NEWS..Zulu Receives Award........
1998 Momentum Awards Announced, Honoring Outstanding Internet Industry Accomplishments
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1998--
Travelocity, eBay, Priceline, Mary Furlong, Homeshark, Seth Godin, and LinkExchange take home Internet leadership awards
The First Annual Momentum Awards were announced last night, honoring seven outstanding Internet industry leaders.
The Momentum Awards (www.momentumawards.com), presented by ChannelSeven.com, ICONOCAST, Internet.com, The Industry Standard, eMarketer, @d:tech, & @NY, recognize organizations and individuals whose contributions are driving the Internet industry forward. SOLD OUT event attended by 1,100 Internet executives.
"This year's winners are all examples of companies or individuals who are pushing the envelope in a new Internet-driven economy," according to Robert Risse, Publisher of Channel Seven. "The diverse group of winners clearly shows how the Internet is shaping a wide range of business, marketing, advertising, and community activities."
The seven winners are:
eBay.com (www.ebay.com): for their innovative work building an online auction community. Going beyond the standard e- commerce model where a single retailer sells to hundreds of thousands of individual buyers, eBay has created a marketplace where hundreds of thousands of people buy and sell to each other.
Priceline.com (www.priceline.com): for their refinement of "efficiency markets" on the Web. Priceline.com is the world's first buying service through which consumers name the price they are willing to pay, and are matched with sellers who will meet buyers' needs and prices. Through this pairing, Priceline facilitates thousands of buyer- driven transactions each day.
Mary Furlong, CEO, Third Age Media (www.thirdage.com): for her vision in creating online resources for the older Internet community. Her company, Third Age, specializes in advertising and marketing to the older online consumer, and her website, ThirdAge.com, has become the leading destination site on the Web for adults 45 and over.
Travelocity.com (www.travelocity.com): for their leading efforts in the field of e-commerce. With over 4 million members, and 1998 revenues averaging over $1 million dollars a day, Travelocity is a model of success in the industry.
Homeshark.com (www.homeshark.com): for their innovative efforts in the field of online home buying. By combining services including realty, loan application, rate information, and mortgages in one place, they have defined their niche.
Seth Godin, President/CEO, Yoyodyne (www.yoyodyne.com): for his highly innovative, integrated, programs, which are delivering upon the "one to one" marketing promise of the Internet platform.
LinkExchange.com (www.linkexchange.com): for their innovative work with the small site owner. By offering services from launch through e-commerce and more, they have provided services to smaller sites that were previously unavailable.
Other awards presented during the evening included:
The E-Marketer Of The Year Award: the award goes to a company that has not only succeeded online, but has redefined the meaning of success online. Cisco Systems, which has been marketing online for only two years, now sells an average of $16 million of goods on the Internet every single day. Cisco Systems is the undisputed leader in online marketing, sales and customer service.
The Turbo-Agency Of 1998 Award: presented to Modem Media, as the Internet advertising agency that has done the most - through exceptional campaign development and overall innovation - to further the use of rich media technologies in Internet advertising.
The @NY Silicon Alley Leadership Award: Presented to Candice Carpenter, Co-founder of i-Village, in recognition of the company or individual that has done the most to foster the development of the Internet Industry in New York through business leadership, innovation, and/or industry service.
The Jaco Award: Presented to Zulu-TeK, for the most daring, creative, magnificent, incredibly wacky stunt that occurred this past year on the Internet or within the Internet Industry.
Finalists for the Momentum Awards included: Flexlease.nl, Net Perceptions, Kate Everett-Thorpe (CEO Lot21), Autoweb.com, Peter Murphy & Dr. Scott Eliott (Vantage) Jonathan Nelson (CEO Organic), Tim Smith (CEO Red Sky Interactive), Candice Carpenter (CEO iVillage), Knight Ridder, Hotjobs.com, America's Health Network, Mplayer.com, Freeshop, Comet Systems, and WebTV.
The Jury was composed of a diverse panel of independent Internet marketing experts, including: Samsung Electronics' Thomas Rhee, Sony Audio's Marty Homlish, Public Relations expert Jack O'Dwyer, Caesar's Palace's Phil Cooper, Syndicated Columnist Cindy Adams, Advertising expert Jerry Della Famina, Abrams/Gentile Toy inventor Marty Abrams, Madison Square Garden's Pam Harris, Estee Lauder Companies' Angela Kapp, ChannelSeven.com Europe's Andrei Puhov, DM News' Ken Magill, Advertising Age's Michael Wilke, Reuters America's' Yukari Iwatani, Tristar Interactive's Lynda Keeler, eMarketer's Sam Alfstad, The New York Post's Don Kaplan, J&R Music World's Rochelle Friedman, HWH PR's Lois Whitman, USA Network's Karen Donahue The Industry Standard's John Battelle, ICONOCAST's Michael Tchong, and ChannelSeven.com's Mara Lipacis.
The Awards and Celebration, held at the Milk Studios, 450 West 15th Street from 7:00 pm till Midnight, began with a Press cocktail reception for nominees and industry leaders at 6:30pm. Welcoming remarks were by Kevin O'Connor, CEO, DoubleClick. The keynote speaker was Ms. Mariane Caponnetto, Director, IBM Worldwide Media Strategy and Operations. The evening was hosted by Michael Tchong, Editor, ICONOCAST, and Mara Lipacis, Editor, ChannelSeven.com. The approximately 1,100 industry attendees, from leading Internet companies, agencies, and web developers, were treated to an evening that included casino gaming, prizes, a cigar bar, and a swing band.
CONTACT:
Channel Seven, New York
Mara Lipacis
Phone: (212) 962-7777
E-mail: mara@channelseven.com
URL: momentumawards.com
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