LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TotallyHer Media’s Momtastic (www.momtastic.com), a leading destination offering inspiration and solutions for family and life, announced today that it has been named winner of Best Website: Family/Parenting in the 19th Annual Webby People’s Voice Awards.
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. IADAS, which nominates The Webby Award Winners, is comprised of digital industry experts, including Tumblr founder, David Karp, Huffington Post Founder, Arianna Huffington, Grantland’s Bill Simmons, Lucky Magazine’s Editor-in-chief, Eva Chen, Instagram co-founder, Kevin Systrom, Jimmy Kimmel, and creator of the .gif file format, Steve Wilhite. For The Webby People’s Voice Awards, 500,000 internet fans from over 200 countries and territories around the world cast their votes to choose the winners.
Reaching over 17 million moms each month (March 2015, comScore), Momtastic is an all-inclusive web destination combining premium content and community for today’s mothers. Momtastic offers everything a woman needs to know about parenting and pregnancy, while also serving her other passion points with style and beauty advice, recipes, DIY projects, relationship secrets, celeb gossip, and more. Created to address a void in the market, Momtastic combines the best of mom communities, blogs, and premium content publishing and now brings in 61 million page views per month (March 2015, comScore). Momtastic speaks with moms, offering a supportive, honest, entertaining and real voice across all the topics they care about. In 2014, Momtastic also won an OMMA Award for Best Website in Family/Parenting/Women’s Interest.
“With Momtastic, our goal has always been to provide moms with high-quality content in a voice that’s honest, authentic, and real—creating a loyal and rapidly expanding community. Winning The Webby People’s Voice Award through reader votes is an amazing testament to the growing Momtastic audience, and we are thrilled,” said Brian Fitzgerald, President and Co-Founder of Evolve Media, parent company of TotallyHer Media. “This is a huge milestone moment not only for Momtastic, but for TotallyHer Media and the entire Evolve Media family.”
“To be nominated by The Webby’s is an enormous honor in itself—but to win by community and reader votes is particularly inspiring,” said Rebecca Schmitt, General Manager of TotallyHer Media. “We could not be more proud of the Momtastic team, who works tirelessly to serve our passionate readership. Winning for Best Website in the Parenting/Family category is a fantastic validation of their vision, high standards, and hard work.”
About Momtastic
Momtastic (www.momtastic.com) is an all-inclusive web destination combining premium content and community for mothers. The site helps over 17 million moms (March 2015, comScore) each month by answering real questions, providing support and delivering inspiration for everyday life.
Momtastic was created to address a void in the market by combining the best of mom communities, blogs, and premium content publishing and now brings in 61 million page views per month (March 2015, comScore). Momtastic covers all the subjects that interest moms, with sections dedicated to Pregnancy, Parenting, Food, Health, Style, Shopping, Life, and Entertainment. Momtastic speaks with moms, offering a supportive, honest, entertaining and real voice across all the topics they care about.
Momtastic is a part of TotallyHer Media, an Evolve Media publishing vertical dedicated to women and their families.
About The Webby Awards
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Advertising & Media, Online Film & Video, Mobile Sites & Apps, and Social. Established in 1996, The Webby Awards received nearly 13,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide this year. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS). Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Grey Goose, Vitamin T, Shocase, Engine Yard, Funny or Die, Code and Theory, Happy Fun Corp, Advertising Age, Internet Week New York and Guardian News and Media.
