5th Streamy Awards
DateSeptember 17, 2015
LocationHollywood Palladium
Hollywood, California
Presented byStreamys Blue Ribbon Panel
Hosted byGrace Helbig and Tyler Oakley
Highlights
Most awardsEpic Rap Battles of History (3)
Most nominationsSnapperHero (6)
Audience ChoiceFouseyTUBE (Show of the Year)
Cameron Dallas (Entertainer of the Year)
Television/radio coverage
NetworkVH1 (US)
YouTube (online)
Runtime1 hour, 30 minutes[1]
Produced byDick Clark Productions
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Tyler Oakley and Grace Helbig hosted the show

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.[2][3][4] 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.[5] 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:[6][7][8]

Performers at the 5th Streamy Awards
Artist(s) Song(s)
A Great Big World
(featuring Futuristic) 		"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

Yousef Erakat, winner of the Audience Choice Award for Show of the Year
Racka Racka, winners of the International category
Matthew Santoro, winner of the Breakout Creator award
Lilly Singh, winner of the First Person category
Rhett & Link, winners of the Non-Fiction category
Logan Paul, winner of the Short Form Comedy category
Gigi Gorgeous, winner of the Beauty category
PewDiePie, winner of the Gaming category
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, winner of the News and Culture category
James Van Der Beek, winner of Best Actor
Colleen Ballinger, winner of Best Actress, in character as Miranda Sings
Shawn Mendes, winner of the Breakthrough Artist award
Pentatonix, winners of the Cover Song category
Mamrie Hart (right), winner of the Writing award, with Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart, winners in the Collaboration category

The nominees were announced on August 12, 2015[9][10] and the finalists for the Audience Choice Award categories were announced on September 3.[11][12] 35 of the categories were announced on September 14 during the Official Streamys Nominee Reception at the YouTube Space LA.[13] The remaining nine "marquee categories" were announced during the main ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium on September 17.[3][14] 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.[5]

Winners are listed first, in bold.[14][15]

OVERALL
Audience Choice Award for Show of the Year Audience Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year
International Breakout Creator
Comedy Drama
Animated First Person
Indie Non-Fiction
  • Eat Our Feelings
Spin-Off
SOCIAL VIDEO
Viner Snapchat Storyteller
Short Form Comedy Short Form Creativity
SUBJECT AWARDS
Action and Sci-Fi Beauty
Documentary or Investigative Fashion
Food Gaming
Health and Wellness Kids and Family
News and Culture Pranks
Science and Education Sports
PERFORMANCE
Actor Actress
Collaboration Dance
Ensemble Cast
MUSIC
Breakthrough Artist
Cover Song Original Song
CRAFT AWARDS
Cinematography Costume Design
  • Devin Super Tramp, Devin Graham
    • 2Cellos, Ivan Slipčević
    • Gymkhana, Jordan Valenti
    • Michelle Phan, RiceBunny Productions
    • Thirsty For..., Eric Slatkin and Jay Holzer
Directing Editing
Visual and Special Effects Writing
  • 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
CAMPAIGNS
Brand Campaign Social Good Campaign

Web series with multiple nominations and awards

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.[3] 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.[6][16][17][18] Hailee Steinfeld also received praise for her performance by Teen Vogue.[19] Votta called the performances "flashy and impressive" but felt that they were disconnected from YouTube and online content creation.[3] 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.[20]

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".[1] According to Nielsen, the show was the leading social non-sports program on television the day it aired.[21]

References

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  4. ^ Nakamura, Reid (August 15, 2015). "Streamy Nominees Freddie Wong, GloZell Green Talk Future of Digital Content, Mainstream Acceptance". TheWrap. Archived from the original on 2015-08-17. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
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  10. ^ Nakamura, Reid (August 12, 2015). "Streamy Awards: James Franco, 'SnapperHero,' Fifth Harmony, Tyler Oakley Score Nominations". TheWrap. Archived from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
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  12. ^ Otterson, Joe (September 3, 2015). "Tyler Oakley, Smosh, Cameron Dallas, Video Game High School Among Streamys Finalists". TheWrap. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
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  14. ^ a b Blake, Emily; Clark, Noelene (September 17, 2015). "Streamy Awards 2015: The full winners list". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 2015-09-20. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  15. ^ "5th Annual Winners & Nominees". The Streamy Awards. Archived from the original on 2015-08-15. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  16. ^ Fitz-Gerald, Sean (September 18, 2015). "Watch Future's Fiery Performance of 'March Madness' at the Streamy Awards". Vulture. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  17. ^ Tardio, Andres (September 18, 2015). "Future's Streamys Performance Was LITerally Fire". MTV News. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  18. ^ Hill, John (September 18, 2015). "Watch Future Light the Stage On Fire During "March Madness" at Last Night's Streamy Awards". Vice. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  19. ^ Amey, Kathryn (September 18, 2015). "Hailee Steinfeld Just Nailed Her First-Ever Live Performance of 'Love Myself'". Teen Vogue. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
  20. ^ Lakshmin, Deepa (September 18, 2015). "Thank You, Lilly Singh, For Your Badass Streamys Acceptance Speech". MTV News. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  21. ^ Dickson, Jeremy (August 25, 2016). "Kids content gains ground with Streamy Awards noms". Kidscreen. Archived from the original on 2016-08-27. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
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