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eMarketingEye bags 6 awards at 2015 W3 Awards

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eMarketingEye, the award-winning Sri Lankan online marketing agency, won a host of international awards for the second time this year, having bagged six awards - two Golds and four Silvers - at the prestigious W3 Awards held recently.

eMarketingEye won two Gold awards for the 98 Acres Resort & Spa - Ella website and the Cantaloupe Hotels website, under the category ‘General Website Categories - Hotel and Lodging’. The company also won four Silver awards - for the Aitken Spence Hotels and Citrus Leisure websites under the category ‘General Website Categories - Hotel and Lodging’ and for the Aitken Spence Travels and Walkers Tours websites under the category ‘General Website Categories – Travel’. With these set of awards, eMarketingEye’s has won over 15 international awards in 2015. eMarketingEye won multiple awards at the prestigious ‘The 2015 Communicator Awards’ and ‘Interactive Media Awards (IMA)’ earlier this year.

Currently in its 10th year, the W3 Awards highlights creative excellence on the web and recognizes the people behind award-winning sites, marketing programmes, social content, mobile sites/apps and online video. This year, the W3 Awards received over 5,000 entries from ad agencies, PR firms, interactive agencies, in-house creative professionals, web designers, graphic designers and web enthusiasts.

eMarketingEye is a Google AdWords and Analytics Certified Partner Company that offers the total range of online marketing services such as e-strategy consulting, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay-Per-Click marketing (PPC), web development, social media optimization, online reputation management, e-mail marketing,
 
web analytics and Internet Booking 
Engine solutions.

Prior to these latest wins, the company has won numerous other awards – totalling over 70 national and international awards - over the past eight years. These awards include multiple Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards at HSMAI Adrian Awards, Best in Class Awards at Interactive Media Awards (IMA), Best SEO Strategy Award from ad-tech, Google Campaign of the Year 2010 and Google SME Agency of the Year 2009.

Expressing his views on the company’s latest international awards, eMarketingEye CEO Rajitha Dahanayake stated, “It is yet another proud moment for the eMarketingEye team. We are thrilled to win as many as six awards at the W3 Awards. Together with the multiple awards at The Communicator Awards and Interactive Media Awards (IMA) earlier this year, this makes it a groundbreaking year for the company in terms of award wins. 

As an organisation in the forefront of Sri Lanka’s online marketing space, we continue to raise the bar in our solutions. These awards not only serve to portray how we continue to demonstrate excellence in our work but also drive home the point that our online marketing solutions for the hotel and travel industry are unquestionably of international standard.”

The W3 is sanctioned and judged by 
the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, interactive, advertising and marketing firms. AIVA members include executives from organisations such as AgencyNet, AvatarLabs, Big Spaceship, Block Media, Conde Nast, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Fry Hammond Barr, Microsoft, MTV Networks, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Wired, Yahoo! and many others. It is the first major web competition to be accessible to a wide spectrum 
of companies, from Fortune 500 companies and international agencies to even the smallest of firms.