Thursday, June 09, 2011
New Web Video Awards Program Announced by IAWTV
The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV), a national association of video creators, has announced its first awards program for excellence in over twenty categories.
Today, we interviewed the organization's chairman Paul Kontonis about the new awards program, which will take place in Las Vegas during CES on January 12th.
We spoke today at the Digitas NewFront conference. Kontonis is VP, Group Content Director for the Third Act, Digitas.
Andy Plesser
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What is the IAWTV's position on geoblocking? Their web site and name refer to "web television" but the awards talk about "web series" Both include the term "web" which as we all know is an abbreviation for "World Wide Web". In theory this means only content on the World Wide Web would be eligible for such awards.
Online sites that support "geoblocking" are technically not on the World Wide Web, but rather regionally censored networks. Since such content is not available World wide surely it cannot be considered to be "web series" or "web television". At least not according to the commonly used definition of the term "web".
The IAWTV promotes itself as an organization that supports standards so surely, when it comes to awards they would not support "geoblocking" which violates the spirit and intent of the World Wide Web.