AKQA delivers at the Webby awards

UPS has won the People’s Voice Award for Apps and Software alongside UN Women NL and DEGIRO’s Pink Chip, which has received the People’s Voice Award for Websites and Mobile Sites. AKQA’s work has also been recognised with a further six Nominees and two Honourees.

The Webby Awards is the leading international award honouring excellence on the Internet and recognising influential creators driving conversation at the intersection of technology and culture and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences,.

People’s Voice Winner, Apps and Software

UPS A better way to deliver

UPS’ engaging and holistic mobile-driven experience enables customers to send packages with one tap. The platform is equipped with digital-first service offerings such as instant shipping quotes and rich visual tracking details, providing shoppers with a better way to receive and return packages and helping small businesses create a simpler shipping method. The UPS app is intuitive for customers to use while equipping mobile-first business owners with game-changing tools.

People’s Voice Winner and Nominee Websites and Mobile Sites

UN Women NL and DEGIRO Pink Chip

6% of the world’s publicly listed companies currently have female CEOs; research shows that companies with female leadership can outperform expectations. UN Women Netherlands and DEGIRO launched Pink Chip, a world-first collection of indices measuring women-led companies’ performance. The initiative, backed up by research, shows how investing in women can boost returns while supporting female leaders. Pink Chip has received recognition, including Gold in The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Glass: The Lion for Change and Sustainable Development Goals awards.

Webby Nominees

Superpower Institute’s Open Methane was nominated for Websites and Mobile Sites: Sustainability and Environment, an innovation that provides an interactive open platform for understanding Australia’s methane emissions.

Nominated for AI, Immersive, and Games: Media and Entertainment, Netflix It’s What’s Inside The Game is an immersive concept that offers a surreal twist on social interaction, turning friends into replicas in a genre-bending journey of impersonation.

Within Apps and Software: Best Streaming Service, MediaWork’s rova website centralises live music and entertainment from several stations into one hub, featuring custom playlists, exclusive podcasts, and competitions.

Museum for the United Nations – UN Live’s Sounds Right has been recognised for Advertising, Media and PR: Best Cause Related Campaign (PR). Sounds Right is an innovative music initiative that recognises NATURE as the artist she truly is. With sounds from ecosystems and global artists featuring and crediting NATURE in their work on streaming platforms, each track generates royalties for nature’s conservation.