CHARLESTON, S.C., June 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNFT), a leading
cloud-based benefits management platform and services provider,
today announced its Media & Animation team won a coveted Bronze
Telly Award in the Non-Broadcast: Craft-Motion Graphics/Design
category at the 40th Annual Telly Awards. The Telly Awards honor
excellence in video and television across all screens and are
judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming
networks and production companies including Vice, Vimeo, Hearst
Digital Media, BuzzFeed and A&E Networks.
Benefitfocus Media & Animation develops custom videos for
employers, insurance carriers and partners on the Benefitfocus
BenefitsPlace™ platform. BenefitsPlace is the largest benefits
platform in the industry, with over 25 million consumers connecting
to industry recognized brands. The platform simplifies employee
benefits enrollment, engagement and management. As part of that
simplified benefits selection approach, Benefitfocus embeds videos
to educate consumers about their benefit offerings and help them
make informed benefits choices. The Telly-winning video produced by
the Benefitfocus team featured BenefitsPlace™ partner MedPut, a
medical financing company, and was designed to educate benefits
buyers about MedPut solutions that address out-of-pocket medical
expenses.
"Benefitfocus is pushing the boundaries for video and television
innovation and creativity at a time when the industry is rapidly
changing," said Sabrina Dridje, Managing Director of the Telly
Awards. "This award is a tribute to the talent and vision of its
creators and a celebration of the diversity of work being made
today for all screens."
"At Benefitfocus we strive to drive innovation and new solutions
across the employee benefits ecosystem to transform and move the
industry forward," said Benefitfocus Senior Vice President of
Marketing, Jeffrey Gross. "We
introduced Benefitfocus Media & Animation with our inhouse
studio and editing suite several years ago with this in mind, as we
sought new, engaging and creative ways to educate consumers about
their benefits. We're honored to have our work recognized by The
Telly Awards and thrilled with the recognition for our team."
The winner's announcement caps a year-long celebration of the
40th Anniversary of The Telly Awards. Throughout 2018-2019, The
Telly Awards celebrated four decades of honoring the video and
television industry, whether through its inaugural international
screening series or its online video interviews with industry
experts. This year also saw the continued expansion of new
categories further to the awards' recent initiative to rebuild the
honors for the multi-screen era. New categories included serialized
Branded Content and expanded Social Video categories.
Last year, The Telly Awards attracted more than 12,000 entries
from top video content producers including Condé Nast, Netflix,
Refinery29, RadicalMedia, T Brand Studio and Ogilvy &
Mather.
The full list of the 40th Annual Telly Awards winners can be
found at www.tellyawards.com/winners.
About Benefitfocus
Benefitfocus (NASDAQ: BNFT) unifies
the entire U.S. benefits industry on a single technology platform
to protect consumers' health, wealth, property and lifestyle. Our
powerful cloud-based software, data-driven insights and
thoughtfully-designed services, enable employers, insurance brokers
and carriers to simplify the complexity of benefits administration
and deliver a world-class benefits experience. Learn more at
www.benefitfocus.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.
About The Telly Awards
The Telly Awards is the
premier award honoring video and television across all screens.
Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries
from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The
Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading
experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and
major television networks, reflective of the multiscreen industry
The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include
IFP, NAB, StudioDaily, Stash Magazine, StudioDaily, Storyhunter,
ProductionHub, The Wrap Pro, the VR/AR Association and Digiday.
Except for historical information, all of the statements,
expectations, and assumptions contained in this press release are
forward-looking statements. Actual results or performance might
differ materially from those explicit or implicit in the
forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially include: the need to innovate
and provide useful products and services; management of growth; our
ability to compete effectively; our ability to maintain our culture
and recruit and retain qualified personnel; the immature and
volatile nature of the market for our products and services; risks
related to changing healthcare and other applicable regulations;
privacy; security and other risks associated with our business; and
the other risk factors set forth from time to time in
our SEC filings, copies of which are available free of
charge within the Investor Relations section of
the Benefitfocus website
at http://investor.benefitfocus.com/sec-filings or upon
request from our investor relations
department. Benefitfocus assumes no obligation and does
not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as
required by law.
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