Radar Awards Winners Announced

21 July 2016 - Press release

On Thursday 14th July, directors and industry guests came from across the UK and the USA, Germany, Croatia, Ireland, Iceland and Denmark to attend the first-ever Radar Awards at the exclusive YouTube Space, London. Celebrating the best in new talent across the music and music video industries, the event was sponsored by Vevo and Marshall Amplifiers and presented by Yasmin Evans. With over 700 entries and with half of the shortlisted videos having under 25k views on YouTube, the awards truly celebrated the best in new, up & coming talent worldwide.

Guests were escorted to the YouTube Space to be welcomed with drinks. Directors were soon whisked away, each to be awarded a ‘shortlisted’ prize, ranging from free film & video education courses, to free submissions to music video festivals worldwide, to free software packages. Shortly after, presenter Yasmin Evans hosted the main Awards and winners were announced to an audience of leading commissioners, commercial production companies and specialist media.  

"The Radar Awards were a blast! The awards connected talented new filmmakers from across the world (USA, Canada, Ireland, Croatia, Berlin, France, Iceland, Norway), with experienced and influential industry tastemakers and all was good. A great venue (thanks YouTube!), plus great prizes (thanks Vevo, Marshall & all!), plus drinks all made for a great party and a lot of happy people."
Caroline Bottomley, Company Director, Radar Music Videos


Overall winners received a valuable promo slate with music video specialist streaming platform Vevo, mentorships with leading production companies, and valuable equipment and software worth thousands.

Following the official event, directors and industry guests flooded out across the venue and engaged in busy networking, before continuing to the ‘after-after party’ at Alley Cat.

To check out the Radar Awards Winners' playlist, go to the Radar YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/RadarMusicVideos
Once you're there, subscribe to keep up with all the action from the first-ever awards night and to get alerts for rare interviews with many of the VIP guests.
 

Radar Awards 2016 Winners

Best Artist - prizes presented by Grace Pantony, Marshall Amps & Claudia de Wolff, Vevo
Fakear - Animal    Dir: Antoine Besse
Prize - An Astoria Marshall Amplifier, Vevo promo slate, PR campaign to +450 media trade & consumer titles, guaranteed coverage from CMU, Music Week, Hypebot, and Record of the Day.

Best Director - prize presented by Claudia de Wolff, Vevo
Girl Band    Paul    Dir: Bob Gallagher
Prize - Jungle post-production software package, Vevo promo slate, automatic entry to UKMVA, Radar membership and PR campaign to +450 media trade & consumer titles.


Artist categories - prizes presented by David Knight, Promo News
All winners - Vevo promo slate including carousel placement, playlisting and social media promo

Dance    
Fakear - Animal    Dir: Antoine Besse
Prize - Guaranteed coverage on Mixmag and Earmilk

Grime / HipHop
Open Mike Eagle - Celebrity Reduction Prayer   Dir: Ryan Calavano    
Prize - Guaranteed coverage on FACTmag, DummyMag and The Line of Best Fit

Indie
Susanne Sundfør    Accelerate    Dir: Stian Andersen    
Guaranteed coverage on The405, DIYmag and Earmilk