Check out the new video on our YouTube channel, “Sales Guy Vs. Web Dude Vs. Webbys”

The team behind last year’s Webby winners in the Viral category, Sales Dude Vs. Web Guy, made it to remind you (yes, you) that the Early Entry Deadline for Webbys14 is Friday October 30!


This month, we feature the Webby Award-winning website for Frontline/WORLD. The site serves as an interactive companion to the groundbreaking news magazine and a source of information on the non-profit production company behind the program. Read more and find an interview with Senior Interactive Producer/Editor for Frontline/WORLD, Jackie Bennion, at www.thewebbys.org.


We have a new feature and profile up on thewebbys.org! This month’s is all about FAILBlog.org, complete with an interview with co-founder, and Webby Winner Ben Huh, of cheezburger fame.  Wait until you see his hat.


Webby Winners’ 5-word speeches: everything from the emotional to the comedic, to the rule-breaking. Check out this one for inspiration!

What will be your 5-word speech? Enter your work at webbyawards.com—new categories this year for Media and Green. Early deadline: October 30, 2009.


The writers of The Office have received their Webby trophies! As you can see in the video, they’re both honored as well as…hopeful. Thanks for the shout-out, Oscar!


The Webby Awards were the answer to a question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire last week, during one of their 10th Anniversary celebration episodes. Check out this clip!


Splogs, Affiliate Marketing, Fake YouTube Videos, Fleecing Ads, Google Rankings, and Domain Squatting. These are the compenents of the underbelly of the web, the often mysterious techniques used creatively in viral ads and implemented by individuals and big brands alike. Ever wonder what these business models are? Check out this video of the panel discussion Internet Dark Arts: The Underbelly from WebbyConnect2008, moderated by David-Michel Davies, to see panelists Mike Geiger, Virgil Griffith, and Steven Kirsch delve into the not-so-savory aspects of the Internet.


With all the talk around Q Codes, 3G phones, location-based services, GPS mapping, and, RFID’s, how do we separate the impossible from the probable? Check out this video of the panel discussion The Future in Your Pocket from WebbyConnect 2008—featuring moderator David Pescovitz (BoingBoing) and panelists Nina Bhatt (HP Labs), Jackie Danicki (Qik), John Poisson (Tiny Pictures), and Lenn Pryor (Nokia)—to glimpse into the future of the mobile Web from the pioneering minds making it happen – before it happens.


As part of our .ORG partnership, The Webby Awards profiles Webby-winning .org websites and features interviews with the people behind them. Check out this spotlight on FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, “consumer advocate” for voters, and read an interview with Deputy Director Viveca Novak.

As part of our .ORG partnership, The Webby Awards profiles Webby-winning .org websites and features interviews with the people behind them. Check out this spotlight on FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, “consumer advocate” for voters, and read an interview with Deputy Director Viveca Novak.


From citizen reporting and online voting to user-generated advertising, the Web’s “Open Beats Closed” mantra has radically shifted where content comes from, how it’s delivered, and how credible it’s deemed by an audience. How do businesses seize this power of the people and maintain control? Watch the panel Your Business is Their Business from WebbyConnect 2008, featuring moderator Jamie Pallot (CondéNet) and panelists Andy Cohen (Bravo), Joan Walsh (Salon.com) and David Gensler (Keystone Design Union) as they discuss how they use the Net’s open platform to improve their business.


While the ‘Net has driven innovation and change in dozens of industries — Real Estate, Finance, and News to name just a few — Hollywood has been slower to participate. But thanks to disruptive innovations from devices like the SlingBox, Internet-launched TV shows like TMZ and even industry sites like Hulu, Hollywood is finally being forced to adapt. Check out the WebbyConnect 2008 panel discussion A Hard Reset for Hollywood, moderated by Virginia Heffernan, to hear from panelists Amy B. Harris, Jason Hirschhorn, and Scott Roesch—innovators driving the industry to face the future.


As part of our .ORG partnership, The Webby Awards profiles Webby-winning .org websites to feature sites that people turn to find credible information, get involved, fund causes and support advocacy. Check out this spotlight on PBS, a media enterprise that serves 355 public noncommercial television stations and reaches nearly 73 million people each week through on-air and online content.

As part of our .ORG partnership, The Webby Awards profiles Webby-winning .org websites to feature sites that people turn to find credible information, get involved, fund causes and support advocacy. Check out this spotlight on PBS, a media enterprise that serves 355 public noncommercial television stations and reaches nearly 73 million people each week through on-air and online content.


As part of our .ORG partnership, The Webby Awards profiles Webby-winning .org websites to feature sites that people turn to find credible information, get involved, fund causes and support advocacy. Check out this spotlight on NPR, a non-commercial producer of news, talk, and entertainment radio programming. NPR.org has won several Webby Awards, including a People’s Voice award in 2005 for Best Event site.

As part of our .ORG partnership, The Webby Awards profiles Webby-winning .org websites to feature sites that people turn to find credible information, get involved, fund causes and support advocacy. Check out this spotlight on NPR, a non-commercial producer of news, talk, and entertainment radio programming. NPR.org has won several Webby Awards, including a People’s Voice award in 2005 for Best Event site.


Some would argue that “Green” has turned into an empty marketing buzzword, but some clever marketers have combined the openness and reach of the Internet with the spirit and practices of being green to build successful marketing campaigns. Check out this video of the panel Your Online, Web-Grown Green Market from WebbyConnect 2008 to uncover the methods of some of the most accomplished “green Web” marketing leaders: Arlene Fairfield, Graham Hill, Adam Lowry, and moderator Roy Sekoff.


Webby Gala Highlight Reel

Highlights from last night’s 13th Annual Webby Awards Gala, brought to you by our friends at Animoto!


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