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Verance Website Designers Honored with Prestigious Award

Clearpoint Agency and Diseño Communications Recognized by PRSA With Bernays Award for Verance Website Development
November 3, 2008 - San Diego, CA – Clearpoint Agency, Inc. and Diseño Communications were presented with a prestigious Edward L. Bernays award from the San Diego chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) on October 16th, making it the ninth PRSA peer-reviewed award in Clearpoint’s six year history.

Clearpoint, a public relations and marketing communications firm, and Diseño, a graphic design and branding firm, collaborated on the website launch of digital watermarking company Verance Corporation. The joint team won the award in the category of Online Media. This year’s honor also marks the second year in a row that Clearpoint has won for work completed for Verance; in 2007 the team won for the creative planning and successful launch of Verance’s audio watermarking product licenses.

“We’re honored to receive such high accolades from our peers,” said Bonnie Shaw, president of Clearpoint Agency. “It was exciting to win for a highly collaborative project with contributions from teams at Clearpoint, Diseño and Verance. The project demonstrates how good a website can be when you have talented, smart people working together.”

The awards event, which was held at the San Diego Natural History Museum, is notable because of its peer-review process. Each year submissions are judged by PR experts in other PRSA chapter cities. Without knowing the firm or the client, judges are able to review a submission based on its merits alone, allowing firms of all sizes and varied budgets to compete with each other.

Nil Shah, chief executive of Verance Corporation said, “We are so pleased to call our new website ‘award winning.’ Clearpoint and Diseño were truly collaborative in their efforts in creating an appealing and intuitive website that enables effective communication with our customers, partners and the media.”

This award marks the ninth PRSA award that Clearpoint Agency has received since opening its doors six years ago. In addition to the two awards for Verance, Clearpoint has won at least one award every year for its work with clients such as the Toshiba Network Products Division, the Eddie Bauer Company, the Women’s Business Center of California, Siimpel and others.

About Clearpoint Agency, Inc.
Clearpoint Agency, an award-winning PR and marketing firm, provides expert strategy, targeted media/analyst relations, skilled writing and creative tactics to clients in high-tech, retail and service industries. Clearpoint has landed numerous awards, speaking engagements and coverage for clients in outlets such as Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes.com, Wired, PC Magazine, CNET, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and many more. Call Clearpoint Agency to get your company the recognition it deserves. www.clearpointagency.com.

About Diseño Communications
Diseño Communications is a creative design firm specializing in building brand value for medium to enterprise-level organizations. Diseño defines, implements and manages integrated solutions for the business-to-business and business-to-consumer segments. Market leaders rely on Diseño to consistently deliver memorable, clearly defined brand strategies that create awareness and help maximize business performance. To learn more, visit www.diseno.com.