LMU Honored for Best School/University Website in the 20th Annual Webby Awards
LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Loyola Marymount University has been honored for Best University/School Website in the 20th annual Webby Awards. Hailed as the "Oscars® of the Internet" by The New York Times, the Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.
LMU redesigned and launched its new website on August 31, 2015. The university focused its efforts on mobile users, more prominent visual content, and features it deemed most compelling to its target audiences after intensive research and data gathering. The site's content highlights the university's academic excellence, Jesuit heritage, and its location in Los Angeles and Silicon Beach.
IADAS, which nominates and selects the Webby Award winners, is comprised of over 1,000 web industry experts who serve as the judging body, including Tumblr founder, David Karp, Executive Creative Director at Refinery29, Piera Gelardi, Musicians Questlove & Grimes, Head of Fashion Partnerships at Instagram, Eva Chen, Twitter Co-Founder, Biz Stone, Jimmy Kimmel, and the creator of the .gif file format, Steve Wilhite.
LMU.edu was previously honored in 2008 as part of the 12th Annual Webby Awards.
"I am thrilled LMU has again been recognized with the world's best websites, a fitting tribute to a world-class university," said John Kiralla, executive director of marketing and communications. "With entries from all 50 U.S. states and 70 countries, this recognition reflects our global impact and imagination. Our team reimagined LMU.edu from its first pixel on up, and I am confident that our creative approach produced an extraordinary result not seen elsewhere in higher education."
"Honorees like LMU are setting the standard for innovation and creativity on the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webby Awards. "It is an incredible achievement to be selected among the best from nearly 13,000 entries we received this year." Added Kiralla: "I am most proud of our work because it represents more than the sum of its parts. Quite simply, it represents all of LMU because it was a community collaboration from day one."
The LMU.edu project team was led by LMU's Office of Marketing and Communications, the university's Marketing Advisory Committee, and partners from mStoner, Inc.
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About Loyola Marymount University
Located between the Pacific Ocean and downtown Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University is ranked third in "Best Regional Universities/West" by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1911, LMU is the largest Jesuit, Catholic university in the Southwest, with more than 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. A comprehensive university, LMU offers 57 undergraduate majors and 51 minor programs, along with 43 master's degree programs, one education doctorate, one juris doctorate, one doctorate of juridical science and 13 credential/authorization programs. LMU news and events are found at: www.lmu.edu/news.
About the Webby Awards
Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by The New York Times, the Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Advertising & Media, Online Film & Video, Mobile Sites & Apps and Social. Established in 1996, the Webby Awards received nearly 13,000 entries from all 50 states and over 70 countries worldwide this year. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS). Sponsors and partners of the Webby Awards include: Xfinity, SeeSo, Google, Vitamin T, YouTube, Adformatie, Advertising Age, Code and Theory, Cool Hunting, Creativepool, Digiday, FITC, Internet Week New York, It's Nice That, Mashable, Mobile Marketing Association, Moleskine, Ninja Marketing, Northside Festival, NUMA, Social Media Week, SoDA, Springwise, Taste Talks, The Drum, The Guardian News Media, The Hollywood Reporter, Tube Filter and VentureBeat.
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