The 5th Annual Streamy Awards was the 5th installment of the Streamy Awards honoring streaming television series. The awards were held on September 17, 2015, at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by the YouTube stars Grace Helbig and Tyler Oakley. Broadcast live on VH1 and simultaneously livestreamed online, the 5th Streamy Awards were the first to be televised. Several new award categories were added for the 5th Streamys, including new Social Video awards for content on Instagram, Snapchat, and Vine, new subject categories such as Lifestyle and Documentary or Investigative, and Breakout Creator and Breakthrough Artist which were created to celebrate up-and-coming creators. The show had a positive reception in media publications and on social media.
Performers The 5th Annual Streamy Awards featured the musical performances of the following artists: +Performers at the 5th Streamy AwardsArtist(s)Song(s)A Great Big World"Hold Each Other"Alessia Cara"Here"Future"March Madness"OMI"Cheerleader"Sir Mix-A-Lot"Baby Got Back"Hailee Steinfeld"Love Myself"
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on August 12, 2015 and the finalists for the Audience Choice Award categories were announced on September 3. 35 of the categories were announced on September 14 during the Official Streamys Nominee Reception at the YouTube Space LA. The remaining nine "marquee categories" were announced during the main ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium on September 17. Winners of the categories were selected by the Streamys Blue Ribbon Panel except for the Audience Choice awards which were put to a public vote.
Winners are listed first, in bold. OVERALLAudience Choice Award for Show of the YearAudience Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year FouseyTUBE EnchufeTV Good Mythical Morning The Philip DeFranco Show PrankvsPrank Rooster Teeth Smosh SourceFed Teens React Video Game High School Cameron Dallas Connor Franta Grace Helbig Jack & Jack Jenna Marbles Kandee Johnson King Bach Miranda Sings IISuperwomanII Tyler OakleyInternationalBreakout Creator RackaRacka EnchufeTV HolaSoyGerman Jack & Dean Korean Englishman Matthew Santoro Lauren Elizabeth Rachel Levin Jenn McAllister Arden RoseComedyDrama Flula Ryan Higa Jenna Marbles Miranda Sings Rhett & Link BlackBoxTV Anamnesis Adi Shankar's Bootleg Universe Carmilla Frankenstein, MDAnimatedFirst Person Cyanide & Happiness Bee and Puppycat Blank on Blank RWBY sWooZie IISuperwomanII BFvsGF Grace Helbig Tyler Oakley PewDiePieIndieNon-Fiction Eat Our Feelings Anamnesis The Katering Show The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy Player Piano Good Mythical Morning HeyUSA Improv Everywhere Kids React ShaytardsSpin-Off The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Backstage 30 for 30 Shorts (30 for 30) Hack Into Broad City (Broad City) Saturday Night Line (Saturday Night Live) Team Coco on Twitch (Conan)SOCIAL VIDEOVinerSnapchat Storyteller King Bach Cameron Dallas Brittany Furlan Lele Pons DeStorm Power Shaun McBride (shonduras) Chris Carmichael (chriscarm) Jérôme Jarre (jeromejarre) Shay Mitchell (officialshaym) Ryan Seacrest (ryanseacrest)Short Form ComedyShort Form Creativity Logan Paul Brandon Calvillo Brittany Furlan Liane V Rudy Mancuso SnapperHero Meagan Cignoli Cyrene-Q Zach King Shaun McBrideSUBJECT AWARDSAction and Sci-FiBeauty Corridor Digital Action Movie Kid SnapperHero Super Power Beat Down Video Game High School Gigi Gorgeous Andrea's Choice Kandee Johnson Ingrid Nilsen Michelle PhanDocumentary or InvestigativeFashion Atari: Game Over Queens of Kings Rituals with Laura Ling Street Cuts Thank You And Sorry Lauren Elizabeth Maddi Bragg Brooklyn And Bailey Maiah Ocando Amanda SteeleFoodGaming Epic Meal Time Nerdy Nummies SORTEDfood Tasted You Deserve a Drink PewDiePie The Game Theorists Markiplier Smosh Games StampylongheadHealth and WellnessKids and Family Blogilates BroScienceLife Furious Pete Superhero in Training Tony Horton Fitness What's Up Moms Eh Bee Family Kid President Kids React ShaytardsNews and CulturePranks The Young Turks BuzzFeed Video MTV Braless The Philip DeFranco Show SourceFed PrankVsPrank Roman Atwood FouseyTUBE The Janoskians Magic of RahatScience and EducationSports Vsauce Crash Course DNews It's Okay To Be Smart SciShow Dude Perfect Brodie Smith Devin Super Tramp The Ginger Runner Red BullPERFORMANCEActorActress James Van Der Beek, Adi Shankar's Bootleg Universe Bart Baker, Bart Baker James Franco, Making A Scene with James Franco Aasif Mandvi, Halal in the Family Paul Scheer, Scheer-RL Colleen Ballinger, Miranda Sings Anna Akana, SnapperHero Natasha Negovanlis, Carmilla Ellary Porterfield, Video Game High School Casey Wilson, The Hotwives of OrlandoCollaborationDance Nice Peter, EpicLLOYD, Grace Helbig, and Hannah Hart, Epic Rap Battles of History Jimmy Kimmel and Viewers, YouTube Challenge JusReign and Timothy DeLaGhetto, YouTube Collaboration Pentatonix and Lindsey Stirling, "Papaoutai" (Cover) Various Creators, YouTube Rewind 2015 Dominic “D-trix” Sandoval Amymarie Gaertner Israel “Izzy” Harris and Ashleigh Mitchell Marquese Scott Alyson StonerEnsemble Cast Video Game High School Annoying Orange The Hotwives of Orlando Six Guys One Car SnapperHeroMUSICBreakthrough Artist Shawn Mendes Tori Kelly Austin Mahone MAX Rachel PlattenCover SongOriginal Song Pentatonix, "Daft Punk Mashup" (Daft Punk) Andy Lange, Chester See, Andrew Garcia, and Josh Golden, "Roar" (Katy Perry) Madilyn Bailey, "Wake Me Up" (Avicii) Pomplamoose, "Happy"/"Get Lucky" Mashup (Pharrell Williams) Postmodern Jukebox, "Timber" (Pitbull ft. Ke$ha) "Whistle While I Work It", Chester See "#LEH", IISuperwomanII and Humble The Poet "Airplanes and Terminals", Timothy DeLaGhetto "Love Again", Pentatonix "Never Wanna Let You Go", Megan NicoleCRAFT AWARDSCinematographyCostume Design Devin Super Tramp, Devin Graham 2Cellos, Ivan Slipčević Gymkhana, Jordan Valenti Michelle Phan, RiceBunny Productions Thirsty For..., Eric Slatkin and Jay Holzer Epic Rap Battles of History, Sulai Lopez Bart Baker, Amanda Hosler The Britishes, Alisha Silverstein The League of S.T.E.A.M., The League of S.T.E.A.M. The Most Popular Girls in School, Jamie Brown, Mark Cope and Carlo MossDirectingEditing Video Game High School, Matt Arnold and Freddie Wong Adi Shankar's Bootleg Universe, Joseph Kahn Kurt Hugo Schneider, Kurt Hugo Schneider Improv Everywhere, Charlie Todd SnapperHero, Sam Gorski, Niko Pueringer, and Jake Watson (Corridor) Epic Rap Battles of History, Andrew Sherman, Ryan Moulton, Daniel Turcan and Peter Shukoff The Fourth Door, Blayne Rabanal and Tony Valenzuela The Game Theorists, Ronnie Edwards, Forrest Lee Black, and Ryder Burgin Mystery Guitar Man, Joe Penna and Ryan Morrison Vsauce, Michael Stevens and Guy LarsenVisual and Special EffectsWriting Corridor Digital, Sam Gorski, Niko Pueringer, and Jake Watson Action Movie Kid, Daniel Hashimoto Andrew M Films, Andrew McMurry SnapperHero, Sam Gorski, Niko Pueringer, and Jake Watson Zach King, Zach King You Deserve a Drink, Mamrie Hart Bad Lip Reading, Bad Lip Reading Epic Rap Battles of History, Peter Shukoff, Lloyd Ahlquist, Zach Sherwin, Dante Cimadamore and Mike Betette Honest Trailers, Spencer Gilbert, Dan Murrell, Erica Russell and Andy Signore The Hotwives of Orlando, Dannah Phirman and Danielle SchneiderCAMPAIGNSBrand CampaignSocial Good Campaign Crazy Plastic Ball Prank #WithDad, Roman Atwood (Nissan) Kitten Therapy, SoulPancake (Purina Tidy Cats) "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", DanceOn (Silentó) Totino Boy!, Tim & Eric (Totino's Pizza Rolls) Signature Pizzas, Jack & Jack, Rooster Teeth and Andrea Russett (Pizza Hut) #ProudToLove, Marriage Equality and LGBT Pride Month Arnold Pranks Fans as the Terminator...for Charity, After-School All Stars Prank it FWD Win a Coffee Date In LA with Connor Franta, Thirst Project Tyler Oakley’s Birthday Campaign, The Trevor Project
Web series with multiple nominations and awards
+Web series that received multiple nominations NominationsWeb Series6SnapperHero5Video Game High School4Epic Rap Battles of History3Adi Shankar's Bootleg UniverseThe Hotwives of OrlandoMiranda SingsReact2Action Movie KidAnamnesisCarmillaCorridor DigitalDevin Super TrampEnchufeTVFouseyTUBEThe Game TheoristsGood Mythical MorningImprov EverywhereThe Philip DeFranco ShowPrankvsPrankRooster TeethShaytardsSourceFedVsauceYou Deserve a Drink
+Web series that received multiple awardsAwardsWeb series3Epic Rap Battles of History2Corridor DigitalVideo Game High School
Reception Rae Votta of The Daily Dot praised the video segments that introduced each award category for the unique spin that was added to each video by the various online content creators which produced them. Votta also felt that the imposition of a strict runtime due to the event being televised made the show flow better when compared to previous years. The musical performances were well received, particularly Future's performance of "March Madness" which was praised by writers for Spin, Vulture, MTV News, and Vice. Hailee Steinfeld also received praise for her performance by Teen Vogue. Votta called the performances "flashy and impressive" but felt that they were disconnected from YouTube and online content creation. Writing for MTV News, Deepa Lakshmin praised Lilly Singh's acceptance speech in which she said "Lastly I want to say huge, huge shout-out to Google and YouTube for not being scared to put a brown girl on a billboard." Lakshmin called the speech "badass" and felt that it was especially meaningful for Indian fans of Singh's.
Reception of the event on social media was positive according to analysis done by the social TV platform Canvs, using data from Nielsen Twitter TV ratings, which found that an estimated 41.5% of reaction tweets to the event contained the emotion of "love" and 16.2% the reaction "congrats". According to Nielsen, the show was the leading social non-sports program on television the day it aired.
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