Jonathan Yuen has his website starred alongside rock legend David Bowie, eBay, co-founders of YouTube and web-sharing website Flickr as winners of The 11th Annual Webby Awards, the Oscars of the Internet.
A multiple Webby Awards winner, Yuen's website www.jonathanyuen.com won three awards for Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics, Best Visual Design Aesthetic and Personal Web Site. His website has also won him the Interactive Gong at last year's Creative Circle Awards.
One of two Webby Lifetime Achievement awards went to David Bowie for a career that has pushed the boundaries of art and technology from BowieNet, an Internet service provider, to his digital media company UltraStar, BowieArt, an innovative website.
The other was awarded to eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman on behalf of the eBay community, which has 233 million registered buyers and sellers.
YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley were awarded Webby Person of the Year. They will be saluted for YouTube's role in transforming the media landscape and reshaping everything from politics to pop culture.
New categories were added this year honouring online film and video, with best actor and actress awards going to "Ninja" from the "Ask a Ninja" online comedy series and Jessica Lee Rose, who became an overnight sensation as fictional video diarist "lonelygirl15."
The Webby winners and special achievement honourees represent the very best in online creativity and innovation, said Webby Awards executive director David-Michel Davies. We're proud to salute the people and organizations whose ideas and vision are transforming how we experience the world.
This year's winners were chosen from a record 8,000 entries from over 60 countries worldwide by a panel of web experts who are members of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Winners of The People's Voice were determined by 400,000 public votes.
As an industry association partner of The Webby Awards, the 4As believe in creative excellence and developing talents through supporting educational programs and international award shows. The 4As also hope to further promote our industry as a leader in interactive services and strategies.
The winners will be honoured at two ceremonies on 4 and 5 June in New York , where winners are limited to five-word acceptance speeches
About the Singapore Creative Circle Awards (CCA)
Since 1980, the Creative Circle Awards (CCA) has been instrumental in pushing creativity to the edge and in the process raising the creative bar year after year. Over the past years, CCA have challenged local industry professionals and helped Singapore grow its reputation as one of the world leaders for print advertising. The winning entries bear testimony to the high standards that CCA is known for and most of our top award winners have gone on to capture awards in international shows such as Cannes International Advertising Festival, Clio Awards, The One Show, D&AD and many others.
Organised by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Singapore (4As), the awards encompasses all aspects of creative communications with awards given out in four major disciplines - Advertising, Design, DM & Promo and Interactive.
The award presentation or more popularly known as The Gong Show is a well celebrated event of the Singapore ad industry. As the Oscars of the industry, it has consistently attracted some 1,000 people coming together each year to celebrate and recognize the creativity and craftsmanship of our top advertising talents.
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