Nightshift

If you don’t know what to do over the week-end and/or look for great inspiration for further online campaigns/websites/videos/etc. I recommend you spend a couple of hours on the Webby Awards site just like I did. For those who would be new to the industry or rather really not into awards, Webbies are known as the Web Oscar or as the organisators put it themselves as nothing less than the “leading international award honoring excellence in interactive design, creativity, usability and functionality on the Internet“. And they did, for the 12th times this year. With a little controversy from time to time.

Still, the competition is a tough one: last year, the 11th Annual Webby Awards received more than 8,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states and generated over 750 million media impressions worldwide. Impressive. What I find even more impressive this year is to find 2 entries from my home country: one for the Jealous computer campaign developed by the famous web agency These Days for Nokia - which already won an awards a couple of months ago at the MIXX Awards. The other one - to be found in the ‘Best Business Blog’ category is a blog I’m very faithful and not only out of respect for one of the FutureLab founders, storyteller Alain Thys. Well deserved. Fair enough. Now you know two of my own personal votes. A third one went for this stunning site on my favorite painter, Hopper. No brainer really.

Winners will be announced on May, 6th. Leaves you a couple of days to make your voice count.