2006 Webby Awards

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The 10th annual 2006 Webby Awards were held on June 12, 2006, [1] at the Cipriani Hotel in New York City and were hosted by the comedian Jon Stewart. [2] [3] Judging was provided by the 500-person International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, [4] and winners were selected from among 5,500 entries from around 40 countries worldwide. [5] This award ceremony saw the creation of a new award category, "Best Viral Video". [6]

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Nominees and winners

(from http://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2006)
CategoryWebby Award winnerPeople's Voice winnerOther nominees
Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics Bebop Jeans

(Archived 13 June 2006 via Wayback)
White Noise

DreamStudioDesign

(Archived 12 June 2006 via Wayback)
DSD Animations

KangaROOS UK

(Archived 15 June 2006 via Wayback)
Pod1

Survival of the Phatest

(Archived 27 June 2006 via Wayback)
Clemenger BBDO

Weird TV

(Archived 12 June 2006 via Wayback)
Eat.tv, Inc.

Best Game Stackopolis

(Archived 13 June 2006 via Wayback)
Bloc Media

Miniclip

(Archived 11 June 2006 via Wayback)
Miniclip Ltd

Protokid

(Archived 12 June 2006 via Wayback)
Bloc Media

Star Wars Galaxies

(Archived 11 June 2006 via Wayback)
Sony Online Entertainment

Toontown Online

(Archived 12 June 2006 via Wayback)
Walt Disney Internet Group

Best Game-Related Gamasutra

(Archived 11 June 2006 via Wayback)
CMP Game Group

GameSpot

(Archived 11 June 2006 via Wayback)
CNET Networks

GameSpy

(Archived 14 June 2006 via Wayback)
IGN Entertainment

Metacritic.com

(Archived 13 June 2006 via Wayback)
Metacritic

MobyGames

(Archived 12 June 2006 via Wayback)
MobyGames

Best Humor The Onion

Behavior
McSweeney's Internet Tendency

McSweeney's
The League of Thinning Men

Terabyte Interactive
The Smoking Gun

Court TV News
Weird TV

eat.tv,inc.
Best Weird Snopes.com

BURST! Media
beastblender.com

Carmichael Lynch
Boneless Pig Farmers Association Of America

Moroch
Car Stuck Girls

Swen Goebbels
Weird TV

Eat.tv, Inc.
Websites and Mobile Sites

Charitable Organizations/Non-Profit

Sandy Rowley Official website https://renowebdesigner.com

Mega Star Media INC

DeafAfrica.org

Boedai.com


Best Home/Welcome PageRemember Segregation

(Archived 12 April 2006 via Wayback)
DDB Seattle

My Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Free Style Livin'

(Archived 5 April 2006 via Wayback)
Target

Krups USA

(Archived 11 April 2006 via Wayback)
Business Interactive

Wonderbra - Experience Wonder You

(Archived 12 April 2006 via Wayback)
Publicis Net

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The Webby Awards are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over three thousand industry experts and technology innovators. Categories include websites, advertising and media, online film and video, mobile sites and apps, and social.

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The 1998 Webby Awards were held on March 6, 1998, at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, and were the first event ever to be broadcast live via the Web in 3D. The "People's Voice" awards, chosen by online poll, received 100,000 cumulative votes that year.

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The 19th annual Webby Awards for 2015 was held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 19, 2015, which was hosted by comedian and actor Hannibal Buress. The awards ceremony was streamed live at the Webby Awards webpage. Judges from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences picked the over one hundred winners, which may or may not match the people's choice.

The 20th annual Webby Awards for 2016 was held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 16, 2016, which was hosted by comedian and actor Nick Offerman. The awards ceremony was streamed live on the Webby Awards website. Judges from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences picked the over one hundred winners, which may or may not match the people's choice. The Webby for Lifetime Achievement was awarded to The Onion, having earned over 39 Webbys for its humor over the past 20 years.

References

Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.

  1. Shlain, Tiffany. "Web Trends." TechNews. 13 January 2006.
  2. Singh, Amar. "LSE 04: Online Oscars? We're all WWWinners - 10 Websites that all Clicked with Judges of Innovative Design." The Evening Standard . Pg.18. 11 May 2006.
  3. Singh, Amar. "A MERGE: World Wide Winners - Jamie's School Dinners and Gorillaz Named in Online 'Oscars' Awards." The Evening Standard. Pg.22. 11 May 2006.
  4. Staff. "Guardian Home Pages: The Best Newspaper Website in the World." The Guardian . Pg.1. 10 May 2006.
  5. Staff. "News: Lichfield - Staffordshire News: Website proves to be a Star." Birmingham Evening Mail . Pg.20. 17 May 2006.
  6. Keyes, Bob. "A gusher of praise for Coke-and-Mentos act; Buckfield performers win a Webby Award for their popular Internet video of soda explosions." Portland Press Herald . 3 May 2007