UBM Canon's Design News Wins Internet Advertising Competition Award & Ava Digital Award

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Awards from the Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) and Ava Digital Awards were presented to Digi-Key's Continuing Education Center on UBM Canon's Design News, the industry's leading design engineering site, this week. The Digi-Key Education Center was awarded the Best Online Campaign (category: other) from the IAC, and was recognized with a Gold Award for Best Innovative Web Development from the Ava Digital Awards.

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The IAC Awards from the Web Marketing Association are the first and only industry-based advertising awards competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. The Ava Digital Awards, from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, is an international competition recognizing outstanding work by creative professionals involved in the concept, direction, design and production of media that is part of the evolution of digital communication.

Digi-Key's Continuing Education Center launched in January 2012 and was created as an online learning university hosted on Design News with the goal of educating design engineers on a host of design engineering technologies. Digi-Key's Continuing Education Center is the most successful online events program in UBM history, generating record-breaking registration numbers and message board posts. For more information on Digi-Key's Continuing Education Center on Design News or to attend a session visit http://www.designnews.com/lecture-calendar.asp.

About UBM Canon
UBM Canon, the leading B2B media company dedicated exclusively to the global $3.0 trillion advanced manufacturing sector, helps support the flow of information, commerce and innovation in such sophisticated segments as medical devices, pharmaceutical development and Design News. UBM Canon also addresses cutting-edge developments in broader areas of advanced engineering design and manufacturing, and manufacturing processes and packaging. UBM Canon is part of UBM plc (UBM.L) a global provider of media and information services for professional B2B communities and markets.

SOURCE UBM Canon