Digitas Recognized Across the Country as a "Best Place To Work"

ATLANTA, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Top global integrated brand agency Digitas has added three more awards to its roster. The agency has been recognized as an "Elite Winner" at Atlanta's inaugural "Best and Brightest Company to Work for" competition,  the top five on Boston Business Journal's "Best Places to Work" list, and the top six in The Business Ledger's "Best Places to Work in Illinois" competition. The agency, recognized for its unique culture and innovative workplace, has won more than 20 "Best Places to Work" awards in just two years.

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Atlanta

Of the 101 companies named to the "Best and Brightest" list, only three Elite Winners were selected—the highest scoring company per category.  Chosen by the National Association of Business Resources, Elite Winners are honored for creating truly superior work environments and going the extra mile for their employees. As an Elite Winner in Atlanta's inaugural competition, not only was Digitas ranked the highest in its category, but it was the highest ranked marketing agency on the list.

Boston

In Boston, this is the seventh year that Digitas has been honored as one of the "Best Places to Work" by the Boston Business Journal. The only advertising agency to be recognized in the large companies category, Digitas was ranked in the top five, moving up from number 13 last year. As one of the highest scorers and longest running honorees, the agency was also featured in a number of Boston Business Journal articles advising companies on how to create an outstanding workplace, from allowing employees room to grow to planning great company outings, and more.

Chicago

In Chicago, this is the third consecutive year that the office has been named one of the "Best Places to Work in Illinois." The agency was ranked #6 on the list, making it a statewide top ten winner all three years. The award comes on the heels of a number of other accolades for the Chicago office—just recently, Crain's Chicago Business named it one of the "Best Places to Work in Chicago" for the third consecutive year. The agency has also been honored as a "Top Workplace" by the Chicago Tribune and an Elite Winner in "Chicago 101's Best and Brightest Places to Work For" by the National Association of Business Resources.

Digitas: Driving Innovation in the Workplace and Across the Industry

Offices in Detroit, New York, and Stamford have also received similar honors from the Best Companies Group, Crain's Detroit Business, Detroit Free Press, Fusion Detroit, the Michigan Business & Professional Association, and the New York State Society for Human Resource Management.

As a part of its innovative workplace practices, Digitas also actively encourages its employees to showcase their creative thinking and industry insights. The agency recently released Digitas Trends, a forecast report with a list of 45 trends across six categories—culture, data, devices, media, mobile and social. Digitas Trends is housed in an app format and available on iTunes.

Digitas has also just released the second edition of Digitas Cache, an interactive agency publication designed specifically for the iPad.

About Digitas

Digitas, the top global integrated brand agency, builds Active Brands for some of the foremost companies in the world.  With a deep understanding of their client's customer's passions and behaviors, the agency combines media creativity, technology, creativity, analytics to ignite emotional bonds between people and brands. Digitas counts Agency of the Year honors from the Festival of Media, OMMA Magazine, Promo Magazine, BtoB Magazine, and Les Agences de l'Annee, France, and has been named to the Advertising Age Digital A-List among its many awards.

Digitas also operates the brand content platform, The Third Act:, producers of first and most well renowned event on digital content, The NewFront; the healthcare marketing brand, Digitas Health; and, Prodigious Worldwide, the world's only standalone, global digital productions company.

With sister agencies Starcom MediaVest, ZenithOptimedia, Denuo and Razorfish, Digitas is a member of Publicis Groupe's VivaKi—a global digital knowledge and resource center that leverages the combined scale of the autonomous operations of its members to develop new services, new tools, and new partnerships.

Publicis Groupe [listed on the Euronext Paris Exchange - FR0000130577 - and part of the CAC 40 index] is the world's third largest communications group. With activities spanning 104 countries on five continents, Publicis Groupe offers local and international clients a complete range of advertising services. Web site: www.publicisgroupe.com

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