The Web Marketing Association (WMA) was founded in Boston in 1997 to help set a high standard for Internet marketing and corporate web development on the World Wide Web. Staffed by volunteers, this organization is made up of Internet marketing, advertising, PR and design professionals who share an interest for improving the quality of advertising, marketing and promotion used to attract visitors to corporate Web sites.

The Web Marketing Association is the producer of the WebAwards, an annual award competition that is designed to judge corporate Web sites against an Internet standard and against peer sites within their industry. Now in its 12th year, the WebAward Competition has become the premier event for web developers and marketers each year.

While some of the other advertising competitions have categories for banner ads, no one has developed an entire competition solely to recognize online advertising by industry - until now.

Now more than ever, marketing on the Internet is a competitive environment. Corporate marketing and Internet professionals constantly need to validate their efforts and provide clients and senior management with independent feedback as to the quality of the work being performed. Clients see quality in "award-winning" advertising and a list of awards can help to draw new clients to a firm seeking to establish or maintain its expertise in new media advertising on the Internet.

Read the Competition guidelines to get a better idea of how the competition operates and then create a nominators account and enter your ad and/or campaign into the 2010 Internet Advertising Competition.

All winners will have their entry highlighted on the Internet Advertising Competition web site and an on a personal award page that recognizes all of the participants on an entry. The winners in each industry will also receive a handsome trophy to display or a personalized Certificate of Achievement.