News · May 19, 2020
Black History in Two Minutes (or so) wins two 2020 Webby Awards
At the 24th Annual Webby Awards, Black History in Two Minutes (or so) won the Webby for Social: Education & Discovery and the People’s Voice award for Podcasts: Documentary.
- Webby Award
- People’s Voice
- 2020
- Social: Education & Discovery
- Podcasts: Documentary
- Webbys From Home
The story
A Webby and a People’s Voice award
The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences named Black History in Two Minutes (or so) a Webby Winner in Social: Education & Discovery, and the public voted it the People’s Voice Winner in Podcasts: Documentary.
The Academy congratulated the team: Robert F. Smith, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Dyllan McGee, Deon Taylor and Darrick Angelone. The winners were celebrated that day in Webbys From Home, an online show hosted by Patton Oswalt.
The series came from Be Woke Presents, brought to you by Robert F. Smith and Deon Taylor, and ran on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram and as a podcast on Apple and Google podcasts.
The nominations came on May 7, 2020, in Best Podcast: Documentary and Best Social Video: Education & Discovery. Black History in Two Minutes (or so) tells Black history in short, lively, fact-packed stories for people of all ages, in free video podcasts.
What this means for you
Where a two-time winner lives online
AONE Creative built and ran the series website from May 2019 through May 2022, along with the digital distribution, social and the Webby campaigns. We design, build, host and secure sites for films, series, campaigns and businesses, and the same team looks after them after launch.
The case study
Black History in Two Minutes (or so)
From May 2019 through May 2022, AONE Creative ran the digital distribution, the website, social and the Webby campaigns for the series from Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Robert F. Smith. It won five Webby Awards from 2020 to 2022.
Related
- 2019 to 2022
Black History in Two Minutes (or so)
The case study: the series, the site, the distribution and the Webbys.
The same two categories, a year later.
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