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The new edition of the Website of the Year award will start in a few months, but the registration period for the wildcards is already opened from April 4th.
- For more information about the selection procedure, please visit: www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk/selection-procedure/
Zylom chosen as Website of the Year 2012
The winners of the 2012 edition of the Website of the Year award - Britain’s most important people’s choice award for websites - were revealed during the festive Award Night at The Brewery in London.
Zylom is chosen as ‘Website of the Year 2012’ in the United Kingdom because of its content, navigation, design and recommendation intention.
This year, 193 websites were nominated in 22 categories. More than 87700 votes were cast between the 1st of October and the 9th of November.
In each category there are two prizes to win: The title ‘Best Website of the Year’ is provided to the website with the highest average score on content, navigation, design and recommendation likelihood. The title ‘Most Popular Website’ is provided to the website with the highest number of votes.
The following websites are the winners of the 2012 Website of the Year award:
| Category | Best Website | Most Popular Website |
| Automotive | BMW | Toyota |
| Career | CV-Library.co.uk | Monster |
| Communities & Social networks | WAYN | WAYN |
| Dating | Match.com | Match.com |
| Educational | University of Oxford | University of Oxford |
| Entertainment | YouTube | YouTube |
| Finance | MoneySavingExpert.com | MoneySavingExpert.com |
| Games | Zylom | Zylom |
| Health & Well being | WebMD | NHS Direct |
| Charities | Body & Soul | Unicef |
| Housing & Interior | Laura Ashley | IKEA |
| News & Information | CNN | BBC News |
| Government | Transport For London | Transport For London |
| Leisure & Travel | British Airways | TripAdvisor |
| Sports | Arsenal.com | BBC Sports |
| Telecom | Vodafone | Vodafone |
| TV & Radio | Discovery Channel | Discovery Channel |
| Comparison | MoneySupermarket.com | MoneySupermarket.com |
| Mobile Website | Yahoo Mobile |
The Website of the Year award is the online people’s choice award initiative by online market research agency MetrixLab and Emerce.
