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Telly Judging Council Resources

Thank you for serving on the Telly Awards Judging Council. The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens, and celebrates the creativity that emerges when Stories Take Shape in bold and innovative ways. Whether you are embracing new storytelling formats, engaging with emerging technology, or using classic techniques to feature diverse points of views, this season of the Tellys is an exploration of possibility. Thank you for being part of the team.

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    • The 46th season of The Telly Awards is now open for entries! Work is judged across Branded Content, Commercials & Marketing, Immersive, Interactive & XR, TV or Online Series, Shows & Segments, Non-Broadcast, Social Video and new this year, Film & Shorts. Enter now at tlly.co/enter.
    • Big news! The 46th Annual Telly Awards have a new suite of categories in Film & Shorts to reflect the blend of social, branded, original and immersive styles that are shaping a dynamic, evolving genre. Get your entries before Dec. 13th at tlly.co/enter so I can judge them.
    • I’m a judge in this season of the Telly Awards, celebrating the creativity that emerges when “Stories Take Shape” in bold and innovative ways. Entries are now open! Enter now at tlly.co/enter.
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      Telly Awards Facts

      • The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 13,000 entries globally.
      • Winners are selected for recognition based on excellence in the following areas: Branded Content, Commercials & Marketing, Immersive & Mixed Reality, Non-Broadcast, Online and Television Series, Shows & Segments, and Social Video.
      • Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 250 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks including Adobe, RunwayML, MSG Sphere Studios, Bustle Digital Group, Billion Dollar Boy, Netflix, Shutterstock, Unit 9, Whaler, Meta Creative Shop.
      • Long standing partners of The Telly Awards include: the Gotham Institute, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Stash, NY Women In Film and Television (NYWIFT), Los Angeles Post-Production Group (LAPPG), Production Hub, Green the Bid, Video Consortium, and Series Fest. New Partners this season include FWD-Doc, Runway AI Film Festival (AIFF), ReelAbilities Film Festival, and Film Fatales.
      • Past Winners include: Accenture, Adult Swim, AirBnB, Audible, Adobe, BET Networks/BET Digital, BritBox, Condé Nast, CNN, The Walt Disney Company, ESPN, The European Union, Feed teh Children, FORTUNE Brand Studio, FEMA, Frameless, Gaumont, Golden State Warriors, HBO, Media.Monks, Microsoft, NASA, National Geographic Society, Netflix, Partizan, Paramount, PBS Digital, RadicalMedia, Sony Music Entertainment, The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Square
      • In addition to the award program, the Telly Awards hosts year-long programming. The Telly Awards Podcast presents micro conversations with experts reframing our industry on a macro level, and Hot Takes, our original video series, features unfiltered, unrehearsed responses to hot-button topics. Our global screening series is a touring industry event where large corporate agencies and small, independent creators and production companies come together each season to screen excellent short-form work we curate from our winners, partners and judges.
      • The Telly Awards is based in NYC and its Managing Director is Amanda Needham. She can be reached at amanda.needham@tellyawards.com.

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