The FWA Website of the Year Awards 2007 – Results

The FWA Website of the Year Award 2007 have been released, the winner, “Get the Glass!”.

As well as the FWA Website of the Year Award 2007 the FWA have also announce the FWA People’s Choice Award 2007, sponsored by Adobe which was also “Get the Glass!”.

Here are the press releases for the FWA Website of the Year Award 2007 and the FWA People’s Choice Award 2007, sponsored by Adobe.

The “Get the Glass!” website is phenomenal, the highest quality animation and graphics, it’s like having a Pixar movie you can play with, the ability to have true interactive animated movies has arrived!

This site was not our first choice although to be honest our first three choices were all equally good for different reasons, so were happy they won. Our choices were:

1. Halo 3: Believe by AKQA
2. HBO Voyeur by Big Spaceship, BBDO NY, HBO
3. Get the Glass! by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners & North Kingdom

Here’s our reasons.

Halo 3: Believe by AKQA

This website is great, it got our first place for a couple of reason, the quality of the images is outstanding, although the interaction is poor. The main reason that we gave it first place was that it is one of the few websites which we could actually see the business objective coming through into the website. We assume the campaign objective is to engage consumers into believing the war was real and this is almost a documentary of the aftermath, so encouraging them to purchase. We think the website while not overly interactive achieves this marketing objective.  The music selection, which is often overlooked, is also fabulous.

HBO Voyeur by Big Spaceship, BBDO NY, HBO

Again this is a great site, what we liked about this is the possibilities it has, imagine when your TV and your PC are the same device, Windows Media Centre actually works or Apple TV lets you do more than just watch iTunes.

The HBO Voyeur website has the potential to be the next step in content for PC/TV Convergence, the way all entertainment will be!

Get the Glass! by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners & North Kingdom

We have mentioned above why we like this site, the highest quality animation and graphics, it’s like having a Pixar movie you can play with, and all over an internet connection, what more can you ask for.

Anyway these were our choices, let us know what you think!

FWA – People’s Choice Awards 2007 Sponsored by Abode

I’m sure you are aware that our Managing Director, Jim Stevenson has been invited to sit on the Judging Panel for the FWA Website of the Year Award 2007 from our previous blog.

The FWA also have a People’s Choice Award which is open to anyone to enter, you can find the link here: http://www.thefwa.com/pca2007/

Please link through and let us know what your favourite website of 2007 is.  Voting closes on the 14th of January 2008 at 12:00 GMT with the winners announced on the 15th of January 2008.

These are the hottest digital shops around!

Our friends at AgencyNet have just been called one of the hottest digital shops around in an article in Advertising Age in there October 22, 2007 issue.

We’ve always known this but congratulations to them, now everyone known how good they are!

Invited to Join the FWA Website of the Year Award 2007 Judging Panel

Our Managing Director and Principal Consultant Jim Stevenson has been invited to sit on the Judging Panel for the FWA Website of the Year Awards 2007.

The FWA website is run by an amazing guy, Rob Ford. It receives over 1 million visits per month and is a very highly regarded award website by many, if not all, in the Website Design and associated industries.

The Judging panel is a ‘who’s who’ of Creative and Designers in the industry and therefore we consider it a huge honour to be asked to join this panel and bring a Digital Strategy, Business and Marketing view to the awards.

DEWARS Ambassadors

As our excitement grows over the continued success of our work with DEWARS digitally we are finding that we are becoming more and more Ambassadors for the Brand.

We got really excited this morning when we found out that the Brand has already won 21 Awards this year alone.

Like DEWARS we believe quality shines through.

Bacardi DJ 2006: Official Honoree in The 11th Annual Webby Awards

Bacardi DJ 2006 which we delivered with design and build by our friends AgencyNet has made a big impact having just been selected as an Offical Honoree at the 11th Annual Webby Awards.

The e-mail says “It is my pleasure to inform you that Bacardi DJ 2006 has been selected as an Official Honoree in The 11th Annual Webby Awards, in the music category.

The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Web, today recognized Bacardi DJ as an Official Honoree for the Music category , a distinction that recognizes work exhibiting remarkable achievement. Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites. The awards are judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a global organization that includes David Bowie, Harvey Weinstein, Arianna Huffington, Matt Groening, Jamie Oliver, Internet inventor Vinton Cerf, and RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser.

“The Webby Awards honors the outstanding work that is setting the standards for the Internet,” said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. The Bacardi DJ Official Honoree selection is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators.” The 11th Annual Webby Awards received a record 8,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states.”

Bacardi DJ voted Top 10 Site of 2006 by Interactive Media Awards

A hugely successful website launched last year was the Bacardi DJ which has just been named as one of the TOP 10 sites of 2006 by Interactive Media Awards

The Bacardi DJ Mixer:

The IMA Awards recognize the highest standards of excellence in website design, development and marketing and honor individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievement.

There were thousands of entries, originating in 42 countries. From among these entries, IMA Annual Judges were asked to pick the cream of the crop: The top 10 highest scoring sites, Bacardi DJ being one of them!

The Bacardi DJ Website:

ERISTOFF vodka

Found out yesterday that the ERISTOFF vodka site, www.eristoff.com is in line for an award after only being launched 2 days.