Hulu, ESPN and Viacom lead the pack of Digiday Video Awards finalists

ESPN has gone all in on social media and is a finalist in a trio of categories — Best Live Moment, Best Snapchat Show and Best Facebook Watch Show — with ESPN senior director Mike Foss also figuring a finalist for the Video Executive of the Year recognition. 

Another media company with an especially large representation on this year’s short lists is Viacom Media Networks, which scored finalist placements for its teams at Viacom Velocity, VH1, MTV, CMT, CBS Interactive and Comedy Central.

See the full list of finalists below:

Best Brand Film, Single
Clickon Media: “Clovis Unified” 
Viacom Velocity and Truth: the 2019 MTV Movie and TV Awards
M Booth and Macallan
Ellen Digital Network and Qantas: “Take Me There” 
Viacom Velocity: “The Universal Challenge”  
ACE Content and Budweiser: “Kings of Beer”

Best Brand Film, Series
WSJ’s Barron’s Group: iShares’ “Fund Your Vision” 
Ellen Digital Network and Total Wireless: “Fearless”
Supari Studios and Red Bull Media House: “The Mind Behind”
MotorTrend Group: Porsche Challenge at Pikes Peak series
VH1: RuPaul’s “#DragRacePride”  
HP and Redglass Pictures: “History of Memory”

Best Video Ad
Kamp Grizzly and the Oregon Justice Resource Center: Measure 11 awareness ad
WarnerMedia and Truth: “Jack’s Eggplant”  
AcuityAds and Genomind: “Dear Mom”
CH Media and Truth: “Chuggin’ on Clouds”
CBS Interactive: “The Twilight Zone” 
Innovid, CBS Interactive and Kellogg’s Pringles: “Sad Device”

Best Live Moment  
MTV’s 2019 Video Music Awards: Stan Cam
VH1’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars”:”Season 4 RuVeal“
Doha Debates: Water Scarcity 
Egg Gang and Hulu: World Record Egg campaign
Electronic Arts and BEN: Apex Legends launch
ESPN: “Countdown to Game Day”

Best Social Video Campaign
Jellysmack and Sephora: “Foundation Domination”
Chipotle Mexican Grill and Day One Agency: “Summer of Chipotle”
Shutterstock and DiMassimo Goldstein: “It’s not stock, it’s Shutterstock”
Electronic Arts and BEN: “Need for Speed” with David Dobrik  
Weber Shandwick and MorningStar Farms: “Lose Your Veginity”
DoSomething.org: “Ride & Seek”

Best Multi-Platform Video Campaign
SYFY and Toyota: “Deadly Class”
The Content Collective, Viacom Velocity and McDonald’s: “Wake Up Breakfast”
Schafer Condon Carter and the Chicago Cubs: “Everybody In”
KERV Interactive & Carhartt: “Full Swing”
Hulu: Hulu Live Sports campaign
OMD and bubly: 2019 Super Bowl ad  

Best Video Ad Tech Innovation
EX.CO
S4M
Ad-Lib Digital and Shell
Adstream and Nissan
Vodafone Germany and Spirable: GigaCube
Teads, Oracle Data Cloud and Asics

Best Streaming/OTT Platform
Hulu
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s STIRR
The Weather Channel’s Local Now
DAZN

Best Video Distribution Platform
Ellen Digital Network’s Ellentube
SendtoNews
Brightcove

Best Connected TV Platform
VG News
Amobee
Discovery

Best Use of YouTube
Viacom Media Networks and Pepsico’s Mountain Dew: “Do Your Other Thing” 
The Points Guy UK
theScore’s esports 
Comedy Central Originals: “Under the Influence of Gus Johnson“
Complex Networks’ First We Feast 
Condé Nast Entertainment’s Bon Appétit

Best Snapchat Show
NBCUniversal Digital Lab: “Kick Life“
ESPN: “SportsCenter on Snapchat”
Snap Inc. and Bazelevs Group: “Dead of Night”  
NBC News: “Stay Tuned“
NBCUniversal Digital Lab and Above Average: “How Low Will You Go?“
NBCUniversal Digital Lab and E! Entertainment: “What the Fashion“

Best Use of TikTok
Chipotle Mexican Grill and Day One Agency: “Summer of Chipotle”
Comedy Central: TikTok at Clusterfest
MTV’s “Wild N’ Out”
Edelman and HP: “HP Dreamland”
The Washington Post
eos’s #MakeItAwesome 

Best Use of Instagram Stories
Innocean USA and Genesis Motor America: Car Configurator
Comedy Central
NBCUniversal Digital Lab: What the Fashion
E! News
The Foundry at Meredith and Dunkin’ Donuts
MTV News: “Got Issues?“

Best Use of IGTV
Caracol Televisión: “A La Mano“
BuzzFeed: “VerticalU”
360i and New Orleans Marketing Tourism Corporation: “Unexpected Tour Guides“
Freeform and ATTN: “The Trouble With“

Best Facebook Watch Show
Jellysmack: “Boys Do It Too”
Buzzfeed: “Tasty’s Edible History“
Jellysmack: “Riddle Me This”
ESPN’s College GameDay:”Behind the Scenes”  
BBC News: “Cut Through the Noise”
Maffick’s “In the Now”

Best Snapchat Discover Publisher
PinkNews
NBCUniversal’s Digital Lab
Mammoth Media and Wishbone
Studio71

Best Publisher Pivot to TV
Jukin Media
Newsy
MotorTrend Group

Best Advertiser in Video
Hulu’s Hulu Sellouts
S4M and Seat
Tinder’s Swipe Life

Best Video Publisher Partner for Brands
CH Media
Mail Metro Media
Courageous Studios
Innocean USA
Ellen Digital Network

Best Video Distribution and Programming Strategy
iHeartRadio and Wibbitz
CMT and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: “Making the Team”
Univision: Conacaf Gold Cup
South China Morning Post: “Goldthread”
Synchrony Bank and Pathway
Jellysmack

Digital Studio of the Year
Culture Trip
Ellen Digital Network
Jungle Creations
Studio71
NBCUniversal Digital Lab
South China Morning Post

Video Executive of the Year
Peter Naylor, head of advertising sales at Hulu
Patrick Courtney, svp of digital at Fuse Media
Mike Foss, senior director at ESPN