Vimeo Announces Four New Judges for Vimeo Festival + Awards; Two Weeks Left to Enter to Win US$25,000 Grant

By Vimeo Llc, PRNE
Monday, July 19, 2010

Neville Brody, Ricky Van Veen, Shane Walter, and Ze Frank Join the List of High-Profile Judges for the Vimeo Festival + Awards

NEW YORK, July 20, 2010 - With only two weeks remaining to enter, The Vimeo Festival + Awards,
www.vimeoawards.com, adds four new names to its already impressive
roster of judges, including:

    - Neville Brody -Internationally-renowned designer, typographer, art
      director and brand strategist, Brody's more than 30 years of
      experience spans titles for Heat, The Insider, and Public Enemies to
      art direction at popular magazine The Face, plus redesign of The Times
      newspaper and the BBC website. He will be applying his expertise to
      judge submissions within the Experimental Category.

    - Ricky Van Veen - Head of production company Notional, co-founder of
      CollegeHumor, Van Veen will be leveraging his expertise in developing
      and producing online content viewed by millions to judge the Original
      Series category.

    - Shane Walter - Co-founder and creative director of onedotzero, a
      global-reaching contemporary digital art, film and design organization,
      Walter has commissioned and produced several award winning short
      films. Named in the 2010 Wired 100 list of individuals shaping the
      digital world, he has consulted and produced multi-disciplinary
      projects with well-known brands from Nike and MTV to U2. He will be
      lending his production expertise to the motion graphics category.

    - Ze Frank - Pushing the envelope of online entertainment since his viral
      video "How to Dance Properly" hit in 2001, and his recent daily video
      blog called "The Show," Ze Frank will be lending his creative flair to
      help judge Original Series submissions.

As the July 31 submission deadline looms, the panel of high-profile
experts and luminaries are gearing up to judge, honor and award the best
creative and original online videos and the masterminds behind them. Entrants
can submit any original work as long as it has premiered online between June
3, 2008
and July 30, 2010 or has never been premiered anywhere in one of the
following categories: Narrative; Documentary; Animation; Experimental; Music
Video; Motion Graphics; Remix; Captured; Original Series; and the best
overall from all categories, the Vimeo Award. The winner of the Vimeo Award
receives a US$25,000 grant to produce new work.

The submission fee is $20 U.S. ($5 for Vimeo Plus members). A full list
of judges, submission criteria and entry forms are available at
www.vimeoawards.com.

About Vimeo, LLC

Leading high quality video sharing site Vimeo(R) is a vibrant, respectful
community of people who love to take video. The site features beautifully
produced video from its many talented video creators. Launched in 2004 and
headquartered in New York, NY, Vimeo offers users a video sharing experience
that is both entertaining and easy to use. Vimeo was listed as a Time
Magazine Top 50 Website in 2009. Vimeo, LLC is a subsidiary of IAC
(Nasdaq: IACI).

Deborah Szajngarten, +1-212-524-8776, press at vimeo.com

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