October 5, 2006; 05:00 AM The Web Marketing Association (www.webaward.org)
announced the winners of its tenth annual WebAward Competition
for outstanding web site development. More than 2,300 web sites from 35
countries were adjudicated in 96 industry categories during this year's
WebAward competition.
Entries were judged on top web site design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology.
"The World Wide Web continues to evolve in terms of Web site
development and the expectations of visitors to sites," said William
Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. "The Web sites today
are more integrated than ever and have multimedia tools embedded into
the site rather than as links. The WebAward winning Websites have once
again set the standard for all Web development. This accomplishment
serves as an invaluable marketing opportunity for both the winning
website and company and serves as a benchmark for all Websites within
the each industry."
The 2006 Best of Show WebAward is presented to New York-based Big Spaceship (www.bigspaceship.com), for its outstanding work on the "TBS: Department of Humor Analysis" web site at www.tbshumorstudy.com.
The web site also won for Best TV WebAward. TBS's Dept. of Humor
Analysis works hard to put the "very-" in front of "funny." To help TBS
steer clear of common pitfalls in this cut-throat, dog-eat-dog,
rabbit-outwit-duck, duck-shoot-pig, anvil-smush-coyote,
Chico-trip-Zeppo field of funny business, Big Spaceship joined forces
Mother Interactive to turn their very silly questionnaire into an
addictive, fully interactive web site.
R/GA (www.rga.com)
was named Top Agency at the 2006 WebAward Competition, taking home 19
WebAwards. The Top Agency Award recognizes the consistently outstanding
development pursued by interactive firms when creating top website
designs. R/GA has also won more WebAwards than any other organization
during the past decade, although this is their first Top Agency Award.
R/GA, headquartered in New York, won 12 Outstanding and 7 Standard of
Excellence WebAwards.
Agencies or companies winning six or more WebAwards in 2006 include the following:
Agency - # of Website awards in 2006
R/GA - 19
Zugara - 18
E-Site Marketing - 13
Arnold Worldwide - 12
Bridge Worldwide - 12
Refinery, Inc. - 12
BrowserMedia - 11
CondeNet - 11
Aristotle - 10
Avenue A / Razorfish - 9
Bbdigital (Blattner Brunner) - 9
Vision Internet Providers - 9
Critical Mass - 8
Open World Ltd. - 8
Organic - 8
2Advanced Studios - 7
American Academy of Dermatology - 7
Fry, Inc. - 7
Biggs-Gilmore - 6
Brulant - 6
Buena Vista Pictures Marketing - 6
Hanson Inc. - 6
Hubbard One - 6
imc2 - 6
JWT Specialized Communications - 6
MagiClick - 6
Mullen - 6
Ogilvy One - 6
Racepoint Group - 6
TM Interactice - 6
VML Inc - 6
WhippleHill Communications - 6
The WebAwards’ competition was judged by a team of independent Internet
professionals representing a variety of relevant disciplines of Web
site development. Judges included members of the media, advertising
executives, web site designers, creative directors, corporate marketing
executives, content providers and webmasters.
The WebAward competition format allows web sites to compete head to
head with other web sites within their industry to win the Best of
Industry awards.
Entries also compete against a standard of excellence to win
Outstanding Web site and Standard of Excellence WebAwards. Each web
site is judged on seven different criteria and earns a score between 0
and 70 points. The highest score in a given category wins Best of
Industry for that category. If the remaining entries received a score
of 60 or greater, they received the Outstanding Web site award
regardless of the industry or industries they were entered in. If the
site score is below 60, but equal to or higher than the average score
for the industry, then it will receive the Standard of Excellence
WebAward for that industry.
A complete list of the winning sites can be found at the WebAward Web site at www.webaward.org
The 2006 WebAward Competition sponsors include:
BURST! Media (www.burstmedia.com)
Misukanis & Odden (www.misukanisodden.com)
SimpleFeed (www.simplefeed.com)
Register.com (www.register.com)
NewsUSA (www.newsusa.com)
AdTools Inc(www.adtoolsinc.com)
Small Army (www.smallarmy.net)
Perseus Development Corp (www.perseus.com)
TopRank Online Marketing (www.toprankresults.com)
Creative Chocolate Printing Company (www.CreativeChocolatePrinting.com)
PRWeb (www.prweb.com)
Media Sponsors include:
Website Services Magazine (www.websiteservices.com)
AdRants (www.adrants.com)
MarketingVox (www.marketingvox.com)
MediaPost (www.wediapost.com)
eComXpo (www.ecomxpo.com)
Ad:Tech (www.ad-tech.com)
Macworld (www.macworldexpo.com)
The Web Marketing Association thanks all of its sponsors for helping to make this annual competition possible.
About the Web Marketing Association
The Web Marketing Association is working to create a high standard of
excellence for Web site development and marketing on the Internet.
Staffed by volunteers, it is made up of Internet marketing,
advertising, PR and design professionals who share an interest in
improving the quality of Website development and marketing on the
Internet. Since 1997, the Web Marketing Association’s annual WebAward
Competition has been helping interactive professionals promote
themselves, their companies, and their best work to the outside world.
Now in its tenth year, the WebAward Competition has become the premier
award event for Web developers and marketers worldwide.
WEB MARKETING ASSOCIATION www.webaward.org 952-400-0350
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