WINNERS 2O12

This website enables group travelers to get great deals on accommodation. The judges loved the innovative business model, explained in clear English on a clean site with good use of social media.

The judges felt the winner demonstrated a cutting edge as it tackled a serious cause in a modern, intuitive and uplifting fashion. The site is both, stylish and current, technically well organised and easy to navigate, a worthy winner.

The winner of this category brings together a number of independent fashion boutiques from around the country so as to generate the critical online mass needed to compete with the big retail giants, but with a bespoke product range. The website is excellently designed with all the standard features expected and the judges felt that the online retail user experience maintained its boutique origins.

The winner of this category represents true innovation, and is an outstanding example of the strength of Ireland’s grass roots level digital economy. The service offered is incredibly inventive, and the interface is excellently designed from a content and usability perspective.

This social initiative leverages Facebook to its full potential
It demonstrates a clear understanding of the products audience online and uses these insights to create powerful social content on the page.

With this web site the winner has cleverly leveraged the huge success of its related TV programme by providing an on-line information resource for its fan-base, which is particularly targeted at SME owners and entrepreneurs. The catalyst for attracting visitors was Ireland’s first simulcast on-line game, The Sixth entrepreneur, which proved engaging and had a stickiness that encouraged many return visits.

The winner of this category brings together a myriad of entertainment resources, providing an unrivalled level of access and user experience: an all-in-one platform for both entertainment information and news

The winner of this category represents the best Ireland has to offer in a digital agency. Their body of work represent case studies of a globally- highest standard, with innovation and client return on investment clear at all times, including outstanding examples of project management, research, strategy, design, web development and support.

The judges felt the winning website raised the bar as it married together traditional web design, SMS, Social media and mobility in a spectacular fashion. The site is easy to navigate, stylishly designed and the integration of the SMS platform makes it simple to use. The problem that the winner seeks to address is superbly dealt with through the principles understanding on technology, mobility and social media.

This web site is an excellent example of how to deal with a seemingly dull subject and provide really useful information that cannot fail to achieve the objective of providing the comparison information that the viewer is seeking. The copy is simple and understandable, the design easy-on-the-eye and the content accurate and timely with regular news on what is happening in the health insurance marketplace

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Our winner takes a familiar pen-and-paper task and brings it to mobile, making it easier and faster to use, but keeping a sense of the old-style physical product.

The judges felt the app showed clear understanding of news on the go, providing simple and clean navigation plus easy access to social sharing Overall best in class for a mobile news experience

With an experiential strategy to reinvigorate the original brand with a sense of on-the-ground emotional experience to combat increased competition in the marketplace, from game console competitors and mobile phones. The judges awarded this exciting project as the winner for its use of integrated real time network technology with the total sense of physical gaming interaction. The Projection used the features of the physical building to heighten game user experience.

In the view of the judges, this innovative mobile application has the potential to disrupt the traditional markets for any type of personalised greeting card or invitation, whether printed or eCard. The easy-to-use, mobile-oriented application, which seamlessly interfaces with the Facebook social media experience, enables users to customise pre-personalised cards using a number of advanced features, including face recognition. This start-up is definitely a potential global winner.

A self-confessed webpreneur, developer and social media connoisseur, James Whelton is no stranger to internet endeavour or success. Co-founder of CoderDojo, hacker in residence at Resolute Venture Capital in Boston, social entrepreneur with SOSVentures, CEO of Disruptive Developments, an Ashoka Fellow and the first person to hack the iPod Nano, the list of achievements for the 19 year old are as impressive as they are extensive. While a student at Presentation Brothers College in Cork, Whelton created the Leaving Cert Countdown Timer which won the 2010 Best Web Design Award at the eircom Junior Spiders. He teamed up with angel investor and XING co-founder, Bill Liao to create Cork-based CoderDojo. The dynamic duo have developed CoderDojo in a relatively short space of time, turning it into the global phenomena it has become.

With this web site the winner has cleverly leveraged the huge success of its related TV programme by providing an on-line information resource for its fan-base, which is particularly targeted at SME owners and entrepreneurs. The catalyst for attracting visitors was Ireland’s first simulcast on-line game, The Sixth entrepreneur, which proved engaging and had a stickiness that encouraged many return visits.