New York, N.Y., May 8, 2009 - The CLIO Awards, one of the world's most recognized international advertising and design competitions honoring creative excellence and innovation in the industry, today launched the new CLIO International Ambassadors Program.

The exclusive CLIO Ambassadors Program invites organizations and individuals from around the world representing the advertising, design, media and communications/public relations industries, to help generate global awareness for the prestigious CLIO Awards. CLIO will also provide detailed information and instructions to Ambassadors interested in hosting screening parties or creating a social media presence for the CLIO Awards in their respective countries. Ambassadors participating in the program will receive exclusive benefits for themselves and members of their organization, such as advance information, discounts on registration, and much more.

"The International Ambassadors program is a unique opportunity for those in industry to be an integral part of the continued worldwide success of the CLIO Awards," said Wayne Youkhana, director of the CLIO Awards. "This strategic platform will closely align relevant groups with the CLIO organization, in order to keep the industry abreast of information about the awards, annual festival, and award-winning creative."

CLIO Ambassadors Program Benefits:

• Advance information and press releases about CLIO Awards deadlines such as Call for Entries, detailed lists of juries and juror bios/photos, as well as information on festival registrations
• Exclusive discounts on CLIO Festival registrations for Ambassadors as well as members of their participating group/organization
• Discount on CLIO Winners Reel
• Complimentary CLIO Annual (glossy magazine highlighting previous year's CLIO-winning creative work)
• Utilize the CLIO Awards extended social network on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to network with professionals sharing interest in advertising

Ambassadors will have full access to a CLIO password protected micro site that will house all CLIO marketing materials, logos, videos, information for newsletters, media coverage, press releases and more.

CLIO's current network of representatives who serve as brand ambassadors are from 42 countries including: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Spain, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, San Salvador, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela and the United States. All of the current representatives will automatically become CLIO Ambassadors.

For more information about the CLIO International Ambassadors Program, contact Darice Gall at 646.654.4610 or Darice.Gall@nielsen.com.

For more information, please visit www.clioawards.com. Check out and share our interactive micro site, www.clio50.com. Also, find us on our page on Facebook and on our group on LinkedIn.

About The CLIO Awards
The CLIO Awards is one of the world's most recognized awards competition for advertising, design and interactive. Celebrating its 50^th Anniversary in 2009, the CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. To this day, CLIO's iconic statue is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry's creative accomplishments. The CLIO Awards are produced by Nielsen Business Media, a part of The Nielsen Company, a global information and media company.

About The Nielsen Company
The Nielsen Company is a global information and media company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek). The privately held company is active in more than 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA. For more information, please visit www.nielsen.com.

 

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Lauren Bobrowich, Coburn Communication
212.536.9838
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