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PR News on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, celebrated the winners and honorable mentions of its PR Agency Elite Awards at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. The awards set benchmarks of excellence in client PR efforts, as PR agencies were recognized for their work in 23 practice areas.

Winner: MWW From manning the helm of award-winning social campaigns such as the Hillshire Farm-BlogHer collaboration and the Samsung Galaxy Note Fashion Week Takeover, MWW is a clear winner in the the social-digital space. The… Continued

Winner: Biosector 2 After his father, José Secada, succumbed to hepatitis C in 2011, Grammy Award-winning singer Jon Secada announced that he was participating in Hepatitis C-Toca El Tema, which translates to “to touch the… Continued

Winner: Airfoil Airfoil continues to cultivate its communications efforts on the consumer-marketing front. For example, when eBay wanted to engage parents of young children to sell products on the website, the online auction giant called… Continued

Co-Winner: Fuse Three campaigns highlight exactly how well Fuse excels at media relations: The Pepsi “MAX It Now Challenge,” the 2012 Dew Tour and The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) Octagon Nation Tour. The Pepsi “MAX… Continued

Winner: Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Waggener Edstrom Worldwide has a longstanding commitment to contributing up to 1% annually of its total fee revenue to communities. But in 2012 Waggener Edstrom took its charitable efforts up a… Continued

Winner: Makovsky As a leading independent communications consultancy, Makovsky has designed and implemented excellent websites for its clients. But in working to improve others, their own website fell behind. The agency used research to gauge… Continued

Winner: Weber Shandwick Weber Shandwick needed to make itself as social on the inside as it had become externally. In the summer of 2012, the agency announced it was repositioning itself around the phrase “engaging,… Continued

Winner: Marina Maher Communications Marina Maher Communications was behind one of the most iconic, not to mention pro-women, campaigns to come out of the London 2012 Olympics: P&G’s “Thank You Mom” campaign. According to research… Continued

Winner: APCO Worldwide By sticking with a formula consisting of a global 24/7 team committed to client services, APCO Worldwide helps brands to navigate crises and preserve their reputations. The Washington, D.C.-based agency is conditioned… Continued