#webby-award

#webby-award

Michelladonna goes around the world to celebrate the cats who live and work in bodegas, corner stores, and repair shops on her show, Shop Cats. The bilingual series launched in 2024 on creator-led production platform Mad Realities, and quickly found an audience drawn to its feline stars and Michelladonna's energy and humor.

Erica Roberts led BBH USA into its most successful creative and commercial chapter yet, with 75% year-over-year growth and 27 campaigns launched. Her RFI conversion rate is 100%, with a 78% pitch win rate that brought on new accounts including Arby's, Bacardi, Keurig Dr Pepper, and Kenvue.

The nominees for the 30th annual Webby Awards showcase a diverse range of stars and viral sensations, including Cardi B, Steph Curry, and Dwayne Johnson, alongside unconventional entries like a limited-edition soap made with Sydney Sweeney's bathwater.

The students are learning that the federal government and every state have laws establishing the public's right to request and receive public records. It's a bedrock principle of democracy: If a government belongs to the people, so do its documents.

The "Small Web," in Kagi's definition, includes sites created by individuals, like personal blogs, webcomics, independent videos, and more. These are the types of properties that formed the basis of the early web, before it became dominated by ad-supported business models and platforms controlled by large corporations.

Performance is a critical factor in user engagement, where even minor delays in loading can deter users. A clean and simple user interface also contributes significantly to user retention.

The Microsoft Advertising Regional Partner Awards is a prestigious event that aims to recognise and reward outstanding, creative, effective, and passionate work by search advertising individuals, teams, agencies, channel partners and technology partners working with Microsoft Advertising in Europe.

Award‑winning work stands out not only because it's creative, but because it drives real impact. The strongest entries share core qualities: clarity of purpose with well‑defined problems and bold visions, innovative use of data and technology to unlock insightful experiences, measurable results demonstrating credible business outcomes, and human‑centric design that elevates customer experience while respecting trust, privacy, and responsible AI principles.

Wave Browser is working to reverse that equation. With a unique new partnership with 4ocean, Wave Browser connects your browsing to mitigating environmental impact: every session helps fund the removal of plastic and other waste from our ocean, rivers, and coastlines around the world. Every time you surf the web, Wave Browser contributes to 4ocean's cleanup projects that focus on waterways across the globe, from the United States to the Dominican Republic, and Indonesia.

Yahoo's big AI play is, in many ways, actually a return to the company's roots. Three decades ago, Yahoo was known as "Jerry's guide to the world wide web," and was designed as a sort of all-encompassing portal to help people find good stuff on an increasingly large, hard-to-parse internet. In the early aughts, the rise of web search more or less obviated that whole idea. But now, Yahoo thinks, we've come back around.

What truly elevates an award‑winning campaign or product launch for me is the seamless integration of consumer‑centric insight, bold and thoughtful creative, and clearly defined objectives that drive long‑term brand equity - whether that's through converting at the most critical moments or bringing new shoppers into the category.

We've both fought against needless promotional content before and lamented that frontier AI platforms are falling into the same pattern. As designers and users, we've learned that "free" usually means putting up with interruptive, slightly creepy ads that feel more like a tax than a benefit - a frustration tax that now colors how we approach free‑tier services and now AI tools.

Netflix is bringing back the popular talent competition Star Search, with a twist: For the first time in its history, Netflix will let its audience decide the outcome of a show with live voting. However, unlike how shows have done this in the past, audiences won't have to send text messages or call a special number to make their votes count. Instead, viewers will vote with their TV's remote control, or right within the Netflix app if they watch the show on their phones.

Taking home the top prize, the Grand Prix, is Sips and Bites for its 'Doritos Silent' campaign, which saw it create the world's first AI-augmented snack. Despite being popular with gamers worldwide, Doritos had a problem in that its much-loved crunch disrupts and annoys other gamers subjected to the noise in their earphones. The brand turned this intrinsic snacking gripe into a marketing opportunity, creating the world's first AI-augmented snack that removes every Doritos crunch from every game.

Original TV shows, sports, and other video content may soon debut on Facebook as part of the social network's plan to boost the amount of video its members consume. Facebook is beginning to discuss plans with video producers, though it did not say which studios or companies are involved. The content will be displayed on the site's video tab, currently a small curated collection Facebook is looking to expand.

Winning a prestigious award, such as our recent Gold at The Drum Awards for PR in the Entertainment category, is always a proud moment for us as an agency. It validates our expertise, builds credibility, and sets us apart in a competitive market. We leverage awards as a key part of our marketing and business strategy in various ways. Sharing the win with clients reinforces their choice to work with us - after all, everyone wants to partner with a winner!

Everything you need to know in development & design this week, rounded up for you (Week 4, 2026). You'll find the most essential things right now: JavaScript & CSS libraries, useful code snippets, crucial web dev news & resources, curated AI tools, free design assets, and plenty of other good stuff we found! Highlights: 2026 Tech Stack Refresh! Dive into updated "Top 10" lists for Off-canvas menus, responsive dropdowns, fullscreen navs, and more to get your projects ready for the year ahead.

As AI-generated answers increasingly influence buying decisions and brand discovery, teams face new operational questions: Where is the brand being referenced? Where is it missing? How does that representation shift over time? For agencies, the challenge expands to making AI visibility measurable and repeatable across multiple accounts and reporting cycles. "Agencies and start-ups aren't looking for another dashboard, they're looking for confidence,"

By AI website builders have stopped being a novelty. They're tools now. Real ones that save hours of work and produce sites that don't look like templates from 2015. The tech got good enough that you can describe your business in a few sentences and have a working site in under an hour. No coding. No template hunting. The AI handles structure, writes copy, picks colors, and suggests images.

Strategy and creativity are celebrated in equal measures at The Drum Awards. Across the board, there are plenty of examples of fantastic and innovative work produced by agencies, brands and individuals each year. But what makes a winner? How do you shout from the rooftops that your campaigns are brilliant? At The Drum, there are 22 awards that celebrate the finest work produced globally. Following are seven examples of the best of the best of The Drum Awards 2017 winners.

An enterprise web designer understands these conditions and designs within them. This leads to platforms that scale, stay stable, and support real business work over time. The 10-step checklist below helps teams evaluate enterprise web designers and see whether a partner fits their environment, process, and goals. Short overview table How to choose the right enterprise web design partner Below is a checklist on how to choose enterprise web designers based on what teams usually learn the hard way when picking a partner.

"Although most brands have experimented with emerging tech, there is still a lot of IDK and WTF attached to AR, VR, AI, ML, NPC, NFT and web3," said Laws. "When you think that the metaverse and its associated technologies are projected to be worth almost $1.5trn dollars by 2029, that's either a lot of growth to miss out on or a lot of mis-invested budget for brand leaders to be accountable for through poor understanding and unfamiliarity."