Excellence knows no borders and the Digital Media Awards showed that with a selection of the best of the best from around the globe.

The full list of winners are;

Best News Website: The Guardian - Guardian News & Media, UK for their now famed coverage of the NSA files.

Best Digital Advertising Campaign: General Election - Kleine Zeitung of Austria who had a restaurant serve unwitting customers dishes without even asking what the wanted before serving them a 'bill' inviting them to vote if they didn't want someone else to make their choices for them.

Best Use of Online Video: How to put a human on Mars – by the BBC News team and in particular journalist Neil Bowdler whose love of space led him to look a the challenges of putting a human on Mars. “We got a team of great scientists together - so good NASA gave them a call” reflects Neil. “And then there was the whole team at the BBC doing the animations and building this beautiful web site.”

Best Data Visualization Project: Null CTRL – Dagbladet. “We had a huge series of articles concerning online security in Norway” explained designer Auden Aas, “and we had a lot of interesting data to showcase so we made an interactive video showcasing the three most exposed areas of life; at home, at work and in the city. For each one we populated them with hotspots for things like printers and servers that were vulnerable so people could learn about it without having to read technical documents.”

Best Mobile Service: Apple Daily NGA - Apple Daily. Apple Daily's outstanding mobile service became all the more important this year with the development of the Umbrella Revolution democracy protests in Hong Kong. As Christina Lo Man Ki, Director of Digital Strategy pointed out in “the last few days we have people outside our offices with trucks blocking us in so we can't put our paper out – but we have very good mobile service.”

Best in Tablet Publishing:The Age - Fairfax Media

Best Reader Engagement: World Chess Championship 2013 - Verdens Gang. “The rights for the event were snapped form under our nose by a national broadcaster” remembers VG's Espen Olsen, “but we we wanted to make chess easier to understand while showing the game's complexity. We got 300,000 watching every day and chess became hip and trendy; in the end the hosts were using our hashtags.