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Last night’s marathon Webby Awards featured what seemed like an endless stream of awards — while speeches were held to just five words (some media-related speeches after the jump).
Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers had the task of keeping the event moving, and the crowd entertained. “I love when old media praises new media,” he said. “It’s like when an old guy says how much he likes the tennis pro his wife is fucking.”
Meyers sprinkled in several Twitter references, including one about the guy who tweets as his cat (and has 600,000+ followers). “Just think: five years ago if you wanted to know what a guy thinks his cat is thinking you’d be an idiot,” said Meyers.
Later, he took a swipe at the new Microsoft (a sponsor of the event) search engine. “Bing, as in ‘Hey I just Googled Bing,” he said.
Before the event we talked to Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who has turned to his Twitter base of fans to raise money for a person in need of a heart transplant. He described how getting sober helped lead him to Twitter and social media charity work:
Click continued to see a selection of media acceptance speeches…
This morning the winners of the 2009 Webby Awards were announced. In addition to winners in 72 categories, special Webbys are being presented to Jimmy Fallon as Person of the Year. Trent Reznor wins for Artist of the Year “for making his music available to fans for free.” Sarah Silverman wins for Best Actress and Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane wins Film & Video Person of the Year.
Other winners include The New York Times for Best Copy/Writing, Best Practices and video awards for “Pogue’s Posts” and “The Frugal Traveler: Budget Europe.” The Huffington Post wins best political site. NBC.com wins for best Variety video for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. They also won for best full episode player. And the BBC’s Website beat out Salon.com, msnbc.com’s Spectra Visual Newsreader, The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post for best News site.
The Webbys will be presented June 8 in New York City during a ceremony hosted by SNL’s Seth Meyers.
The full list (and it’s long) is here. And which media organization got the most awards? After the jump…
The Webby Awards and YouTube are joining forces for this year’s awards show.
Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers will host the 13th annual awards show on June 8. The next day, the official Webby Awards YouTube Channel will showcase dozens of short video moments from the evening’s festivities, including clips of every winner’s five-word acceptance speech, celebrity interviews from the red carpete, scenes from the 2009 Webby Award-winning videos. The channel will also enable all winners to link directly to and promote their individual 5-word speech video.
WebNewser will be downtown to cover the Webby Awards. So look for coverage here, and on the Webby’s YouTube Channel.
NYTimes.com, NBC.com and The Onion lead the pack of Webby Award nominees announced today.
NYTimes.com has the most nominations with 13, NBC.com has 12 and The Onion has 8. Newcomer the The Daily Beast got two noms. With 72 categories, ranging from ‘Best Use of Typography to ‘Self-Promotion/Portfolio’, winners limit their acceptance speeches to five words. The winners will be announced May 5 and honored at a ceremony hosted by SNL’s Seth Meyers on June 8, during New York’s Internet Week.
Here’s the complete list of nominees.
Press release after the jump…
