The IPTV awards are presented in six categories: Best Business Model, Most Innovative Technology, Most Innovative Format and Most Creative Design. The German IPTV Association also presents an open-topic special award and, for the first time this year, an Audience Award.
A total of 186 IPTV projects were submitted between 26 June and 15 August 2008. This makes the first German IPTV Award the largest award of its kind worldwide. A jury completed a preliminary selection by October and thus chose the nominees. Members of the German IPTV Award then selected the top three finalists from among the nominees. The Audience Award is new this year. Readers of the trade publications Horizont and Digital Fernsehen and the consumer magazine TV Movie were able to choose the best IPTV offering from six candidates.
The judges were able to document their assessments in detail using ten questions per category, focused primarily on innovative concepts, as well as free-text input.
The nominees are listed below in alphabetical order:
Best Business Model
- Berlin Tourismus Marketing GmbH with visitBerlin.tv – Tourist Web TV from Berlin
- Lingua-TV GmbH with Lingorilla
- mando.TV GmbH with dailyme.tv
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Moving Adventures Medien GmbH with 4-Seasons.tv
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pilot Entertainment GmbH with Musicals & more TV
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Rocket Inter Action GmbH with VIAN Video Adserver Solution
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SevenOne Intermedia GmbH with hausgemacht.tv
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Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing GmbH with Mobichi (Mobile Children) – the video portal for children
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yooonee GmbH with yoonee TV Po
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Zattoo Europe Ltd. with Zattoo
Most Innovative Format
- Arrangement Group GmbH with nowonscreen
Deutsche Welle with DW-TV
Elbdorado with Spirit-tv.de – video platform for complementary medicine and healing
Hinnark Klopp Filmproduktion with ostholstein-tv
MicroMovie Media GmbH with myAd.micromovie
MME Me, Myself & Eye Entertainment GmbH and MySpace Inc. with “They Call Us CANDY GIRLS”
Plazamedia GmbH TV & Film Produktion with Interaktive Tore
Saint Elmo’s Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG with BMW Aktuell
Turtle Entertainment GmbH with ESL TV
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Most Creative Design
- 3-point concepts with DFG Science TV
Benny Wörner with mune – your music tune
Creation Club GmbH with World of Red Bull (WORDB)
Freshmilk Entertainment GmbH with berlinfashion.tv
Hobnox AG with Hobnox.com
Kamp & Rößler GbR with Luxity.TV
NDR/tagesschau.de and Ico Moving Bytes with Tagesthemen interaktiv
stream5 GmbH with O’NeilTV – Branded Entertainment
Vice Deutschland GmbH with VBS.tv
Most Innovative Technology
- JobTV24 GmbH with Job24.de – the video and web portal for jobs and careers
Macnetix GmbH with IPTV-HD from Macnetix
Microsoft Deutschland GmbH with Clipclub.TV
MOVILUTION MEDIA GmbH with berlinfashion.tv
Serviceplan Gruppe für innovative Kommunikation GmbH & Co. KG with SP/TV
stream5 GmbH with stream5 – Flexible Framework for Internet TV Platforms
TVNEXT Solutions GmbH with Surface Tags
UFA Film und TV Produktion with Floaded
Welt der Wunder GmbH with wdwip.tv
The jury consists of the following members, listed alphabetically:
Klaus Böhm, Deloitte & Touche GmbH
Borris Brandt – Endemol Deutschland GmbH; Jochim Graf – iBusiness, HighText Verlag; Professor Kristahn – Berlin University of the Arts; Sascha Lobo – Riesenmaschine.de; Frank Mackenroth – PriceWaterhouseCoopers AG; Corinna Poeszus – Universal Publishing Production Music GmbH; Michael Rüger – Entertainment Engineer; Uwe Schnepf – nacamar GmbH; Alexander Schulz-Heyn – TeleClix GmbH; Professor Dr Robert Strzebkowski – Technische Fachhochschule Berlin; Philipp Wolde – TV Movie, Bauer Verlagsgruppe
In addition to the awards for first place in the six German IPTV Award categories, prizes worth a total of €45,000 await the winners. Gold sponsor nacamar New Media is providing these in the form of hosting and streaming services. Other sponsors are Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Deutsche Bank AG and Universal Publishing Production Music GmbH.
Event partners are Saint Elmo’s Interaction GmbH & Co. KG, Welt der Wunder GmbH, Medientage München GmbH, Esa Film GmbH, 4-Seasons.TV and Hofmeir Media GmbH.
Media partners are the trade publications DIGITAL fernsehen, Horizont and iBusiness, consumer magazine TV Movie, and press service press1.de.
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