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In April 2015, Wiwibloggs won Arts & Culture Blog of the Year at the National UK Blog Awards, recognising it as the top blog in the country across architecture, design, entertainment and music.[3]

Later that month, William Lee Adams was the only Eurovision blogger to speak on a panel at the Eurovision Song Contest 60th Anniversary Conference in London. In the official programme for the event, the European Broadcasting Union described Wiwibloggs as the "most popular and innovative" Eurovision website.[4] Adams has judged at national selections for a number of countries, among them Armenia (in 2017), Belarus (in 2020), Finland (every year between 2017 and 2021), Germany (as a member of the 100-member fan jury panel in 2019), Norway (in 2017 and 2018), Romania (in 2019, alongside fellow Wiwibloggs correspondent Deban Aderemi) and Spain (William Lee Addams as one of the members of the jury). Wiwibloggs staffers have also been among the jurors for selections in Latvia and Portugal. In some cases, their role as jurors in national selection finals has been criticized by local media.[5]

During the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, Adams and Aderemi served as special guests on Studio Eurovision, the official Eurovision preview show by Swedish host broadcaster SVT. The show aired the hour before the Eurovision semi-finals and the final.[6] Adams later hosted an official livestream for Israeli broadcaster Kan during the first semi-final of the 2019 contest, and he and Aderemi have also participated in Eurovision-related radio and web content for Germany and the United Kingdom (the latter's participation being organised by the BBC, of which Adams is an employee, specifically as the senior broadcast journalist at the BBC World Service). The Portuguese correspondent for the site, Bernardo Pereira, was also a member of American Portuguese-language radio station WJFD-FM's bilingual commentary team for the 2019 contest, and has provided pre- and post-show reports for RTP's annual Festival da Canção.

Adams had a cameo appearance as himself in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020). He had met the film's star and co-writer, Will Ferrell, two years earlier at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon.[7] In June 2021, Adams secured a book deal for his memoir Wild Dances: My Queer and Curious Journey to Eurovision, which explores his relationship with Eurovision and the "powerful joy, and surprising importance, of the song contest."[8] The book is set to be published on 9 May 2023.[9]

The site has come under some significant criticism over the years due to their position in the media and fandom.

Bloggers and journalists in editorial and management positions at the fansite who often tend to be the face for the site - William and Deban, for example - have been known to be quite unprofessional and disrespectful towards some Eurovision artists and delegations from smaller and poorer nations.

Vanja Radovanović, the Montenegrin representative in 2018, called out the site specifically during an interview with them, stating: "I know you hate my song, don't pretend anything."[10]

Australia's 2023 representative, Voyager, also called the site and William out specifically for their treatments of artists and songs as well during an interview.[11]

Comments such as these coming from the artists themselves have come to lead Eurovision fans to call out Wiwibloggs and bloggers William Lee Adams and Deban Aderemi for building and fostering an environment of harassment, bullying and gaslighting.

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