Yell UK Internet Awards Finalists Announced - 2 June 1999
The finalists for the UK's biggest and best known internet award ceremony has been announced.
Now in their fourth year, the Yell UK Internet Awards is the premier competition for acknowledging and celebrating the achievements of those who use the Web.
Already the awards have a proven reputation for discovering the best talent from business and recreational users in designing web sites and using the Internet.
The competition was initiated in 1995 and generated overwhelming interest, growing in stature and popularity each year.
With twelve categories ranging from Best Consumer E-commerce Website
through to Best Community Web Site, the awards offer winners a fast-track to success in their particular skills range.
The shortlisted entries were judged by a panel of leading new media figures including:
Evan Rudowski (Excite); Mark Curtis (CHBI Razorfish); Mark Frost (Capital Radio); Tim Patten (HPT Brand Response); Kathy Ives (The Kelsey Group); Carol Dukes (Carlton Online); Martyn Moore (Internet Magazine); Kate Russell (.tv); Charlie Dobres (i-level) and the Chair of the judging panel, Eddie Cheng (Yell).
The competition will culminate with an awards ceremony in London , to be held on 7th July at Southbank's LWT studios. This will be hosted by Jonathon Ross and will feature some of the UK internet industry's most senior figures.
Yell, the portal website from Yellow Pages, was launched in January 1996 to provide information to the ever-growing number of Internet users worldwide from a source they know and trust.
The finalists for the 1999 Yell UK Internet Awards are -
Most Innovative Use of the Web | |
| Genie | www.genie.co.uk |
| Rufford Ceramic Centre | www.ruffordceramiccentre.org.uk |
| TechnoSphere | www.technosphere.org.uk |
| Channel 5 online | www.channel5.co.uk |
Best Entertainment Web Site | |
| Jamba | www.jamba.co.uk |
| What's on Stage | www.whatsonstage.com |
| Unsigned Music | www.unsigned-music.com |
| BBC Online | www.bbc.co.uk |
| Rapido TV | www.rapido.co.uk |
Best Commercial Web Site (Consumer) | |
| Ski Web from the ski club of GB | www.skiclub.co.uk |
| Dulux | www.dulux.com/uk |
| Mynutrition | www.mynutrition.co.uk |
| lastminute.com | www.lastminute.com |
Best Commercial Web Site (Business-to-Business) | |
| www.mailing-labels.com | www.mailing-labels.com |
| DigitalVision | www.digitalvision.ltd.uk |
| Model Agency Net | www.modelagency.net |
| Questioning the Balance | www.globalteamwork.com/balance |
Best Web Site from a Non-Profit Organisation (Charities Government or Educational Institution) | |
| Walking Britain | www.visitbritain.com/walking Factory |
| Watch | www.foe.co.uk/factorywatch |
| Spywatch | www.bbc.co.uk/education/lookandread |
| Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester | www.msim.org.uk |
Best Personal Web Site | |
| Birds in a Cheshire Garden | www.abcissa.force9.co.uk/birds |
| Chopstix | www.chopstix.co.uk Inconstant |
| Moon | www.inconstantmoon.com |
| Arsenal World | www.arsenal-world.com |
Best Consumer E-commerce Web Site - sponsored by The Times Interface | |
| QXL | www.qxl.com |
| FilmWorld | www.filmworld.co.uk |
| mynutrition | www.mynutrition.co.uk |
| Condoms UK | www.condomsdirect.co.uk |
| Orange | www.uk.orange.net |
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Best Youth Web Site | |
| Cartoon Network | www.cartoon-network.co.uk |
| GCSE Bitesize | www.bbc.co.uk/education/revision Nick |
| News | www.nicknews.co.uk |
| Drugsaware | www.drugsaware.net |
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Best Community Web Site | |
| Maidenbower Village | www.maidenbower.org.uk |
| Adur Online | www.adur.co.uk |
| Red Mole | www.redmole.co.uk |
| MerseyWorld | www.merseyworld.com |
| AVERT | www.avert.org |
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Best Content Provider | |
| BBC Online | www.bbc.co.uk |
| FT.com | www.ft.com |
| ITN | www.itn.co.uk |
| SimplyFood | www.simplyfood.co.uk |
The nominees and winners of "Site of the Year" and the "Internet Magazine Readers Choice Award" will be announced on the day.
