Be Sure to Check Out the YouTube Streamy Awards Live 10/4!

 

Look! Mom, there is a YouTuber!  Those were the words straight from my 10 year old who could probably name every well-known YouTuber out there.  I can tell you attending the 6th Annual Streamy Awards Red Carpet and Nominee Awards Party at the YouTube Space in Los Angeles last Saturday night was the night of her life!  The Streamy Awards was created by Executive Producers Drew Baldwin (See interview below), Brady Brim-DeForest and Marc Hustvedt of Tubefilter and Joshua Cohen and Jamison Tilsner of Tilzy.tv.

 

The Streamy Awards are presented annually by Dick Clark Productions and Tubefilter to recognize and honor excellence in online video, including directing, acting, producing, and writing.  You’ll be able to catch the live Streamy Awards starting at 6pm PST here.  King Bach, aka the king of Vine is hosting this years awards! Did you know he is a Guinness Book World Recordholder for the most followeed account on Vine with over 16.1 million followers and 5 billion views!  He also had over 9.3 million Instagram followers and over 1 million YouTube subscribers.  Wow!

If you aren’t sold yet on the whole YouTube thing, recent research found that amongst children, YouTube is more recognizable than Disney or OREO.  Wow again!  I realized this a few weeks ago when a homework assignment asked my daughter what is her favorite TV Show and she wrote down “I don’t watch TV.”  This isn’t entirely true as we watch a lot of the Netflix shows, but there is not one that she would name above her favorite YouTubers.  Pretty amazing right?  How the world has changed when we had like 12 channels to pick from and our only option some days was the networks after-school shows… (not to age myself or anything!).

Here are some pictures and interviews my daughter took of some your (and her) favorite YouTubers.  She was such a character and as she asked to take a picture with them she told them to make an awkward face.

 

 

Be sure to tune in tonight YouTube fans! From left to right at the top we have: Courtney Miller from Smosh and Erin Robinson from Clever, Swoozie, Keith Habs from BuzzFeed, Mark Iplier, Drew Baldwin co-creator of The Streamy Awards, Joey Graceffa, Rhett and Link, Eugene Lee Yang from Buzzfeed, Courtney Miller from Smosh.  Some of these YouTubers have 700,000 to 20 million subscribers.  It appears YouTube is the place to be.

 

We waited in line with The Sorry Girls who were up for Costume Design of the Year.  This duo of 20-something-yr-olds are in love with creating and sharing all things DIY.

 

 

Formerly the Howard Hughes Airport, YouTube Space LA is located in the Playa Vista area of Los Angeles and covers nearly 41,000 square feet.  It is about as cool of a space to work as they come and even has coed bathrooms.  Kate was taking so many pictures and tagging #YouTubeSpaceLA that you could see her featured on the YouTube screen throughout the party. It was pretty funny and you could tell she was having the time of her life!

 

 

The family selfie.

I think I was most impressed with their wall of donuts…

 

 

Quick tour at the YouTube Streamy Awards Nominee Party. It was hopping!

Interview with Joey Graceffa

Interview with Drew Baldwin, creator of The Streamy Awards

 

The 6th Annual Streamy Award winners announced at the Official Streamy Awards Nominee Reception at YouTube Space LA on October 1, 2016, include:

 

AWARDS FOR CHANNELS, SERIES OR SHOWS

 

ANIMATED – sWooZie

 

DRAMA – I Ship It

 

INDIE – Brooklyn Sound

 

INTERNATIONAL – HolaSoyGerman

 

NON-FICTION – The Try Guys

 

VIRTUAL REALITY AND 360° VIDEO (NEW CATEGORY) – MatPat’s Game Lab

 

SUBJECT AWARDS

 

ACTION OR SCI-FI – Day 5

 

DOCUMENTARY OR INVESTIGATIVE – The Banker Suicides

 

FOOD – Tiny Kitchen

 

GAMING – The Game Theorists

 

HEALTH AND WELLNESS – Yoga With Adriene

 

KIDS AND FAMILY – Kid President

 

NEWS AND CULTURE – The Philip DeFranco Show

 

PRANKS – Roman Atwood

 

SCIENCE OR EDUCATION – Laci Green

 

SPORTS – 30 for 30 Shorts

 

PERFORMANCE AWARDS

 

COLLABORATION – Various Creators, Jimmy Kimmel Live (Mean Tweets – Creator Edition)

 

DANCE – Dominic “D-trix” Sandoval

 

ENSEMBLE CAST – Escape the Night

 

MUSIC AWARDS

 

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST – Todrick Hall

 

COVER SONG – Lindsey Stirling, Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)

 

ORIGINAL SONG – $ave Dat Money, Lil Dicky, featuring Fetty Wap and Rich Homie Quan

 

CRAFT AWARDS

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY – The Slow Mo Guys, Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy

 

COSTUME DESIGN – Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures, Gypsy Taylor

DIRECTING – Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures, PJ Ligouri

 

EDITING – Casey Neistat, Casey Neistat

 

VISUAL AND SPECIAL EFFECTS – Corridor Digital, Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer

 

WRITING – Honest Trailers, Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Dan Murrell and Andy Signore

 

CAMPAIGN AWARDS

 

BRAND CAMPAIGN – Writing With Grace, Grace Helbig (AT&T)

 

SOCIAL GOOD CAMPAIGN – Lilly Singh’s #GirlLove Challenge

 

Executive Produced by dick clark productions’ Allen Shapiro, Mike Mahan and Ariel Elazar, as well as Streamy Awards creators Drew Baldwin and Joshua Cohen, the 6^th Annual Streamy Award will take place on Tuesday, October 4 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT live on YouTube.

 

For more information, visit www.streamys.org. Join the conversation on Twitter with @streamys using #streamys; follow Streamy Awards on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Vine as well as Snapchat – username: streamys.

 

 

0