The winner of the DIGITAL ORIGINAL FORMAT AWARD: COMEDY & ENTERTAINMENT at the TellyCast Digital Video Awards is Spud Gun Studios’ Donkey Kong Experience
Presented during a ceremony at The Londoner, Leicester Square, the award celebrates comedy & entertainment formats that have significantly impacted the digital video landscape. Original and high quality, finalists displayed a fresh approach to digital content, utilising smart production techniques, and hitting audience reach and engagement targets.
Donkey Kong Experience brilliantly reimagines the podcast genre as an animated parody, blending sharp satire, beloved video game characters, and trending social topics into a format that feels fresh, relevant, and entertaining. Fast and cost-effective to produce, short-form segments, like those on YouTube Shorts, have generated over 18.4 million views.
Judges commended the cost per episode versus the results achieved. The described it as a smart satire that “plays into gamer, manga/animation and podcast culture.”
