CATMEDIA announced today their triple win in the 41st Annual Telly Awards for videos produced for the Air National Guard's 194th Wing and DeKalb County Fire Rescue. This marks the second year the creative agency has won for work done with the DeKalb County Fire Rescue. 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 Dow Jones, Duplass Brothers Productions, Complex Networks, A&E Networks, Hearst Media, ESPN Films, RYOT, Vice+ and Vimeo. Check out all of CATMEDIA's awards here.

With over 20 years of media and branding experience, CATMEDIA provides full-service creative capabilities that propel brands forward and rise to the top of their industries. By virtue of our top-top notch media solutions and creative services, their clients are able to communicate effectively and deliver their branded message with fine-tuned intent and precision.

This year's wins are a reflection of the strides CATMEDIA is taking in video production, animation and branded content development. Their work for DeKalb County Fire Rescue has continued to be recognized their outstanding approach to capturing the fire department and its personnel. This year's winner was for the Physical Agility Test Training video made to educate future firefighters on how to successfully complete the rigorous test. Last year they won for the Recruitment video produced for the department.

CATMEDIA also won in the category for Online Commercials for the production of an animation series for the Air National Guard’s 194th Wing. "The purpose of the series is to show the different initiatives of the 194th Wing on the Wing’s website and on social media," said Amy Ferzoco, Director of Creative Services at CATMEDIA. "Using a mix of animation and photographs we produced five animations, each of which highlight the individual Groups that the Wing is comprised of. We delivered creative treatments, scripts, pre-production, production, post-production, voiceover narration, music and sound effects mixing, and 508 compliances."

”CATMEDIA is pushing the boundaries for video and television innovation and creativity at a time when the industry is both rapidly changing and heavily impacted by the current crisis,” said Sabrina Dridje, Managing Director of the Telly Awards. “Our theme for this season, Telly Award Winners Tell Great Stories is a true reflection of the diversity of stories the community is skillfully able to tell. Now, more than ever, do we need to celebrate them and those that bring global stories to our attention. This award is a tribute to the talent and vision of these creators.”

Today’s winners announcement caps a year-long celebration of creators around the globe and across all screens. Continuing on from the inaugural Film & Video Screening Tour last season, The Telly Awards toured a selection of Telly Award winning work to London, NYC, Amsterdam and Toronto, culminating with an online event. 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 and Immersive & Mixed Reality categories, alongside new categories honoring important work in Social Impact and Diversity & Inclusion.

Last year, The Telly Awards attracted more than 12,000 entries from top video content producers including Adult Swim, the BBC, Condé Nast, Complex Networks, Netflix, Refinery29, RadicalMedia, T Brand Studio and Ogilvy & Mather.

The full list of the 41st Annual Telly Awards winners can be found at
http://www.tellyawards.com/winners.