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Red Carpet Coverage of International Academy of Web Television’s #IAWTVAwards at #CES2012

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Mingle Media TV and host Misty Kingma were in Vegas at CES 2012 and covered the inaugural IAWTV Awards. The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) Awards is the first award show within the Web television industry to be presented by content creators, for content creators. From studio content producers to YouTube celebrities, those successfully creating entertainment for digital platforms were celebrated via 33 categories honoring web series and online talent, in front of the camera and behind the scenes.

For more information about the IAWTV Awards visit their website at iawtvawards.org.
For more coverage of this event and others, watch our video interviews from the Red Carpet and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here:
http://www.minglemediatv.com/redcarpetreport.html
http://www.facebook.com/minglemediatvnetwork
http://www.twitter.com/minglemediatv

Congrats to the Winners – most importantly to all of the Nominees

Kristyn Burtt and Sandra Payne, The Web.Files

Kristyn Burtt and Sandra Payne, The Web.Files

Kristyn Burtt, The Web.Files with Publicist, Melanie Marquez, M4PR

Kristyn Burtt, The Web.Files with Publicist, Melanie Marquez, M4PR

Congratulations to the Winners at the Inaugural IAWTV Awards Plus Red Carpet Coverage from CES 2012 Las Vegas

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Photos from the IAWTV Awards

– see more on our Flickr page and check out our YouTube Channel for video interviews.

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Mingle Media TV and host Misty Kingma were in Vegas at CES 2012 and covered the inaugural IAWTV Awards. The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) Awards is the first award show within the Web television industry to be presented by content creators, for content creators. From studio content producers to YouTube celebrities, those successfully creating entertainment for digital platforms were celebrated via 33 categories honoring web series and online talent, in front of the camera and behind the scenes.

For more information about the IAWTV Awards visit their website at iawtvawards.org.

For more coverage of this event and others from Mingle Media TV watch our video interviews from the Red Carpet and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here:
www.minglemediatv.com/redcarpetreport.html
www.facebook.com/minglemediatvnetwork
www.twitter.com/minglemediatv

IAWTV Award Winners – 2012

Mingle Media TV would like to congratulate the winners of the inaugural IAWTV Awards – especially to Kristyn Burtt who works with us as an entertainment reporter. We’d also like to congratulate the Indie Intertube team for their IAWTV nominations in the live streaming category – you’ll win it next year!

Kristyn Burtt and Sandra Payne, The Web.Files

Kristyn Burtt and Sandra Payne, The Web.Files

Kristyn Burtt, The Web.Files with Publicist, Melanie Marquez, M4PR

Kristyn Burtt, The Web.Files with Publicist, Melanie Marquez, M4PR

IAWTV Announce Nominees for Inaugural Awards Show in Las Vegas

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It’s the start of award season and to have the web where more video is produced, published and consumed to finally have an awards show that acknowledges them is very welcomed and why we’re excited to share the nominations with you.

The Inaugural IAWTV Awards show will be held at CES in Las Vegas (where Mingle Media TV will be attending and covering) so you get all the latest news.  The winners will be honored Thursday, January 12, 2012 at a live ceremony at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas during the prestigious International CES.

Without further ado – here’s the list of nominees for this year’s event:

Nominees

Best Comedy Web Series
•Gigi: Almost American
•Pretty
•The Guild
•The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Video Game Reunion

Best Drama Web Series
•AIDAN 5
•Anyone But Me
•CELL: The Web Series
•Pioneer One
•RCVR/Web Series

Best Hosted Taped Web Series
•A Comicbook Orange
•ETC – Entertainment, Technology, Culture
•Immersion
•NextMovie Daily
•The Web.Files

Best Hosted Live Web Series
•Geek Beat LIVE
•Indie Intertube
•Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show
•Stupid For Movies
•What’s Trending with Shira Lazar

Best Animated Web Series
•CliffsNotes Films
•Dick Figures
•Red vs. Blue
•Sketch 22
•The World of Bruce McCall

Best Documentary Web Series
•Beyond the Gallery
•Deja View
•Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
•The Founders
•White Collar Brawler

Best Variety Web Series
•Fanboy Funhouse
•Kids React
•Mark Malkoff
•Stripped Down Live
•Team Unicorn

Best News Web Series
•Breakout
•Daily Ticker
•Tech News Today
•The Philip Defranco Show
•The Woodward Report

Best Educational Web Series
•DadLabs
•Engineer Your Space
•Financially Fit
•The Great Camera Shootout 2011
•What You Can Do

Best Writing (Comedy)
•Felicia Day, The Guild
•Jeff Lewis, The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Marilyn Anne Michaels and Dominic Conti, The Best Friend
•Jessica Mills, Awkward Embraces
•Steve Silverman, Pretty

Best Writing (Drama)
•Vidas Barzdukas, AIDAN 5
•Mark Gardner, CELL: The Web Series
•Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward, Anyone But Me
•David Nett, Rick Robinson & Andrew R. Deutsch, Night of the Zombie King
•David Van Eyssen and Brian Horiuchi, RCVR/Web Series

Best Writing (Non-Fiction)
•Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, Kids React
•Grace Helbig, Daily Grace
•Rudy Jahchan, A Comicbook Orange
•Scott Lynch, The Great Camera Shootout 2011
•Nar Williams, NextMovie Daily

Best Directing (Comedy)
•Sean Becker, The Guild
•Sean Becker, The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Sandeep Parikh, Legend of Neil
•Steve Silverman, Pretty
•Frederick Snyder, SOLO: The Series

Best Directing (Drama)
•Ben Bays, AIDAN 5
•Tina Cesa Ward, Anyone But Me
•David Nett, Night of the Zombie King
•Chris Preksta, The Mercury Men
•David Van Eyssen, RCVR/Web Series

Best Directing (Non-Fiction)
•Danny Cameron, DadLabs
•Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, Kids React
•Sandra J. Payne, The Web.Files
•Brett Register, What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
•Mike Rotman, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show

Best Female Performance (Comedy)
•Alexis Boozer (Brynn Arbor), Leap Year
•Emma Caulfield (Emma Caulfield), Bandwagon The Series
•Felicia Day (Codex), The Guild
•Julie Ann Emery (Emily), Then we got HELP!
•Hillary B. Smith (Ellie), Fumbling thru the Pieces

Best Female Performance (Drama)
•Jourdan Gibson (The Woman/Sarah), CELL: The Web Series
• Rachael Hip-Flores (Vivian McMillan), Anyone But Me
•Jeri Ryan (Sonya Blade), Mortal Kombat: Legacy
• Maya Sayre (Det. Morgan Riley), AIDAN 5
• Taryn Southern (Jamie Phillips), BlackBoxTV: The Series

Best Male Performance (Comedy)
• Yuri Baranovsky (Aaron Morrison), Leap Year
• Jeff Lewis (Vork), The Guild
• Jeff Lewis (Stan), The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Jonathan Nail (Scott Drizhal), SOLO: The Series
• Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo), The Guild

Best Male Performance (Drama)
• Dingani Beza (Patrick Aubert), Asylum
• Bryan Michael Block (Det. James Aidan), AIDAN 5
• Daniel Bonjour (Luke Weber), RCVR/Web Series
•Maxwell Glick (Hicks), Night of the Zombie King
• Kevin McCarthy (The Man), CELL: The Web Series

Best Host (Taped)
• Khail Anonymous, ETC – Entertainment, Technology, Culture
• Burnie Burns, Immersion
• Kristyn Burtt, The Web.Files
• Casey McKinnon, A Comicbook Orange
• Brad Powell, DadLabs

Best Host (Live)
• April Grant and Amanda Shockley, Indie Intertube
• Mark Keizer and Wade Major, Stupid For Movies
• Shira Lazar, What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
• Kevin Pollak, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show
• Curt Smith, Stripped Down Live

Best Cinematography
• Andrew R. Deutsch, Night of the Zombie King
• Christopher Charles Kempinski, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•C. Kim Miles, Mortal Kombat: Legacy
•Iskra Valtcheva and Michael Morlan, CELL: The Web Series
•Joost Van Starrenburg, RCVR/Web Series

Best Design
•Greg Aronowitz, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Ben Brown and Jason Mowry, AIDAN 5
•Jonathan Nail and Michael Levine, SOLO: The Series
•Kelly Wasserman, RCVR/Web Series
•Eric Whitney, Continuum

Best Costume Design
•Katie Broad, Fallout: Nuka Break
•Jenny Green, Dan Crawley and Thais Yuki, Video Game Reunion
•Kristin Ingram, The Guild
•Megan Leson, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•Shawna Trpcic, Dragon Age: Redemption

Best Makeup/Special Effects
•Greg Aronowitz and Kimberly Graczyk, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Michael Del Rossa, RCVR/Web Series
•Kimberly Graczyk, The Guild
•Ralis Kahn, Bianca Appice and Shintaro Kakioka, Fallout: Nuka Break
•Jamie Register, A Good Knight’s Quest

Best Visual Effects
•Chad Briggs, Continuum
•Lawson Demming, Rocket Studios and Tunnel Post, RCVR/Web Series
•Keegen Douglas, Mortal Kombat: Legacy
•Shawn Likley, AIDAN 5
•Chris Preksta, The Mercury Men

Best Editing
•Fawaz Al-Matrouk, Goldilocks
•Jeff Cowan, RCVR/Web Series
•Matthew Lyons and Kirby Jinnah, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•Chris Preksta and Tyson VanSkiver, The Mercury Men
•Tony E. Valenzuela, BlackBoxTV: The Series
Best Original Music
•Rob Gokee, Night of the Zombie King
•Rob Gokee, SOLO: The Series
•Mike Jackson, AIDAN 5
•Peace Nistades, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Brian Satterwhite, CELL: The Web Series

Best Supplemental Content
•Kids React
•RCVR/Web Series
•The Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros
•The Mercury Men
•Vampire Zombie Werewolf

Best Interactive/Social Media Experience
•CliffsNotes Films
•Kids React
•RCVR/Web Series
•Stupid For Movies
•What’s Trending with Shira Lazar

Best Web Site Design
•AIDAN 5 
•Engineer Your Space
•RCVR/Web Series
•Ruby Skye P.I.
•The Guild

Best Distribution Platform
•Blip.tv
•Crackle
•Dailymotion
•Hulu
•Joost

Nominees for the Inaugural IAWTV Awards were chosen by majority vote of the active voting membership of the IAWTV from over 350 officially submitted web series. Only episodes of a web series as defined by the IAWTV that were released during the period of January 1, 2010 through October 31, 2011 were considered for nomination in the Inaugural IAWTV Awards and only so long as at least two or more episodes of the web series were released within the eligibility period.

About the IAWTV Awards
The IAWTV Awards is an official web television industry awards show established for content creators, by content creators. The event serves as a platform for members of the IAWTV to honor the best of their profession, while networking among industry luminaries and supporting the IAWTV. Proceeds raised from the show are used for the betterment of the community by providing more member resources as well as professional development and education for professionals working in web television. For more information, please visit http://iawtv.org/awards/ or follow us on twitter at @iawtvawards.

About The International Academy of Web Television
The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) is a nonprofit organization comprised of leaders in the field of Web television, Web video and the digital entertainment industries. Founded in 2009, the IAWTV is helping to shape the rapidly evolving Web television industry while providing a venue for the acknowledgement of artistic and technological achievement in original entertainment distributed on the open Internet. IAWTV members include actors, agents, composers, content developers, directors, editors, producers, technology innovators, writers, and other industry professionals all of whom joined the organization based on their passion and dedication to advance the craft of Web television. For more information, please visit www.iawtv.org or follow us on twitter @iawtv. 

Mingle Media TV Sponsors 2nd “Audience Choice” Category at Upcoming 3rd New Media Film Festival

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MMTVN expands Audience Choice category sponsorship in the New Media Film Festival 2012, for web series, live stream, and trailers. Online voting by fans will create additional buzz to support new media filmmakers and independent content creators.

Online media and live web TV network company; Mingle Media.TV announced today that they will be expanding the categories that they sponsor for the “Audience Choice” category in the New Media Film Festival. The new categories “trailers” and “live stream web shows” will join the “web series” category and will benefit from online promotion, visibility to distributors, prizes totally over $5,000 as well as the opportunity to have their project selected to screen at the 2012 New Media Film Festival.

The New Media Film Festival brings together Industry Professionals and Content Creators across Film, TV, Games, Publishing, Mobile, Web, and Tech. The two-day event features the Best of New Media and includes Short Films, Mobile, Games, Web, iApps, Animation, Music Videos, Digital Comics, Web Series, Live Stream, Technology Platforms, and New Film Technologies. Screenings include Sundance, Cannes, and World Premieres as well as the best talent working in new media.

“We’re excited to support the New Media Film Festival by sponsoring the “Audience Choice” category for these three areas of growth.” Said Stephanie Piche, Executive Producer, Mingle Media TV. “With more and more independent digital film makers creating projects, we wanted to showcase their work through the online voting to help them gain exposure and find new fans.”

Call for Entries: New Media Film Festival
The New Media Film Festival is now accepting entries for the June 2012 Festival including the Mingle Media TV “Audience Choice” sponsorship.

The “Audience Choice” categories invite web series and LIVE stream video creators who have three or more episodes, less than 60 minutes in length to submit their project in the following unscripted and scripted genres: Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Horror, Music/Performing Arts, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Special Interest, Sport/Fitness, and War. Filmmakers can also submit a pilot or trailer that is under 3 minutes in length to the competition. The audience gets to vote online for their favorite submissions in two rounds of voting before the winners are selected. The Grand Prize winners will be announced at the New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles, 2012. For more details, please visit: http://www.minglemediatv.com/NMFFAudienceChoice.html.

Mingle Media TV currently broadcasts over 100 live and episodic web TV interactive programs each week. MMTVN has produced over 6,000 hours of live stream interactive talk shows where audience members can interact with hosts and viewers online or via mobile devices. Show sponsors and advertisers benefit from an integrated ad approach, where the hosts talk about products, which later become meta-tagged content on the Internet within social networks as part of their sponsorship.

About New Media Film Festival
The New Media Film Festival brings together Industry Professionals and Content Creators across Film, TV, Games, Publishing, Mobile, Web and Tech. Founded by Independent Filmmaker, Susan Johnston and launching in Los Angeles, June 2010, the three-day event features the Best of New Media and includes Short Film, Mobile, Games, Web, iApps, Animation, Technology Platforms, and New Film Technologies. New Media Film Festival-SF Bay Area is produced in partnership with Producers Guild of America, NATPE, IAWTV, and San Francisco Writers Conference. New Media Film Festival (San Francisco and Los Angeles) are currently accepting submissions athttp://www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com. For more information about the Festival and/or sponsorships, please contact Susan Johnston, the Founder, and Director of the New Media Film Festival, at 310-288-1100 or info@NewMediaFilmFestival.com

About Mingle Media
 TV Network
MMTVN is an online media and interactive web TV network that executive produces, curates, and broadcasts 100 weekly web series shows along with entertainment industry event coverage. Our video coverage, web series and live broadcasts are promoted via Twitter, blog posts, Facebook and other popular social networks; in addition to airing live on the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android platforms and syndicated through Blip.TV and over 15 syndication sites including AOL Video, YouTube, Samsung, Vizio, MeeFeedia, Blinkx, Daily Motion, Boxee, Roku and as an iTunes podcast. Our audience reach online is over 250,000 weekly views of our video coverage, web series and live broadcasts and are currently in the top 20,000 websites in the US. MMTVN’s live web TV shows feature lifestyle subject matter experts and social media content providers from celebrities, authors to bloggers including executive producing two shows with Emmy award winners. MMTVN has expanded its curation of web series with a growing number of independently produced shows from science fiction to drama, action to teen soaps now playing on the network. In addition to curating produced webseries, MMTVN is promoting and securing sponsors for INDIE creators. MMTVN also covers Hollywood celebrity and charity events from the red carpet and behind the scenes. MMTVN has covered the Oscars on the Red Carpet along with Golden Globes, IPTVFest, HollyShorts, LA Shorts Fest, AOF Fest, Daytime Emmys, Saturn Awards, Streamy Awards, People’s Choice, NAACP, SAG , plus numerous Web Series Premieres and A-list Celebrity Fundraisers. Mingle Media TV is also sponsoring the Audience Choice Category in the New Media Film Festival for Web Series Creators. For more information, please visithttp://www.minglemediatvnetwork.com.

Hot off the press! Mingle Media TV Network Announces Expansion into Indie Web Series Productions, Branded Entertainment

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MMTVN’s expansion will bring more web series creators together to learn about the business of web series, help produce new series and bring brands in to sponsor shows and build engaging campaigns to new audiences, no matter what screen they watch.

Announcing the Expanded Mingle Media TV Network

Announcing the Expanded Mingle Media TV Network

 

Online media and interactive web TV network, Mingle Media TV, announced today that they have added three new divisions to their Indie entertainment community. The new divisions are focused on production of web series, branded entertainment and red carpet coverage, building awareness of Indie web series with a new weekly screening LIVE broadcast and support for creators, and the business of web series division to support the business side of producing web series. Mingle Media TV is currently the only community that offers live and produced web TV shows along with celebrity reporting with their Red Carpet Report.

Mingle Media TV Network (MMTVN) celebrated its first year in operation on February 8, 2011, and currently broadcasts 70 shows on their site, has produced over 800 video interviews from the red carpet including the Oscars and over 1,500 hour long web TV talk shows. MMTVN distributes their content using social media networks from Facebook to Twitter and syndicates video distribution to the most popular destination sites from YouTube to Daily Motion. They also publish their video content to streaming media set-top boxes such as Boxee and Roku.

The planned expansion will bring the content that is hosted on MMTVN to more platforms such as Google TV, and expanding their current offering for produced content to Apps via Apple, Blackberry and Android formats. MMTVN’s LIVE stream partner, Stickam, has Apps for watching and chatting in real-time which have become quite popular for viewing live web shows along with Facebook and Twitter integration to reach the audience where they are most comfortable watching. Other planned tools will be an integrated program guide with show reminders, check-in and loyalty programs beyond the current Clicker.com integration, and a web series directory and monthly calendar for events, show schedules, premieres and meet-ups around the globe.

MMTVN’s production services expansion will bring the resources together for both creating and marketing Indie projects including bringing together a group of creators, writers, producers and actors who will work together on projects. Red Carpet coverage for hire outside of the traditional events that MMTVN covers will be monetized and the launch of a new daily savings coupon program with a video component called, Daily Savings TV will start across the country.

The Business of Web Series division is both a boot camp and a consulting arm where web series creators can learn how to create business plans and market their projects, how to promote and get publicity along with monetizing their series through sponsorships and product placement deals. MMTVN will offer these services to series that are hosted on their site as part of a partner program being released later this week. Series creators who are not hosted on MMTVN can subscribe to these services through a program fee or hourly consulting fee.

“Mingle Media TV Network is focused on bringing Indie entertainment to the audience, not the screen,” said Stephanie Piche, CEO and Executive Producer of Mingle Media TV. “We support Indie creators by helping them continue to disrupt traditional entertainment and take advantage of the growth of video being watched on all screens. Our goal is to bring in brand sponsors who are looking for niche audiences and want to connect on a more personal level as part of a social TV experience.”

Mingle Media TV has successfully used traditional and social media marketing techniques to build and grow awareness for their community online. Many of the MMTVN shows have national sponsors that benefit from both the live web show audience on Mingle Media TV to the creators own community where daily mentions, blog posts and recommendations are authentic and powerful. Mingle Media TV founder, Stephanie Piche, believes it’s important to bring back sponsorships and use the conversation that social networks offer to build awareness and commerce. Piche has over twenty years experience in bringing startups and products to market and has created and managed branded campaigns with great success and has seen first hand how the power of investing in content not ads builds a brand name authentically and exponentially.

Find out more about these new divisions by going to the Mingle Media TV Network’s new corporate umbrella site at http://www.minglemediatvnetwork.com. If you’re interested in contacting MMTVN for more information, please visit the website and submit a request via email or by phone.

About Mingle Media TV Network

MMTVN is an online media and interactive web TV network that executive produces, curates, and broadcasts 65 weekly web series shows along with entertainment industry event coverage. Our video coverage, web series and live broadcasts are promoted via Twitter, blog posts, Facebook and other popular social networks; in addition to airing live on the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android platforms and syndicated through Blip.TV and over 15 syndication sites including AOL Video, YouTube, Samsung, Vizio, MeeFeedia, Blinkx, Daily Motion, Boxee, Roku and as an iTunes podcast. Our audience reach online is over 250,000 weekly views of our video coverage, web series and live broadcasts and is currently in the top 20,000 websites in the US. MMTVN’s live web TV shows feature lifestyle subject matter experts and social media content providers from celebrities, authors to bloggers including executive producing two shows with Emmy award winners. MMTVN has expanded its curation of web series with a growing number of independently produced shows from science fiction to drama, action to teen soaps now playing on the network. In addition to curating produced webseries, MMTVN is promoting and securing sponsors for INDIE creators. MMTVN also covers Hollywood celebrity and charity events from the red carpet and behind the scenes. MMTVN has covered the Oscars, Emmy’s and Golden Globes events; WIN Awards, HollyShorts, LA Shorts Fest, AOF Fest, Saturn Awards, Streamy Awards, People’s Choice, NAACP, SAG, plus numerous Web Series Premieres and A-list Celebrity Fundraisers. Mingle Media TV is also sponsoring the Audience Choice Category in the New Media Film Festival for Web Series Creators. For more information on MMTVN Entertainment, please visit http://www.minglemediatv.com. For the Business of Web Series, visit www.businessofwebseries.com, for MMTVN productions, visit www.mmtvnproductions.com, and for MMTVN Screenings, visit www.mmtvnscreenings.com.