Digiday Selects wochit as the Best Video Technology Innovation at 2015 Digiday Video Awards
New York, NY (PRWEB) January 22, 2015 -- Digiday, the creator of content, services and community, that fosters change in media and marketing, announced that wochit has been selected as the winner for the 2015 Best Video Technology Innovation Award. wochit, the revolutionary video creation platform that allows publishers to turn stories into studio quality video with speed and at scale.
It was equal parts business and pleasure at the Digiday Video Awards last week as winners across seventeen competitive categories were announced at the Highline Ballroom.
The DVA gala brought together the brands and teams that produced groundbreaking creative work that made a significant impact on the client’s bottom line for brands like Lexus, GE, M&Ms, and Purina Nestlé, plus studios and agencies including BuzzFeed, the New York Times, and OMD.
Taking home the trophy for “Best Video Technology Innovation” was wochit.
wochit allows publishers to instantly react to any story and economically scale branded, original video content. Covering breaking news, trending topics, creative storytelling and more, wochit provides licensed assets from some of the biggest providers in the world while also enabling your own assets to be mixed into the story. Within minutes, you have a ready-to-publish video for web, social and mobile.
“We are honored to have won the Digiday Best Video Innovation Technology,” says Dror Ginzberg, CEO of wochit. “Winning this award further proves our commitment to pushing the envelope when it comes to creating short form, original video content. The industry is changing rapidly and publishers are in need of technology to help them scale. In 2015, we are excited to further help any storyteller create, distribute and monetize original video content in minutes. Lots in store!”
Digiday CEO Nick Friese closed out the evening, thanking the winners, judges, the Digiday team and host Mitch Lewis. “The bar is open and the band is coming back out. It's time to celebrate.”
Read more about the contestants, winners and the Awards Gala here.
About the Digiday Video Awards
The Digiday Video Awards honor overall excellent and breakthrough achievement in video throughout the media industry. The 2015 Digiday Awards calendar includes Digiday Publishing Awards, Digiday Content Marketing Awards, Digiday Signal Awards and Digiday Awards. For more information, click here.
About wochit
wochit is a revolution in short form video. The cloud based video creation platform enables marketers, bloggers, journalists, publishers and any storyteller to instantly react to any story and economically scale branded, original video content. Covering breaking news, trending topics, creative storytelling, native advertising and more, wochit provides licensed assets from some of the biggest providers in the world while also enabling your own assets to be mixed into the story. Within minutes, you have a ready-to-publish video for web, social and mobile. Winner of the Gutenberg Prize as a part of the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, for its disruptive technology in the field of journalism and backed by Cedar Fund, Greycroft Partners, Marker LLC and Redpoint Ventures. wochit is based in New York, with offices in Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv. Find out more at http://www.wochit.com
Wochit Contact:
Lindsay Rapoport
+1 (212) 699 6496
lindsay(dot)rapoport(at)wochit(dot)com
Lindsay Rapoport, Wochit, http://www.wochit.com, +1 212-699-6496, [email protected]
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