The 2010 Hive Awards, which honors the unsung heroes of the Internet, has announced its winners at a recent 2010 awards ceremony. The awards presentation, held in conjunction with the annual SXSW Interactive Festival, was streamed live by sponsor BitGravity, and culminated with a celebratory after party sponsored by KickApps. The Hive Awards’ Advisory Board and Jury selected seventy winners from entries received from four continents around the globe.

The evening’s big winners included R/GA, Firstborn, and Sapient Interactive. RGA received eight Hive Awards for the following entries: “Nike Kit Builder”, and “Nike Football Tools For The Job”, E-Commerce Web sites; “HBO.com”, Community Web sites; “Nokia Rihanna Live”, Community Web sites; “Nike Training Club” Mobile Apps; “NIKEiD iPhone App”, Mobile Apps; “Nike Kit Builder”, Enterprise Apps; and “Verizon DROID Does Times Square”, Back End Code.

Firstborn was honored with six Hive Awards receiving top honors for “Aflac.com”, User Experience; “2010 Ford Mustang”, User Experience; “2010 Ford Mustang”, Promotional/Microsite; “Puma L.I.F.T.”, Promotional/Microsite; “SoBe.com”, Promotional/Microsite; and “Big Boston Warm-up”, Community Web sites.

Sapient Interactive was awarded five Hive Awards for the following entries: “Food.com Web Site”, User Experience; “LinksysByCisco.com”, User Experience; “HGTV”, Information Architecture; “Talbots.com redesign and re-platform”, E-Commerce Web sites; and “Happiness Factory 3”, Gaming/Entertainment Web sites.

CafeMom, SocialVibe and Lunch.com were each honored with a Hive Award for a three way tie in the Community Web sites category.

The 2010 Hive Awards Top Five highest scoring entries were:

Armed with Science: Research and Applications For The Modern Military, (Podcast category)

JQTOUCH, (Programming/Coding/Scripting category)

Mint.com, (User Experience category)

TripIt.com, (Web Apps category)

We’re All Fans (The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards), (Data Strategy category)


"The Hive Awards is an event that finally honors the talented craftsmen of the web. It looks beyond the PR gloss to find inspired teams that are building something legitimately fresh,” said Hive Awards Advisory Board member, Sandeep Sood, president of Monsoon Company.

This year’s illustrious Hive Award winners from the US include: Firstborn, NY, NY; Atomic PR, NY, NY; Modernsita!, Boston, MA; Sapient Interactive, Miami Beach, FL; Campfire, NY, NY; Real Art Design Group, Dayton, Ohio; HowStuffWorks.com, Atlanta, GA; Ext JS, Cleveland, OH; The Barbarian Group, NY, NY; TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles, CA; R/GA, NY, NY; Alice.com, Middleton, WI; Domani Studios, Brooklyn, NY; Deep Focus, INC., NY, NY; SocialVibe, Los Angeles, CA; CafeMom, NY, NY; Lunch.com, El Segundo, CA 360i, NY, NY; Freedom + Partners, Brooklyn, NY; Big Spaceship, Brooklyn, NY; Edmunds.com, Swarthmore, PA; Greater Than One, NY, NY; uTest, Southborough, MA; professoradman.com, Detroit, MI; The Flack, Manhasset, NY; Ad Broad, NY, NY; Global Crossing Ltd, Rochester, NY; About.com, NY, NY; Chemo and Vino, Chicago, IL; US Department of Defense, Alexandria, VA; HowStuffWorks.com, Atlanta, GA; Marketing Over Coffee, Natick, MA; The Cool Beans Group, Greensboro, NC; TripIt, San Francisco, CA; AKQA, Washington, DC; Rosetta, Beachwood, OH; The Ad Store, NY, NY; and Denuo, Chicago, IL.

Renowned international companies that received Hive Award trophies include: Danny Brown, Burlington, Ontario; LBi, London, United Kingdom; McCann Erickson, Tel Aviv, Israel; argonauten G2 GmbH, Berlin, Germany, and Jinni, Yehud, Israel.

All of the 2010 Hive Award winning entries, as well as the entries receiving an honorable mention, are available on the Hive Awards Web site. To view a slideshow of them, click here.

Ann Hadley, Hive Advisory Board member and chief content officer for Marketing Profs, commented on this year’s innovative entries: "What I loved about reviewing the Hive Award submissions was the thrill of discovery: Finding those smaller, hidden gems among the better-known and widely read… it was exciting to see the mission play out."

The Hive Awards extensive competition categories allow for each entry within a specific industry to be judged separately. All winning entries were selected by the Hive Awards GrandJury and Advisory Board, comprised of industry professionals representing the most influential minds in the web community.

The 2010 award winning entries will be featured in the Showcase section of the Awards Web site and will be promoted by a network of representatives in 84 countries around the world.




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