NEW YORK – Taylor Swift and her Super Bowl-winning boyfriend Travis Kelce, along with Sydney Sweeney,Ryan Gosling and Timothee Chalamet, are some of the nominees for this 12 months’s Webby Awards, spotting the most efficient web content material and creators.
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences introduced the nominees on Tuesday, the results of 13,000 entries from over 70 nations. The Associated Press were given an early glance.
Swift’s Instagram message encouraging her 283 million fans to sign up to vote was once nominated in the most efficient writer or influencer class. The website online she directed her fanatics to — the nonpartisan Vote.org — recorded greater than 35,000 registrations, in keeping with the group.
Kelce, were given a nomination in the most efficient sports activities podcast class for teaming up with his brother Jason for his or her “New Heights” show. Speaking of {couples}, Michelle Obama were given a nod for her “The Light Podcast,” whilst her husband, former President Barack Obama, was once nominated for his paintings with LinkedIn.
The awards are decided on via the Academy, whilst The Webby People’s Voice Award is voted on via fanatics world wide. Voting for that award is open now till April 18. Winners for all awards might be introduced May 13 at a rite hosted via “Late Night with Seth Meyers” author and comic Amber Ruffin.
Sweeney were given a nod for taking part with Ford Motor Company for a contest with the winner getting a 2024 customized Mustang GT designed via the actor. Paris Hilton was once nominated for her 10-minute TikTok post about her circle of relatives’s lodge emblem.
“Ted Lasso” star Brett Goldstein were given a nod for his podcast “Films to Be Buried With,” during which he brings on visitors to speak about the flicks that experience maximum impacted their lives. He faces festival within the TV and movie podcast class from podcasts about “The Crown,” “The Last of Us,” “Endeavor” and “And Just Like That…”
Chalamet was once nominated within the media and leisure branded content material class for his advert for Apple TV+, a follow-up to remaining 12 months’s marketing campaign with Jon Hamm. The ad shows the “Dune” star enjoying the programming on Apple’s streaming provider and questioning if he may do the tasks. “Severance’ is weird. I could do weird,” Chalamet says.
Chalamet will face off in opposition to Ryan Gosling, who admitted his Barbie persona, Ken, will have “stolen” one in every of BTS member Jimin’s signature appears to be like. Gosling gave Ken’s prized guitar to Jimin to make an apology.
Music video nominations had been passed out to Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red,” Lil Nas X’s “J Christ,” Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cobra,” Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” and new best possible new artist Grammy-winner Victoria Monet’s “On My Mama.”
The category of best overall social presence is stuffed with familiar names — Bravo, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Sesame Street” and “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”
The gravitational pull of the hit movie “Barbie” also made it into the Webby nominations, with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer promoting a dark-haired version of Barbie dressed in a pink pantsuit earning a nod in the public service and activism category and Mattel getting one for its social media movie tie-ins.
The checklist of nominations additionally illustrate the affect of Artificial Intelligence, with a number of new classes for AI apps and reports, like Burger King’s cheeseburger nuggets.
Companies earning the highest number of nominations are PBS with 20, Warner Bros. Discovery with 18, Netflix at 14, CNN with 13, and three tied with 11 each — Paramount, The Washington Post and MTV Entertainment.
Academy members include musician and writer Questlove, writer and actor Quinta Brunson, rapper and actor Tobe Nwigwe, writer and producer Roxane Gay, Pepsi Co. executive Todd Kaplan, and Yann LeCun, an AI scientist with Meta.
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