{"id":1874,"date":"2022-04-12T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2022-05-03T09:09:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:09:35","slug":"2022-webaward-category-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/2022-webaward-category-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 WebAward Category Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/update-1024x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1875\" width=\"278\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/update-1024x778.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/update-416x316.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/update-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/update-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/update-1536x1166.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/update.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Web Marketing Association announces category changes for 2022 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webaward.org:\">WebAward<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webaward.org:\">Competition for Website Development<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an effort to recognize Web3, categories for&nbsp;<strong>Blockchain<\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Crypto Currency<\/strong> have been added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, The new category&nbsp;<strong>SAAS<\/strong> will take the place of&nbsp;Application Service Provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Online Community<\/strong> will replace&nbsp;Social Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recreation<\/strong> will replace&nbsp;Toy &amp; Hobby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following categories are being discontinued due to lack of competitive entries participating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Broadcasting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diversified Business<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Game Site<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Internet Service Provider<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investor Relations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Movie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newspaper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These changes are already reflected on the 2022 WebAward entry form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to see a complete list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/industry_categories.asp\">2022 WebAward Industry Categories<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WebAwards are the standards-defining competition that sets benchmarks for 88 industries based on the seven criteria of a successful web site. The deadline for websites to be entered at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.WebAward.org\">https:\/\/www.WebAward.org<\/a> to be judged is May 31, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Marketing Association announces category changes for 2022 to WebAward Competition for Website Development: In an effort to recognize Web3, categories for&nbsp;Blockchain and&nbsp;Crypto Currency have been added. In addition, The new category&nbsp;SAAS will take the place of&nbsp;Application Service Provider. Online Community will replace&nbsp;Social Network Recreation will replace&nbsp;Toy &amp; Hobby The following categories are being discontinued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-marketing-association"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}