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Emmy Award Judge and FanTrust President Catherine Warren to Join a Distinguished List of Luminaries at the International Digital Emmy Awards in Cannes

The world’s most prestigious digital event hosts a red carpet line-up at MIPTV PARIS/NEW YORK, March 22,  2010  - Jason Priestley, best known for his role as Brandon Walsh on the hit series Beverly Hills 90210, will host The International Digital Emmy Awards on Monday,  April 12, at MIPTV in Cannes it was announced by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ...

Creative tension as finalists pitch in for Content 360 awards

Finalists at the Content 360 Interactive Educational Formats for Cross-Media - held at MIPTV in Cannes, France -  battled it out in five-minute pitching sessions to jurors Hye Chung Eun, senior researcher at the Korean Broadcast Institute, and Catherine Warren, FanTrust Entertainment Strategies' founder and president, for the $10,000 development funding prize. Selected from 56 entries covering 23 countries, the presentations were all cross-media format ideas that combined education and entertainment. "One thing that works well with all these ideas is that they connect audiences and consumers together," said Catherine Warren. "They ...

Fans control online games, MIP delegates learn

Companies may create online games, but the fans ultimately control them, Hilmar Petursson, CEO of CCP Games, told a conference on community entertainment today. Demonstrating his Eve Online massively multiplayer sci-fi online game, which has 300,000 players – equal to the population of Iceland where his company is based – he said he had to scan the fansites to find out what users were doing in the virtual world CCP had created. He could also read the Eve magazines, which have 10,000 subscribers at $15 a time. Right from the start, ...

2009 International Digital Emmy Award recipients feted at MIPTV

MIPTV-Cannes, March 30th, 2009 — The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced tonight the winners for the International Digital Emmy® Awards at a ceremony organized in partnership with Reed Midem, during the MIPTV Opening festivities in Cannes, France. “This year’s winners have truly embraced the creative and technological opportunities that the digital space presents,” said Bruce L. Paisner, President & CEO of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. “We congratulate them on their cutting-edge achievements.” The awards ceremony was attended by over 200 international executives from the television, ...

International Digital Emmy® Awards nominees announced

New York - Nominees from 9 countries will compete for this year’s International Digital Emmy® Awards, presented at a special ceremony on Monday, March 30, at MIP-TV in Cannes. There are 12 nominees in 3 categories; Digital Program: Children & Young People; Digital Program: Fiction and Digital Program: Non-Fiction. The full list of Nominees from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Israel, Qatar, Singapore and the United Kingdom can be viewed on the International Academy of Arts ...