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These Are The Standout Winners Of The 2016 Webby Awards

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The winners of the twentieth annual Webby Awards were revealed this morning, and there are some pretty big names being honored for their contributions to all things internet-related this year.

A very select group of people are being praised this time around with special trophies, and they are:

  • Lifetime Achievement Award - The Onion will collect this after the publication won dozens of Webby Awards over the decades;
  • Social Movement of the Year -This prize goes to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and it will be accepted by co-founders Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza;
  • Entrepreneur of the Year - Former Forbes cover star Jessica Alba will take this home for her work building The Honest Company into a billion-dollar empire; and
  • Special Achievement - Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, the co-creators of the popular TV show Girls will pick this up for creating Lenny Letter, a weekly newsletter focused on all things feminism that has hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

There was a panel of highly-esteemed industry personnel that helped choose the winners, with members such as Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, internet inventor Vint Cerf, and several social stars, but the Webbys also asked the public what they loved best, and those with the most votes are awarded the People’s Choice Award in their respective categories. This year, over two million votes were counted from internet users in 235 countries and territories, which just goes to show how widespread some of these websites and most of this content truly is.

The biggest winners this year are Spotify and Vice Media, both of which pick up 13 awards for everything from advertising to fashion and beauty videos to brand strategy. Behind those two companies are several other brands that win multiple awards, including National Geographic with ten, The New York Times with eight, and TED with seven.

In the entertainment vertical, there are plenty of well-known names that are set to collect trophies, including Jimmy Fallon, SNL 40, The Weeknd, House Of Cards, Tumblr...and those are just a few of the dozens of high-profile artists, shows, and specials that were named the best of in their vertical this year.

Now, this is not a complete list of all the winners at this year’s Webby Awards, but that would be a very difficult post to share. This year, there were over 1,000 nominees, according to representatives for the organization, so it’s easy to believe that even if the majority of them lost, that would still be a very, very long list. The full list of winners is available on the Webby website.

The winners may have been announced, but the actual ceremony doesn’t take place until May 16th, when the awards will be handed out and speeches will be given at a fun celebration in New York City. For those that can’t make it to the event, the awards will be livestreamed at the Webby Awards’ website.