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Nov 16th 2012

AOL UK Wins Two Prestigious IPA Media Owner Awards

Earlier this week, the AOL UK sales team attended the IPA Media Owner Awards, where we won two awards for Most Innovative Online Campaign and Best Partner. Our team was also nominated for the Best Media Owner and Best At Innovation awards.


We won the Most Innovative Online Campaign for our Inspired by Iceland campaign, which was a huge cross-departmental effort in covering editorial, sales, publishing, creative solutions, research, go viral, Advertising.com and communications. It was our first sponsored channel on Huffington Post, the first Project Devil unit to use a live camera feed and our first Pan European campaign using our whole range of advertising products.

The Best Partner award is significant in that it is voted for by the advertising agencies in the IPA Spring and Autumn surveys. In the survey, we were the best received online publisher with agencies, marking a return to the top spot. The judges praised AOL stating:

"To understand why AOL does so well, you only need to look at the breadth and strength of their performance across all questions on the Spring and Autumn 2012 surveys. It is difficult to find any criteria in either survey where AOL does not appear in the Top Five places."

To learn more about what AOL UK Advertising can do for you, click here.

Mar 2nd 2012

AOL UK's DareDevil Challenge Names a Winner

Congratulations to creative agency BETC London for winning AOL UK's DareDevil challenge, earning a campaign for their client port brand Cockburn's. The challenge was run in association with leading creative advertising trade publication Campaign.

The campaign features a branded video and a Facebook module.

BETC beat tough competition from a number of other agencies and brands who entered the completion which launched at the Campaign Media Awards in late 2011.

The campaign, worth £30,000, is now running on AOL UK sites. You can see the winning entry and finalists on the DareDevil site.

Mar 1st 2012

It Makes Good Cents: HuffPost Money Launches, AOL Money UK Gets Redesign

Today, Arianna Huffington announced the launch of HuffPost Money, a section dedicated to looking at the big financial stories of our time, with an eye on answering the question: how do the day's headlines affect you and your finances?

HuffPost Money is founded on the understanding that many of the biggest stories of our time -- from foreclosures and the decline in American economic mobility to the payroll tax extension and the growing student loan debt -- have a direct influence on the way we live, spend, and save.

HuffPost Money is edited by Emily Cohn, who will report to Emily Peck, managing editor of HuffPost Business. To learn more about the launch read Arianna's blog post here.

AOL UK announced an enhanced version of its personal finance site, AOL Money, with a fully integrated price comparison hub in partnership with lovemoney.com and an investing platform powered by The Motley Fool.

As content continues to be the key driver of our strategy, we are enhancing AOL Money through these partnerships, providing users with tools to deliver a first in class web experience as well as giving brands the opportunity to interact with an even more engaged audience. With a focus on consumer advice, news-led features and the latest financial products, AOL Money now includes expanded editorial content and improved design and usability.

Learn more about this announcement here.

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