RIVET’S ELECTROCITY ON SHORTLIST FOR BEST ONLINE GAME AT WEBBY AWARDS
The 12th Annual Webby Awards today nominated Rivet’s Electrocity online game for New Zealand’s Genesis Energy for the Best Online Game of 2008.
Winners will be announced on May 6, 2008 and honored at The 12th Annual Webby Awards in New York City on June 10th.
Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites. The awards are judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a global organisation that includes David Bowie, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, AKQA Global Creative Director Rei Inamoto, “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser, and The Weinstein Company’s Harvey Weinstein.
Tom Markham, Creative Director for Rivet Australia is overjoyed: “This was such a great project to work on. The team is really excited about standing tall on the world stage. The Webby’s are such an honour to get shortlisted for.”
As a nominee for a Webby Award, Electrocity is also eligible to win a People’s Voice Award. People’s Voice voting, sponsored by Nokia, is open to the public from April 8th to May 1st at Webby Awards – People’s choice
The 12th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 USA states.
Founded in 1996, The Webby Awards is known worldwide for its famous five-word speeches. Past headline-grabbing speechmakers include Al Gore (“Please don’t recount this vote”), Beastie Boys (“Can anyone fix my computer?”), and Prince (“Everything you think is true.”)
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Having your work judged by David Bowie – that’s cool.
Do we really need another award show? This is getting ridiculous.
One Show, Cannes, D&AD. All that matters.
Hey Mr/Mrs “Do we really need another award show”
The Webbys have been around for years. They are the most prestigious digital awards around internationally. Well done Rivet for being a finalist.
You are an ignorant dickhead. Do a bit of research first.
Perhaps you should crawl back under your rock 3:20PM.
David Bowie judging?? Pfffft. What does he know? He hasn’t done anything any good for 25 years.
3.20
These are pretty much bigger in the real world than advertising awards. So I agree you don’t need another one, luckily this isn’t-it’s much better.
Real people judge this for things that are different, cool and innovative.
The Webbys are THE awards for interactive so I’m not sure that 3.20 knows what he’s talking about – or he/she is an old school ad wanker from the 70’s.
Come on, play nice.
I doubt they have been around longer than Cannes or the others. Given they were founded before the net existed.
Hey Bitch (3.52), Ignorant Dickhead (3.20 ) make a fair point; check out Essential Links to your right. Of the first ten essential links on this site, how many are award sites? And that excludes your Webbys… Or are you entering your post in the Abusive Post Awards?
2:56, get your head out of the sand. Webby Awards have been going for 12 years now. And there is nothing wrong with a digitally focused award show in amongst the global ones.
Why do we need ‘digitally focused’ award shows? It’s a medium like any other. It’s the idea that counts and D&AD, One Show and Cannes tick that box hard. Not sure I would rate this show all that much. I’d rather have leading creatives in their field judging my work that some old school pop star.
David
You are deluded if you think that the MADC awards, Young Guns or NZ Axis awards are somehow more important that the Webbys because they are on a list located on a blog (with all due respect)
The Webbys get more coverage than even Cannes in the mainsteam press.
The Webbys are global awards, backed by a legitimate Academy. Neither the CLIOS nor Cannes can make this claim.
There are in fact too many awards, I agree, however why there is a need for CLIO AND Cannes. There is nothing like the Webbys anywhere.
Beside, all you creatives from ad agencies that are now saying you have digital credentials simply come across as . . . creatives from ad agencies.
A one day course with the AFA doesn’t count as experience.
Is everyone is australian advertising a cunt or does this blog just accumulate them? Cannes, D&AD – whatever. The webby awards were judged by richard branson and david bowie! Not some twat from a big network agency who made his “name” doing scam ads. These are genuine giants of popular culture. The webby concerns real people and how they interact with the web. I sometimes think about moving back to Oz but I couldn’t work in advertising, not with the cunts on this blog.
Ad agencies should sack creatives and just get the web guys to make the ads.
8:00, well said!
The Webbys are about stuff people enjoy in real life, not ads. They’re bigger than advertising.
3:20, you have also made a very good point. (“Do we really need another award show? This is getting ridiculous. One Show, Cannes, D&AD. All that matters.”)
In advertising that’s true. Plus of course AWARD here, and the EFFIEs or possibly Axis in NZ.
Upshot: a down-under agency has created one of the five best online games in the world. Shall we cheer, or sneer?
touche 8.00pm
Shame you failed to report that NZ Tribal DDB’s work on The Warehouse Careers website was also nominated for a Webby.
Ok, back to bitching amoungst yourselves..
8pm
well said. could not agree more.
Look at the whole list. You’ll find there are quite a few NZ agencies. Well done, This show actually does matter.
Hey david 5:30
As much as you might try and steal every TV brief left in the agency, integrated thinking is here to stay.
Hell, you’re even on the net, reading this blog aren’t you?
Or do you watch TV all day long?
goliath.
3.20. If you actually look at the categories that the Webby’s cover you’ll perhaps notice that there are business related categories. In fact “online banner ads” (perhaps what you think is all that the interweb advertising is, accounts for only a couple of categories.
I’d love to see the scam that you won a finalist at cannes vs the power of youtube or amazon, (both previous winners).
Back to layout pad scrub.
Well done Rivet, and the peoples choice can’t be hacked, I tried one year. Good luck.
I submitted something very similar to Electrocity in YGAward Creative Brief 2007.
I’m glad to see the idea get up (and done better) check out the idea I put together here:
http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn40/sendinginsecret/?action=view¤t=simcitya3NEW.jpg
It’s a great site – well done. Sorry I just thought I’d talk about the work rather than bitch and moan.
Having read through all these comments it’s pretty clear why agencies are constantly being hammered by their clients for lack of integration – digital being the clearest example of where this fails. The gulf of misunderstanding between disciplines is showing no sign of closing anytime soon.
The Webbys are not a “creative” award show in the style of D&DA, OneShow or Cannes. They don’t count towards traditional agency creative rankings.
They are in part about excellence in the types of disciplines that most agency creatives don’t even know exist – information architecture, usability design and in the case of the electrocity entry game theory. In that respect they are more like an architectural or industrial design show than they are a “advertising” award show.
In an amusing irony those of us that work across traditional web development as well as “big idea” creative inside agency groups have to care very much about both types of awards. Both are equally valid (and valuable) to a well rounded digital business.
Top job Rivet. Well done boys and girls…something to be really proud of.
3.20pm. You’re a cock.
To 12:05 who said, “Shame you failed to report that NZ Tribal DDB’s work on The Warehouse Careers website was also nominated for a Webby.”
I’d like to report that NZ Tribal DDB didn’t get anything at One Show.
Just so we’re all clear, okay, Bridge?
The Webby site is hard work but I see that Aim Proximity NZ is on the shortlist for the best online banner single for its work for Vodafone Foundation
Ah, Aim NZ. How are the mighty fallen, these days.
Speaking of how the mighty have fallen…
I thought that Rivet’s Auckland office did Electrocity.
But the Electrocity entry in the OneShow (where it’s a finalist) clearly credits the entry to Sydney.
Does this mean the Auckland office is officially yesterday’s dried toast? In December they were “sharing office space” with DraftFCB. Did I miss another press release?