We were heartbroken not to be selected for the Streamys sniff sniff But congrats to the great content producers that were, well done!

On a brighter note, Deleted: The Game has been made an Official Nominee and Official Honoree for the 13th Webby Awards 2009 in the Best Experimental Film & Video category and the Best Use of Interactive Video category respectively.

We’re humbled and grateful for the support of our fans and supporters and would love if you would take some time to register and vote us for the Webby’s People’s Voice award here http://pv.webbyawards.com

Thank you!

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We made our decision on the following basis:

(a) there are currently no substitutes for the Webbys [... maybe Tubefilter Awards in the future? ...] that could offer the exposure of being nominated.

(b) as Marc pointed out, it would hopefully act as a filter. [Standing on soap box] … although I don’t think money should be it as this could crowd out the deserving indie. Unfortunately, I do not think web content critic/review sites (of which Tubefilter is arguably the leader) aren’t quite yet the institutions as their mainstream counterparts and do not yet offer a reliable filtering system to supplant Benjamin Franklin, sigh … maybe one day.

UPDATE: Deleted: The Game is now over with the Nov 4th finale converging on Elections 2008. Thanks to Ethan and Zach election fraud on a major scale was averted and no one still really knows if Tyler was killed or still missing and waiting to be found. The title has done over 2 million views since going live Aug 15, 2008. We have the most amazing audience, thanking them for their support, these folks helped generate over 70 pages of independent comments and discussion. We are blown away!

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Pretty much. I think it’s there to limit the amount of content submitted, but this is higher than many film festivals for submitting a feature.

Here’s a quick question for anybody: Let’s say your marketing budget is actually zero. Don’t you think the $200 submission fee for the Webbys is comepletey gouging?

For your readers – the season is still going strong with a major plot twist revealed last Fri 10/10 – come join us, have fun, be careful and don’t be DELETED!

Since launch, the show has achieved well over 1 million views on Kewego, Youtube and iTunes, over 7,000 subscribers and 700 registered players who have generated over 70 pages of independent content and discussion. We are very grateful for the engagement we receive from our audience, the person who commented on the mediocre acting in your review did come back with really useful notes which we did take in, and we hope to collaborate with this person in the future. We are committed to continuous improvement and being great in the interactive web series genre.

One small erratum, we produce at a cost of $1,000 per min, in contrast to $10,000 per min for major productions such as Gemini Division. That makes it $5,000 per episode of approximately 5 mins length (not $10,000 as in your review).

With such a small budget, we have nothing to spend on marketing so our audience has been built from grassroots efforts, indie style. Any publicity that we receive through reviews helps us get noticed alongside the enormous marketing efforts that NBC Interactive’s “Gemini Division” starring Rosario Dawson brings to bear.

We’ve submitted for the 13th Webby Awards in three categories Best Drama, Best Use of Interactive Video and Best Experimental and Weird. Hope your readers will back us if they like what we’re doing!

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