MarCom is one of the oldest, largest, and most respected competitions in the creative industry. The MarCom Awards is an International creative competition with over 5,000 entries each year from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers. The MarCom statuette graces the trophy cases of some of the top business and communication firms in the world.  A look at the winners shows a range in size from individuals to media conglomerates and Fortune 50 companies.

Over the past two decades, Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals' judges have earned a reputation for accuracy, fairness and credibility. A look at the list of MarCom winners is a who's who of the industry. It is also the competition where professional organizations that run their own competitions enter their work.

Platinum: MOSI

Bayshore Solutions’ website design for MOSI won MarCom’s Platinum Award. The Platinum Award is presented to those entries judged to be among the most outstanding entries in the competition. Platinum Winners are recognized for their excellence in terms of quality, creativity and resourcefulness. The MOSI web design is full of color, engaging fun and useful, timely information. The website allows guests to find out what’s happening at MOSI, plan their visits, and quickly search for information throughout the website. You can find this Platinum Award winning website at http://www.Mosi.org.

Gold: The Melting Pot Restaurants

The Melting Pot Restaurants’ new website designed by Bayshore Solutions won MarCom’s Gold Award. The Gold Award is presented to those entries judge to exceed the high standards of the industry norm. Bayshore Solutions designed a guest friendly website for The Melting Pot that was easy to navigate and visually appealing while accomplishing a goal of educating their guests and increasing consumer awareness by making it easy to choose, locate and reserve a table for dining at any nationwide Melting Pot restaurant location. MarCom’s Gold Award Winner, The Melting Pot, website can be found at http://www.MeltingPot.com.

Gold: Intrepid Powerboats

Also receiving a MarCom Gold Award for its website design is Intrepid Powerboats. Bayshore Solutions created an engaging Web design for Intrepid Powerboats offering high levels of innovation, technology and unique accessibility for their customers. Exclusively for Intrepid customers, the site offers a secure Intrepid Owner’s Portal complete with auto-location detection. Intrepid owners can access this unique community every time they visit the website.  As a part of the Intrepid family, members are able to chat on the owner’s forum, locate other Intrepid boats around the world, share photos, videos and more. Intrepid’s Gold Award winning website can be found at http://www.IntrepidPowerboats.com.

Honorable Mention: Straz Center for the Performing Arts

Bayshore Solutions’ Straz Center website received  MarCom Award recognition as well.  The new custom website development showcases interactive features such as video, production photos, song samples, and more. The website platform was built on the Kentico Content Management System framework allowing more frequent and customized content updates, ease of use for non-technical users, and a robust ASP.Net/SQL Server platform for agile integration with existing back office systems. The Straz Center’s award winning website can be found at http://StrazCenter.org.

Judges were industry professionals who looked for website design talent that exceeded a high standard of excellence and whose work served as a benchmark for the industry. It took judges two months to judge the thousands of entries. Entries were evaluated on quality, creativity and resourcefulness.