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September 23, 2014

Reality Wins a Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award

Summit MEA Award winner

Reality Wins a Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award

Reality Interactive is proud to be recognized with a Summit Marketing Effectiveness (MEA) Award, for the Time Warner Cable Flagship Store: Mobile Station.

 

Reality Interactive has won a Platinum Award in the Interactive Media Category.

The Summit MEA awards recognize companies whose innovative creative work uses a strategy that demonstrates results-based effectiveness. This year only 8% of submissions were honored with awards. 

For the past 20 years the Summit MEA awards have become one of the premier awards for communication excellence. A blind judging process awards only those firms who succeed in not just creativity, but also marketing communications effectiveness.

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