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The Web Marketing Association is pleased to announce the winners its second annual international MobileWebAward competition.  <\/span>This award program recognizes the individual and team achievements of Web professionals all over the world who create and maintain the best mobile Websites and the best mobile applications.  <\/span>The complete list of winners can be found at www.mobile-webaward.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The MobileWebAwards<\/span><\/a> were judged on seven criteria seen as requirements for a success mobile website or mobile app. They include Creativity, Impact, Design, Content, Interactivity, Ease of use and Use of the medium. Each mobile website or mobile app<\/span>entry is judged against other entries of the same format in its industry category and then against an overall standard of excellence.  <\/span> <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s top awards include:<\/span><\/div>\n
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UBM Design Central<\/span><\/a>and ARM <\/b>won Best of Show Mobile Application for Signum<\/span><\/a>, which also was awarded Best Electronics Mobile Application. Signum is a great example of how electronic publication is changing the reading experience. The quarterly e-mag uses hyperlinks, animation, and embedded video to create a highly interactive experience for the reader. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Huge<\/span><\/a> and Newsweek <\/b>won Best of Show Mobile Website for The Redesigned Newsweek.com<\/span><\/a>, which also was recognized as Best News Mobile Website. Newsweek tasked Huge with developing a digital experience that leveraged the best elements of its digital-savvy sister publication, The Daily Beast, while preserving a distinct look-and-feel that would stay true to the Newsweek brand. <\/div>\n
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Aperto Move GmbH<\/span><\/a><\/b>of Berlin, Germany was named Top Interactive Agency for the second MobileWebAwards competition in a row. They received 9 awards, including: Best Investor Relations Mobile Application, Best Catalog Mobile Website, Best Directory or Search Engine Mobile Application, Best Environmental Mobile Application, Best Toy & Hobby Mobile Application, Best Events Mobile Website, Best Game Site Mobile Application, Best Government Mobile and Best TV Mobile Website.<\/div>\n
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Risdall Marketing Group<\/span><\/a> was named an Outstanding Mobile Interactive Developer for receiving 8 MobileWebAwards in this year’s program.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSince 1997, the WebAwards have helped define the standards for website development, now the MobileWebAwards will do the same for sites and apps designed for mobile devices,\u201d said William Rice, president of the Web Marketing Association.  <\/span>\u201cSmartphones and tablet computers are exploding and companies are racing to be allow users to connect and interact with them using mobile devices.   <\/span>The goal of the MobileWebAwards is to both recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective mobile Web sites and mobile apps on the Internet.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The Best of Industry statue is reminiscent of a personal digital device, it could be yesterday\u2019s smart phone, today\u2019s tablet, or tomorrow\u2019s device.  It is crafted of fine jet black crystal with the iconic \u201cW\u201d accent in 24kt plated gold and personalized with your award information.  The award is entirely hand crafted by, Society Awards, the makers and designers of other notable award programs such as the Golden Globes, Emmys, MTV VMAs, and CLIOs to name a few<\/span>, <\/span>and presented in its own custom gift box.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The 2013 MobileWebAwards are sponsored by the following leading organizations: BGT Partners, Burst Media, EContent Magazine, ExactTarget, ad:tech conferences, Internet World UK, SES Conferences, Webmaster Radio, and Website Magazine. The Web Marketing Association thanks these companies for their commitment to the entire online marketing community. <\/div>\n
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About the WebAwards<\/b><\/div>\n
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The Web Marketing Association\u2019s<\/span><\/a> second annual MobileWebAwards<\/span><\/a> are based upon the success of its long running international WebAward Competition for Website Development<\/span><\/a> and the Internet Advertising Competition<\/span><\/a>. All Web Marketing Association award programs recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing the most effective online marketing programs on the Internet today. Entrants benefit from assessment of their marketing efforts by a professional judging panel and the marketing opportunities presented by being recognized as an award-winning entry. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Web Marketing Association is pleased to announce the winners its second annual international MobileWebAward competition.  This award program recognizes the individual and team achievements of Web professionals all over the world who create and maintain the best mobile Websites and the best mobile applications.  The complete list of winners can be found at www.mobile-webaward.org. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobilewebawards","category-web-marketing-association"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MobileWebAward_2013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}