GAMERS HAVE SPOKEN - MINICLIP WINS THIRD STRAIGHT WEBBY
Miniclip.com Takes the People's Voice Webby for Best Game Site in 'Oscars of the Internet'
Miniclip, the Internet's largest online games website, with 34 million game players, is honored to announce it has won the Peoples Voice Award in the Games category in the 11th Annual Webby Awards for the third consecutive year, the first website to ever achieve this in the games category.
"Miniclip gamers are the best!," said Rob Small, Miniclip CEO, keeping his quote to five words or less, as is the infamous rule for all acceptance speeches during the awards show.
Other noteworthy winners this year include: David Bowie, Webby Lifetime Achievement; Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, Webby Person of the Year; and Jessica Lee Rose (Lonelygirl15), Webby Best Actress Award.
According to analysis by Hitwise, Miniclip rocked the Webby Awards voting as the #1 referrer of voters to the Webby's website in both the US and the UK last week, accounting for more than 21% of the site's traffic in the US and 43% in the UK. People around the world voted for their favorite sites in more than 70 different categories including: Best Viral, Best Celebrity/Fan, Best Branded Advertising, and Best Game related - to name a few - by visiting: http://peoplesvoice.webbyawards.com
"We are thrilled that Miniclip.com has again topped the voting at this years Webby Awards especially considering the caliber of the other nominees. We're delighted that Miniclip game players are so committed and feel so strongly about the quality of Miniclip.com that they turned out to vote in such high volume this year," said Small.
Miniclip has won the best Game site Webby's People's Voice award for the past three consecutive years and this year's win places Miniclip in elite company with others including Google, The Guardian Newspaper, and the BBC, who have also won consecutively in the same category. The awards ceremony will be held in New York City from June 3-5, 2007. This year, the Webbys received 8,000 entries in almost 70 categories from 60 different countries.
Miniclip.com is an all-in-one, high-quality entertainment destination to play online games, participate in virtual communities and watch cartoons. Miniclip.com is known by gamers ranging in ages from 13-29 around the world as being the place for quality, high bandwidth interactive entertainment.
About Miniclip.com
Miniclip.com is the world's largest online games website with 34 million unique users per month – Google Analytics Dec 2006. Miniclip.com games are the most played online games and are syndicated across more websites than any others. Miniclip.com games are extremely popular because they are fun, free, easy to use and include the full range from casual games to hard-core massive multiplayer games. Miniclip.com is one of the Internet's top broadband websites with 98% of its users on high bandwidth connections. Miniclip.com was launched in 2001, has experienced explosive growth and is the largest website in private hands. Miniclip also won the prestigious 2006 Webby Peoples Voice Award, the "Oscars of the Internet" for the Internet's best game site for the second consecutive year.