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Its official – AOL scored seven Telly Awards, a top industry award honoring the best in film and video productions, groundbreaking Web commercials, videos and films and outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs. Last year, the Tellys received more than 12,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents. Winners were notified in May, but the Telly Awards organization has now announced all the winners on its site, and since May, AOL picked up another Silver win – for You've Got.

Winning content and category:

Online Video SILVER (1st place) Winners
You've Got – Social Issues
Unscripted, 'Muppets' – Talk Show/ Interview

Online Video BRONZE Winners
Beyond the Battlefield – Documentary
AOL Music Sessions – Music Video
Translogic – Automotive
You've Got – Motivational
GMC Trade Secrets – Promotional Branding

AOL wins seven @tellyawards recognizing excellence in online video aol.it/QD6cre

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) September 25, 2012

Think it's getting hot in here? That's because the first ever Devil Awards are open for voting!

As AOL's Project Devil turns two and the Devil Network continues to blaze a trail across the web, it's time to celebrate the best of the best in a great competition! Now it's up to you to vote for which brand you think should be crowned the Most Beautiful Ad, Most Engaging Ad, Best Pages to Parking Lots Ad and the Smartest Devil Ad.

The AOL Sales team has submitted what they think are the best ads in the following categories, and now we're opening it up to the public to decide who should be crowned:

• Most Beautiful Ad: The best use of image and video galleries hosting eye-catching photos and videos
• Most Engaging Ad: The best use of interactive ad elements like hotspots, quizzes and polls
• Best Supporting Devil: The best use of Devil ad units in a larger campaign
• Best Pages to Parking Lots: The ad unit that best sends users to offline commerce with the online ad campaign
• Smartest Devil: The best use of Smart Apps technology that synchs user actions in one application within the ad to another

So now, go to devilawards.aol.com and vote for your favorite ads in each categories! Winners will be announced October 1 2012. Until then, continue to vote and tweet the following phrase for a chance to win a Roku Connected TV device: "Who's your favorite Devil? Vote now at devilawards.aol.com #DevilAwards"

Who's your favorite Devil? aol.it/SfA2X7 #devilawards

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) September 21, 2012

This week MAKERS.com hears from a groundbreaking stewardess who talks about her fight against the discrimination of female flight attendants and from one of the country's first female coal miners, whose case against sexual harassment in the workplace reached the Supreme Court, making major strides in the women's movement.

Barbara "Dusty" Roads is a former stewardess and union leader who led a landmark sex discrimination case in the airline industry. Growing up loving aviation, Roads started flying as a stewardess with American Airlines once she realized women could not be hired as pilots. Although she enjoyed her career, she came to question industry policies that forced stewardesses to remain unmarried and retire at the age of 32. By 1965, Roads was a lobbyist for the National Flight Attendants Union, later the ALSSA, and began to fight back. In 1968, after years of determination and hard work, the Equal Opportunities Employment Commission issued a ruling prohibiting age ceilings or marriage bans in the airline industry.

Barbara Burns was one of the first female coal miners in the country and an 'everywoman' champion against sexual harassment in the workplace. By 1975, she was a mother of two with a husband in poor health. She was eager to earn more money for her family and became one of the first female coal miners in the country. She worked her way up through the ranks to foreman before being recruited by Smoot Coal Company, Inc. as a lab technician. At Smoot, Burns found herself the target of aggressive sexual advances and stalking by her boss, the company president. Unable to take it any longer, Burns eventually sought out attorney Betty Jean Hall and filed a complaint. The case lasted until 2000, when the West Virginia Supreme Court finally ruled in her favor.

Learn more about Barbara by watching this video:


Check out MAKERS.com to learn about more amazing women.

Visit MAKERS.com to learn about more inspirational women.

.@makerswomen Spotlights Stewardess, Coal Miner aol.it/NjoNrN

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) August 8, 2012

This week, our friends at Advertising.com Group launched a blog that will feature shared industry insights and knowledge from the collective leadership of the team. Ned Brody, CEO of Advertising.com Group, kicked off the blog explaining the vision of the group and what the blog will cover:

"The vision of the Advertising.com Group is 'to simplify digital advertising at scale.' As a company, we are focusing on that vision by building a unified suite of tech products and services to provide simpler, easier-to-manage solutions serving publishers, marketers and everyone in between.

We are excited to begin publishing weekly blog posts covering issues that surround core ad technologies, formats, buying opportunities, regulatory themes, publisher monetization and other critical and often confusing topics."

Today's blog post, written by Delia Biddison, VP of Publisher Services, covers the OMMA RTB Conference, where Biddison participated on a panel called "You Call This 'Premium?': Publishers Face the RTB Question." Read Biddison's recap of the conference to learn about display and data targeting, as well as RTB strategies and practices.

Learn more about the Advertising.com Group and read future blog posts by clicking here.