Below is our 2013 Model D Awards Winners & Honorable Mentions
Thank you to everyone who attended the first annual Cynopsis Digital Model D Awards luncheon. We hope you enjoyed yourselves, learned a few things, and made a new friend or two. Congratulations to all the winners and honorable mentions!
2013 Model D Awards Attendee List
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TECHNOLOGY
Winner:
Bravo Media — Bravo’s Connected TV Experience
Honorable Mentions:
Accelerated Media — Ad-Enabled Connected TV Apps for Broadcasters
Smithsonian Channel — Smithsonian Channel on Roku
Sony Pictures Television — Crackle Connected TV App
ToonGoggles — Toon Goggles
Winner:
FreeWheel — Monetization Rights Management®
Honorable Mentions:
Accelerated Media — Ad-Enabled Connected TV Apps for Broadcasters
adap.tv — Adap.tv’s Pathway Platform
Adobe — Adobe Primetime
Crackle at Sony Pictures Television — cRoll Interactive Video
LiveRail — Video Ad Monetization Platform for Publishers
MIXPO — Mixpo’s Multiscreen Video Advertising Solutions
Set Media — SET Media Video Platform
Videology — Videology’s Video Ad Platform
VINDICO — VINDICO
Digital Video Technology Platform
Winner:
Unicorn Media — Unicorn Once
Honorable Mentions:
Adobe — Adobe Primetime
Bottle Rocket — AWE, Powered by Bottle Rocket
CineSport — VaMP: Video and Monetization Platform
MIXPO — Mixpo’s Multiscreen Video Advertising Solutions
NeuLion — NeuLion TV Everywhere Platform
Set Media — SET Media Video Platform
Synacor — Cloud ID: Social Login
The Platform — mpx
Toon Goggles — Toon Goggles
VINDICO
Winner:
E! — Live From the Red Carpet Digital Properties
Honorable Mentions:
AMC — The Walking Dead Story Sync
Bunim Murray Productions — YouToo Integration on Bad Girls Club Reunion
Fox Broadcasting Company — American Idol
Nickelodeon — Nick App
Scripps Networks Interactive — Food Network’s On the Road App
Synacor — Cloud ID: Social Login
Turner Entertainment Networks — Conan Sync App
Turner Sports — NCAA March Madness Live
Youtoo Technologies, LLC — Bad Girls Club UGC on Oxygen Network
Winner:
Hulu — Hulu Plus
Honorable Mentions:
A+E Networks — HISTORY (TV Everywhere app)
A+E Networks — A&E (TV Everywhere app)
A+E Networks — Lifetime (TV Everywhere app)
Cartoon Network — Watch Cartoon Network
EPIX — EPIX
NBC Sports — NBC Olympics Live Extra
NeuLion — NHL GameCenter LIVE
Nickelodeon — Nick App
The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones — WSJ Live
ToonGoggles — Toon Goggles
Turner Sports — NCAA March Madness Live
Univision Communications Inc — UVideos
Winner:
VEVO — VEVO
Honorable Mentions:
RightThisMinute — RTM Videos
TV Guide Online — TVGuide.com Watchlist
BRANDED CONTENT
Branded Integration in a Web Series & Solo Video: Comedy
Winner:
Kids at Play — Cedar Pine and Corn
Honorable Mentions:
Comedy Central — CC Stand-Up presents: Laugh Your Face Off
Syfy — Syfy’s Total Blackout and College Humor’s Hardly Working
Vuguru — Little Women Big Cars 2
Branded Integration in a Web Series & Solo Video: Drama
Winner:
3 o’clock.tv & iThentic — Guidestones
Syfy — Warehouse 13 “Grand Designs” Webisodes
Honorable Mentions:
USA Networls & bpg — Necessary Roughness: “The Nico Files”
Branded Integration in a Web Series & SoloVideo: Lifestyle or Sports
Winner:
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. — Home How To Series
Honorable Mentions:
LOGO & Gilead — Avenue Q
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. — Emerils Kicked-Up Sandwiches
NASCAR — Ideas That Changed NASCAR
Principato-Young Entertainment — Reluctantly Healthy
Telemundo Local — Vive, Ama, y Lucha (Live, Love and Fight) – Baptist Health
VEVO — Lyric Lines
Branded Integration in a Web Series & Solo Video: Reality
Winner:
Bunim Murray Productions — The Controller: Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Honorable Mentions:
Defy Media (Alloy Digital + Break Media) — Chasing
Maker Studios & Rooster Teeth — The Gauntlet
Branded Integration in a Web Series & Solo Video: Solo
Winner:
Defy Media (Alloy Digital + Break Media) — SMOSH Assassin’s Creed III
Honorable Mentions:
Turner Entertainment Networks — Turner presents Subaru “Call It A Wash”
Branded Web Series & Solo Video: Comedy
Winner:
Content & Co — The 4-9ers
Honorable Mentions:
Defy Media (Alloy Digital + Break Media) — Uncaged
Comedy Central — Splitting Hairs
Disney-ABC Television Group — Doofenshmirtz’s Daily Dirt
Turner Entertainment Networks — Ultimate TBS App for Microsoft
ZeptoLab — Om Nom Stories
Branded Web Series & Solo Video: Lifestyle
Winner:
Creative Artists Agency & Original Productions — Raising the Bar
Honorable Mentions:
Discovery Communications — Discovery Digital Studios and Toyota’s FW: Thinking
VEVO — Stylized
Branded Web Series & Solo Video: Reality
Winner:
Content & Co — Clean Break
Honorable Mentions:
Bunim Murray Productions — The Controller: Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Maker Studios & Rooster Teeth — The Gauntlet
TV One — The World According to Michael
Branded Web Series & Solo Video: Sports
Winner:
USA Today presents The Winning Formula — 7 Days to Kickoff, Fueled by Gatorade
Honorable Mentions:
Cycle World — Honda NC700X Adventure Challenge
Golf Channel — Last Break
NASCAR — Ideas That Changed NASCAR
USE OF COMPANION VIDEO
Use of Companion Video for TV Show: Comedy
Winner:
NBC Universal — 30 Rock — The Final Season
Honorable Mentions:
Disney Channels Worldwide — Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s Shark Tank Pitch
Fox Broadcasting Company — The Morgan Project
NBC Universal — The Office — Farewells
Use of Companion Video for TV Show: Drama, Informational & Lifestyle
Winner:
AMC — The Walking Dead Webisodes: “Cold Storage”
Honorable Mentions:
E! — E! News Now
Spreecast — Scandal on Spreecast
Use of Companion Video for TV Show: Reality
Winner:
Bravo Media — Bravo’s Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen Season 2
Honorable Mentions:
A+E Networks — Project Runway — Meet the Designers
A+E Networks — Dance Moms
A+E Networks — Duck Dynasty — Duck Digest
Bunim Murray Productions & Oxygen Media — Best Ink: Redemption
Discovery Communications — TLC’s Long Island Medium: Behind the Read
Scripps Networks Interactive — Food Network’s The Next Iron Chef Redemption
WE tv — Braxton Family Values’ “Traci Rules the Road”
Use of Companion Video for TV Show: Sports
Winner:
OMD —State Farm TNF XTRA Mobile Co-viewing
Honorable Mentions:
Golf Channel — The Golf Fix: Web Exclusive Tips
Golf Channel — Feherty: Out of Bounds
CAMPAIGNS
Winner:
EPIX — EPIX
Honorable Mentions:
Defy Media (Alloy Digital + Break Media) — SMOSH
DailyCandy All Cities — DailyCandy
ESPN — ESPN & LEVI’S “What’s Your Interpretation?”
NBCUniversal, Inc. — Style QuickTips
Sony Pictures Television — Crackle
Syfy — “Making of Defiance” Videos
Multiplatform Marketing Campaign
Winner:
Turner Entertainment Networks — Occupy Conan Sponsored by VW
VH1 — Pop Up Video Experiential Event
Honorable Mentions:
A&E Television Networks — Duck Dynasty Season 2
A&E Television Networks — Bates Motel Campaign
Crown Media Family Networks — Countdown to Christmas 2012
Fox Broadcasting Company — Welcome to the Following
Fox Broadcasting Company — New Girl And FOX T-Commerce With American Express
LOGO — Absolut Ru-Dunnit
Smithsonian Channel — Catching Killers
Smithsonian Channel — Aerial America
Showtime / bpg — The Homeland Transmedia Experience
Syfy — Defiance
Multiplatform Marketing Campaign: Web Series
Winner:
Content & Co — Clean Break
Honorable Mentions:
Content & Co — The 4-9ers
Cycle World — Honda NC700X Adventure Challenge
Telemundo Local — Vive, Ama, y Lucha (Live, Love and Fight) – Baptist Health
Winner:
USA Network — Psych Social Pineapple Trifecta
Hallmark Channel — Countdown to Christmas 2012
Honorable Mentions:
ABC — Scandal — #WhoShotFitz
Bravo Media — Around the World in 80 Plates Tweet Challenge and Fill-a-Jet Sweeps
HBO & Definition 6 — Game of Thrones Season 3
OMD — The CW Live Twitter Feed in a Magazine
OMD — Discovery Moonshiners, Season 2
Saban Brands — Saban’s Power Rangers Social Media Channels
Turner Entertainment Networks — Occupy Conan Sponsored by VW
WE tv — Miracle the Dog for Tamar & Vince
ORIGINAL CONTENT
Winner:
The Climate Reality Project — 24 Hours or Reality: The Dirty Weather Report
Honorable Mentions:
Anheuser-Busch — Inaugural Budweiser Made in America Festival Live Stream via YouTube & Pandora
CBS Interactive — Super Bowl XLVII on CBSSports.com
NBC Sports — 2012 London Olympics
Scripps Networks Interactive — Food Network’s “Thanksgiving Live”
The Weather Channel — Superstorm Sandy coverage by The Weather Channel
Turner Sports — NCAA March Madness Live
Winner:
WIGS
Honorable Mentions:
Defy Media (Alloy Digital + Break Media) — Shut Up! Cartoons AwesomenessTV
Defy Media (Alloy Digital + Break Media) — AWE Me YouTube Channel
Digital Studio/Production Company
Winner:
Fox Broadcasting Company — Animation Domination High-Def
Honorable Mentions:
Believe Entertainment Group
Content & Co
Dolphin Digital Media
Portal A
Principato-Young Entertainment — PYE Digital
Vuguru
WIGS
Zazoom — Zazoom Studios
Winner:
Sony Pictures Television’s Crackle — Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Honorable Mentions:
Break Media — The Screen Junkies Show
Content & Co — The 4-9ers
IFC — Kumail Tours Portlandia
IFC — Reggie Makes Music
Kids at Play & Principato-Young Entertainment — Coogan Auto
Principato-Young Entertainment — Sketchy!
Vuguru — Little Women Big Cars 2
Winner:
Sony Pictures Television’s Crackle — Chosen
Honorable Mentions:
3 o’clock.tv & iThentic — Guidestones
AwesomenessTV — Runaways
Dolphin Digital Media — Cybergeddon
Universal Cable Productions — Battlestar Galatica: Blood and Chrome
Universal Cable Productions — Warehouse 13: Grand Designs
Vuguru — The Booth At The End 2
Vuguru — Playdate
WIGS — Blue
Web Series: Informational (Lifestyle)
Winner:
Principato-Young Entertainment — Reluctantly Healthy
Scott Sternberg Productions — In Bed With Joan
Honorable Mentions:
CNBC — Futures Now
Fandango — “The Frontrunners”
Fandango — “Weekend Ticket”
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. — How To Cook
Veria — Health Soup
Web Series: Informational/Documentaries/Kids
Winner:
Efran Films and AOL — Home of the Brave
Honorable Mentions:
Efran Films and Weather.com — Brink
Music Choice — Primed
Thirteen/WNET — Oh Noah!
Winner:
CraveOnline Media — GameRevolution’s The Grind
Honorable Mentions:
DailyCandy All Cities — DailyCandy
Winner:
Maker Studios & Rooster Teeth — The Gauntlet
Honorable Mentions:
Content & Co — Clean Break
Telepictures Productions & AOL On — #CandidlyNicole
Winner:
Sports Illustrated — Sports Illustrated “Underdogs” Presented by Powerade
Honorable Mentions:
Network A/Bedrocket — Tuerck’d
Network A/Bedrocket — Every Third Thursday
NASCAR — Ideas That Changed NASCAR
MODEL D CONTENT EXCELLENCE
Digital Television Group: Channel
Winner:
Univision Communications Inc.
Honorable Mentions:
E! Digital Team
EPIX
USA Network Digital Team
Digital Television Group: Network
Winner:
Bravo Digital Media
Honorable Mentions:
A+E Networks Digital Media Team
Accelerated Media
CBS Interactive
Discovery Communications — Animal Planet Digital Media
NBC Sports Group Digital
Digital Television Group: Show
Winner:
Smithsonian Channel — Aerial America
Honorable Mentions:
Fox Broadcasting Company — The X Factor
Fox Broadcasting Company — American Idol
Smithsonian Channel — Catching Killers
Winner:
Zazoom — Buzz60
Honorable Mentions:
Bunim Murray Productions — BRKDWN
CelebTV — CelebTV on the CW
Disrupt Group — What’s Trending
E! — Live from E!
LOGO — That Sex Show
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. — Everyday Food with Sarah Carey
Scripps Networks Interactive — Food Network’s Bobby Flay Fit