The BOBs (Best of the Blogs) is the world's largest international weblog competition, founded in 2004 and sponsored by Deutsche Welle, the German International Broadcasting Service. Through the BOBs, Deutsche Welle focuses attention on the promotion of freedom of information and the press around the world. In cooperation with Reporters Without Borders, Deutsche Welle has presented a special award to bloggers promoting these specific ideals since 2005. Weblogs, podcasts and videoblogs from all over the world can be submitted for the BOBs in one of the following 14 languages: Arabic, Chinese, German, English, French, Indonesian, Persian, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Hindi and Spanish. The BOBs were last awarded in 2016. Award categories The BOBs consist of 6 prize categories (all languages) and one award in each language of the competition (14 languages). How the competition works The BOBs presents prizes for both Jury and User's Choice awards. The User's Choice winners are chosen by worldwide online voting. The Jury prizes are awarded by a jury of international bloggers. Blogopedia The Blogopedia is an online catalogue featuring a growing inventory of blogs written in eleven languages. It allows the user to browse through the catalog by country, language or subject matter. To date over 18,000 different blogs, podcasts and videoblogs have been entered into the Blogopedia by users and bloggers from all over the world. Winners List of winners year by year: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009–2010 2011 2012 2013 See also Deutsche Welle Reporters Without Borders References External links The BOBs Reporters without Borders Deutsche Welle BOBs Blog Sunlightfoundation Blog Lisa Neun Blog Aref-Adib Blog German journalism awards Blog awards