When you work with Internet technology clients who are going to change the world, the Webby Awards are the highest honor, the tallest Olympic podium, the fastest draw in the West, the Great Bambino, the Colossus of Clout – sorry, our Jerry’s softball team won our game last night. We’ve got some Sandlot on the brain!
We were delighted, earlier this Spring, to have three clients selected as finalists for Webbys:
Evernote – Best Mobile App
Next New Networks had a number of their videos up for awards in various categories:
Indy Mogul’s Backyard FX – How-to and DIY
ThreadBanger – How-to and DIY
Auto-Tune the News – Remixes/Mashups
Auto-Tune the News – Viral
The Reel Good Show – Variety
$99 Music Videos – Music
Vook – Best Use of Mobile Video
This morning we were notified that both Next New Networks and Evernote had won Webbys! Next New Networks’ “Auto-Tune the News” on the Barely Political network won both the Judge’s Award and the People’s Voice Award in the Video Remixes & Mash-Ups category of the Online Film and Video section of the Awards. While “The Reel Good Show” on the independent filmmakers network Indy Mogul took home the People’s Voice Award in the Variety category. This year, Next New Networks were among the most nominated companies in the Webby Awards, with a total of six nominations equal to The Onion and College Humor, and yeah up there with the BBC and NYTimes.com. Since launching in March 2007, Next New Networks has grabbed a total of eleven Webby Awards, making them one of the biggest winners on the web.
Evernote, wildly popular note-taking application and external brain to 3 Million users – as announced today, won both the Judges’ Award and People’s Voice Award for Best Mobile Application having gone up against giants like The New York Times and MLB.com!
Congrats to our clients, both winners and nominees! We’re pumped to see these companies being honored as the innovators that they are and for doing their part to make the Web a better place!
For a complete list of winners and details on the Webby Awards Gala see: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php