Webby Award
The Webby Awards are awarded once of the "International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences" in the year and are considered one of the most important prizes in the online space. The award recognizes the best work in four main and over 100 sub-categories - from interactive advertising on websites to online movies and videos. In addition, participants have the opportunity, the "People's Voice Award " to win: an award that is given not by the jury, but by the public.
History
The Webby Awards were established in 1996 and were originally a part of "The Web", a magazine of the IDG Publishing (International Data Group). Initially, they were limited to 15 categories. The winners were then chosen by Internet experts who later also the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences founded. In 1998, the IDG Although "The Web", but allowed the Webby team continues to host the Awards - with ground-breaking success. In 2006, three additional categories were in addition to the "Web Sites" introduced " Interactive Advertising ", " Mobile Content" and " Film / Video". 2008 Webby Awards were presented for the 12th time and achieved with nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries worldwide record-breaking popularity.
Details
Categories
There are now at the Webby Awards four categories with a total of over 100 subcategories. Sites can be submitted simultaneously in multiple subcategories - and win in several categories. In each sub-category, two awards will be presented: the ranking by a renowned jury Webby Award and the People's Voice Award, whose winner will be selected by visitors to the Webby Awards website.
Acceptance speeches
The Webby Awards are known to limit the speech of the winners to only five words, which often leads to funny statements: David Bowie noticed for example in 2007 during his speech: " I only get five words? Shit, did what five. Four more there. That's three. Two. "