Friday, November 30, 2007

PPC Summit

PPC Summit
Marriott Dallas/Addison Quorum by the Galleria, Dallas, TX
February 4 - 5, 2008

Make More Money with Pay Per Click (PPC). Find out how the experts run campaigns on Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, Microsoft adCenter (MSN), and all the smaller Pay Per Click Engines! PPC Summits are designed as How To workshops that teach you how to better manage your PPC campaigns. The focus is solidly on advertiser education: how to spend less money, more effectively, with better results.

Use code WMA10 and receive a 10% off the Pay-Per-Click workshops. Also coming to Boston, Vancouver, London, San Francisco and LA. For more info go to www.ppcsummit.com.


Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Internet Advertising Competition Call for judges

As always, one of the main reasons the IAC Awards have been the high quality of our volunteer judges. As in past years, we need to recruit some new judges to replace our existing judges that are not available this year. If you are a senior Internet advertising professional and would like to be considered as a judge for the 2008 IAC Awards, please complete the judges nomination form.

If you were an IAC Judge in the past, you will receive an email to activate yourself for this year. Please do not re-nominate yourself.


Monday, November 26, 2007

Best Email Advertising of 2008 to Be Named by Web Marketing Association

The Web Marketing Association judges will select the best email advertising of 2008 in 86 industries as part of their sixth annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. The IAC Awards are the first and only industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. Companies or agencies wishing to nominate their work for consideration may do so at www.IACAward.org before the deadline of January 31, 2008.

“Email marketing is the workhorse of online marketing for many companies trying to maintain an ongoing relationship with customers and prospects,” said William Rice, president of the Web Marketing Association. “The creative used in an email marketing campaign has gone from text only to highly personalized ads targeting highly segmented lists. Each email advertisement and campaign will be judged on creativity, innovation, impact, design, copywriting, and use of the medium. The IAC Awards provides an opportunity to find out who is doing an outstanding job creating email advertising. It’s also a great marketing opportunity for the winners to promote to senior management, customers and prospects their outstanding work”.

The 2008 Internet Advertising Competition Awards will accept entries from 86 industries, including airline, biotech, B2B, consumer goods, education, health care, financial services, professional services, technology and travel just to name a few. Entries judged to be outstanding will receive an IAC Award. The entry receiving the highest score in each industry will be recognized as the best email advertisement for that industry.

“We believe that winning an industry specific award is more valuable to the participant. It allows the participants to be judges against their peers, just like in the marketplace,” said Rice.

The 2007 Best of Show winner for Email Message was IQ Interactive for "Explorer" Video Newsletter. The entry was also recognized as the Best Travel Email Message. Other Top Email Advertisements for 2007 included:

Goodyear Garage January Enthusiast Email Best Automobile Email message submitted by Hitchcock Fleming & Associates

Money Laundering International Conference and Exhibition Best B2B Email message submitted by Creative Direct Marketing Group

Landor Associates Best Consulting Email message submitted by Landor Associates

NMFN News Brief Best Financial Services Email message submitted by TMX Communications

SeaBear Wild Salmon Best Food Industry Email message submitted by Tellus, LLC

U.S. Department of State - "Today I will help a local government" Best Government Email message submitted by JWT Employment Communications

The Rittenhouse - Email Message Best Hotel and Lodging Email message submitted by TIG Global

MetLife Quarterly Service e-Mail Best Insurance Email message campaign Steven Paraboschi

TMX Holiday Cheers Email 2006 Best Interactive Services Email message submitted by TMX Communications

Hispanic Email Best Marketing Email message submitted by CRN International, Inc. Hispanic Email

TAMIFLU Email Best Pharmaceuticals Email message submitted by TMX Communications

Coast Sweetest Day HTML Email Best Restaurant Email message submitted by Mark Roller, Coast Restaurant

Donald Haack Diamonds - Holiday Treasures Best Retail Email message submitted by CC Communications, Inc.

I've been everywhere - eDM Best Telecommunication Email message submitted by The white agency

The 2007 Best of Show winner for Email Message Campaign was NASCAR.com/Datran Media for NASCAR.com Revs Up Fans with Email Marketing. The newsletter was also recognized as the Best Real Estate Email Message. Other best email ad campaigns included:

Driven to Succeed: Mercedes & Aeroplan Best Automobile Email message submitted by ThinData, Inc.

BankAtlantic Upromise Email Offer Best Bank Email message campaign submitted by BankAtlantic Marketing Department

Divide and Conquer Best Consumer Goods Email message campaign submitted by Mark Roller, Ascedia. Inc & Kohler Co.

Key Sector Marketing Campaign Best Employment Email message campaign submitted by AndersElite

Georgia.org Email Newsletters Best Government Email message campaign submitted by Spunlogic

Bariatric Edge Email Best Health Care Email message campaign submitted by Bridge Worldwide

MetLife Quarterly Service e-Mail Best Insurance Email message campaign submitted by Steven Paraboschi

TAMIFLU Email Campaign Best Pharmaceuticals Email message campaign submitted by TMX Communications

Perfect Home Email Campaign Best Retail Email message campaign submitted by nurun | ant farm interactive

SeaBear Wild Salmon Best Small Business Email message campaign submitted by Tellus, LLC

Miami, FL - Festival Season Campaign Best Travel Email message campaign submitted by USDM.net

The 2008 Internet Advertising Competition Awards are open to all organizations and individuals (advertising and interactive agencies, corporate marketing departments, etc.) involved in the process of developing Internet advertising. Entries may be submitted online at www.iacaward.org. The deadline for entry is January 31, 2008 and will be judged on creativity, innovation, impact, design, copywriting, and use of the medium.

In addition to email advertisements and campaigns, Awards will be presented within each of the industry categories and advertising formats such as:
Online ad (including banner, pop-up or interstitial)
Online ad campaign
Rich media online ad
Rich Media ad campaign
Email message
Email campaign
Online newsletter campaign
Microsite/Landing page
Integrated ad campaign
Ads the client did not choose

Best of show award for each format will be selected from among the industry winners. Ads eligible for entry in the competition must have run during the period from January 1, 2007 through January 31, 2008 (except for the Ads the client did not choose format which do not have to have run.)

Judging for the IAC Awards will take place in February, 2008, and winners will be notified by e-mail one week prior to the general announcement of winners in March, 2008. Judges will consist of a select group of Internet advertising professionals with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art in Web advertising. Past competition judges have included top executives from leading corporations, institutions and media organizations such as Ogilvy Interactive, Blattner Brunner, Comedy Central, Sun Microsystems, National Cable & Telecom Association, Refinery, Euro RSCG, EPB Interactive, New York Post Interactive, The Cincinnati Enquirer, J. Walter Thompson, Xerox, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Modem Media, and Answerthink.

The 2008 Internet Advertising Competition Awards are sponsored by the following leading organizations: BGT Partners, Burst Media, PRWeb, Misukanis & Odden, SimpleFeed, ExactTarget, ad:tech conferences, NewsUSA, eComXpo, MediaPost’s OMMA conference, TopRank Online Marketing, Creative Chocolate Printing Company, Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster Radio, Rovion, AllBusiness.com and eMarketer. 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 an organization 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 advertising, marketing and promotion used to attract visitors to Web sites. 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 11th year, the WebAward Competition has become the premier industry-based site recognition program for online advertisers, Web developers and marketers worldwide.


Friday, November 23, 2007

Entering the Internet Advertising Competition Awards is easy

The first thing you’ll notice when to visit the IAC Awards website www.iacaward.org is the new design. Special thanks to David Clarke and his team of expert Web developers and designers at BGT Partners, Florida’s Oldest and Most Award Winning Interactive Agency, for the wonderful design work on the new site. It has been a pleasure to work with them to create and implement the new site and supporting marketing materials. And particular credit goes to Vanessa Gelman at BGT Partners for running point on the project and making sure everything went smoothly.

Entering the IAC Awards is easy. Simply go to the new IAC Awards website at www.iacaward.org and select “Submit an Entry”. If you have a nominator account from last year, you can simply log in. If you did not create a free nominator account, providing some basic contact information is all you need to do. Once in, you can start submitting your entries.

One thing to remember is you can not use your WebAward username and password on the IAC Award site. You’ll need to have a separate account to submit your IAC Entries. If you need your password to an existing account, just enter your email address and click on the “Email password to me” button.


Thursday, November 22, 2007

Sites are back up

Apparently, our ISP Web.com decided to decommission the server which hosted the Web Marketing Association database and thought that an email message sent three years ago about the possibility was sufficient notice. Without the database, both WebAward.org and IACAward.org websites were down.

Thanks to the hard work and dogged determination of our head programmer, Chip Lowell. Web.com finally agreed to move the data from the old server to the new. The sites are back up and we apologize for any inconveniences you may experienced.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Awards sites are down

Due to an problem at our ISP Web.com, the database that drives our WebAward and IAC Award websites is currently down. We are working with Web.com to get the site up and running as soon as possible.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Articles from November Interactive Briefing

Power of Two - IQ Interactive shows us that UPS Whiteboard is a great example of how the combination of the web and traditional advertising is dramatically more powerful and effective than traditional alone

Outstanding Drive – THINK, Inc. drives the Windstream Truck Tour microsite to win the Outstanding Website award at the 2007 WebAwards.




Best Online Newsletter of 2008 to Be Named by Web Marketing Association

The Web Marketing Association judges will select the best online newsletters of 2008 in 86 industries as part of their sixth annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. The IAC Awards are the first and only industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. Companies or agencies wishing to nominate their work for consideration may do so at www.IACAward.org before the deadline of January 31, 2008.

“Online newsletters are a critical marketing tool for many companies trying to maintain an ongoing relationship with customers and prospects,” said William Rice, president of the Web Marketing Association. “Each Online newsletter will be judged on creativity, innovation, impact, design, copywriting, and use of the medium. The IAC Awards provides an opportunity to find out who is doing an outstanding job creating online newsletters. It’s also a great marketing opportunity for the winners to promote to senior management, customers and prospects”.

The 2008 Internet Advertising Competition Awards will accept entries from 86 industries, including airline, biotech, B2B, consumer goods, education, health care, financial services, professional services, technology and travel just to name a few. Entries judged to be outstanding will receive an IAC Award. The entry receiving the highest score in each industry will be recognized as the best online newsletter for that industry.

“We believe that winning an industry specific award is more valuable to the participant. It allows the participants to be judges against their peers, just like in the marketplace,” said Rice.

The 2007 Best of Show winner for Online Newsletter was Coldwell Banker Barbara Sue Seal Properties for CBSeal eNews. The newsletter was also recognized as the Best Real Estate Online Newsletter. Other Top Online Newsletters for 2007 included:

Snowbound Imaging News Best Computer: Software Online Newsletter submitted by Snowbound Software

The Diabetes Control for Life e-Newsletter Best Consumer Goods Online Newsletter submitted by Bridge Worldwide

frog Design Mind newsletter Best Design Online Newsletter submitted by frog design, inc.

The Intevation Report Best Email Online Newsletter submitted by EmailLabs Marketing Team

Horizons Newsletter Best Financial Services Online Newsletter and Best Investor Relations Newsletter submitted by DWS Scudder Retirement Services

Cafe Britt e-Newsletters Best Food Industry Online Newsletter submitted by Cafe Britt

Discover Rush Online Best Health Care Online Newsletter submitted by Marie Mahoney and Brian Pace, Internet Communications

DWS Scudder Retirement Matters Newsletter Best Investment Online Newsletter and Best Mutual Fund Newsletter submitted by DWS Scudder Retirement Services

Mohegan Sun Insider Newsletter Best Leisure Online Newsletter submitted by Mohegan Sun

DMN eTips Drip Online Newsletter Best Marketing Online Newsletter submitted by Direct Marketing Network

BigPond Movies -Downloads newsletter Best Movie Online Newsletter submitted by The White Agency

George Mark Children's House Bulletin Best Non-Profit Online Newsletter submitted by Northridge Interactive

SIRIUS Music Weekly Best Radio Online Newsletter submitted by SIRIUS Satellite Radio / Modus Associates

BigPond Sport - V8 supercars newsletter Best Sports Online Newsletter submitted by The White Agency

Great Florida Getaways e-Magazines Best Travel Online Newsletter submitted by VISIT FLORIDA & Miles Media Group

The 2008 Internet Advertising Competition Awards are open to all organizations and individuals (advertising and interactive agencies, corporate marketing departments, etc.) involved in the process of developing Internet advertising. Entries may be submitted online at http://www.iacaward.org. The deadline for entry is January 31, 2008 and will be judged on creativity, innovation, impact, design, copywriting, and use of the medium.

In addition to online newsletters, Awards will be presented within each of the industry categories and advertising formats such as:
Online ad (including banner, pop-up or interstitial)
Online ad campaign
Rich media online ad
Rich Media ad campaign
Email message
Online newsletter campaign
Microsite/Landing page
Integrated ad campaign
Ads the client did not choose

Best of show award for each format will be selected from among the industry winners. Ads eligible for entry in the competition must have run during the period from January 1, 2007 through January 31, 2008 (except for the Ads the client did not choose format which do not have to have run.)

Judging for the IAC Awards will take place in February, 2008, and winners will be notified by e-mail one week prior to the general announcement of winners in March, 2008. Judges will consist of a select group of Internet advertising professionals with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art in Web advertising. Past competition judges have included top executives from leading corporations, institutions and media organizations such as Ogilvy Interactive, Blattner Brunner, Comedy Central, Sun Microsystems, National Cable & Telecom Association, Refinery, Euro RSCG, EPB Interactive, New York Post Interactive, The Cincinnati Enquirer, J. Walter Thompson, Xerox, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Modem Media, and Answerthink.

The 2008 Internet Advertising Competition Awards are sponsored by the following leading organizations: BGT Partners, Burst Media, PRWeb, Misukanis & Odden, SimpleFeed, ExactTarget, ad:tech conferences, NewsUSA, eComXpo, MediaPost’s OMMA conference, TopRank Online Marketing, Creative Chocolate Printing Company, Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster Radio, Rovion, AllBusiness.com and eMarketer. 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 an organization 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 advertising, marketing and promotion used to attract visitors to Web sites. 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 11th year, the WebAward Competition has become the premier industry-based site recognition program for online advertisers, Web developers and marketers worldwide.


Thursday, November 08, 2007

2008 IAC Awards Call for Entries

The Web Marketing Association announces the launched of its sixth annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. The IAC Awards are the first and only industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. The Competition Web site is located at www.iacaward.org and the deadline for entry is January 31, 2008

The Internet Advertising Competition Awards are open to all organizations and individuals (advertising and interactive agencies, corporate marketing departments, etc.) involved in the process of developing Internet advertising. Entries may be submitted online at www.iacaward.org. The deadline for entry is January 31, 2008 and will be judged on creativity, innovation, impact, design, copywriting, and use of the medium.

Awards will be presented within each of the industry categories and advertising formats such as:

online ad (including banner, pop-up or interstitial)
rich media online ad
email message
online newsletter campaign
microsite/landing page
integrated ad campaign
ads the client did not choose


Best of show award for each medium will be selected from among the industry winners. Ads eligible for entry in the competition must have run during the period from January 1, 2007 through January 31, 2008.

Judging for the IAC Awards will take place in February, 2007, and winners will be notified by e-mail one week prior to the general announcement of winners in March, 2008. Judges will consist of a select group of Internet advertising professionals with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art in Web advertising. Past competition judges have included top executives from leading corporations, institutions and media organizations such as Ogilvy Interactive, Saatchi & Saatchi, Blattner Brunner, Comedy Central, Sun Microsystems, National Cable & Telecom Association, Refinery, Euro RSCG, EPB Interactive, New York Post Interactive, The Cincinnati Enquirer, J. Walter Thompson, Xerox, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Modem Media, and Answerthink.

2007 Results

2007 Best of Show Awards were awarded in each of the online medium categories. Last year's winners include:

Fishbowl Marketing for Shamrock The Vote (Best Ads the Client Did Not Pick)

IQ Interactive for "Explorer" Video Newsletter (Best of Show Email Message)

blast! PR for NASCAR.com Revs Up Fans with Email Marketing (Best of Show Email Message Campaign)

TMX Communications for Find the Time Capsule Campaign (Best of Show Integrated ad campaign)

Hornall Anderson Design Works for My Family (Best of Show Interactive Application)

Wunderman Team Detroit for My Dream (Best of Show Microsite/Landing Page)

Idea Integration for Sony Noise Canceling Headphones (Best of Show Online ad)

Palm Communication for Oryctolagus cuniculus (Best of Show Online Campaign)

Coldwell Banker for Coldwell Banker Barbara Sue Seal eNews (Best of Show Online Newsletter Campaign)

Ayzenberg Group for Mobile Suite GUNDAM Crossfire rich media creative (Best of Show Rich Media Online Ad)

Profero for Mess With Your Mind (Best of Show Rich Media Online Campaign)

For the third year in a row, TMX Communications of Conshohocken, PA was recognized with the 2007 Top Agency Award, winning 15 IAC Awards. Their awards included 1 Best of show, 13 Best of Industry awards and two Outstanding awards.

For a complete list of past wiiners, please go to www.iacaward.org.

Are you going to be the next winner? Now is the time to find out. Enter your best online advertising into the 2008 IAC Awards and win the recognition you deserve! Enter today at www.iacaward.org.




Tuesday, November 06, 2007

2007 WebAward plaques, trophies and certificates

Due to a database error, we have send individuals who have ordered additional certificates awards with incorrect information. We have corrected this and new certificates are in production. This problem has also effected the trophy and image plaque orders as we have been double checking all of the information manually and this has slowed down the production process considerably.

All orders should be completed by the end of the month.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Content Week 2008

The Web Marketing Association is one of the sponsors of Content Week 2008 at the Westgate Hotel in San Diego, CA
Jan 28-Feb 1, 2008.

IQPC’s Content Week 2008 is your gateway to effective Content Management strategy. This unique event offers creative solutions and best practices in all areas of Content Management. Ensuring usability, flexibility, localization and globalization of content to meet bottom line business objectives is today the ultimate priority.
To learn more and register, go to www.iqpc.com/us/cw08


Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Search Engine Strategies – Chicago

Search Engine Strategies is a sponsor of the Web Marketing Association and their next conference will be at the Chicago Hilton December 3-7.

SES returns to Chicago for it's ninth year bringing back your favorite sessions, with fresh content, in addition to many new and exciting ones. If you haven't experienced an SES event this is the one to do it. This 5-day, multi-track event features presentations and panel discussions from industry experts including representatives from the search engines themselves; interactive and in-depth sessions & workshops; and an exclusive look at the latest search trends & developments for 2008.

Register by Friday, November 16 and save $150. Web Marketing Association members save a little more when they register with priority code *10WMA.* Learn more and register at the Search Engine Strategies Website





Wednesday, October 10, 2007

ad:tech New York

ad:tech conferences are a sponsor of the Web Marketing Association and we support their conferences and award program as being an outstanding way for Internet professionals to network and keep up to date.

The next conference is ad:tech New York on November 5-8 at the New York Hilton.

Are you engaged in conversations with your customers? Are you leveraging those results to learn more about your customers? Are you optimizing your message and delivery in order to drive brand preference? These topics, along with other brand-building methods and digital media technologies and platforms will be discussed at ad:tech New York. From the high level overview keynotes to the performance focused workshops to the technologies showcased on the show floor – it's all here, under one roof. ad:tech... the business of modern marketing.

For more information and to register go to http://www.ad-tech.com/ny/



Thursday, September 20, 2007

ClickZ Specifics: E-Mail Marketing

ClickZ Specifics: E-Mail Marketing
October 2 :: New York Hilton

Find out how to think more strategically before executing an e-mail campaign or launching an e-newsletter. Start with your business objective, define a compelling offer, and deliver a response-driven, relevant message. Take a look behind the Cs — CTRs, CPMs, CRMs — at the messaging itself. We'll show you what works, and what doesn't.

ClickZ Specifics: E-mail Marketing is an intensive, one-day event designed to educate, inspire, and instill confidence in anyone using e-mail to communicate with their customers and prospects. Visit: www.clickzevents.com/email/fall07

Sessions include:
B2B E-Mail Marketing
E-Mail Bootcamp
Deliverability
Beyond Direct: E-Mail Branding & Relationships To Build Business


ClickZ is a sponsor of the Web Marketing Association WebAwards



How not to attract attention to yourself

For weeks now, we have been receiving emails for the TurnPRon's PR Summit Communication 2.0 - The Convergence of PR, Advertising, Media and the Consumer. The problem is we have never signed up to be on any of their lists and we are receiving their emails to addresses that are never used except on our website.

How can an organization claim to have the credibility to put on an online PR conference when they use spam to promote it? Excite Media Group, the conference sponsor should know better if they really understand the needs of online marketing professionals and the Web Marketing Association urges marketing professionals who care about unethical marketing practices find a more credible conference to attend.


Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Web Marketing Association Names the Best Web Sites in 96 Industries – The 2007 WebAward Winners

The Web Marketing Association is pleased to announce the winners of its tenth annual WebAward Competition for Web site development. More than 2,400 sites from 40 countries were adjudicated in 96 industry categories during this year's competition. Entries were judged on design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology.

A complete list of the winning sites can be found at the WebAward Web site at www.webaward.org

Best of Show

The 2007 Best of Show WebAward is presented to Walt Disney Internet Group, for their exceptional work on Disney XD. The site was also awarded Best Design WebAward. Disney XD is an online entertainment experience that’s designed for how kids want to use the Internet. It’s broadband entertainment taken to the next level and was created with safety in mind. Disney.com guests can register and publish their own channels, personalized with favorite Disney videos, music, games, trivia, avatars, and more. Disney XD gives Disney.com guests an enhanced, interactive entertainment experience with engaging video, music and games and chatting with friends, all at the same time in a uniquely immersive environment. The Disney organization took home a total of 14 sites recognized with WebAwards in the 2007 competition.

Best of Show runner Up

Best of show runner up submitted by Atlanta-based IQ Interactive is UPS Whiteboard. Seamlessly integrating with the TV campaign, visitors to the site are treated with the ability to interact with Andy Azula, the actor from the 'Whiteboard' commercials. Andy extends the same creative look and feel from the TV spots and walks the user through the experience helping to drill down the user’s needs matching UPS solutions to their specific business challenges. The site includes 3D animated, line art (matching the designs on the Whiteboard) Web shows that highlight UPS products and a -Create Your Own Whiteboard- viral component. IQ Interactive developed the robust technology that allows the user to send someone a personalized message that Andy himself writes on a whiteboard when the recipient opens the email.

Top Agency

Biggs/Gilmore was named Top Agency at the 2007 WebAward Competition, with 20 websites taking home awards. The Top Agency Award given to recognize the consistently outstanding development going on at interactive firms. Biggs/Gilmore is headquartered in Kalamazoo, MI and took home Best Food Website, Best Pharmaceutical Website and 8 Outstanding WebAwards and 11 Standard of Excellence WebAwards.

Agencies or companies winning five or more sites willing WebAwards in 2007 include:


Agency - # of award-winning sites
Biggs/Gilmore - 20
Avenue A / Razorfish - 17
Risdall Advertising - 17
VML - 14
Disney - 14
Arc Worldwide - 13
Arnold Worldwide - 13
Bridge Worldwide - 13
Ogilvy - 12
Aristotle Interactive - 11
E-site Marketing - 9
JWT - 9
TravelCLICK - 9
180 Interactive - 8
Summit Projects - 8
TribalDDB - 8
Agenda H.K. Limited - 7
Airfoil Public Relations - 7
bbdigital - 7
BrowserMedia - 7
Extractable - 7
Organic - 7
POP - 7
Slingshot - 7
Studiocom - 7
Agency.com - 6
BGT Partners - 6
Hitchcock Fleming & Assoc - 6
Hospitality eBusiness - 6
Rare Method - 6
Teehan+Lax - 6
Tellus - 6
Weber Shandwick - 6
Agence Braque - 5
Amer. Academy of Dermatology - 5
dotglu - 5
Fry, Inc. - 5
Hearst Digital Media - 5

Competition format

The 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, 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 sites within their industry to win the Best of Industry awards. Entries also compete against a standard of excellence to win Outstanding Website and Standard of Excellence WebAwards. Each 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. Entries that scored higher than their industry average and below 59.9 receive the Standard of Excellence.

The 2007 WebAwards are sponsored by the following leading organizations: Burst Media, PRWeb, Misukanis & Odden, Small Army, SimpleFeed, ExactTarget, ad:tech conferences, NewsUSA, eComXpo, MediaPost’s OMMA conference, TopRank Online Marketing, Creative Chocolate Printing Company, OTOlabs, Internet World UK, Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster Radio, Rovion’s InPerson, AllBusiness.com and eMarketer. 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 11th year, the WebAward Competition has become the premier award event for Web developers and marketers worldwide.


Saturday, September 15, 2007

Online Market World

October 3-5, 2007
Moscone Center, San Francisco, California
Online Market World is the first event to address the entire e-commerce lifecycle as well as integrate and include all functional areas of the organization. Online Market World is an ecommerce event that provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn about and discuss the critical issues and trends that are suddenly changing global online markets.

Join brand name retailers, mid-market and small sellers, associations, vendors, service providers, entrepreneurs and subject matter experts as they debate and cooperatively define the “Best-Practices” for the future of e-commerce and online selling.

At Online Market World You'll Learn More in Less Time About How to Stay Competitive. Learn more and register at http://www.onlinemarketworld.com/


Tuesday, September 11, 2007

2007 WebAward Results available to nominators

The results of the 2007 WebAwards are now available to the entry's nominators. Particpants can log in to their nominator accounts to see the results for their entries.

The winners of the 2007 WebAwards will be announced publicly on September 18th.

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

WMA Server problems

Our ISP changed servers over the long weekend and we were not informed until the WebAward.org site went down. The site is now back on line and we apologize if you were not able to access the site.

2007 winners will be posted to the site on September 18th.

Friday, August 17, 2007

WebAward 2007 Update

We are in the final stages of the judging process and winners of the 2007 Web Marketing Association WebAwards will be notified September 11th and public announcement of the winners will be announced on September 18th.