Categories: Social Media

Winners of the 2012 Social Media Awards announced

From a packed Round Room in Dubin’s Mansion House tonight, attended by over 400 individuals, Vodafone Ireland takes home the grand prize at the second annual Bord Gáis Energy Social Media Awards. Vodafone Ireland also won the award for best non-broadcast video/video campaign and best customer care using social media.

The 2012 Social Media Awards winners

Rick O’Shea guided tonight’s proceedings, stopping briefly to make way for Colm O’Regan’s @irishmammies comedy sketch at half-time. Other winners in prominent categories included the National Lottery, awarded best Facebook Page for a business (non-campaign), Blacknight who won best blog of a business and Spin 1038 who won best Twitter account with regard to marketing and sales efforts.

For more you can read Piers Scott’s live commentary on the night, scroll through tweets of the ceremony as it happened and as edited by myself, or read everybody else’s Twitter maundering here. The complete list of winners is below, whittled down from this larger list of finalists.

Grand Prix – Vodafone Ireland

Albizu Garcia

Albizu Garcia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gain -- a marketing technology company that automates the social media and content publishing workflow for agencies and social media managers, their clients and anyone working in teams.

View Comments

Recent Posts

How the launch of Prezent Vivo promises to change the communication landscape in life sciences permanently 

According to research from McKinsey, nearly a quarter of life sciences organizations had already deployed…

14 hours ago

International think tank Horasis announces dates for its Asia Meeting

Horasis, the international think thank founded by Frank-Jürgen Richter, has announced that its Asia Meeting…

2 days ago

A new era of AI-native education is on the horizon 

While the use of AI in the classroom is always a hotly debated topic, the…

2 days ago

Unauthorized access to Anthropic’s Mythos model raises AI security concerns

Anthropic built a moat around its most powerful AI model yet. When tested, the defenses…

4 days ago

UN, Gates 50-in-5 campaign to award Digital Public Infrastructure leaders at General Assembly

The 50-in-5 Awards are a made-up spectacle to celebrate globalist lapdogs corralling all of society…

1 week ago

Why AI Agents Still Forget—Even With 1 Million Tokens

I spent weeks debugging an agent that kept “forgetting” contexts mid-task. The agent had access…

1 week ago