Agency.com CEO and Chairman Selected as Judges For Webby Awards' First-Ever Interactive Advertising Awards

Agency.com CEO and Chairman Selected as Judges For Webby Awards' First-Ever Interactive Advertising Awards

More Than 50 Advertising Industry Leaders Join International Jury

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Agency.com, the full service interactive agency, today announced that David Eastman, Worldwide CEO, and Andy Hobsbawm, Chairman, Europe, have been selected to serve as new members of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and judges for The Webby Awards' first-ever interactive advertising awards.

Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and "one of the most prestigious awards in the world" by the BBC, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet including Websites, Interactive Advertising and Online Film & Video.

Eastman and Hobsbawm are part of an exclusive group of advertising industry leaders who will serve on the jury for the new interactive advertising categories, which were recently announced in conjunction with the call for entries for The 11th Annual Webby Awards.

Other new members of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences include: Bob Greenberg, CEO, R/GA; Jeff Benjamin, Creative Director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky; Matt Freeman, CEO Worldwide, Tribal DDB; and Annie Wong, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, Hong Kong. A full list of judges can be found at http://www.iadas.net/membership.php.

"With the tremendous growth and innovation in interactive advertising, it was essential that we bring together the best thinkers and creative minds in the industry," said David-Michel Davies, Executive Director of the Webby Awards. "We're honored to have David and Andy as members of the Academy."

As a member of the Academy, Eastman and Hobsbawm will be responsible for evaluating entries in 15 interactive advertising categories including banners, rich-media advertisements, integrated marketing campaigns, and viral & email marketing. A full list of the categories can be found at http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/categories.php#interactive_advertising.

To enter the 11th Annual Webby Awards, visit http://www.webbyawards.com/. The early entry deadline is October 27, 2006. Nominees will be announced in April 2007 and winners will be honored at a gala ceremony in June 2007.

For further information please contact:
Marianne Stefanowicz
Agency.com Worldwide
488 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York 10022
e: marianne@agency.com
t: +1-212-358-2664
m: +1-917-421-0380

About Agency.com

Agency.com is a full-service interactive agency. Since 1995, the company has created effective interactive marketing campaigns and world-class Web sites to help global clients -- including 3M, British Airways, T-Mobile and Visa -- get and keep customers online. Agency.com is headquartered in New York and has offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Dublin, London, Milan and San Francisco. For more information, visit http://www.agency.com/. Agency.com is part of TBWA Worldwide, an Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE:OMC) company. Omnicom is a Fortune 500 global advertising, marketing and communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

About The Webby Awards:

Called the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, the Webby is the leading international award honoring excellence in Web design, creativity, usability and functionality. Established in 1996, the 10th Annual Webby Awards received over 5,500 entries from all 50 states and over 40 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: AOL, The Creative Group; Verizon; Adweek; Fortune; Variety; Wired; IDG; iStockphoto; American Marketing Association; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail and Museum of the Moving Image. For more information visit http://www.webbyawards.com/.

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CONTACT: Marianne Stefanowicz, Agency.com, +1-212-358-2664, mobile -
+1-917-421-0380, marianne@agency.com

Source: Agency.com

Web site: http://www.agency.com/
http://www.webbyawards.com/

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