The Radar Awards, held next month at YouTube Space in London, are re-opening submissions to up & coming artists, bands, labels and directors for just 4 days, to celebrate Vevo’s new partnership with the Awards.
As part of Vevos ambitions to discover and support up & coming talent across the industry, the leading music video platform has partnered with the Radar Awards to reward the best up & coming music videos worldwide.
The Awards will be hosted at YouTube Space London, a facility that enables people to Learn, Connect and Create at the custom-built studios. Since 2012, YouTube content creators - from filmmakers such as tomska and bertieg,independent musicians such as everyll and maxmilner, as well as serial conversationalists such as chewings and emmablackery - have been able to call the Space in London home and to use it to meet and collaborate with fellow creators on YouTube, as well as learn production skills and techniques from industry experts in order to help them succeed on the platform.
Vevo favourite and mainstream broadcaster Yasmin Evans will present. Filmed in front of an invited audience of industry luminaries, the Awards will be screened on Radar's YouTube channel.
Winners get valuable support and promo from Vevo, including carousel placement, programming/playlist impressions and social media promotion. To celebrate these new prizes, the Radar Awards will re-open for entries for 4 days, starting today and ending at 8am, Sunday 19th of June.
We’re particularly keen to see entries from artists, labels & managers - only 15% of our 650 entries were in the artist categories - so if you've got a great video, enter it now!
"We're elated to announce Vevo are on board as partner to the Radar Awards. It's great news for up & coming artists, bands and music video directors, as the promo benefits for them are immense!” Caroline Bottomley, Company Director, Radar Music Videos
Claudia De Wolff, Director of Creative Content and Programming said; “This is the first time we have partnered with Radar, and we are really excited to be on board. Working to promote and support those starting out in the music, whether in front of or behind the camera is very important to us as a music streaming platform, and im really looking forward to seeing all the entries for this years’ awards.”
Artist/band category prizes include coverage on The 405, Dummy, The Line Of Best Fit, Fact Mag, Earmilk, DIY Mag, Music Week, Mix Mag, CMU, Hypebot and Record Of Day. The overall artist winner will also receive a Marshall amplifier of their choice from the hand wired, boutique Astoria range, plus an extensive PR campaign about their win to over 400 media titles worldwide.
Director category winners get internships at one of Pulse Films, Somesuch and Co, Partizan, Kode, My Accomplice, The Mill and HK Corp, with the best student director gaining an internship at Wanda. The overall director winner gets leading film production software from Jungle and also gets an extensive PR campaign about their win to over 400 media titles worldwide
All nominated directors, artist & bands will receive industry-relevant prizes, from memberships & subscriptions and specialist training.
More details http://www.radarmusicvideos.com/radar-awards
