Competing against 13,000 entries from more than 70 countries worldwide, our nominated projects are eligible to win two awards: a Webby Award as chosen by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADA) jury in each category, and a Webby People’s Voice chosen by the online public. 

Nominations for DEPT®, BASIC/DEPT®, Hello Monday/DEPT®, and Dogstudio/DEPT® span Advertising, Media & PR, AI, Metaverse & Virtual and Websites and Mobile Sites.

Shortlisted projects include two nominations for Responsible AI awards for our work with GiveAHand and ReflexAI, and multiple awards for impact projects including Trainline’s ‘I came by train’ campaign that inspires people to help fight climate change, Undo The Firewall –  a project to help combat misinformation and censorship, and Google Jigsaw which researches threats to open societies, and builds technology, products and tangible methods that inspire scalable solutions.

Huge congratulations to all of our nominated clients: American Society for Deaf Children; Bang & Olufsen; Cowboy; Daniel’s Music Foundation; GiveAHand; Google; Gucci; Jeff Koons; Philips; Reddit; ReflexAI; Sesame Workshop; Tony Blair Institute; Trainline; Undo the Firewall; Virgin Galactic; Whoop. 

The public voting declared these following projects by DEPT®, BASIC/DEPT®, HELLO MONDAY/DEPT®, DOGSTUDIO/DEPT® and STUDIO DUMBAR/DEPT® the winners of the People’s Voice awards:

• The unique Web3 experience we created for fashion brand H&Mbeyond, which turned their showroom into an immersive, virtual experience, won for Metaverse, Immersive & Virtual – General Virtual Experiences: Arts, Fashion, Retail & Culture.
• BASIC/DEPT®’s website created for Cowboy, the connected electric bike, won four awards for Best Visual Design: Function, Best User Interface, Best Mobile Visual Design: Aesthetic, and Best Mobile User Interface.
• The website for the first NFT project by artist Jeff Koons won Websites and Mobile Sites – Features & Design: Best Homepage.
• The project for Google ChromeOS won General Websites and Mobile Sites: Web Services & Applications, and the work for Google Store won Best User Experience: Websites and Mobile Sites
• Crafted, the community initiative led by BASIC/DEPT® that brings together local creators and tastemakers, won General Websites and Mobile Sites: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
• JAMS – BASIC/DEPT®’s social experiment that connects people with curated playlists won Websites and Mobile Sites – Features & Design: Technical Achievement.
• The Patagonia Footprints Chronicles site won General Websites and Mobile Sites: Sustainability & Environment.
• The app for KFC won General Apps: Food & Drink.
• Webex won Websites and Mobile Sites: Best Navigation/Structure.
• For HELLO MONDAY/DEPT®, Fingerspelling with Machine Learning won three awards  in the Games category for Family, Kids & Education, and Social Impact, and in the Responsible Technology category for Accessible Technology.
• The site built to build anticipation for Digital Insight Games’ launch of Cloud Castles won two awards for Websites and Mobile Sites – Features & Design: Technical Achievement, and General Metaverse Experiences: Games.
• Demo Festival – the world’s largest festival of motion design –  organized by STUDIO DUMBAR/DEPT® won General Websites and Mobile Sites: Events.
• DEPT®’s very own Meta Festival – the first 24hr event in the Metaverse – won Metaverse & Immersive Features: Best Community Engagement, and Metaverse, Immersive & Virtual – Virtual Video Features: Best Festival or Conference.

The unique Web3 experience we created for fashion brand H&Mbeyond which turned their showroom into an immersive, virtual experience, is up for Metaverse, Immersive & Virtual – General Virtual Experiences: Arts, Fashion, Retail & Culture.

The fresh strategy, design and development of Inter Milan’s new app and website is nominated for Websites and Mobile Sites – General Websites and Mobile Sites: Sports. HYPEWEAR by ABOUT YOU, the first online shop for digital NFT fashion, is nominated for App Features: Best Use of Web3 Technology.

BASIC/DEPT® have achieved a record number of nominations this year. The website created for Cowboy, the connected electric bike, is nominated for four awards for Best Visual Design: Function, Best User Interface, Best Mobile Visual Design: Aesthetic, and Best Mobile User Interface.

The website for the first NFT project by artist Jeff Koons is up for Websites and Mobile Sites – Features & Design: Best Homepage. 

The project for Google ChromeOS is nominated for General Websites and Mobile Sites: Web Services & Applications, and Best Mobile Visual Design: Function.

Crafted, the community initiative led by BASIC/DEPT® that brings together local creators and tastemakers, is nominated twice for General Websites and Mobile Sites: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Features & Design: Best Practices.

JAMS – BASIC/DEPT®’s social experiment that connects people with curated playlists – is nominated for Websites and Mobile Sites – Features & Design: Technical Achievement.

The work for Google Store is nominated for Websites and Mobile Sites – Features & Design: Best User Experience, and Best Mobile User Experience.

For Patagonia’s website, BASIC/DEPT® is nominated for General Websites and Mobile Sites: Fashion & Beauty, and Features & Design: Best Practices. The Patagonia Footprints Chronicles site is nominated for General Websites and Mobile Sites: Sustainability & Environment, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

The app for KFC is nominated for General Apps: Food & Drink. The site for Webex is nominated in the Websites and Mobile Sites category for Corporate Communications, and Best Navigation/Structure. 

For HELLO MONDAY/DEPT®, Fingerspelling with Machine Learning is nominated three times in the Games category for Family, Kids & Education, Social Impact, and Technical Achievement, and in the Responsible Technology category for Accessible Technology.

The immersive website experience for Virgin Galactic that communicates the excitement of space travel, is nominated in General Websites and Mobile Sites – Travel & Lifestyle.

The experience built together with DOGSTUDIO/DEPT® to build anticipation for Digital Insight Games’ launch of Cloud Castles is nominated for Websites and Mobile Sites – Features & Design: Technical Achievement, and General Metaverse Experiences: Games.

Demo Festival – the world’s largest festival of motion design –  organised by STUDIO DUMBAR/DEPT® is nominated for General Websites and Mobile Sites: Events.

Last but definitely not least, DEPT®’s very own Meta Festival – the first 24hr event in the Metaverse – which attracted 12,000 registrations from 109 countries, is nominated for Metaverse & Immersive Features: Best Community Engagement, and Metaverse, Immersive & Virtual – Virtual Video Features: Best Festival or Conference.

In addition to the 32 nominations, 20 projects for the following clients were awarded Honourees: Lululemon Studio, Design Within Reach, Google Store, Jeff Koons, KFC , VIZIO, eBay, Adobe, HAPE, Meebits, Panasonic, Sprite, DIG: Cloud Castles.

Kudos to our talented teams and awesome clients for this incredible achievement, and thank you for voting!

DEPT®, BASIC/DEPT®, and Hello Monday are today celebrating a record year of Webby wins after scooping up 16 awards, 23 nominations and 24 honorees, and also being crowned Network of the Year 2022.

With over 14,000 projects from 70 countries and nearly two million votes, the 26th Annual Webby Awards was one of the biggest in history. The Network of the Year is awarded to the agency with the most Webby and People’s Voice wins, Nominations and Honorees. 

“Wow, global agency network of the year,” said Dimi Albers, CEO of DEPT®. “Being recognised as the top network at the Webbys says a lot about how far we have come in the last six years. We’re humbled to be recognised, and super thankful for all our clients who enable us to do what we do best. We’re very much looking forward to continuing pioneering technology and marketing to help brands stay ahead.”

For DEPT®, the magical, branded experience that digitally brings de Bijenkorf’s wonderful shopping experience to life won the People’s Voice award in the Best Mobile Visual Design – Aesthetic category.

The Eurovision Village, the unique, 3D world we created for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, scooped the People’s Voice awards in the General Social – Events category and the Virtual & Remote – Music category.

The Fingerspelling with Machine Learning website created by Hello Monday, which joined DEPT® last month, was a stand-out performer, securing two Webby wins in the Diversity & Inclusion and Best User Interface categories, and People’s Voice awards for Technical Achievement, Diversity & Inclusion, and Best User Interface.

In addition, Hello Monday won the People’s Voice awards for the Star Atlas website in the Entertainment category, and in the Science category with The Emotional Sound Experience for Hume AI.

The innovative experience DEPT® created for Amazon Prime for the launch of Without Remorse, which saw Twitch streamers taking part in a live, real life gaming experience, won the People’s Voice award for Best Narrative Experience in the Virtual Remote – Immersive category.

BASIC/DEPT® had another hugely successful year with five awards, winning the People’s Voice award for Patagonia in the Best Mobile Experience category, and the Patagonia Footprints Chronicles received the People’s Voice for Corporate Social Responsibility.  In addition, the Silver Oak site won the People’s Voice award for Best Business Blog/Website, Crafted won in the Websites & Mobile Sites – Events category, and the Google Store won in the Shopping Websites and Mobile Sites category.

“DEPT® has set the standard for innovation and creativity on the Internet,” said Claire Graves, Executive Director of The Webby Awards. “This award is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators.”

Presented by The Webby Awards, the Anthem Awards recognise the purpose-driven work of individuals, businesses, and organisations across the world. By amplifying the voices that spark global change, the awards are defining a new benchmark for impactful work that inspires others to take action in their own communities.

Pooja Dingidal, Global Head of Impact at DEPT®, shares: “We are so incredibly proud of our team for continuing to invest their time, skills and creativity into projects that make a positive difference in the world. Our Anthem wins this year truly speak to how digital solutions can have a deep, leveraged and reaching impact across humanity– from public health, to learning and accessibility, to social connection and community.”

AWS & WPHL: Easy Genomics
DEPT®
3 x Silver

Easy Genomics, the revolutionary project that democratises genomic sequencing, won three silver awards in the Responsible Technology, Innovation, and Health categories.

DEPT® teamed up with Amazon Web Services and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene to create an open-source digital solution to help gain a better understanding of diseases and disease prevention. Easy Genomics is a game-changing solution that’s improving the future of public health bioinformatics, and will be used by The Association of Public Health Laboratories in all public health labs in the USA.

Daniel’s Music Foundation
BASIC/DEPT®
1 x Silver

Daniel’s Music Foundation, a nonprofit empowering people with disabilities through music and Disability Awareness programmes, has been changing lives in NYC for almost 20 years.

They needed a website that could keep up, so they came to us for a new one that would build trust, share joy, showcase impact, and also be accessible to people of all abilities. We raised the bar of excellence in accessible design; rather than modifying an experience for a few, it’s about finding ways to translate it for everyone to equally join the fun.

Since launch three months ago, the foundation saw a record high number in inquiries as interest grew exponentially from more people who wanted to work with and for them as instructors. This project won a silver award in the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion category.

Dossy: A simple video app for meaningful connections
DEPT®
1 x Silver

The Dossy app, which is designed to bridge the gap and reduce social isolation among elderly individuals, was recognised in the Responsible Technology category (silver) and in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion category (bronze).

Together with Dossy, we pioneered the use of technology to focus on designing and developing an accessible solution to empower seniors to achieve face-to-face communication effortlessly. Dossy helps them stay connected with their families, friends, and virtual volunteers for meaningful conversations through easy-to-use and secure video calls.

Google Jigsaw: Info Interventions
Hello Monday/DEPT®
1 x Silver

A silver award in the Human & Civil Rights category was given to the Google Jigsaw campaign and website. Jigsaw is a unit within Google that researches threats to open societies, and builds technology, products and tangible methods that inspire scalable solutions. Info Interventions is a collection of four of these experiments specifically created to help people build information resilience at critical moments in their online journey.

Together, our campaign reached 3.5M users of our target audience, while helping to drive efficient awareness and traffic to this important initiative.

Voting polls are now open to the public until Thursday 21st December 2023.

Please cast your votes for your favourite finalists via the links below:

• Easy Genomics
  Responsible Technology – Partnership or Collaboration
  Responsible Technology – Innovation
  Health – Service
  
• Give A Hand
  Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Best Use of AI
  Responsible Technology – Book, Story or Feature
  
• Roche X Project
  Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Campaign – Brand
  XProject selected in Health – Campaign – Brand
  
• eBay x Pre-Loved
  Sustainability, Environment & Climate – Best Influencer Collaboration
  
• Google Jigsaw
  Human & Civil Rights – Education or Literacy Program or Platform
  
• DOSSY
  Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Service
  Responsible Technology – Service
  
• Lean in Girls
  Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Branded Content or Collaboration
  
• Van Gogh Museum
  Education, Art & Culture – Special Projects
  
• Daniel’s Music Foundation
  Diversity, Equity & Inclusion -Product, Innovation & Service

Kudos to our talented teams and awesome clients for this incredible achievement, and thank you for voting!

Voting polls are now open to the public until Thursday 12th October, and winners will be announced later in the month.

Please cast your votes for your favourite finalists via the links below:

Bang & Olufsen

• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Mobile & Experiential Marketing
• Apps, Platforms & Software –  Best User Experience
• Web3 & XR – Art, Culture, Music & Film
• Web3 & XR  – Best Brand Integration / Brand Strategy
• Websites & Mobile Sites – Music & Entertainment

eBay x Love Island

• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Best Partnership or Collaboration
• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Best Digital Campaign
• Social – Culture & Entertainment
• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Fashion, Beauty & Lifestyle

Lapierre

• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Best Animation
• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Best Art Direction
• Film & Video – Sport

Philips

• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Best Social Media Campaign
• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Fashion, Beauty & Lifestyle

Just Eat Takeaway x Katy Perry

• Social – Best Influencer Endorsement

Van Gogh Museum

• Beyond – Art, Design & Heritage
• Websites & Mobile Sites – Cultural Institutions

Fritz Hansen

• Websites & Mobile Sites – Retail & Shopping

Evrnu

• Websites & Mobile Sites – Best Design ­Aesthetic
• Websites & Mobile Sites – Sustainability & Environment

Trainline

• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Sustainability & Environment
• Beyond – Climate & Sustainability

Give A Hand – American Society of Deaf Children

• Apps, Platforms & Software – Best Use of AI or Machine Learning 
• Websites & Mobile Sites – Responsible Innovation

Star Atlas

• Web3 & XR – Best Game Experience
• Websites & Mobile Sites – Best Homepage

Virgin Galactic

• Websites & Mobile Sites –  Best Use of Photography or Video

The Embassies

• Websites & Mobile Sites – Lifestyle

Meebits

• Marketing, Advertising & PR – Best Use of Web3

Demo Festival

• Apps, Platforms & Software – Art & Culture
• Websites & Mobile Sites – Art

Prepare to Pioneer

• Web3 & XR – Best Brand Integration / Brand Strategy
• Web3 & XR – Best Innovation or Use of Technology
• Web3 & XR – Weird & Experimental

Now in its 50th year, The One Show is the world’s most prestigious award show for creative excellence. The Gold Pencil is regarded as one of the top prizes in the industry, and is awarded to the most groundbreaking ideas by the “most remarkable minds in creativity.”

Fingerspelling.xyz, HELLO MONDAY/DEPT®’s solution to teaching the American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet, was awarded two Gold Pencil, three Silver Pencil, and one Merit award:

• Gold Pencil – Interactive & Mobile Craft – Innovation in Interactive & Mobile Craft
• Gold Pencil – Interactive, Online & Mobile – Utility 
• Silver Pencil – Design – Innovation in Design 
• Silver Pencil –  Experiential & Immersive – Craft – Use of Technology 
• Silver Pencil – Interactive & Mobile Craft – Use of Technology 
• Merit Award –  Interactive, Online & Mobile – Gaming – Online

STUDIO DUMBAR/DEPT®’s brand identity for the North Sea Jazz Festival was awarded a Gold Pencil and a Merit Award, Silver Pencil was awarded for its work with D&AD, and a Merit Award for Next Step 22:

• Gold Pencil – Typography- Dynamic/In Motion, North Sea Jazz Festival
• Silver Pencil  – Typography- Dynamic/In Motion,  D&AD: Be Part of More
• Merit Award – Typography- Dynamic/In Motion, Next Step 22
• Merit Award – Brand Identity – Rebranding,  North Sea Jazz Festival

North Sea Jazz Festival worked with STUDIO DUMBAR/DEPT® to refresh its visual identity, to better reflect the diversity of its program which encompasses everything from jazz and fusion to hip hop, world and R&B. 

The new visual identity is driven by a sense of rhythm and movement – celebrating the unique energy of live music performance. Debuted in promotional campaigns, the new style is a fine example of how motion design can play a key role in the creation of visual identities, as well as their dissemination across different media.

In 2022, celebrating the 60th year since its foundation, D&AD sought to highlight the inclusive spirit of its awards, inviting creatives around the world to be part of more by sharing their work, expertise and innovations with the broader creative community.

For the third year running, STUDIO DUMBAR/DEPT® was asked to create a visual identity encompassing a call for entries, virtual ceremonies, an online annual, and everything in between.

Billed as the #1 low-code event, Next Step provides an opportunity to find out more through insights, top tips, hands-on sessions, and influential guest speakers. Seeking a fresh look to stand out in a crowded marketplace, OutSystems invited STUDIO DUMBAR/DEPT® to create the new visual identity for Next Step.