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Vote here for the 2008 Channel Frederator Awards.
Our official Press Release is out:
“Voting Begins Online Today; Channel Frederator Awards Honor Excellence, Creativity and Coolness in Online Animated Content
NEW YORK, NY – April 16, 2008 –
Channel Frederator, the largest Internet cartoon network in the world and one of the founding networks of Next New Networks, today announced the nominations for its second annual Channel Frederator Awards.
The voting pages go live today at: www.channelfrederator.com.
Winners will be honored at an awards party in New York City that will air online June 10, 2008. The Channel Frederator Awards honor a wide array of achievements seen throughout the year on weekly Channel Frederator episodes. Films submitted to Channel Frederator range from traditional pen and ink, to stop motion, to paper collage and a variety of mixed media.
“The Channel Frederator cartoon community has uncovered some of the greatest undiscovered talent in the world,” says Channel Frederator founder Fred Seibert. “Now our viewers find their own stars instead of waiting for the media to do it for them.”
The Awards recognize user-submitted films in categories that range from “Cartoon of the Year” to the “So Cute It Hurts Award.” Channel Frederator has received over 2,000 submissions from users and has featured over 400 cartoons. The Channel Frederator Awards include 33 nominated films in a total of 11 viewer-voted categories, as well as 7 juried categories.
The “2008 Cartoonist of the Year” will be chosen by the viewers and staff of Channel Frederator, and will be announced at the end of May.
The first annual Channel Frederator Awards in 2007 attracted worldwide attention with a Hollywood event and online broadcast that received over two million views. Winners of 2007 awards can be viewed at: http://www.channelfrederator.com.
This year, views are expected to double and over 500 people are expected to attend the “Metropolis” themed ceremony at the Canal Room in New York City on Wednesday, June 4, 2008.
Since its launch in 2005, Channel Frederator has quickly become a top destination for animated content. Its popular series The Meth Minute 39 has received over 15 Million views.
A full list of all nominees can be found at: www.channelfrederatorawards.com/page/nominees.
To vote, visit Channel Frederator at www.channelfrederator.com for information and guidelines. Tickets to the event are available at:
www.channelfrederator.com.
Keep those eyeballs glued here as we’ll be blogging one category a day during voting!!!
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