The Viral Awards Come to New York

The Viral Awards, a new organizations that celebrates worldwide viral advertising is bringing its award show to New York February 15. The event will be judged by creative executives from around the country. A portion of the event's proceeds will be donated to The Food Bank For New York City, to help provide food to the emergency feeding programs of New York City. The panel will consist of the following:

• Kirk Souder, President, Executive Creative Director, Publicis & Hal Riney San Francisco
• Greg Popp, SVP Group Executive Producer, DDB/Chicago
• Fred & Farid, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco
• Brian Beletic, Director, Smuggler
• Roger Camp, Creative Director, Wieden and Kennedy, Portland
• Steve Wax, Executive Producer/Partner, Chelsea Pictures
• Ian Grais, Creative Director, Rethink, Vancouver B.C.
• Teressa Iezzi, Editor, Creativity Magazine
• Matt Vescovo, Founder, www.instructoart.com
• Jim Hanas, Editor, Adcritic
• Philip Detchmendy Executive Producer, Tool of North America
• Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, JibJab
• Jason Gaboriau, Creative Director, Amalgamated, NYC
• Patrick Milling Smith, Executive Producer/Founder, Smuggler
• Paul Lavoie, Chairman, Chief Creative Officer, Taxi
• Mike Monello, Director/Producer, Haxan
• Owen Plotkin, President, the now corporation, NYC
• Jeff Benjamin, Interactive Creative Director, Crispin Porter Bogusky
• Rae Ann Fera, Acting Editor/Associate Editor, Boards Magazine