Webby Awards 2009: Results & Winners

The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.

Among the top of the web elite include Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor, Jimmy Fallon, and Twitter, obviously. Trent Reznor obviously due to his bands increasingly popular delve into the digital arena without hinderance for its fans, as well as his outing of Apple for denying an update to the Nine Inch Nails application on the App Store.

The film-specific Person of the Year award goes to “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, who has partnered with Google on an animated Web series and whose creations consistently rank at the top of Hulu’s most-watched clips.

The Artist of the Year accolade is for Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor. A vocal critic of the mainstream music industry, Reznor has been skeptical of “innovative” digital distribution efforts and most recently lashed out at Apple on his blog for turning down a Nine Inch Nails iPhone app. (Source: Cnet)

BBC & Twitter holds some top spots as well in that it has become the most rapidly growing social networking web site in the past two years having to more than octuple its bandwidth rather rapidly thanks to numerous famous users. Jimmy Fallon hits the top spots as well thanks to its involvement in internet social networking opening its web site to allow for suggestions comments and forums from its viewers to help shape the show.

Also the Winners will be honored at a June 8 ceremony in New York City as part of Internet Week New York.

Complete List of Winners and Nominees: Click Here