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Winners of Digital Media Africa Awards 2016 honoured

The first Digital Media Africa conference organized by WAN-IFRA got off to an exciting start Wednesday afternoon and was capped by the announcement of the winners of the inaugural Digital Media Africa Awards 2016 on Thursday evening.

by Brian Veseling brian.veseling@wan-ifra.org | September 29, 2016

In total, about 360 industry delegates from more than 16 countries are attending the three-day event at The Maslow Hotel, Sandton, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event kicked off with a Facebook Live workshop led by Matej Lončarić and Goran Gavranović of 24sata, Croatia, drawing 200 participants.

The winners of the inaugural edition of the Digital Media Africa Awards were presented during a gala with DJ Rita Ray, as part of the first full day of the conference.

Media24, Independent Group, Nation Media Group and Times Media Group were among the winners of the awards presented by WAN-IFRA.

WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards are the most prestigious recognition of best practice innovation in digital publishing worldwide. The awards are presented in major regions throughout the world including Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and South Asia.

The winners from each region subsequently compete for the World Digital Media Awards, which will be announced for this year during WAN-IFRA’s World Publishing Expo in Vienna in October.

The winners of the Digital Media Africa Awards were chosen from 10 categories. The categories and the winners are:

BEST NEWS WEBSITE

Media24, South Africa
www.news24.com
and
Nation Media Group, Kenya
www.nation.co.ke
(tie)

Second place

Independent Newspapers Ltd
www.iol.co.za

BEST ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE WEBSITE

Media24, South Africa
Kick Offwww.media24.com
and
The Standard Group Ltd., Kenya

SDEwww.standardmedia.co.ke
(tie)

Second place

Independent Newspapers Ltd.
Condé Nast House & Garden

BEST USE OF ONLINE VIDEO

Independent Newspapers Ltd, South Africa
IOL: What would you take a bullet for?

Second place

Nation Media Group, Kenya
NTV Wild

BEST DATA VISUALISATION PROJECT

Times Media Ltd, South Africa
TMG Election App

Second place

The Voice of America, USA
How Long Have Africa’s Presidents Held Office?

BEST NEWS MOBILE SERVICE

Media24, South Africa
News24 Elections 

Second place

Eyewitness News, South Africa
Eyewitness News

Special mention

Standard Group Ltd., Kenya
Mobile Service

BEST ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE MOBILE SERVICE

Media24, South Africa
Men’s Health – Belly Off

Second place

Independent Newspapers Ltd., South Africa
Condé Nast House & Garden App

BEST TABLET PUBLISHING

Mail & Guardian, South Africa
M&G iPad Edition: 5 August 2016
and
Independent Newspapers Ltd., South Africa
IOL Tablet App
(tie)

Second place

24.com, South Africa
News24 App

BEST READER ENGAGEMENT

Media24, South Africa
Women’s Health – Next Fitness Star 

Second place

Nation Media Group, Kenya
My Network

BEST DIGITAL ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

Media24, South Africa
Landbou.co.za
Client – John Deere

Second place

Media24, South Africa
Huisgenoot.com & SARIE.com
Client – Afrikaans.com

BEST NEW PRODUCT

Times Media Ltd., South Africa
Wanted Online

Second place

Independent Newspapers Ltd., South Africa
Loot/Solezwe

Full details of the conference are available at http://events.wan-ifra.org/events/digital-media-africa-2016

The event continues Friday and can be followed on Twitter with #DMAfrica16 and through blog posts at http://blog.wan-ifra.org/blogs/digital-media-event-blog.

Photo by Angela Pontes Rodriguez, WAN-IFRA

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