List of Webby Award winners
This is a list of the winners of companies and websites that won the annual Webby Awards of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
1996
1997
1997 was the first year of the annual event, which was the first-ever nationally televised awards ceremony devoted to the Internet. 700 people attended the event on March 6, 1997 at Bimbo's Night Club in San Francisco, California[1] Whereas in later years the panelists were official members of International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, in 1997 the awards were chosen and given by IDG's The Web Magazine, which appointed a panel to judge the competition.[2]
1998
The 1998 Webby Awards were held on March 6, 1998 at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts,[3] and were the first event ever to be broadcast live via the Web in 3D.[4] The "People's Voice" awards, chosen by online poll, received 100,000 cumulative votes that year.
The Web magazine, which was hosting the awards, was closed down by its parent company IDG shortly before the awards, and the ceremony continued thereafter under the management of Tiffany Shlain, who IDG had hired in 1996 to coordinate the awards.[5] The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences was constituted that year as the judging panel for the awards, continues to do so as of the 2007 awards.
1999
The 1999 Webby Awards were held on March 18, 1999 at the Herbst Theater (War memorial Opera House) in San Francisco, with a post-award party at City Hall.[6] That year, Mayor Rudy Giuliani lobbied to move the ceremony to New York City, but San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown convinced the organization to remain in San Francisco by promising city support. The event was noted for the famous incident in which a representative of Jodi.org, which had won in the arts category, called the event participants "Ugly corporate sons-of-bitches" in his acceptance speech and tossed his trophy to the audience.[7] In 1999 the Webby Awards asked PricewaterhouseCoopers to help it tabulate and ensure security for the "People's Voice" winners, chosen by online voting.[8]
2000
2007
External links
- webbyawards.com - official awards website
- flash gallery of award winners
Notes
In keeping with the awards themselves, winners are designated according to the website winning the award, although the winner is, technically, the web design firm that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes where the winning website or a follow-on remains available and can be found; the text used for the hyperlink is as listed on the past winner pages at http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/winners-1997.php and so on. Many older websites, however, no longer exist or are redirected to replacements and are so noted.
- ^ Rachel Rosmarin (June 9, 2006). "Webbys 2.0". Forbes. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
- ^ Carolyn Said (July 30, 1998). "The Woman Behind the Webbies:S.F., N.Y. woo Web award impresario Tiffany Shlain". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ^ "The Best of the Web: The 1998 Webby Award Winners". PC World. March 31, 1998.
- ^ Glenn McDonald (March 10, 1998). "1998 Webby Awards: Like the Oscars, Only Funny:San Francisco awards show honors the best Web sites in 19 categories". PC World.
- ^ Carolyn Said (July 30, 1998). "The Woman Behind the Webbies:S.F., N.Y. woo Web award impresario Tiffany Shlain". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ^ "Glitz, goofiness mark Webby Awards ceremony". CNN. May 12, 2000. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
- ^ Rachel Chalmers (Marcy 22, 1999). "Usual Suspects Takes Webbies in Five Words or Less". Computergram International.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "PricewaterhouseCoopers Address On-Line Balloting Issues for Webby Awards". Business Wire. March 17, 1999. Retrieved 2008-01-03.