CATMEDIA has a Triple Win in the 40th Anniversary of the Telly Awards

Staff Report From Metro Atlanta CEO

Thursday, June 6th, 2019

CATMEDIA announced it’s DeKalb County Fire Rescue Recruitment: Answer Your Calling video, has been named Best Online Commercial in Craft Editing, General Public Interest/Awareness, and Craft Directing in the 40th Annual Telly Awards. This will be the fifth Telly Award for CATMEDIA. The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies and including Vice, Vimeo, Hearst Digital Media, BuzzFeed, and A&E Networks.

"CATMEDIA is pushing the boundaries for video and creativity at the time when the industry is rapidly changing,” said Sabrina Dridje, Managing Director of the Telly Awards. “This award is a tribute to the talent and vision of its creators and a celebration of the diversity of work being made today for all screens.”

Today’s winner’s announcement caps a year-long celebration of the 40th Anniversary of The Telly Awards. Throughout 2018-2019, The Telly Awards celebrated four decades of honoring the video and television industry, whether through its inaugural international screening series or its online video interviews with industry experts. This year also saw the continued expansion of new categories further to the awards’ recent initiative to rebuild the honors for the multi-screen era. New categories included serialized Branded Content and expanded Social Video categories. Last year, The Telly Awards attracted more than 12,000 entries from top video content producers including Condé Nast, Netflix, Refinery29, RadicalMedia, T Brand Studio, and Ogilvy & Mather.