Clearbridge Mobile has received three W3 Silver Awards for the second year in a row for its work with OCAS on the Ontariocolleges.ca mobile app. The awards are the latest in a string of accolades that include the 2016 Startup 50 list of Canada’s top new growth companies published by Canadian Business and PROFITguide.com; and Clutch.co’s 2016 Top Canadian App Developers.

Clearbridge was awarded the silver prize in three separate categories:

• Mobile Features – Best User Experience
• Mobile Features – Best Visual Design – Aesthetic
• Mobile Features – Best Visual Design – Function

Receiving nearly 5,000 entries, the W3 Awards honors outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, Web Video, Mobile Sites/Apps & Social content created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide.

The W3 is judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), a group of top professionals from acclaimed firms including Agencynet, AvatarLabs, Big Spaceship, Brandweek, Code and Theory, Disney, HBO, Microsoft, Monster.com, MTV, Sesame Workshop, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, and Yahoo!. Please visit www.aiva.org for a full member list and additional information.

About The W3 Awards

The W³ Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the people behind award-winning sites, marketing programs, social content, mobile site/apps and online video. In honoring the best of the Web, the W³ Awards is the first major web competition to be accessible to the biggest agencies, the smallest firms, and everyone in between. Small firms are as likely to win as Fortune 500 companies and international agencies.

In its eleventh year the W³ Awards received over 5,000 entries from Ad Agencies, Public Relations Firms, Interactive Agencies, In-house creative professionals, Web Designers, Graphic Designers and Web Enthusiasts.

About OCAS

OCAS (Ontario College Application Service) is a non-profit corporation created by Ontario’s twenty-four public Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology and Institutes of Technology and Advanced Learning. The company is governed by a Board of Directors and advised by stakeholder advisory committees which correspond to its three primary lines of business: applications to college, data warehousing, and marketing. Its mission is to support Ontario’s public college becoming the first choice in postsecondary education through:

• A reliable, applicant-centered information and application-to-college service
• A College System Data Warehouse which is a trusted source of business intelligence
• Marketing colleges and their programs in an integrated systems approach with Colleges Ontario and colleges

The Ontariocolleges.ca mobile app is available on both iOS and Android.