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Dick Clark Prods. is developing the “Streamy Awards” to self-congratulate Internet programming. It’s a 2-year-old franchise supposedly recognizing the best in web entertainment. The company is currently looking for a TV home for the event, though some if not all of the Streamys will be situated online. No date or location for the next Streamys has been set. ”The goal is to create another franchise along the lines of our American Music Awards or the Academy of Country Music Awards,” Ariel Elazar, VP of digital distribution and brand licensing at DCP said in a statement. The rights to the Streamys are owned by Tubefilter, an online publication devoted to online video. DCP and Tubefilter want less a one-off event and more a multi-month interactive extravaganza that incorporates audience participation including voting on select categories well in advance of the show itself. This new partnership follows 2010 Streamys which were declared a disaster because of numerous technical problems. That fiasco prompted the International Academy of Web Television to disassociate itself from the Streamys after teaming with Tubefilter to produce that event. The Intl. Academy decided to launch its own event in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association. The IAWTV Awards will be held in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. So, basically, the Streamys will now be yet another useless kudocast without any Industry credibility — not unlike DCP’s long association with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globes.
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heh.
I love this site.
The youtube community blasted the 2010 streamys
Everyone vlogged and said it was 4 hours of profanity tech problems unfunny jokes and a biased toward other online video content providers (non-youtube based).
The Streamys are a sham! Last year – they awarded comedians and actors for the worst garbage online just to suck up and come off as an important player in the online web/new media space. Tube Filter runs it (I think) and they are just trying to create something out of the horrible web sites and reviews of web series they do. Most of the winners didn’t even show up and the live “streamed” broadcast online had technical difficulties filled with awkward moments and self indulgent rants. There were so MANY great web series that didn’t even get nominated for this crap fest. Guess they fooled Dick Clark Productions into thinking they were worth something….
As someone who has watched the two previous years of the Streamy Awards, I think they do a great job of recognizing excellence in the space. Something no other award show does. While last years show had technical and script issues, I don’t think any nominees or winners complained when their show was recognized. Or the press or new viewers they got due to their nomination. There were a number of YouTube stars in attendance as well. I think DCP’s involvement is a great sign for web television. It can only add more exposure to this growing medium.
If you’re so opposed to Awards like the Golden Globes, stop cashing in with all those ‘For Your Consideration’ ads.
Would make your site a lot more sincere.
In a word: lame.
too bad they should check out BANDWAGON Season 2 on you tube. fuuny show.
Good for Brady — very cool to see something he created and drove for so long make it to the next level.
I think you mean “Very cool to see something succeed despite Brady’s ubiquitous dishonesty, blatant backstabbing, and a nearly sociopathic level of personal morality.”
Sounds dumb.
The implication at the end of the article that the Emmys and oscars have more credibility than the Golden Globes is funny.
as a past multiple “streamy” winner all i can offer is the name says it all.
I thought they already gave out Streamy awards– for pornos.
it’s disheartening that an awards show celebrating a creative, new, and refreshing medium is labeled ‘useless.’
Who cares if the awards show sucked in the past? Awards shows are always mediocre at best, but their existence incentivizes quality. Without the oscars, movies would probably all be directed by Michael Bay…and if that doesn’t make you vomit in your mouth a little, you’re probably 13 years old.
Streamy Awards should go to the best pregnancy tests.
Anyone notice that some of the chuckleheads in charge of the IAWTV also run Tubefilter? i’m looking at you, Drew Baldwin, and who started the IAWTV, any reputable ‘internet stars?’
So basically this deal guarantees that they’ll be much like the Webbies – awarding “deserving internet stars” like Justin Bieber – while leaving the independent content producers, who sometimes actually make good stuff, in the dust in favor of getting more viewers by nominating “name” talent? Didn’t the Tonys try to give out awards to “name” talent last year – and still crash in the ratings? Add TV and Dick Clark Prods. to the mix, and watch the politics get even more out of hand.
Streamys 2 blew. Why? Because they tried to get “cool” and “big-time” with it. And they failed miserably in that quest for cool. Think this solves the problem?
An early congrats to Lisa Kudrow, Keifer Sutherland, David Fincher, the cast of the “The Office” and Zach Galifianakis on your Steamy 3 Awards….
I agree with the writer here mostly. Having watched this closely since 2007, I found it is the leaders of this “web series” crowd that is toxic. There is a lot of market confusion here, and it annoys and entertains me at the same time. Most in the tubefilter and IAWTV crowd are snobby actors/writers out of work, and fledgling actors trying to fulfill their dreams of fame. Today, this web series community has branched off into amateur youtube producers and bloggers with little or no experience– all copying each other. There was a big hype in 2009 and 2010 around comic-con’s embrace of The Guild (a web series with corporate sponsorships and buzz factories). Since them the web series and internet producers have turned to anarchy, which can best be described as an adaptation of Lord of the Flies. This crowd of know-nothings have created a new Dogme2009 with their own rules on what makes something a web series or web entertainment. None of which made any logical sense.
But in reality, that is the clique around the brand of “web series” or “web entertainment”. That is what DCP is targeting here, I think. It’s the old and wise tact of “mining the miners”. All of these fledglings will rally behind the DCP brand, and DCP will capitalize on desperate videomakers tuning into it.
Broadband is just a new distribution model that has only become available due to higher Broadband throughput. That means it is not much different in nature to cable or satellite, except that Broadband opens the proverbial flood gates (usually governed by broadcasters and cable operators with business and standards regulation). It creates a new distribution platform for original content. To give an example of how the web series producing world works, it is either relegated to corporate/network spinoffs or semi-pro network channels like youtube and koldcast. There are also PPV networks and an independent PPV player still in beta. These are all well and good, since they offer affordable exposure/reach for producers, and gives platform to new talent or direct-from-client revenue.
DCP’s “monthly awards bonanza” strategy I read about in this story points me to the most logical reason for this marriage. Month to month revenue from the amateur producers (directly or indirectly via advertising), and revenue from the audience using the winning content. Sounds normal to me. But if this is to succeed, they need to disassociate with the IAWTV and Tubefilter.
The IAWTV has been even more of a fiasco, building a reputation they are a scam. (IAWTV was created by out of work network actors & writers like Justine Bateman (for example), pushing her own web shows and company. They first excluded most producers that applied for membership (appearing elitist). But after the Streamy’s went bust in 2010, IAWTV went back to the rejected producers offering them memberships– mining them for subscription fees.)
Smart move on DCP’s part actually. While most of the TV biz is still writing off the web as bushleague, there’s some real talent there online. Some YouTube, some on Funny or Die. And that group of startups in video like Revision3, Blip.tv, Break.com, Tubefilter, Machinima, etc. are actually building a whole new leg of the entertainment ind. Props to DCP for making a smart move and jumping on this before Burnett did. It’s the future, and it’s coming up quick.
Sounds like you’re probably just jealous of him. Making up things and throwing anonymous barbs to make yourself feel worth something. I bet that everything you accomplished in life was a direct result of it being handed to you (by your parents, etc)