PR Newswire Named SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award Finalist

NEW YORK, April 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire's Agility platform has been named a finalist for the 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards in the "Best Solution for Integrating Content into Workflow" category. Finalists represent the information industry's best products, technologies, and services in the software, content and business technology.

"We are honored to be named a finalist in the 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards," states Jason Edelboim, Senior Vice President of Global Product at PR Newswire. "Our company is committed to providing innovative, best-in-class tools for communications professionals. I am proud of the Agility team at PR Newswire for receiving this well-deserved recognition."

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing education technology and business technology product excellence for over 30 years. Agility was honored as one of 215 finalists across the 62 business technology categories. Winners will be announced during a virtual award ceremony on May 18.

Agility allows brand communicators to maximize the value of content and its impact from one easy-to-use platform. With the integrated workflow of Agility, users can listen for topics generating buzz, pinpoint important contacts and audiences, share messages through the industry's largest distribution network, and report on the effectiveness of programs and campaigns.

Agility was launched in the U.S. and select international markets in 2012. The platform continues to launch globally, including its February 2016 introduction in Canada through CNW, a PR Newswire company.

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About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology's finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence.  For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.

About PR Newswire
PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry over 60 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content -- from rich media to online video to multimedia -- and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world's largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world's enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.

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Victoria Harres
Vice President, Strategic Communications & Content
victoria.harres@prnewswire.com
201-360-6882

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