The finalists for the first German IPTV Award have been announced. The organisers said that 121 entries were submitted in total, representing around a quarter of all IPTV applications in Germany. The judges found the quality of the entries highly variable, while scores among the leading group were close. The jury shortlisted 29 entries across the four categories of Business Model, Technology, Creativity/Design and Content, as well as for a special award.
The winners will be announced on 30 August during medienwoche berlin-brandenburg at the Berlin Congress Center on Alexanderplatz. Brandenburg Minister-President Matthias Platzeck is patron of the event. Attendance at the awards ceremony is free following advance registration at http://www.forum-iptv.org.
The organisers, TeleClix GmbH and Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, intend the first German IPTV Award to provide stronger impetus to the media industry and to discover and strengthen creative potential. The award is supported through the Federal Ministry of Education and Research programme “Innovationsforen Unternehmen Region”. Partners are arvato mobile GmbH, eco Association of the German Internet Industry, Goldmedia GmbH, I-D Media AG, MME Moviement Group, Nacamar GmbH, PricewaterhouseCoopers and SevenOne Intermedia. Media partners include the trade publications Horizont and iBusiness, the consumer magazine TV Movie and press service press1.de.
The nominations for the first German IPTV Award are as follows:
Business Models category
- brickmovies.tv, United Visions TV & Film Productions GmbH
- Chili-M.tv, Chili M GmbH
- Hit-TV.eu, Medienservice Lohs / Hit-TV.eu
- idee07 – The Internet TV Channel for Great Ideas, idee Internet.TV GmbH / idee07
- LIFE 4_U, L4 – Institut für Digitale Kommunikation GmbH
- maxdome, SevenSenses GmbH
- mediaclipping.de, mediaclipping GmbH
- Motor TV, I-D Media Entertainment GmbH
- n-tv plus, n-tv
- visitBerlin.tv, United Visions TV & Film Productions GmbH
Technology category
- TVNEXT, Exozet Berlin GMBH
- idee07 – The Internet TV Channel for Great Ideas, idee Internet.TV GmbH / idee07
- iTV-Solutions, iTV solutions GmbH
- MACNETIX IPTV, Macnetix GmbH
- maxdome, SevenSenses GmbH
- Motor TV, I-D Media Entertainment GmbH
- NextGenMediaLab@FOKUS, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS
- n-tv plus, n-tv
- WDWIP, Welt der Wunder GmbH
- YAVIDO, Berlin University of the Arts, Dynamion Media & IT
Creativity / Design category
- AUMAKUA, ico – moving bytes
- BMW TV, I-D Media Entertainment GmbH
- devsoap.com, trendspurt
- MädchenTV, FUSE GmbH
- maxdome, SevenSenses GmbH
- Mercedes-Benz TV, fischerAppelt, tv media GmbH
- Microsoft CeBIT TV, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
- Motor TV, I-D Media Entertainment GmbH
- NextGenMediaLab@FOKUS, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS
- VAOS: Prototype IPTV-Based Shopping (Video Augmented Online Shopping), Berlin University of the Arts, Dynamion Media & IT
Content category
- devsoap.com, trendspurt
- FCB TV / FC Bayern Munich, EVISCO AG
- hausgemacht.tv, SAT1
- LIFE 4_U, L4 – Institut für Digitale Kommunikation GmbH
- MachinimaTV, MoreChannels GmbH
- maxdome, SevenSenses GmbH
- Neukoelln.TV, Neukölln.TV
- n-tv plus, n-tv
- tiva.tv, tiva.tv
- visitBerlin.tv, United Visions TV & Film Productions GmbH
The finalists for the “Best International IPTV Application / Special Award” category will not be announced until the gala evening.
The jury comprises Borris Brandt, Endemol Deutschland; Norbert Daut, arvato Mobile GmbH; Klaus Goldhammer, Goldmedia GmbH; Martin Hoffmann, MME Moviement Group; Gabriele Kossack, Nokia Siemens Networks; Prof Heinz-Jürgen Kristahn, Berlin University of the Arts; Sascha Lobo, Riesenmaschine.de; Frank Mackenroth, PriceWaterhouse Coopers; Tobias Oswald, SevenOne Intermedia; Michael Rüger, Entertainment Engineer; Uwe Schnepf, Nacamar GmbH; Alexander Schulz-Heyn, TeleClix GmbH; Thomas Staneker, T-Com Innovations GmbH; Prof Robert Strzebkowski, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin; Harald Summa, eco Association of the German Internet Industry; and Philipp Wolde, TV Movie, Bauer Verlag GmbH.
