Everything about Webby Awards totally explained
The Webby Awards is an international award honoring excellence on the
Internet, including
websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites, presented by The
International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences since
1996. There is also a second set of awards called the People's Voice Awards for the same categories which are given by popular
vote.
History
The phrase
The Webby Awards was used from 1994-1996 by the World Wide Web Organization, which was first introduced in 1994 by WebMagic,
Cisco Systems and ADX Kentrox. As one of its services, it sponsored "the monthly Webby awards to spotlight online innovation. Web.org was decommissioned in 1997.
The phrase
The Webby Awards has been used since 1996 to describe an annual awards ceremony. It was initially sponsored by
The Web magazine which was published by
IDG, and produced by
Tiffany Shlain. Winners were selected by a group which would officially become the
International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) in 1998. After
The Web Magazine closed, the ceremonies continued.
In 2006, The Webby Awards launched three new award programs including categories honoring interactive advertising, mobile content, and the Webby Film and Video Awards, which honors original film and video premiering on the Internet.
Awards granted
Categories
The Webby Awards present awards in more than 100 categories.
In each category, two awards are handed out: a
Webby Award selected by a panel of judges, and a
People's Voice Award selected by the votes of visitors to the The Webby Awards site.
Acceptance speeches
The Webbys are famous for limiting recipients to five word speeches, which are often humorous. For example, in 2006
Cute Overload's was "not bad for posting kittens" and
TripAdvisor's was "because some hotels really suck". At the 2007 awards,
David Bowie's speech was "I only get five words? Shit, that was five. Four more there. That's three. Two."
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