Three weeks after the nominees were first announced, the winners of the 2014 Webby Awards have been revealed. Within the online video categories, nobody won more than two awards in a diverse class of awardees.
The biggest online video winner was Freddie Wong, who will receive a Special Achievement Award at the Webby Awards ceremony on May 19th. Wong’s trophy will honor his crowdfunding successes, his innovative web series work on Video Game High School, and his recent deal with Lionsgate, which “brings a new level of recognition and awareness to the potential of high-quality Web series,” according to a Webby Awards press release.
Wong, however, was one of the few popular YouTube creators to score recognition from the Webbys. The online video awards tended to favor branded content campaigns like Chipotle’s ‘The Scarecrow’ and Interlude’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, traditional media voices like Jerry Seinfeld and Jamie Oliver, and top online comedy platforms like Funny or Die, CollegeHumor, and Cracked.
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Other winners of multiple online video Webby Awards included TED, VICE, and Google+’s Same Sex Marriage campaign. The Webby winners in all 44 online video categories are listed below:
Animation: The Scarecrow
Best Editing: Like A Rolling Stone – Interactive Music Video
Best Individual Performance: Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Season Two
Best Reality/Variety Host: Jen And Barb, Mom Life
Best Sound Design: Follow Your Instinct
Best Use of Animation/Motion Graphics: New York Times Style
Best Use of Interactive Video: 24 hours of Happy
Best Use of Special FX/Motion Graphics: Giant Field
Best Web Host: Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube
Best Writing: Cracked After Hours
Branded Entertainment: The Most Amazing Beat Box Video Ever
Branded Entertainment Long Form: Canon – Project Imaginat10n
Branded Entertainment Scripted: Climate Name Change
Branded Entertainment Short Form: The Epic Split
Branded Entertainment Unscripted: Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise
Comedy Individual Short or Episode: Batman vs. the Penguin
Comedy Long Form or Series: Between Two Ferns
Documentary Individual Episode: Click, Print, Gun
Documentary Series: 2013 ICP Infinity Awards
Drama: The Beauty Inside
Drama Individual Episode: Kirill
Drama Series: The Ten Commandments of La Vida Loca
Entertainment Channel: Vimeo on Demand
Events and Live Webcasts: TED
Experimental and Weird: Box
How-To and DIY: Absolut Drinks in Motion
How-To and DIY Channel: Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube
Music: Just a Reflektor
News and Information Channel: HuffPost Live
News and Politics: Individual Episode: In Saddam’s Shadow
News and Politics Series: The Guardian on Qatar’s migrant workers
News/Documentary/Public Service: Levin Sites in the Hot Zone
Public Service and Activism: Google+ Same Sex Marriage
Public Service and Activism Channel: The Internet Must Go
Reality: Google+ Same Sex Marriage
Sports: 12 Miles North
Student: GameZombie TV
Techonology: Create the Future
Travel: Frugal Traveler: American Road Trip
Travel and Adventure: The List
Variety: TED
Variety Channel: Red Bull Channel
Video Remixes/Mashups: Music Videos Without Music
Viral: Jimmy Kimmel Reveals “Worst Twerk Fail Ever”
To see the full list of winners across all categories–including the audience-chosen People’s Voice winners in each category–check out the Webby Awards website.
