Inaugural Members:
- Alex Albrecht, Creator and Host, Team Awesome and Project Lore, Host, Diggnation
- Chris Albrecht, Co-Editor, NewTeeVee
- Todd Amorde, National Director of Organizing, Screen Actors Guild
- Drew Baldwin, Co-Founder, Tubefilter
- Yuri Baranovsky, Creator and Producer, Break A Leg
- Ryan Barlow, Director, Distribution & Marketing, The Tornante Company
- Rob Barnett, CEO, MyDamnChannel
- Andrew Baron, Creator, Rocketboom
- Justine Bateman, Partner, FM78.tv
- Erik Beck, Creator, Host, Producer, Indy Mogul
- Sean Becker, Producer and Director, Awkward Pictures, Comedy Gumbo
- Miles Beckett, CEO, EQAL, lonelygirl15, LG15: The Resistance, KateModern, Harper’s Globe
- Max Benator, Head of Digital Media, RDF USA
- Payman Benz, Writer and Director, Awkward Pictures, Comedy Gumbo
- Damon Berger, Director of Branded Entertainment, Moderati
- Hayden Black, CEO, Evil Global Corporation, Abigail’s Teen Diary, Goodnight Burbank
- Brady Brim-DeForest, Co-Founder, Tubefilter
- Bill Cammack, Freelance Video Editor and New Media Consultant
- Ned Canty, Festival Director, New York Television Festival
- Aimee Carlson, Creative Director, US, Dailymotion
- Joshua Cohen, Co-Founder, Tilzy.TV
- Felicia Day, Creator, The Guild; Actor Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Legend of Neil
- Mark Day, Comedy Manager, YouTube
- Zadi Diaz, Co-Founder, Smashface Productions, Epic Fu
- Matt Enlow, Content Strategist, Strike.TV
- Kim Evey, Owner, Gorgeous Tiny Productions; The Guild, Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show
- Mary Feuer, Series Creator, With the Angels
- Elisabeth Flack, New Media Representative, Writers Guild of America, West
- Nick Fortunato, VP, Programming and Production, HEAVY.com
- Brent Friedman, Co-Founder, Electric Farm Entertainment; Afterworld, Gemini Division
- Liz Gannes, Founder and Co-Editor, NewTeeVee
- Barrett Garese, Founding Agent, Online Department, United Talent Agency
- Steve Garfield, Producer, SteveGarfield.com
- Justin Gayner, Co-Founder, ChannelFlip Media
- Greg Goodfried, President, COO, EQAL, lonelygirl15, LG15: The Resistance, KateModern, Harper’s Globe
- Kathleen Grace, Director and Producer, Dinosaur Diorama Productions, The Burg, The All-For-Nots
- Virginia Heffernan, TV Critic, The New York Times
- Mike Hudack, CEO, blip.tv
- Brian Seth Hurst, Second Vice Chair, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, National Board, Producer’s Guild of America
- Marc Hustvedt, Co-Founder, Tubefilter
- Justin Johnson, Creative Services Lead, Next New Networks
- Dina Kaplan, Co-Founder, blip.tv
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- Geoff Katz, Governor, Interactive Media Peer Group, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
- Joshua Kinberg, Director, Online Video Product Management, PBS
- Matthew Kirsch, Creator, Duder
- Paul Kontonis, CEO, For Your Imagination
- Bob Kushell, Creator and Executive Producer, Anytime with Bob Kushell
- Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3
- Jeff Macpherson, Creator, Tiki Bar TV
- Tyler Malin, Partner, Madon Malin, P.C.; Secret Fun Time
- Brandon Martinez, New Media Agent, Abrams Artists Agency
- Matt Mazzeo, Agent, CAA
- Chris McCaleb, Co-Founder, Big Fantastic, Director, Sorority Forever, Foreign Body, Cockpit, Sam Has 7 Friends, Foreign Body
- Alec McNayr, Executive Producer, Space Shank Media, Flipper Nation
- Tom Merritt, Executive Editor, CBS Interactive
- Liz Shannon Miller, Reviews Editor, NewTeeVee
- Eric Mortensen, Director of Content Development, blip.tv
- Kent Nichols, Co-Creator, Ask A Ninja
- Sandeep Parikh, CEO, Effinfunny.com, The Legend of Neil, The Guild
- Chris Pfaff, New Media Council, Producers Guild of America, East
- Brent Poer, General Manager, TheWB.com
- Adam Quirk, Producer, Wreck & Salvage
- Sam Reich, President of Original Content, CollegeHumor.com
- Scott Roesch, VP & GM, Atom.com / Comedy Central
- Jessica Rose, Actress, lonelygirl15, Hooking Up, Sorority Forever, Casanovas
- George Ruiz, Head of New Media, International Creative Management
- Douglas Sarine, Writer, Beatbox Giant Productions, Ask A Ninja
- David Sarno, Internet Columnist, The Los Angeles Times
- Tim Shey, Co-Founder, Next New Networks
- Irina Slutsky, Co-Founder, Geek Entertainment Television
- Jay Smooth, Creator, Ill Doctrine
- Taryn Southern, Writer and Producer, Private High Musical; Actor, Sorority Forever
- Tim Street, CEO, APE Digital, French Maid TV
- Sarah Szalavitz, Founder and CEO, 7 Robot, ZapRoot
- Jamison Tilsner, Founder, Tilzy.TV
- Woody Tondorf, Producer, Runaway Box, HBO Lab
- Gary Vaynerchuk, Host and Founder, Wine Library TV
- Andrew Wallenstein, The Hollywood Reporter
- Michael Wayne, Co-Founder & CEO, DECA
- Brent Weinstein, CEO, 60Frames Entertainment
- Daisy Whitney, Reporter, TV Week and New Media Minute
- Thom Woodley, Partner, Dinosaur Diorama, The Burg, The All-For-Nots
- Steve Woolf, Co-founder, Smashface Productions, Epic Fu
- Jonathan Zalben, Composer, House Poor
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Updates on the Streamy Awards! It’s March and the super duper fantastic live awards show is fast approaching. Today we’re announcing the list of inaugural members of the International Academy of Web Television, the body that will ultimately be voting on the finalists and winners of the Streamys. Well, that’s except for the Audience Choice Award which of course will be open to the public voting starting next week.
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That’s a pretty extensive list – congratulations on choosing people who are actively involved in making web television the innovative and exciting media that it is! I particularly liked the fact that you have given a little information about each person. Will you be linking to their websites in further releases?
I’m really looking forward to seeing who the finalists for the Streamy Awards are going be!
It’s very exciting to watch the beginning of all this stuff. Congrats to everyone!
ETA on the nominees?
Web Television? Worst name ever.
Congrats to those who were chosen! I recognize and know a lot of names on that list, and they’ve put in the hours to gain those positions. Here’s hoping this union helps advance the medium!
This is really great and long overdue! Constuctively, I can’t help but say the “international” part seems a bit missing amongst the inaugural members of the IAWT. If anyone who reads this would like some suggestions, I’d be glad to help. I’ve co-organized Vlog Europe for three years and can give you some quality ex-US names.
Thanks guys for being patient with us during this process. It’s definitely an incredible feat pulling together an Awards show and voting process that will be around for years to come.
The Audience Choice Award voting on the finalists (as determined by the open submission process earlier this year) will begin next week.
Soon after the finalists in each of the remaining categories – like Best Hosted Web Series, Best Writing in a Comedy Web Series, Best Male Actor in a Drama Series, etc. will be announced.
The winners of course will be announced LIVE at the Streamy Awards on March 28th. The whole show will be live streamed worldwide.
Re: IAWTV and international representation. Jeffrey, good point. While we did our best to include some non-US members, there could always be more going forward. We would love to hear your suggestions.
party at my house for academy members only. byob. i’ve got the wii. :)
Nice to see a wide group of people in the trenches as part of this. Its all very exciting!
Nice to see a wide group of people in the trenches as part of this. Its all very exciting and great to have people recognized in this media.
Thanks again for the nod. Looking forward to the party on March 28 (and at Hayden’s place).
“Re: IAWTV and international representation. Jeffrey, good point. While we did our best to include some non-US members, there could always be more going forward. We would love to hear your suggestions.”
- can you please post a formal mechanism by which we can suggest people who should have been included on the list?
@modelmotion – yes, we are rolling out a new IAWTV site shortly which will have a submission form for prospective members. Thanks for the suggestion!
Congratulations to all of the inaugural members of the IAWTV. Looking forward to seeing you on the 28th of March!
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