Cryptomundo Wins A Webby

The results are in, and Cryptomundo has been selected as one of the few “Official Honorees” for a Webby. Here’s the official statement, plus the list of the other winners in our category.

For several months, Cryptomundo has ranked #1 as the most popular cryptozoology site in the world, beating out, in overall rank by three times, the next most visited site, and by six times, the third ranked cryptozoology site.

The Webby Awards is the preeminent International award for the Internet, honoring the world’s best Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites – the Oscars of the Internet, so to speak.

The Webby Awards official definition of the Weird category reads, in part: Sites so forward thinking they seem strange when viewed without the future in mind. This category includes sites that reflect a fresh perspective in thought and action strong enough to start a revolution, change in behavior pattern, or advance old thinking lodged in bad habits.

This, by the way, is not the “People’s Award” part of the Webbys, where people have to encourage their readers to vote. While, of course, that would have been wonderful, as well, we are proud to be honored as we have been. We won the division of the competition juried and awarded by the Webby Awards judges alone.

All of us here at Cryptomundo thank you, our readers, for spreading the word, sharing with us your intelligent comments and reading us.

Winners are asked to write a five-word speech for the acceptance of one of the ultimate awards handed out in June. Just like at the Academy Awards, I already have mine written: “Still covertly cryptic quite overtly!”

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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