At an awards ceremony on 12 November 2018, we were thrilled to be named Website of the Year at Themission Good Web Guide Awards, as well as taking home awards for Best Use of Social Media and Best Food & Drink Website. The Good Web Guide (GWG) Awards recognise websites that showcase excellence in their field, covering everything from household brands to grassroots start-ups.
Up against sites such as House & Garden and Sheerluxe, the judging panel named Great British Chefs as Website of the Year after looking at the quality of design, usability and content of all the shortlisted entries. Making up the judging panel were leading industry figures such as Holly Tucker, co-founder of Not On The High Street; serial entrepreneur Jerry Horwood and Kelly Eastwood of The London Chatter.
In the past year we’ve been working hard to make our website faster, more responsive and easier to use as well as improving our search functionality and navigation, so we were over the moon to be recognised for all our hard work. Great British Chefs exists so that the 13.6 million foodies in the UK have a website where they can find truly great content, be that recipes, how-to guides or features. We’ve always seen aesthetics, design, imagery and video as an integral part of what we do, which is something the judges picked up on. We’re now ahead of all our competitors when it comes to engagement, as you can see in the graphs below.