The 7th Annual Webby Awards were held in San Francisco, California on June 5, 2003. Due to budget cutbacks made in response to the 2002 Internet bubble, the decision was made to hold this year's ceremony partially online. This would be the last year that the Webbys would be presented in California prior to their relocation in New York City.[1] For this award ceremony, the business category was expanded with the addition of a new award for "Best Online Businesses."[2] This award would be presented for "sites that excel at achieving fundamental business goals such as increasing sales lead generation or enhancing customer loyalty and retention, marketplace impact and innovation."[3]
Nominees and winners
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| Category | Webby Award Winner | People's Voice Winner | Other nominees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Activism | ActForChange | Greenpeace | The Jane Goodall Institute, Voice Yourself, World Resources Institute |
| Best Practices | Movable Type | Wired News | Commanding Heights Online, Edutopia Online, Theban Mapping Project |
| Broadband | CBC Radio 3 | CBC Radio 3 | BET Hollagram, Commanding Heights Online, Heavy, Homeless |
| Commerce | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Art.com, Fresh Direct, RedEnvelope, The Tire Rack |
| Comedy | get your war on | The Onion | Eric Conveys an Emotion, oddtodd.com, White House |
| Community | Meetup | Geocaching | BBC Video Nation, LiveJournal, Nervous Industries |
| Education | NASA Earth Observatory | NASA Earth Observatory | BrainPOP, Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus, sodaplay, The New York Times Learning Network |
| Fashion, Style & Beauty | SHOWstudio | Style.com | Hint Fashion Magazine, JAPANESE STREETS, Lucire |
| Financial Services & Banking | PayPal | PayPal | ClearStation, E-LOAN, Quicken.com, Yahoo! Finance |
| Games | Orisinal | Swirve | A Tale in the Desert, Disney's Toontown Online, Indie Game Jam, PopCap Games |
| Government & Law | NASA | NASA | National Weather Service, Publius, Rete Civica Iperbole - Comune di Bologna, United Nations |
| Health & Wellness | teenwire.com | HIV STOPS WITH ME | Cancer.gov, lifeclinic.com, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate |
| Living | Do-It-Yourself Network | Do-It-Yourself Network | Bad Girl Swirl, Girl-on-the-street, Kitchens.com, oddtodd.com |
| Movie & Film | indieWire | Rotten Tomatoes | Bright Lights Film Journal, Metacritic, SPONGI |
| Music | The Flaming Lips | The Flaming Lips | Metacritic, Okayplayer.com, pinknoises.com, Tech.Nitions |
| NetArt | Listening Post | Penny Arcade | Andy Deck-Art Context, BlinkenLights, NYC Surveillance Camera Players |
| News | Google News | BBC News Online | allAfrica.com, MSNBC, Romenesko |
| Personal Blog/Website | NobodyHere | Cockeyed.com | David Still, Jeff Harris, Jenville |
| Politics | MoveOn.org | The Note | Congress.org, Environmental Working Group, IssuesPA |
| Print & Zines | AlterNet | The Onion | Boxes and Arrows, Metropolis Magazine, Shift Online |
| Radio | Epitonic Radio | CBC Radio 3 | KEXP, This American Life, Transom, Youth Radio |
| Religion & Spirituality | Pluralism Project | Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America | BBCi Religion & Ethics, Girardian Reflections on the Lectionary, Parish of Trinity Church, Ritualwell.org |
| Science | exploreMarsnow | HowStuffWorks | Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, SCIENCE HOBBYIST, Scirus |
| Services & Utilities | eBay | eBay | Evite, Netflix, Paytrust, VolunteerMatch |
| Sports | ESPN.com | ESPN.com | NBA.com, Surfline, The Official Site of The America's Cup, Tour de France - 2002 |
| Television, Film & Streaming | Nick.com | CartoonNetwork.com | Animal Planet: Future is Wild Interactive, Frontline/World, HBO Online |
| Travel & Lifestyle | Lonely Planet Online | Lonely Planet Online | IgoUgo, Joe Sent Me, SeatGuru, The New York Times: Travel |
| Technical Achievement | Apache Web Server | Laszlo Presentation Server, Linux, phpBB | |
| Weird | rathergood.com | rathergood.com | 20th Century Castles, David Hasselhoff Video: Hooked on a Feeling, FORTEAN TIMES ONLINE, Pole Shift Preparation |
| Youth | 3d&i | Disney's Toontown Online | BAMboozled.org, sodaplay, Whyville |
References
editWinners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.
- ↑ Rose, Derek. "City Nets Webby Awards." Daily News. 5 April 2005.
- ↑ Winter, Christine. "South Florida Sun-Sentinel Christine Winter Column." Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. 10 November 2003.
- ↑ Bainbridge, Jim. "Wal-Mart halts online code site." The Gazette. 21 April 2003.
- ↑ "2003 Webby Awards Winners". Webby Awards. Retrieved March 18, 2026.