It’s that time of the year again, and last night saw the 11th annual Webby Awards in New York, as the Internetcelebrated itself Each category had a Webby winner and a People’s Voice winner, and in several instances they were the same. BBC News snagged bothNews awards, while NPR won in the Podcasts. Last FM grabbed both Music Awards. Pan’s Labyrinth was the unanimous choice for Movie of the Year, How Stuff Works took away the trophy for BestCopy/Writing, and Cute Overload won in the Weird category. There were over 100 different categories, with 8,000 entries from 60 countries. Flickr was one of the biggest winners, winning Best Practices, Best Visual Design, and both in Community. The intriguing Social Networking Award went to an outsider,Linked In. There were also several Special Achievement Awards. People of the Year went to Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, the founders of YouTube, while eBay found itself with a Webby Achievement Award. David Bowie also grabbed aLifetime Achievement Award. The Best Actor in the Films and Video area went to Ask A Ninja, and Jessica Lee Rose (Lonelygirl15) took home Best Actress. It was a night for mercifully short acceptance speeches. As they took theiraward, Hurley and Chen simply said, “YouTubers, this is for you. We never thought so many things could be blended.” Artist of the Year went to hip-hop band the Beastie Boys,for a concert video that was filmed by 50 members of the audience, which the judges hailed an a prime example of the interactive world. The band’s response was, “Are we gettingpaid for this?”
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The Web Celebrates At The Webbies
YouTube To Post Japanese Copyright Warning
Naruto fans of the world look out: The Man wants to pull the plug on your YouTube fix.
In a two-huor face-to-face meeting with a group of Japanese broadcasters and copyright holders, YouTube founders Cad Hurley and Steven Chen said that video sharing site YouTube will start posting a Japanese-language notice on its site warning users against uploading copyrighted material. However, so far the warning notice is the only concession Japanese media has been able to wrangle out of YouTube.
TiVo Launches Critical Marketing Campaign
TiVo Inc. Monday announced a series of coordinated initiatives that will officially launch on August 11, 2004 to support the company’s growth strategy. These initiatives include a new low priceof $99 after rebate, a newly designed TiVo box, and expansion of the TiVo retail footprint to some of the largest retailers in the country. These moves will be supported by a nationwide advertisingcampaign that kicked off this week, and an innovative rewards program to promote new subscriber referrals. Collectively, the elements of this growth initiative are expected to fuel the mostaggressive subscriber growth period in the company’s history.
“Breaking the $100 threshold and expanding our distribution footprint now puts TiVo within reach of many more consumers,” Brodie Keast, EVP and general manager of the TiVo service. “The advertising campaign, tivo.com, and the unique rewards program will be the primary channels to communicate to existing and potential new customers everything TiVo has to offer.”
