Posts Tagged ‘The Webby Awards’

Major League Baseball Advanced Media will leave the field and enter the events center, as the league’s interactive media and Internet arm reached an agreement to webcast the next two installments of The Webby Awards, starting with the 15^th annual event June 13 in New York.

The Webby Awards and MLBAM will team up on a live, state-of-the-art, HD presentation of the ceremony, and viewers will be able to access in-progress highlights, interact on multiple screens via customized mobile phone and tablet apps, and follow what the two parties called “a tricked-out video stream.”

Nominees for the 15^th Annual Webby Awards will be announced in April.

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Now that the midterm elections are over, prepare for The Webby Debates, a five-part online video series from The Webby Awards focusing on Internet-industry issues including paywalls, privacy, and the value of social media.

The initial installment of The Webby Debates will debut Nov. 10 from The Hospital Club in London as part of Internet Week Europe, and it will feature Milo Yiannopoulos from The Telegraph moderating a discussion on the pros and cons of paywalls, with The Guardian editor Janine Gibson and Financial Times managing editor Robert Shrimsley.

Debate No. 2, to be filmed at CNN’s studios in New York and featured on CNNMoney.com in late November, will focus on whether social media is overrated. CNN Money’s Laurie Segall will moderate, and it will feature Wine Library TV’s Gary Vaynerchuk and TechCrunch columnist Paul Carr.

The Webby Debates are being sponsored by global marketing and design staffing company Aquent.

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