• WATBlog presented WATAwards 2011
• Awarded agencies and professionals in the digital media space
Mumbai:
Hungama Digital Media Entertainment and Webchutney have swept the first annual WAT Awards with three awards each.
WAT Awards is an initiative taken by WATBlog to recognize and honor Web, Advertising & Technology stalwarts that are contributing to the productivity and innovation excellence.
Hungama was awarded with Digital media agency of the year, Social media agency of the year and Mobile advertising agency of the year. Meanwhile, Webchutney won titles in two categories: Blog of the year and Mobile advertising campaign of the year. It also won a gold medal in the Digital media campaign of the year category.
In the category of Portal of the year, Web18 Software Services Ltd won a gold, while K Webmaker Digital agency bagged a silver. Sulekha.com was named the classified site of the year, and Pinstorm won the Indian Social media community of the year award. Wishopedia Services won gold and Fashion And You got a Silver in the Ecommerce site of the year category.
Cleartrip Travel Services was named the travel site of the Year, whereas Valuepitch went home with the Interactives IT services mobile application of the year. In the category of digital media campaign of the year, TribalDDB India won a silver, while Loginworks Software won the digital application of the year award. UTV Interactive was named the Innovative product startup of the year and Ikriti New Media won the Social application of the year title.
In the Entrepreneurial category, Networkplay was honoured with the digital media entrepreneur of the year, whereas One97 Communications got the Mobile entrepreneur of the year. The last award in the category, Young entrepreneur of the year award, was assigned to iProperty.com and Studio High Group
The event kick started with a welcome speech by WATBlog’s chief blogger, Mr. Rajiv Dingra. Chief Guest Mr. Lalit Bhagia, VP & Head Digital, Star TV delivered the key note address which was followed by a Jury panel discussion on “Searching for excellence in Digital Media”
Jury panel included industry stalwarts, Bipin Chandran (the Editor, Entrepreneur Magazine); Carlton D’silva (Creative Director, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment); Karl Gomes (Co-Founder, AgencyDigi); Mahesh Murthy (Founder, Pinstorm | Managing Partner, Seedfund ); Max Hegerman (President, Tribal DDBIndia); Sajan Raj Kurup (Founder and Creative Chairman, Creativeland Asia) and Vishal Parekh (Marketing Director, Kingston). The discussion was moderated by Mr. Rajiv Dingra.
One of the youngest winners of the night was Deliverychef.in. Aditi Talreja founder deliverychef.in was really glad to receive Ecommerce site of the year, expressing her happiness and recognition given by WAT awards she said “DeliveryChef.in is delighted to win the award for E-commerce Site of the Year 2011 – We’re still only 6 months old, and are glad we’ve been able to make a mark for ourselves turning ordering food for delivery from Mumbai’s best restaurants into an easy, convenient and cost-effective experience. Winning this award has motivated us to work harder and make Delivery Chef the most popular way to order food for deliveries. A big thank you to all our restaurant partners and customers with whose support we’ve gotten this far!”
Commenting on this occasion, Rajiv Dingra said, “having played a vital role as a catalyst and evangelist of Digital Medium via WATBlog – India’s leading Technology blog, we felt there was a need for recognition for top digital talent, hence the need of WAT Awards 2011 which will aim to recognize the best in the business of Digital Media”.
WATBlog’s idea behind WAT Awards was to create an annual platform which celebrates the quality of successful work done by professionals within the Indian digital media circle. From agencies to campaigns done by them; from startups to entrepreneurs heading them – every essence of digital media was rewarded at WATBlog’s first ever Awards i.e. WAT AWARDS 2011 – Rewarding India’s Digital Stalwarts.
At WAT Awards 2011, Kingston Digital was the Gifting Partner; India Mart the Online B2B Partner; Entrepreneur Magazine the Magazine Partner; Indian Television and Audience Matters their Online Media Partners, Sutra HR the Online Marketing Partner and Gripel as a Media Partner for the Awards. .
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WATBlog has previously hosted WATBlog Wednesdays & WATBlog Panels pan India and plans to conduct many such events with the inception of WATSummit.
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About WAT Awards:
WAT Awards is an initiative taken by WATBlog to recognize & felicitate agencies & professionals who have achieved ground breaking work in the Indian digital space since its inception.
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