Valve’s UPM Forest Life was nominated in the Corporate Communicatons category for the 12th Annual Webby Awards. Now we need your help; as a nominee for a Webby Award, Valve is also eligible to win a People’s Voice Award. People’s Voice voting is open to the public from April 8 to May 1. Cheer us to win and vote now here!

Valve received bronze in the annual New York Festivals’ Innovative Advertising competition for Drunk, you’re a fool. The campaign was awarded in the Educational category and was the only Finnish campaign awarded in the competition. Online, tv, print and outdoor advertising were used to create traffic to the website during the campaign. The website was designed in co-operation with Bob Helsinki.

Valve hosted a social event that included some of the biggest names of the graphics and multimedia industry. The event was held in co-operation with Ardites and was part of the Khronos Group’s programme during their visit to Helsinki. The Khronos Group is a member-funded industry consortium responsible for the stewardship and development of the open standards for multimedia authoring and playback.

Valve has been selected as the Company of the month in Digibusiness.fi. Check out the story here.

Valve’s fellow company - TripSay - was yesterday noted on the TechCrunch blog.

TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. The blog is co-edited by Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld - the two men to whom companies’ representatives are said to be queuing outside their hotel just to get their signature startup mentioned on the blog.

Congratulations to everyone at TripSay. Now get into public beta already.

UPM Forest Life has been nominated for the 12th annual Webby Awards in the Corporate Communicatons category.

Also, Drunk, you’re a fool has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Health category and MillionClouds was selected for the Best Navigation/ Structure category.

The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. The Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. The 12th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries.

The Webby Awards and the Webby People’s Voice Awards will be announced on May 6th, 2008. Winners will be honored at the 12th Annual Webby Aawards in New York City from June 8th to June 10th, 2008.

Valve received a silver award and an honorary quotation in this year’s Vuoden Huiput competition in the Digimedia category. The silver awarded “Drunk, you’re a fool” has been a success also in other competitions throughout the year, for instance in SIME and Grand One. “Drunk, you’re a fool” was designed and executed in co-operation with Bob Helsinki.

“Fressis” also received an honorary quotation for the campaign site and was described by the jury as follows:

Behind this absurd and humoristic campaign there is a serious issue. Around this issue, a diversified site has been built paying regard to the target audience’s usage of the Internet.

The site was designed in co-operation with Hasan & Partners and also “Fressis” has been noticed in various competitions, such as Eurobest and Epica.