Tuesday April 12, 2005

My Other Site is a Webby Finalist

I don’t usually mix job with blog, but good news (and shameless horn-tooting) respects no borders. AdCritic.com, the site I edit by day, has been nominated for two Webby Awards, one each in the categories of “Broadband” and “Magazine”—AdCritic being the web wing of the advertising trade magazine Creativity. I doubt we’ll do much damage in the People’s Voice Awards, so no need to brace for the usual GOTV pleas. AdCritic is a paid site, and if there’s anything I learned when we took it subscription three years ago, it’s that The People don’t like paid sites—unless they cover vertical markets of professional interest to them, which is what AdCritic does for people who make ads. The winners will be announced on May 3.

AdCritic was last nominated for a Webby—a “Business Webby” that time—in 2003, when it lost out to a site no one had ever heard of.