Project of the Year Awards

Celebrating Bold Innovation and Groundbreaking Solutions

The NAB Show Project of the Year Awards provide an opportunity for technology vendors and service providers to celebrate and honor their customers by nominating completed real-world end-user projects delivered in 2025.

At its core, the program honors the teams behind the work, recognizing end-user–led projects and the practical application of technology and services that enabled their successful completion. The program celebrates end users: broadcasters, media companies, content creators, production teams and organizations whose projects addressed clearly defined challenges or objectives and delivered meaningful results.

Projects were evaluated by a panel of industry peers, and winners are named in four key categories.

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The 2026 Project of the Year Award Winners

Acquisition

Celebrating the tools and techniques applied to projects from high-end cinematic productions to the world’s largest sporting events, that engage and captivate audiences everywhere.

Okay: Nominated by Fujifilm North America

Production

Highlighting original ways of utilizing technology and talent to inspire creatives in commercials, episodic tv, reality-tv, docu-dramas and broad range of enterprise content.

NBCUniversal: Next-generation intercom infrastructure, nominated by Clear-Com.
Technology Partner: Clear-Com
Eastern Kentucky University and Bridge Digital: Next-Gen Broadcast Production, nominated by Riedel Communications.
Technology Partners: Riedel Communications and Bridge Digital
IMS Productions and BeckTV: 2025 NTT IndyCar Series season opener, nominated by Imagine communications.
Technology Partners: Imagine Communications and Beck TV

Operations

Recognizing efforts to manage and move content in myriad formats to scale workflows and maximize efficiencies across complex global environments.

CBS News and Stations: Archive Video Tape Migration Project, nominated by GrayMeta Inc.
Technology Partner: GrayMeta
Iyuno: Cloud-Native Supply Chain, nominated by SDVI Corporation.
Technology Partner: SDVI Corporation
Bloomberg Media: Serverless media ecosystem based on the Solution Guidance for Media Lake on AWS, a multi-tenant media management platform, nominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Technology Partner: AWS

Distribution

Honoring teams using the best technology to enhance the customer experience.

UVOtv: Free Live Television for North America’s Diaspora Communities, nominated by Setplex.
Technology Partner: Setplex
E-Sports World Cup: The Media Lobby, nominated by Reuters Imagen.
Technology Partner: Reuters Imagen
Tennis Channel: Delivers for fans and business with pivotal IP transformation, nominated by LTN.
Technology Partner: LTN

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Project of the Year Awards.