Mangalore: A Mangalore based educational portal BestCollegeHunt.com has been nominated for Website of The Year India(WOTY)-2014 in the Career & Education category by MetrixLab.
Including the BestCollegeHunt.com around 250 websites have been nominated in 21 different categories this year.
Nominated websites are judged on content, navigation, design and recommendation intention. In each category there are two prizes to be won: the Best and the Most Popular Website of the Year. The ‘Best Website’ is the site with the highest average score on content, navigation, design and recommendation intention. The ‘Most Popular Website’ is the site with the highest number of votes. The overall winner is the website with the best combined score will be bestowed with the coveted title ‘The Website of the Year India 2014’. Voting is open now at websiteoftheyear.co.in.
The Proud Mangaloreans can support to bag the award by voting for http://websiteoftheyear.co.in/best-collegehunt/ in the organizers’ portal websiteoftheyear.co.in. in the Career & Education category.
The voters can also bag exciting prizes such as 1 Apple MacBook Air, 2 GoPro HERO3+ cameras and 5 Jawbone UP24 devices other than daily & weekly special prizes.
The voting will be open from 12 Noon on 27 October till until 5 December.
2014 signals the ninth consecutive year this independent election is being organised by MetrixLab, a global insights and analytics provider. Last year, about 1,25,000 votesdecided the WOTY 2013 winners making the Website of the Year India election one of the largest online public prizes in our country. Winners in 2013 included Tata Motors, Apollo Hospital, Uninor, Naukri, Bharat Matrimony, Times of India, Economic times, MakeMyTrip, Yatra&Flipkart. It would be interesting to find if these websites are able to defend their WOTY titles this year as well.
Winfred Samson, head of Markettools Research India, a MetrixLab company states: “Website of the Year is a great initiative that MetrixLab is proud to conduct annually. As digital is now a central part of any brand’s marketing strategy, the quality of their website, and its ability to stand out against the competition, is a more important factor than ever. We are so pleased to be able to recognize the top performing websites in the India, and to ensure that the Indian market is aware of which brands they should be watching, and who is delivering great digital content via their website! Like last year, we are glad to associate with Ship2myID.com, as our lead sponsors.We hope to see a fierce but healthy competition amongst the competing websites this year, and expect over a million votes.”
Besides the India, the vote is also held in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, UK, Brazil and China.
About BestCollegeHunt.com
Since its institution four years ago, the city based educational portal has been working to give best to its visitors when it comes to education and career guidance. Through its network spread all over the country and over the globe it has been a ray of hope for many knowledge aspirants by providing all the necessary information about the best courses in the globe provided in the best educational institutions under one roof.
About MetrixLab
MetrixLab is a global provider of consumer insights and marketing analytics. We turn data from surveys, social media and enterprise systems into valuable business information and actionable consumer insights that help leading companies drive product innovation, brand engagement and customer value. Headquartered in Rotterdam and San Francisco with 15 offices across the US, Europe and Asia, MetrixLab provides analytics and insights services in more than 50 countries. The research solutions are deployed by more than half of the world’s top 100 brands, including Microsoft, Philips, Google, Danone, Unilever and Heineken. www.metrixlab.com