2014 Webby Awards

The 18th annual Webby Awards for 2014 was held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 19, 2014, which was hosted by comedian and actor Patton Oswalt. The awards ceremony was streamed live at the Webby Awards website.

Lifetime Achievement was awarded to Lawrence Lessig for his work with intellectual property be co-founding Creative Commons and the person of the year was the artist Banksy.

Nominees and winners

(from http://winners.webbyawards.com/2014)

Category	Webby Award winner	People's Voice winner	Other nominees
Mobile & Apps – Best Practices	NY Times for iPhone	BBC News	The New Yorker Colorsnap Glass MailChimp
Mobile & Apps – Best Use of Device Camera	Glasses.com	Glasses.com	Seene KeyMe ColorSnap Glass Cyberchase
Mobile & Apps – Best Use of GPS	Glympse	Glympse	Pin Drop Hailo Play the Road
Mobile & Apps – Best Use of Mobile Video	Vine	Vine	Magisto NBA.com mobile Spark Camera TouchCast
Mobile & Apps – Best User Experience	Netflix	Pocket	Mailbox Coast Google Hangouts
Mobile & Apps – Best Visual Design (Aesthetic)	Dots	Yahoo! Weather	Wide Sky Artsy Type : Rider
Mobile & Apps – Best Visual Design (Function)	Urbanears	CloudMagic	Path The New York Times Guggenheim Museum App
Mobile & Apps – City/Urban Innovation	Points	Citi Bike	PulsePoint Shade Cinema Run That Town
Mobile & Apps – Connected Products	Use Me Leave Me	A Computer Anyone Can Make	Points SmartThings Adidas MiCoach
Mobile & Apps – Games (Handheld)	Dots	QuizUp	Dumb Ways to Die LIMBO Badland
Mobile & Apps – Games (Tablet & All Other Devices)	Badland	Plants vs. Zombies 2	Type:Rider Robot Unicorn Attack Wonderputt
Web – Activism	Change.org	Change.org	Endthebacklog.org Offshore Causes.com Sexgerms.com
Web – Art	Artsy	The Creators Project	Curiator Illusion Wondereur.com
Web – Associates	Downtown Brooklyn Partnership	Internet Association	Wireless is Limitless Spotlight on Broadway Designing Our Future
Web – Best Home Page	Sagmeister & Walsh	Squarespace	Vogue.es The Serengeti Lion
Web – Best Navigation	Behance	The Last Hunt	Diplomatic-cover Nautilus W
Web – Best Practices	NSA Files: Decoded	Google Play	PBS Video Flash Vs. HTML NPR Responsive Design
Web – Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics	The Art of Noise	The Art of Noise	KLM – Space Heart of the Arctic Life Size Messi
Web – Best Use of Photography	Graffiti General	Found	We Are Still Marching Wondereur.com
Web – Best Visual Design – Aesthetic	Squarespace	Nature Valley Trail View 2.0	Medium Nautilus Names for Change
Web – Food and Drink	Max Brenner	Max Brenner
Web – Games	Hellorun	Atari Arcade	BBC Travel's Geoguessr Ba Ba Dum Superbrawl 3
Web – Science	Nautilus	Wired Science	How to Put a Human on Mars Space Center Houston The Institute for Molecular Engineering
Web – Real Estate	Zillow	Zillow	The Agency Foxtons Start Fresh. Buy New RentHop
Advertising & Media – Augmented Reality	Kringl	KFC WOW@25	OpenPool GIFwrap Voices Against Violence
Advertising & Media – Banner Campaigns	GTI Bannerbahn	Coca-Cola Share Your Voice	Effies – Results Don't Lie Missing Person Pre-Roll Classicals Behind The Classics
Advertising & Media – Best Use of Online Media	Photoshop Action	Photoshop Action	The Smart Phone Line Telekinize The Rainbow Classicals Behind The Classics The Greatest Action Movie Ever
Advertising & Media – Best Use of Social Media	Google+ Same Sex Marriage	Google+ Same Sex Marriage	Milk Carton 2.0 Nike PHOTOiD NATALIA PROJECT The Alzheimer's Event
Advertising & Media – Branded Content	LIVE TEST SERIES	Real Beauty Sketches	Virgin America Safety Video #VXsafetydance Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise The Scarecrow
Advertising & Media – Digital Campaigns	Sound of Honda / Ayrton Senna 1989	Lay's Do Us A Flavor	KLM – Space Burberry Kisses: A Google Art, Copy & Code Project GTI Bannerbahn
Best Actress	Taylor Schilling
Webby Person of the Year	Banksy
Webby Artist of the Year	De La Soul
Webby Breakout of the Year	Kickstarter
Webby Film & Video Person of the Year	Freddie Wong
Webby Athlete of the Year	Jamaican Bobsled Team
Webby Agency of the Year	Ogilvy Paris
Webby Lifetime Achievement	Lawrence Lessig

References

Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.

External links

• Official site