Invoke Media has taken home the Best Use of Social Media honours at the 2009 Canadian New Media Awards.

At a gala ceremony today (December 1) in Toronto, the Vancouver-based interactive agency was named a winner for creating the Web-based Twitter app HootSuite.

Mod7 Communications, a Vancouver-based interactive design studio, won in the Best Kids Interactive category for Titanium Chef, a serious game it developed for the B.C. Dairy Foundation.

Hip-hop artist K-os was named Best Online Artist of the Year.

Here’s a list of all the winners:

Best Company of the Year
Cyberplex Inc., Toronto

Best Brand of the Year
Doritos

Promising New Company of the Year
Syncapse, Toronto

Hottest New Digital Kid on the Block
ChickAdvisor.com, ChickAdvisor Inc. – Toronto

Best in Mobile Marketing
Brisk ARTwist - Addictive Mobility, Markham

Best Mobile Application
Air Canada iPhone App - IBM Canada, Markham

Best Location Based Service
Poynt - Multiplied Media, Calgary

Best Use of Social Media
Invoke Media, creator of HootSuite, Vancouver

Best in Interactive Marketing
Doritos White Bag - BBDO/Proximity Canada, Toronto

Best Branded Entertainment
Worldwide Short Film Festival: Short Attention Span – doug agency, Toronto

Best Cross-Platform Project
Waterlife Interactive - National Film Board of Canada, Toronto

Best Online Video Portal
National Film Board of Canada: Online Screening Room - National Film Board of Canada

Best Innovative Web-based Game
Junk: Battles - Antic Entertainment, London, ON

Best Kids Interactive
Titanium Chef - mod7, Vancouver

Best in Canadian Culture, Interactive
In Touch: Connecting Cloth, Culture & Art - ecentricarts inc., Toronto

Best Online Comedy Performance
Tíªtes í  claques, Montreal

Best Online Artist of the Year
K-os

Leader in Social Change
Mark Surman, executive director, Mozilla Foundation
Tonya Surman, executive director, Centre for Social Innovation

Lifetime Achievement Award
Red Burns, “Grandmother” of new media and founder of the ITP Program at the Tisch School for the Arts at NYU

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