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In August, AOL's Hunger Games Premium Format ad campaign was named a finalist in the prestigious 2012 International IAB MIXX Awards. The IAB MIXX Awards are the only interactive awards competition judged by the world's advertising and media industry leaders.

We are very proud to announce that last night, at IAB's eighth annual MIXX gala in New York City, AOL and Lionsgate brought home Gold in the 'IAB Standard Rich Media Display Ad' category. Congratulations go out to the Project Devil team and our colleagues at Lionsgate.

For the full scoop on the 2012 IAB MIXX Award Winners and their executions, visit the Winners Gallery.

AOL & Lionsgate scoop Gold at IAB MIXX Awards 2012 aol.it/R16w3f

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) October 4, 2012

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

PR News, a weekly that covers trends and programs in PR and communications, announced finalists in its upcoming Digital PR Awards, and AOL earned two nominations. AOL's Homepage for Heroes, our yearlong project to recognize, honor and support our troops, is a contender in the Microsite/Custom Site category. Meanwhile, AOL's TOMS One Day Without Shoes 100,000 Voices Challenge, which reached over 1,000,000 people with the ODWS message, placed in the Cause Marketing/Corporate Social Responsibility category.

Homepage for Heroes also recently earned recognition for its design by Awwwards.com, a site that recognizes and promotes the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world, and theFWA.com, a site that highlights inspirational portals with industry recognition and awards.

Try out the website for yourself and see how easy it is to send personalized letters to deployed troops and veterans!

.@aol Earns Two Nominations in @prnews Digital Awards aol.it/PXZDmq

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) August 22, 2012

An AOL Advertising display ad campaign was named Best B2B Branding Campaign in the 2012 Digiday Awards this week. The "Environment Matters" campaign ran online and offline, targeting ad agencies and brands and highlighting the importance of the online environment in which their ads run.Digiday covers online media, marketing and advertising.

Based on AOL's proprietary research, we've found that ads perform better when placed next to quality content. To help highlight this to the agency world, the AOL Advertising team came up with the "Environment Matters" campaign. The beautiful -- and now award-winning -- campaign and its messaging were well received by the industry! Check out Digiday's site to see the rest of the winners.

AOL also picked up six Telly Awards honoring the best in film and video productions, Web videos, commercials and films, local and regional and cable TV commercials, programs and segments. Last year, the Tellys received more than 11,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents. And the winners are...

Winning Content and Category:

SILVER (highest honor):

• Unscripted, 'Muppets' – Talk Show/Interview category

BRONZE:

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

Watch all of these videos and more by visiting the AOL On Network.

.@AOL Earns @Digiday Award and Six @TellyAwards aol.it/KknuGb @AOLAdvertising

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) May 17, 2012

Following its nomination for Excellence in Journalism last month, HuffPost Canada is celebrating another win this time for business reporter Rachel Mendleson's inaugural labor reporting which earned an award from the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) for her feature that explored the links between income inequality and the decline of unions in Canada.

The award, presented Saturday at the CAJ's annual gala in Toronto, honors stories that advance public understanding of labor issues.

Mendleson traveled to St. Thomas, Ontario, where she documented the struggle of workers from that city's shuttered Ford assembly plant to find good jobs. She used their plight to examine the broader question of what impact the disintegration of organized labor has had on Canada's growing income gap.

The story was featured prominently in HuffPost's ongoing "Mind The Gap" series, edited by Daniel Tencer, which chronicles this country's income divide. We're proud of the work Rachel has done on the "Mind The Gap" series and it reinforces our commitment to cover stories that fall outside of mainstream business news.

The award is one of many that The Huffington Post has won in the last month including a Pulitzer Prize for its series Beyond the Battlefield, honored in the National Reporting field and a British Media Award naming HuffPost UK's Editor-in-Chief as Media Innovator of the Year.

.@HuffPostCanada Reporter Wins Journalism Award aol.it/Io0gTS

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) April 30, 2012