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Agency Accolades
2009 Award of Excellence – For an article in Health magazine obtained on behalf of client Progio.
2009 Award of Excellence – For an article in Prevention magazine obtained on behalf of client Progio.
2009 Award of Excellence – For an article in Ebony magazine obtained on behalf of client GiiNii.
2009 Award of Excellence, 2008 Gold Award and 2008 Award of Distinction – For an article in the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper about client Video Furnace.
2008 Platinum Award, 2008 Gold Award and 2008 Honorable Mention – For articles in Health, Prevention and SHAPE magazines, respectively, obtained on behalf of client Progio.
2007 Honorable Mention – For an article in the Chicago Tribune newspaper about a brutally beaten cat client Cat Hospital of Chicago saved.
2006 Award of Distinction and 2006 Gold Award – For an article in BusinessWeek magazine obtained on behalf of client Progio.
2006 Award of Distinction – For an article in Consumer Reports in which client Life Fitness received top honors in both bike categories for its Lifecycle exercise bikes.
2006 Gold Award – For an article in The New York Times in which client Life Fitness was given an impressive review of one of its treadmills.
2005 Platinum Award, 2005 Crystal Award of Excellence and 2005 Silver Trumpet – For the launch of Micro Solutions’ LockBox, an external hard drive that uses a fingerprint sensor to control users’ access. Article placements included Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, PC Magazine, PC World, Popular Mechanics and Hemispheres, United Airlines’ magazine.
2005 Platinum Award and 2005 Crystal Award of Excellence – For placing a client’s product on NBC’s “Today” show. The Life Fitness G5 Cable Motion Gym System was touted as a “great gift” on the show’s holiday fitness gifts segment.
2005 Gold Award and 2005 Award of Distinction – For an article placement in PC Magazine obtained on behalf of client Micro Solutions. The client’s all-in-one photo-to-CD-burner RoadStor received a coveted “Editors’ Choice” by the magazine.
2005 Gold Award and 2005 Award of Distinction – For an article placement in Health magazine obtained on behalf of client Life Fitness. Three of five “Best of Fitness 2005” awards were given to products by Life Fitness.
2004 Platinum Winner, 2004 Silver Trumpet and 2004 Award of Distinction – For the launch of Micro Solutions’ RoadStor all-in-one photo-to-CD burner and viewer. Press coverage included Boston Herald, Chicago Tribune, Gannett News Service, New York Magazine, The New York Times, PC Magazine and Wall Street Journal.
2002 Editors Voice PR Awards, Specialty NEWS, Finalist, PR Agencies – For being named a finalist in this annual voting of editorial staff and freelance writers from the fitness and outdoor industries sponsored by Specialty NEWS, a fitness and outdoor e-newsletter.
1999 Certificate of Excellence for Superior Achievement in Media Relations, North American Precis Syndicate, Inc. – For developing a press-ready newspaper release (also known as a mat release) for Life Fitness about the importance of exercising at the correct level of intensity for maximum effectiveness. The release resulted in nearly 1,000 placements (average is 100 - 400), putting it in the top one-quarter of one percent of all NAPS placements.
1995 MARCOM AWARDS, Introduction of a New Product, Finalist – For developing and executing public relations activities for the introduction of Zenith Data Systems' CruisePAD wireless PC product, which included a two-and-a-half-week, tri-city national media/analyst tour. It resulted in more than 70 stories and story inclusions in the United States and Europe, plus two cover stories.
Gibson Communications developed and executed first formal public relations activities for Gateway 2000 resulting in a 580 percent increase in stories and story inclusions the first year and more than 3,200 percent by the third year.
Client Product Awards
Gibson Communications generates public relations programs that help clients' products get noticed and win industry publications' awards.
GiiNii Slope Digital Picture Frame
- “Best Buy,” July 2009, a leading consumer reviews magazine
- “Best of the Best at CES 2009,” January 2009, G4 cable network
- “Editor’s Choice,” June 2004, PC Magazine
- “Editor’s Choice,” July/August 2004, American PHOTO
- “Best Buy,” October 2001, PC World
- “Top 10 Budget PC,” January 2000, PC World
- “Top 10 Budget PC,” February 2000, PC World
- “Top 10 Budget PC,” April 2000, PC World
- “Top 10 Budget PC,” May 2000, PC World
- “Top 10 Midrange PC,” January 2000, PC World
- “Top 10 Midrange PC,” April 2000, PC World
- ”1998 Product of the Year,” C@ll Center Solutions
- “1998 Editors Choice,” Telemarketing & C@ll Center Solutions
- “1998 Win100,” Windows Magazine
- “1997 Most Valuable Product,” PC Computing
- “Best Wireless LAN Product,” Mobile Insights '95
- “Industrial Design for Excellence,” Business Week
- “1994 Multimedia MVP Award Finalist,” PC Computing
- “Best Product” at VarVision/95, co-sponsored by Computer Reseller News and VARBusiness
- “1993 Best of What's New,” Popular Science
- “1992 Most Valuable Product,” PC Computing
- “1993 Best High Performance PC,” PC Computing
- “1992 Most Valuable Product,” PC Computing