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TEEN CHOICE AWARDS COVERAGE

- Key Themes:
o YouTube stars win big and attract attention:
Time: Authentic YouTube Stars Clash With Hollywood at the Teen Choice
Awards by Eliana Dockterman (Aug 11, 2014)
YouTube stars with a penchant for truth-telling are now controlling
teens' hearts and wallets. That's bad news for the Hollywood PR
machine as a recent scandal proves
Mashable: YouTube and Vine Stars Win Big for #TeamInternet at Teen Choice
Awards by Brian Anthony Hernandez (Aug 10, 2014)
Internet personalities once again made the jump from your computer
and mobile screens to your TV screen on Sunday night during Fox's Teen
Choice Awards
LA Weekly: How Smoshs Doofy YouTube Videos Got 7.4 Billion Views by Jane
Borden (Jun 23, 2015)
While other digital stars have surpassed Smoshs YouTube subscriber
numbers or make more money by retaining sole ownership of their sites,
no other enterprise has built a brand as large, diversified and, if youre
under 30, recognizable. Two bozos with a webcam are now a media
empire.
o #TeensDontHaveAChoiceAwards Scandal: Last years Teen Choice Awards 2014 were
accused of being rigged. Fans vented their anger on social media, making
#TeensDontHaveAChoiceAwards a trending topic on Twitter after finding out that
winners of the show were picked days before voting was closed.
Time, Washington Post, Huffington Post and Ace Showbiz covered this
controversy

STREAMY AWARDS COVERAGE
- Key Themes:
o VH1 will air the Streamy Awards 2015 for the first-ever TV broadcast
LA Times, Variety, The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter are among the few
publications that reported the VH1 press release on June 3, 2015.
o Stories about a shifting online landscape
The Boston Globe: Streamy Awards map a shifting online landscape (Sep 8,
2014)
As the world of online video figures itself out, so too does its most
notable awards show, a Dick Clark Productions affair that attempts to
chart the high points of a landscape of online entertainers, artists, and
entrepreneurs growing too far and too fast to properly map. There are
nearly twice as many categories than the 25 first honored in 2009.
WhoSay: YouTube Stars Get Love, Shout-Outs at the 2014 Streamy Awards (Sep
9, 2014)

It's fair to say that internet stars can garner as much of a fan following
as any Hollywood celebsometimes even more of one! So it's only
natural that someone would create a way to recognize these rising cyber
talents

Key Media Contacts/Outlets

- Saba Hamedy, Los Angeles Times
o Reporter covering Box Office Ratings and Digital Entertainment
o Contact Info:
saba.hamedy@latimes.com
(213) 237-7679
o Covered Teen Choice Awards and Streamy Awards related stories
LA Times: Teen Choice Awards: The risks and rewards of wooing the Web
(August 13, 2014)
LA Times: Streamy Awards to broadcast live on VH1 (June 3, 2015)

- Michael Brodeur, The Boston Globe
o Culture Columnist writing about Pop Music and TV
o Contact Info:
mbrodeur@globe.com
(617) 929-3305
o Wrote an interesting column about the Streamy Awards
Streamy Awards map a shifting online landscape (Sep 8, 2014)
As the world of online video figures itself out, so too does its most
notable awards show, a Dick Clark Productions affair that attempts to
chart the high points of a landscape of online entertainers, artists, and
entrepreneurs growing too far and too fast to properly map. There are
nearly twice as many categories than the 25 first honored in 2009.

- TheWrap Online
o Streamy Awards to Air on VH1 in September (June 3, 2015)
By Tim Kenneally, TV Reporter
tim.kenneally@thewrap.com
(424) 248-0662
o Inside the Streamys: Any YouTuber Who Touched This Mic Tonight Is a Millionaire
(September 9, 2014)
By Mikey Glazer, Columnist
mikey@thechimp.net
(323) 828-0556
o Wipeout? Teen Choice Awards on the Move After Massive LA Water Main Break
(Updated) (July 30, 2014)
By Tony Maglio, TV Reporter
tony.maglio@thewrap.com
(424) 248-0662