Brits clean up at ‘Internet Oscars’
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- May 09, 2008
The BBC and FT.com were among 26 UK-based sites to win at this year’s Webby Awards, often dubbed the ‘Internet Oscars’.
The 12th annual Webby Awards were held this week, with 119 categories recognising the best in online publishing. UK-based Web publishers won in 26 of these categories.
The Webbys are selected by a group made up of web, business and celebrity figures selected by the awarding body, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
The FT.com blog Alphaville won the best business blog category, also picking up the people’s voice award in that category.
Bristol-based digital marketing firm Hyperlaunch picked up a gong for its official Annie Lennox website, The House of Me in the celebrity/fan section.
However the biggest winner of the night was the New York Times, with its website NYTimes.com scooping a total of eight awards.
Along with the panel selections, there was an additional ‘People’s Voice’ awards, voted on by members of the public via an online voting system.
In these awards, London print start-up Moo.com won best services and Transport for London won best government site.
BBC News was the people’s voice winner in the news category, and also won the main award in the radio category.
US comic Stephen Colbert won Webby person of the year after his coup of appearing as the top Google search result for the phrase "greatest living American".
This year's Webby winners will be awarded at an event in New York on June 10.
For a list of all the winners, visit: www.webbyawards.com