!! You guys rock and totally deserve the win for all your hard work this past year!
May 8th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Thanks for the shoutout Tim. Congrats to you guys as well!
-Miles
May 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
[…] of course, the FLD crew deserves such BIG props for working so tirelessly this past year. I mean this team nails it every time, and continues to […]