The shortlists for the Videonet Connected TV Awards 2014 have just been announced and leave Sky Deutschland’s Snap, Com Hem/SeaChange, the BBC iPlayer relaunch and Ziggo’s CI Plus 1.3 based VOD/catch-up TV service fighting for the prize of ‘Best Connected TV Service Update or Launch’. In the new ‘The Multiscreen Goes Mainstream Award’ category, Com Hem’s next-generation TV Experience, TiVo Roamio DVR, Alcatel Lucent’s Cloud DVR and Elemental Cloud from Elemental Technologies are competing for first prize.
In total there were 85 entries in this year’s awards, spread over five categories and the winners will be announced during Day One of Connected TV Summit on June 11 at the Royal College of Physicians in London. This is the fourth year the awards have been running and, with up to 23 entries in one of the categories, they remain fiercely competitive. The awards are robustly independent, with 16 judges working on the entries in 2014. Anyone can be shortlisted or win the awards based purely on merit.
The awards ceremony and networking reception is free to attend for all shortlisted companies (and of course for delegates at Connected TV Summit). The full shortlists are:
Best Connected TV Service Update or Launch – Shortlist
Snap OTT service, Sky Deutschland
Adrenalin MSV Platform for Com Hem, SeaChange International
BBC iPlayer relaunch, BBC
Ziggo VOD/catch-up using CI Plus 1.3, Ziggo & ActiveVideo
Connected Technology Hero – Shortlist
Media Delivery Network (MDN), Ericsson
Massivision Multiscreen Development Kit (MDK), Massive Interactive
Humax Freesat HDR-1010S hybrid, Wi-Fi DVR, Humax & Freesat
Universal Video Player, SoftAtHome
The Companion & Second Screen Prize – Shortlist
SES Satellite TV App, SES & Red Bee Media
Virgin TV Anywhere, Virgin Media
Show Pal, TV3 Group
Second Screen Framework, IRT
Achievement in Advertising – Shortlist
OnBeauty interactive beauty network on Connected TV, L’Oréal USA, BrightLine and ActiveVideo
Sky AdSmart, supported by Cisco, Sky Media
SyncNow Automatic Content Recognition technology, Civolution
VOD targeted advertising, Channel 4
The Multiscreen Goes Mainstream Award – Shortlist
Com Hem next-generation TV Experience, Com Hem, TiVo and Verimatrix
TiVo Roamio DVR, TiVo
Cloud DVR, Alcatel-Lucent
Elemental Cloud, Elemental Technologies
The judges for the 2014 awards were:
All categories except advertising:
• Ben Schwarz, CEO, CTOi Consulting
• William Cooper, Founder and Chief Executive, informitv
• Ian Nock, Managing Director, Fairmile West
• Graham Lovelace, Director, Lovelace Consulting
• Jay Chinnadorai, Managing Director, Sumtotal
• David Mercer, VP, Principal Analyst, Digital Consumer Practice, Strategy Analytics
• Steve Hawley, Principal Analyst & Consultant, tvstrategies
• Jack Davison, Managing Consultant, 3Vision
• Stephen Featham, Founder, Aspect 23 Limited
• Matthieu de Chanville, Senior Principal, A.T. Kearney
• John Moulding, Editor, Videonet
Advertising category:
• Simon Thomas, Strategic Systems Director, GroupM EMEA
• Niko Muñoz, Head of Global Corporate Development, SVP, Havas Media
• Stephen Adshead, Associate Director, MTM London
• Andrew Rosenman, President, Arise Communications Inc.
• Jean-Paul Edwards, Executive Director, Futures, Manning Gottieb OMD
• John Moulding, Editor, Videonet
You can find out more about the Videonet Connected TV Awards and Connected TV Summit here.
