Wooshii were honoured to be awarded “Best Newcomer” at the Big Chip Digital Industry Awards 2010.

Wooshii fought off competition from an impressive shortlist of candidates to be named as the winner at the ceremony in Manchester on Thursday night.

The website, which only launched last October, has already built a thriving community of over 2500 of the world’s top rich media creatives.

The judging panel, made up of industry experts, described Wooshii’s success to date as “hitting the ground running, with world-class campaigns delivered straight out of the blocks.”

They were also impressed with the way that Wooshii “took a new approach to an old problem, using the unique properties of the internet to bring what was once only available to big companies with reach of any small or medium-sized business.”

After collecting the award, Wooshii’s three founders James Black, Sean Wilson and Fergus Dyer-Smith were all quick to dedicate the achievement to the members of the Wooshii community.

“We’re delighted to have won our first ever award, but we wouldn’t have been able to do it without the incredibly talented people who have joined the site since we launched”, Fergus explained.

“We’re very proud of our creative community and that’s why we want to dedicate the award to them.  Hopefully it will be the first of many!”

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