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Local Media Insider's 2013 Top Ad award winners

Tip of the hat to media executives who won a Top Ad Award in 2013.

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Aultman Heart Center's High School Sports "Ticker"

NextMedia 360, the interactive division of NextMedia 360 radio, took top honors in for "Aultman Heart Center's Sports Ticker." This campaign Utilized a play on words and supported a community passion: high school sports, utilizing  mobile and digital to brand the center.

Don Guisinger

Don Guisinger, Interactive Specialist and

Christine Baltzer

Chris Baltzer, Sales Representative

Read step-by-tep how they did it here.

TOP AD: WSBT-TV for "Your Hometown Eyecare" campaign

 "Your Hometown Eyecare Professional" campaign for C&B Optical One combined banner ads with a text club to generate more than 1000 new leads across markets. Kudos to Aaron Wood, Digital Marketing Specailist at WSBT-TV.

Aaron Wood

Read the full story here.

Top Ads Winner: "In the Kitchen" with the Sarasota Manatee Originals

Observer Media Group, community weeklies & YourObserver.com made the most of content marketing with video profiles and a YouTube channel for their "In the Kitchen" series sponsored by the Sarasota Manatee Originals, a group of 50 local restaurants. Congratulations to the team on their imaginative use of video content marketing.

Leslie Gnaegy

Leslie Gnaegy, marketing coordinator

Emily Walsh

Emily Walsh, Chief Digital Officer

Eddie Kirsch

Eddie Kirsch, Web editor, Observer Media Group

Read full story here.

American Furniture Warehouse

Digital First Media's AdTaxi and Denverpost.com crossed social media with  mobile geo-targeting for "American Furniture Warehouse" with winning success. Congrats to the team!

Adam M. Lee

Adam Lee, DenverPost.com

Joe Straface: Director of Advertising, American Furniture Warehouse,

Kylie Borgias: Marketing Manager, AdTaxi Networks

Greg Messinger: Vice President, Business Development, Digital First Media

Read full story here.

Rush's Grade School Giveaway wins July's Top Ad Campaign 

WACH Fox Marketing did an extraordinary job promoting the "Rush's Grade School Giveaway"  to help Rush's family restaurant build its Facebook presence. Video to promote the contest and a simple strategy of asking parents to vote so their school could win a $1,000 worth of books made this campaign produce winning results. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this winning campaign!

 

Kacey Liles Mattox, senior marketing consultant, WACH FOX;

Dave Ruddle, marketing director for Rush's;

Rita Koch

Rita Koch, WACH FOX Marketing interactive manager

Ken Rochon, Follett Library Resources

Read the full story here. 

Fundraising campaign for Food Bank wins Top Ad in August

The Fort Collins Coloradoan implemented the charitable campaign "Buck Hunger" across media, print, online and radio promotions for The Food Bank, aimed to solicit donations of cash, not just food. Congratulations to the team!

Kristi Fanning 
Kristi Fanning, Marketing Manager

Read the full story here.

WRBR and WKTV share Top Ads Award for Martin's Super Markets' text club

Federated Media helped build a 15,000 strong opt-in text club for Martin's Supermarket, focusing on providing a Monday discount on special items across the chain of high end grocery stories.

Debbie Derda-Williams

Deb Williams, Director of Interactive Sales, Federated Interactive

Kathy Uebler

Kathy Uebler, General Manager, WRBR during campaign

Madeline Catanzarite

Madeline Catanzarite, sales representative for WBYT

NaplesNews.com wins Top Ad for restaurants' geo-targeted mobile campaign during golf tournaments

Naples Daily News; NaplesNews.com and the CentroLift ad network put together a campaign for 30 local restaurants  - six non-competing restaurants in six zones of the city. "Naples Best Restaurants" campaign was geo-fenced to the zones reaching tourists during major golf tournaments and linking to coupons at the restaurants. Fantastic results.

Cheri Koerner

Cheri Koerner 

Doug Dittamore, Campaign Specialists, Centro

David Cuddihy, Advertising Director, Food Category, Naples Daily News

Shawna Devlin, Advertising  Director, Naples Daily News

Kurt Larson, Creative Designer, Centro

Read the full story here.

Congratulations to all the 2013 winners!

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