We’re really excited to be tied with our friends at The Onion as the most-nominated company in the Online Film and Video category this year with six nominations each. Our friends at College Humor and the New York Times tied for next place with five online video & film nominations (although they were also nominated in other categories, bringing College Humor’s total Webby nominations to 6 and The New York Times to 15).

Congratulations to all the other online video and film nominees as well, a great collection of some of the best producers on the web from The Muppets Studio (for their Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody) to Engadget, Current TV, Funny or Die (and Zach Galafinakis), and My Damn Channel (and Ileana Douglas). 

Last year Next New Networks won an amazing six Webby and People’s Voice Awards (or seven, if you include our then-affiliated independent series Epic Fu), and we’re excited to be in position to tie or beat that this year, as each nominated show is eligible for both the Webby and the Webby People’s Voice Award. 

Here are the 2010 Webby nominees from Next New Networks: 

• How-To and DIY: Indy Mogul’s Backyard FX 
• How-To and DIY: ThreadBanger 
• Music: Music Videos
• Variety: The Reel Good Show (Indy Mogul)
• Video Remixes/Mashups: Auto-Tune the News (The Gregory Bros / Barely Political)
• Viral: Auto-Tune the News (The Gregory Bros / Barely Political)

Congratulations especially to everyone at Next New who helped support these shows and make them awesome, and to the producers and creators who worked untold hours on them, especially Corinne Leigh, Rob Czar, Erik Beck, Jack Ferry, Melissa Schneider, Justin Johnson, Bobby Miller, Ben Relles and The Gregory Brothers. 

Indy Mogul and Barely Political have been nominated and won Webby Awards before (as has Fast Lane Daily), so I’m especially happy for ThreadBanger, one of our very first and most beloved networks, to get this recognition after over three years of amazing episodes every week. 

– Tim