Mark Simpson (speaker) records a short celebratory video announcing that his team/project (Boostie) won the Shorties Award 2023 for "best app and website solution." He reflects on the competitiveness of the category, notes the award's judging/voting split (judges + public voting), and expresses surprise and pride at being announced the winner.
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This is The Shorties Award, 2023, for the best app and website solution in the whole industry. And today is a big milestone because we won this. This is. This is Bruce Lee's. It's a little bit marked still because it got covered in champagne and beer and all those things, but it was. It was a massive night. I'll be perfectly honest, when we were shortlisted for this award and the people that were coming up against, I did think it was a step too far, because the way that the Shorties works is that it is 50 judges, then 50% people can. The public can vote. And I know because of the amazing community that we have behind the scenes, we would definitely get loads of public votes. But it was the judges one that I wasn't quite sure. And the people that we were up against in this category, they are like the goliaths of this industry. They are. They are huge. So to hear my name get called out, to hear Boostie's name get called out was phenomenal.