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2010 eircom Golden Spiders Winners
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The winners of the 2010 eircom Spiders are shown below!
01 Best Financial Services Website
Nominated
All About Business
bonkers.ie
Health Insurance Authority
Mind the gap
No Nonsense
PayLessTax.ie
permanent tsb
RaboDirect The Straight Talking Online Bank
Winner
Its design is simple yet elegant with slick functionality. It was commended for its innovative approach to an age old problem….paying taxes
02 Best Travel & Tourism Website
Nominated
Heritage Week
Hostelworld.com
Ireland.com
Irish Ferries
Trim Castle Hotel by Net Affinity
Where to Eat
Fota Wildlife Park
Fitzwilliam Hotel by Net Affinity
Winner
The site uses a wide range of social media tools, keeping them up to date and current. It is engaging for both a child and adult audience.
03 Best Community & Charity Website
Nominated
George Best Foundation
Letsomeoneknow.ie
FIS Interactive Course
Gaelport.com
SendARibbon.ie
UrAbility.com
Business Houses Athletic Association
Children’s Sunshine Home
Winner
It achieved its aim of reaching 100,000 people in a week. A well developed campaign, easy navigation, and successfully delivering a message and raising money for Action Breast Cancer.
04 Best Retail Excellence
Nominated
DID Electrical
James Whelan Butchers
Magee Clothing
Merlin Car Auctions
Printing.ie
Smyths Toys
Tesco Mobile
The Corkscrew Wine Merchants
Winner
Their site provides a delightful experience from the moment that you arrive on the home page, the recipes, videos, and cooking hints ensure that their target market will return again and again.
05 Best e-business Website (exclusive web)
Nominated
Dresses.ie
EventElephant
Hostelworld.com
JustEat.ie
NeonSMS
PayLessTax.ie
Shockeronics
Visionnet.ie
Winner
Event Elephant
By ‘taking the tour’ potential customers can see how easily they can plan their event and how useful the site can be to them.
Hostel World.com
The strong search and navigation elements match this demand and there are a host of useful and interesting features to assist the most demanding of travellers.
06 Best Campaign
Nominated
Aviva Stadium Digital Activation
Bulmers Berry
Life’s more interesting when you tell the truth
Nissan LEAF Irish Market Launch
Pizza Hut Delivery
Powers Whiskey
Take Control
Your Heineken Facebook
Winner
Nissan LEAF Irish Market Launch
The campaign blended social media interaction, digital tools and online engagement superbly to encourage a buzz that transferred into the real world.
07 Best News Website
Nominated
Cork Independent
Cork Student News
HeinekenMusic.ie
Insideireland.ie
MerrionStreet.ie
Newstalk.ie
Todayfm.com
98fm.com
Winner
The site has many useful features including, handy tags for each item, repeat news broadcasts, podcasts of interesting live soundbytes, social media links and interactive comments.
08 Best Education Website
Nominated
ASI Louth
edcoDigital.ie
Entrepreneur of the Year
FIS Interactive Online Course
Joyces Dublin
Natures Calendar Ireland
Sixth Form Survivor Campaign
The National Digital Learning Resources website
Winner
Much more than a dietary advice site. It didn’t just advise its student audience on what to do, it engaged with them about healthy eating, whilst connecting into social media sites to reach the maximum possible audience.
09 Best Web Design & Development Agency
Sponsored by Independent Trustee Company
Nominated
Arekibo
Webfactory
Export Technologies
ICAN
Lightbox
Lucidity Digital
Strata3
CKSK
Winner
They demonstrated through their portfolio of designs a clear understanding of their clients core message, a real competitive technical edge and an impressive ability to take difficult subject matter and make it relevant to all generations.
10 Best Entertainment Website
Nominated
98fm.com
HeinekenMusic.ie
Hunky Dorys, Sexy Scrum
Irish Film Board Media Hub
Movies.ie
Oxegen 2010 Music Festival
Swan Cinemas
www.spin1038.com
Winner
The site incorporates the complete package; good design, lively content, lots of interactive opportunities, useful links, and authoritative subject material.
11 Best Sports Website
Nominated
GAA
GolfCourses.ie
Heineken Cup
Irish Football Association
Irish Pro Cycling
Nicolas Roche
RacePix.com
Cork City Football Club
Winner
It provides an informative, clearly organised user experience. It uses high quality visuals and is easy to navigate. A must visit for any football fan.
12 Best Listings Website
Nominated
counsellingdirectory.ie
DoneDeal.ie
Free Trade Ireland
iDevelop.ie: Irelands House and Garden Website
mrs2be.ie
photographers.ie
Raymond Potterton Auctioneers
WhoseView.ie
Winner
It goes beyond just being a listings website, qualifying the information provided with user reviews. The website itself has a fresh design and is intuitive and usable.
13 Big Mouth (People’s Choice)
Nominated
Cass Flowers
TwentyMajor
Alex Donald
Niamh O’Reilly
Keith Malone
Humphrey Jones & Jeremy Stone
Eoin Lettice
Faye Dinsmore
Ronan Palliser
David Cochrane
Winner
The most influential on-line voice in Ireland today. Voted for by the public, with 1,000’s of votes cast. Frogblog came out on top for having the biggest mouth!
14 Community (People’s choice)
Nominated
www.whosview.ie
www.politicalworld.org
www.politics.ie
www.queerID.com
www.corkchamber.ie
www.mrs2be.ie
www.tattoo.tv
www.irishabroad.com
www.irishpokerboards.com
www.music4you.ie
Winner
The public cast 1,000’s of votes for their favourite website. Tattoo Tv has opened up new communication avenues, enhancing their users knowledge, ultimately building an on-line community.
15 The Graduate
Nominated
Lydia Smolin
Elena Verling
Ivan Corless
Kevin Toher
Tom Cunningham
Winner
One of this years graduates of Visual Communications & Design at the Dun Laoghaire IADT. Their website displays their wide variety of skills including Web Design, Motion Graphics and Print. Their creative style and attitude is evident throughout their work along with their eye for detail and excellent typographic application.
16 Best Digital Editor
Nominated
Anne Marie Boyhan
Beautycouture.ie – Niamh O’Reilly
Lisa Pereira
Mikey Robinson
RaboDirect – Aoife Mahon
Vincent Donnelly
Winner
In a crowded market this site competes even with big media rivals due to the original and high-quality material it publishes on a seemingly constant basis. The depth and relevance of content that is always available on the site has made the winning Editor the obvious choice for the Digital Editor 2010 award.
17 Best Mobile App
Nominated
MyHome.ie iPhone Application
Visit Dublin App
Oxegen iPhone App
Medieval Dublin
Aviva Health Mate iphone app
National Lottery iPhone App
TV3 App
Hostelworld.com iPhone app
Winner
It is easy to navigate and provides a wealth of information on where to stay in nearly every country a user might be visiting. The application is cleanly designed, with a very usable interface and the information provided is up-to-date, complete and extremely useful for the application’s target audience.
18 One to Watch
Nominated
Shannon Dry Cleaners
Mediacontact.ie
SafeText.ie
JUST Mobile
Realer
Emerald Surfwear
JOE.ie
AutoDirect.ie
Winner
Novel, brilliantly implemented, gorgeous to look at, and easy to use, the winners site also provides a genuinely useful free service that will make lots of peoples’ lives better. It also cleverly and seamlessly combines internet and SMS technologies. What’s not to like? This site is the real deal: one to watch
19 Internet Hero
Winner
The founder of Jolt Online Gaming, one of the leading online games publishers in the world. Considered to be one of the most experienced online gaming / media entrepreneurs in Europe. His ongoing success has proven Irelands potential to develop it’s own digital industries and serve as a European hub for the on-line economy.
20 Grand Prix
Winner
Well developed, rich in content, visually appealing with good navigation. The site makes good use of images and interactive tools, building up a strong relationship with its users. It has also grown a strong online community encouraging repeat visits. There is also good integration with social media tools which are constantly updated and always have something new to offer.
View the gallery from the 2010 Awards here.
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1 Comment
Makena Cairns
May 22, 2011 at 12:28 amNice site. Do you find it harder to rank in the SERPS with a aussie site?