The Nokia Digital Media Awards (DMA’s) have scooped the Best Awards Ceremony accolade at the 2012 Event Industry Awards, which took place on Thursday June 21st at The Burlington Hotel in Dublin.

Recognising the best event industry professionals in the country, the DMA’s beat off stiff competition from The Appys, Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards, The Media Awards, eircom’s We’ve Got Talent and the An Post Integrated Marketing Awards to claim this year’s title.

Commenting on their win Tracey Carney, Event Director of the Ashville Media Events Group said “I am over the moon to receive the award considering such competition and it is a great boost for the team to receive recognition amongst our peers for the work we do”.

Ms. Carney also extended praise to the other groups that were involved in making the Digital Media Awards an award winning success. They included ThinkDesign, Savage Lighting, RAIC Productions and Fuzion Communications, who coordinated an interactive audience competition at the event to add to the evening’s entertainment.

The awards venue was packed with nearly 600 representatives from all over Ireland present to applaud over 100 finalists across 25 categories Winners received prestigious trophies while the remaining finalists were rewarded with a special parchment to mark their success in reaching the finals.

The awards attracted over 200 entries overall, with judges commending the extremely high standards of the entries. The success of the DMA’s win is understood to have been due to the overall production of the awards through the use of LED centrepieces, and the innovative lighting and set which brought the “love digital” theme to reality.