Variety picked up six honors at the 47th annual Telly Awards — including a gold award for “Variety’s Behind the Show with Emily Longeretta,” which won in the Social Video: Media & Entertainment category.
Overall, Al Jazeera English won the most gold Telly Awards, with 12, followed by a tie between Asharq Network and Hearst Media Production Group (10) and then National Geographic (9). The Telly Awards recognize “video and television across all screens,” and this year received almost 14,000 entries from creators, brands and production companies out of 55 territories.
“Video has never been more contested, more creative, or more consequential than it is right now,” said Telly Awards managing director Amanda Needham in a statement. “The Telly Awards has had a front-row seat to this industry for 47 years, and today’s entertainment is happening in multiple formats, across every screen, and at every budget level.”
The Telly Awards handed out prizes to Generative AI entrants for the first time, including the music video “Let It Show” by Lainey Wilson and “Plastic Ocean,” by Unshot. The Telly Awards also honor the fast-growing vertical video field (as well as online shows and series). This year’s winners in that space include Bilt’s “Roomies Roomies Roomies,” American Picture Company’s “The Ick,” Dan Rodo Productions’ “The Tony Hawk Mystery Skater Series,” “Challenge Accepted,” by Michelle Khare, InStyle’s “The Intern,” and Smosh Pit’s “Smosh Reads Reddit Stories.”
