The HbbTV Association is now accepting entries for this year’s HbbTV Awards, which will be decided during the 12th HbbTV Symposium and Awards on 14-15 November in London. The awards showcase best practice and excellence in the HbbTV community and you can find out more here.
The deadline for submissions is September 30.
The categories for 2024 are:
- Best Use of HbbTV for Advertising-Based Solutions
- Best Tool or Product for HbbTV Service Development or Delivery
- Best Technology Innovation in an HbbTV Application
- Best Use of HbbTV for Content Discovery
- Best Marketing or Promotion of an HbbTV-Based Service
- Judges’ Award: HbbTV Newcomer of the Year.
HbbTV is the global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks for connected TV sets and set-top boxes. Chair of the HbbTV Association is Vincent Grivet. He says, “The strong interest we have received from industry players before opening the competition reflects the high recognition for the awards in the connected TV community.”
The winners of the sixth HbbTV Awards, held in 2023 in Naples, Italy, included MediaForEurope (MFE – Mediaset España), bmt on behalf of the German DVB-I Pilot, ZDF & TeraVolt, TV Nova and Video Solutions AG (wedotv).
The HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2024 is for platform operators, broadcasters, advertisers and adtech providers and other tech companies, plus standards organisations. Like last year, the Symposium will feature a traditional conference on day one followed by an ‘unconference’ on day two (when participants decide on the topics for discussion, shaping and driving the sessions and conclusions.
You can find more about the Symposium and awards here.
