Please join Laura Mayes, Carrie Pacini, and the entire Mom 2.0 Summit team — plus our surprise emcee Andrew McCarthy!–in congratulating the winners of the 2015 Iris Awards, whose work has given us something to celebrate for several years in the online parent publishing industry. We are so proud of, and happy for, all of them.

VANGUARD AWARD

Winner: Jory des Jardins, Elisa Camahort Page, and Lisa Stone, co-founders of BlogHer 

TECHNICAL QUALITY

BEST WRITING:

Winner: Whit Honea of Honea Express

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Deb Rox, Deb on the Rocks
Elizabeth Jayne Liu of Flourish in Progress
Glennon Melton of Momastery
Thom Hoffman of Daddy, Medium Well

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY:

Winner: Jessica Shyba of Momma’s Gone City

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Ashley Ann Campbell of Under the Sycamore
Jill Krause of Baby Rabies
Lucrecer Braxton of Lucrecer
Rebecca Woolf of Girl’s Gone Child

BEST VIDEO:

Winner: Jessi Sanfilippo of Shuggilippo

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Bored Shorts TV: Brett, David, John and Randy Roberts
Conversations With My Two-Year Old: Matthew Clarke
“I’m Back” Video Featuring David Gray and Mothers Who Have Survived Post-Partum Depression, Barbara Jones and Katherine Stone
Mommy Nani Booboo: Jenni Chiu

CONTENT QUALITY

MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING CONTENT:

Winner:Oren Miller of A Blogger and a Father

Other talented nominees for this award included:

A’Driane Nieves of Butterfly Confessions
Denene Millner of My Brown Baby
Kristen Howerton of Rage Against the Minivan
Whit Honea of Honea Express

MOST ENTERTAINING CONTENT:

Winner: Buzzfeed Parents, Morgan Shanahan and Mike Spohr

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Asshole Parents/#AssholeParent: Kristen Howerton
How to Be a Dad: Charlie Capen and Andy Herald
The Honest Toddler: Bunmi Laditan
They’re Not All Gems: Wendi Aarons

BEST SPONSORED CONTENT CAMPAIGN:

Winner: Ick Awards with Clorox, Charlie Capen and Andy Herald

Other talented nominees for this award included:

#LatteRomeo for Mother’s Day With Starbucks: Tommy Riles, David Guest and Ryan Hamilton, Life of Dad
#MyUntoldStory with Wells Fargo: Stacey Ferguson, Life is the Party
Real Life Parenting with Cotton Babies, Jill Williams Krause, Baby Rabies
Visit Sweden with Volvo and the West Sweden Tourist Board, Gabrielle Blair, Design Mom

INDUSTRY INFLUENCE

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR:

Winner: Amiyrah Martin of Four Hats and Frugal

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Allison Slater Tate of The Mid
Liz Faria of A Mothership Down
Simon Isaacs & Mike Rothman of Fatherly
Thom Hoffman of Daddy, Medium Well

GAME CHANGER:

Winner: Doug French and John Pacini of Dad 2.0 Summit

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Ana Flores of Spanglish Baby, Latina Bloggers Connect and We All Grow
Ann Imig of Listen to Your Mother Show
Oren Miller of A Blogger and a Father
Stacey Ferguson of Blogalicious

PHILANTHROPIC WORK:

Winner: Jeannine Atalay Harvey and Ginny Wolfe, ONE Campaign for Women and Girls

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Dads4Oren, Brent Almond and John Kinnear
Dads4Change, Whit Honea and Carter Gaddis
Every Mother Counts, Heather Armstrong and Christy Turlington
The Red Pump Project, Luvvie Ajayi and Karyn Brianne Lee

HONOR + ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

WEB PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR:

Winner: Oren Miller, A Blogger and a Father

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Ana Flores of Spanglish Baby
Ann Imig of Listen to Your Mother Show
Charlie Capen & Andy Herald of How to Be a Dad
Stacey Ferguson of Blogalicious

BLOG OF THE YEAR:

Winner: Design Mom 

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Girl’s Gone ChildHandmade Charlotte

Motherlode at the New York Times
My Brown Baby

BEST BRAND CONTENT CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR:

Winner: Always: Like a Girl Campaign

Other talented nominees for this award included:

Dove #Beauty Is Campaign
Dove Men+Care #RealStrength Campaign
Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility #TalkEarly Campaign
Similac Sisterhood of Motherhood Campaign

We look forward to what you all have in store for us over the next year, and what we might be celebrating next May in Scottsdale already thrills us to no end. Thank you to each and every nominee, winner, Mom 2.0 attendee, and everyone following along on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at home for this outstanding show of support. We are so happy to have shared this experience with all of you.

Image credits: Michael Cummings; Laura Mayes on Instagram