Website Awards

The Radio Academy's Promotion & Marketing Awards 2009

The Absolute Radio website won an award for "Best Use Of Online For Marketing A Station Or Network" for our Rock-Off competition.

The Webby Awards 2005: Double winner

People's Choice winner, Radio category winner
Our website won the Webby Award for radio in 2005 - chosen by a global organisation with a membership that included David Bowie, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, business guru and author Tom Peters, The Body Shop president Anita Roddick, fashion designer Max Azria, "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening and Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser.

The website has also won the People's Voice Webby Award for radio - chosen by tens of thousands of Internet users worldwide. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, the Webby Awards is the leading international award honouring excellence in Web design, creativity, usability and functionality.

The Imperatives Digital Awards - February 2005

Best Media Owner.
Thanks, in part, to your votes, we're the proud owner of another award - 'Best Media Owner' at The Imperatives Digital Awards. We couldn't have done it without you. Thank you.

The other nominations were Reuters.co.uk, Hello Magazine, Time Europe and Magicalia Digital Publishing.

The judges' notes said...

"[The station] was a very early convert in the mid-1990s to the Web, and a leader from the start. It has diversified across digital platforms, and as well as the web now broadcasts on digital radio and is among the first stations to trial the cutting edge Visual Radio platform developed by Nokia for mobile phones. It was also the first radio station in the world to launch its own browser toolbar. This has helped increase weekly listener visitors by 300%. It also has 100,000 "VIP" listeners who interact via email and text messaging. According to independent radio audtiors Arbitron, it is the world's most listened to online radio station. All this online activity aided [the station] in the offline world, where time spent listening to the station increased by 22.9% in London last year. It has recently moved in "podcasting" via RSS feeds and and streaming over GPRS/3G mobile."

Digital Music Awards - October 2004

Best Radio Station Online.
The web team recieved the award at the glitzy Digital Music Awards ceremony in London on Tuesday 19 October 2004 where the finest in the digital music world were recognised.

We'd just like to say a BIG thank you to all of you who voted; it's good to know that thousands of you still think we're the best!

We picked up the same award at the Interactive Music Awards, making it two in a row for the station at a time when digital music was really taking off.

It's been a year of firsts in the digital music world, and the station was been at the forefront - including being the first station to recognise an online music chart.

Interactive Music Awards - December 2003

Best Radio Station Online.
We've all known it for a while, but now it's official: this is the best online radio station!

The winners of the Broadband from BT Interactive Music Awards 03 were announced on Tuesday 2 December 2003 at a ceremony in London.

In a year in which the music industry 'woke up' to downloading music from the net, the awards celebrated the best use of interactive media in music - whether it be artist websites, download services, interactive TV shows, online radio stations or use of mobile platforms. A record level of entries came in for the awards and thousands of music fans helped to pick the winners via SMS voting.

We made it into the shortlist of best online radio stations, and were then chosen as the winner by thousands of listeners voting for us.