8th Philippine Web Awards launched.

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief June 16, 2005 · 1 min read

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This year is the 8th year of the Philippine Web Awards and as of today, they are now open for nominations. Nominations become official if the site owners agree and pay for the nomination fee of Php2,500 per entry (except for Personal and Org categories which is Php250). Too steep a fee I must say. It really pushes away a huge number of potentially good sites from joining.

After winning several awards in 2002 and 2003 (for Grabeh.com on the Portal category), I think I have already graduated from such contests/awards.

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31 Comments

demonhale · 21 years ago

I hope they made the entries nomination based, the more nomination a certain sites gets, then it will be selected as an entry.

Then as an entry youll be sent a notice that you are selected, in exchange you place a rotating banner ad on your site(which is hosted on the awarders site to prevent BW hogging on yours) where the banners have ads by sponsors of the events. This is where they create revenue, click throughs and advertising, a simple case of TV mentality…

So the nominees wouldnt then shed a penny…
Then if you win, you stick with the banner for a year, thats a good deal considering your site will be popular because of this, the sponsors products would get more views too…

bambit · 21 years ago

i think it’s sad that one has to put money up front to prequalify for the awards. sana makapaghanap pa ng ibang paraan ang Media G8way para maidaos ang event.

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

I guess they ran out of funds to put up the awards event. I have been a pre-finals judge before and I already sense that this campaign really lacks corporate support in terms of funding.

The fees are really steep and while they claim it weeds out nominations, they did not recognize that fact that it could also inhibit potentially good entries.

I think it’s really about funding. Media G8way could not longer finance this event from their own budget so that have to look for other ways and asking for fees must have been their best option.

hoop · 21 years ago

the part I never understood was, why you had to pay an entrance fee to join? to defray the cost of the judging? Isn’t that why you get sponsors? I’m sure there are a lot of big companies out there who would be more than willing to shellout some change from their million peso advertising budgets to cover such a high profile event as a web awards.

Or is this their way of policing absurd entries?

AnP · 21 years ago

i guess, you have already proven yourself when it comes to websites/blogging. May awards ka na nga eh! Besides, bakit kailangan pa magbayad?! if they want to earn, they should look for sponsors. diba slim pickings na lang yon if you can only choose among those who are willing to pay in order to win an award.

anyway, magaling ka na naman eh. sayang lang pera ;)

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

Naku, I accidentally lost yung very first trophy that we won in 2002. Naiwan ko sa bus. :D

nice ash · 21 years ago

nakow. may take it take it ba? hehehe. anyway, deserving naman ang grabeh for that.

alwell · 21 years ago

yuga sige ka ibubuking ko dito ang nangyari dati heheehhe.. joke.

Jaypee · 21 years ago

yeah you should join, but in the Personal category since you already won several times in other categories di ba? Who knows, you end up bagging the trophy for that category this year? =)

nice ash · 21 years ago

you can make it. ;)

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

nice ash : maybe on the Personal category this time? ;)

Gerry : some people think that once you’ve crossed the bridge, it’s not as exciting when you cross it the second time.

Alwell: yoko na kase dagdagan yung trophies sa aparador mo, mukhang masikip na eh. :p

alwell · 21 years ago

donâ€™t you want to be part of the Hall of fame? …

alwell · 21 years ago

don’t you want to part of the Hall of fame? according to the host last year they did opened that door to those sites that won 5 times.

Gerry Alanguilan · 21 years ago

Oh I don’t know…. nobody graduates from winning Oscars, Grammys or Pulitzers, diba? Winning is a singular honor, no matter how many times you win. It only encourages others to do better, and keep the quality of work high. If you take away good conteders, then the standard invariably falls, don’t you think?

But still, I think it’s infuriating to be asked to pay if you want to compete. If a site is good, then it’s good isn’t it?