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Brunner Digital a Leading Winner at the Web Marketing Awards for the Fifth Consecutive Year

October 16, 2008

Pittsburgh, PA - Brunner announced today that the agency’s digital marketing group, Brunner Digital, was honored six times in the Web Marketing Association’s 2008 international WebAward Competition. Brunner Digital placed in the Top 25 of more than 800 participating organizations this year for the fifth year in a row, keeping company with well-known interactive shops, such as Avenue A/Razorfish, TribalDDB, and Arnold Worldwide.

The Web Marketing Association honored Brunner Digital for Web campaigns for GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare's Abreva, Polident and Citrucel brands, Zippo, Cub Cadet and the Prevent Cancer Foundation.  The honors included three "Outstanding Website" awards.

“Winning Web Marketing awards on such a consistent basis definitely demonstrates our creative abilities in the digital space, but we are more thrilled to see our clients truly leveraging the online channel in such a robust manner,” said Scott Morgan, Brunner's President. “What we find most exciting is seeing our clients treating online as an integral part of their overall marketing plans and embracing digital media well beyond great site design. Our clients continue to turn to us for innovative digital solutions such as mobile marketing, widget creation and distribution as well as analytics.”

This is the fifth consecutive year that Brunner Digital (Formerly named bbdigital) has been honored with multiple awards. The 34 honors the agency has received since 2004, including four “Best in Category” awards, make it one of the most winning organizations in the history of the competition.

“Doing work for our clients that produces results is always our top priority.  The fact that we have clients that also allow us to do great creative work is icing on the cake." according to Rick Gardinier, Brunner's Chief Digital Officer. 

The annual WebAward Competition, produced by the Web Marketing Association, was founded in 1997 to set a high standard for Internet marketing and site development on the World Wide Web. WebAward entries are submitted by leading interactive agencies, website owners and in-house marketing and e-commerce departments from 40 countries. There are more than 96 industry categories, and each site goes head-to-head with other sites in its respective category.

Brunner, Inc. (www.brunnerworks.com) is a $200 million independent advertising agency with 185 employees and offices in Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. The agency provides a broad range of innovative services in business intelligence, branding, advertising, digital marketing, direct/one-to-one marketing, public relations, promotion and design services to clients such as GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, The DOW Chemical Company, Golfpride, GNC, Cub Cadet and Zippo. Brunner is ranked among the Top 100 U.S. advertising agencies.

Brunner Digital is the agency's digital marketing group, offering a broad range of services, including website design and development, online media planning and buying, creative development, mobile marketing, online promotion, and one-to-one marketing.

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