Web Marketing Association Recognizes Award Winning Corporate Web Sites For 1999
Rare Medium Wins Best of Show for artmuseum.net
BOSTON, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Web Marketing Association is pleased to announce the winners of its third annual WebAward competition for corporate Web sites. Over 700 sites entered from around the world were adjudicated during this year's competition. Entries were judged based on design, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, ease of use and use of technology.
A complete list of the winning sites can be found at the WebAwards Web site at www.webaward.org/win_index.html.
"Winners of the 1999 WebAwards represent some of the best Web sites on the Internet today," said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. "The WebAwards competition is becoming one of the ways the leading interactive agencies are demonstrating to clients the effectiveness of their web development. Corporate interactive departments also find winning awards shows company management that their Internet investments are on the right track."
The 1999 WebAwards competition format allows Web sites to compete head to head with other sites within their industry as well as against a standard of excellence. In addition to the Best of Show WebAward, there are three other award levels: Best of Industry, Outstanding Web Site and Standard of Excellence.
The Best of Show WebAward was presented to the Rare Medium (Nasdaq: RRRR) for their outstanding work on artmuseum.net, an Internet-based museum experience presented by Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC). The site seeks to collaborate with the world's leading museums and exhibitors and in so doing, enhance and extend the art museum experience by presenting major exhibitions.
Companies winning five or more WebAwards in 1999 include:
AGENCY.COM (8)
AppNet (Nasdaq: APNT) (9)
Aristotle (11)
Blue Hypermedia (7)
Clear Ink (6)
Coleman Design Group (5)
Giant Step (8)
Gr8 (7)
Landor & Associates (7)
Neihaus Ryan Wong (6)
R/GA Interactive (12)
Sapient (8)
SF Interactive (7)
Shandwick (9)
SmithKline Beecham (NYSE: SBH) (5)
Stackig/TMPW (9)
Strategic Interactive Group (9)
HK web//connection of Hong Kong (5)
USWeb/CKS (Nasdaq: USWB) (6)
The competition was judged by a team of independent Internet professionals representing the various relevant disciplines of Web site development. Judges included members of the media, advertising executives, site designers, corporate marketing executives, content providers and webmasters.
This year's competition is sponsored by Broadvision (Nasdaq: BVSN), iSyndicate, LinkExchange, Interactive Week Magazine and PR Newswire.
The Best of Show WebAward for 1998 was presented to the New York office of AGENCY.COM for their outstanding work on the British Airways London Destination Web site at british-airways.com. In 1997, the Best of Show WebAward was presented to Organic, Inc. for their work on the Philips Home Theater Web site.
The WebAwards competition is conducted by the Web Marketing Association, Inc. (WMA), an independent organization founded with the purpose of evaluating and recognizing the standard of excellence on the World Wide Web. Its Web site is located at www.webaward.org/main.shtml. |
