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Digital Air Strike’s Enterprise AI Listening Platform Wins People’s Choice Award

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Digital media provider Digital Air Strike announced its new flagship product, Mission Control Consumer Intelligence and Engagement Platform, received the 2017 People’s Choice Award for Favorite New Product from the American Business Awards. Mission Control is an artificial intelligence social media listening and consumer engagement platform that provides Digital Air Strike’s thousands ... Read More »

July 13, 2017
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Digital media provider Digital Air Strike announced its new flagship product, Mission Control Consumer Intelligence and Engagement Platform, received the 2017 People’s Choice Award for Favorite New Product from the American Business Awards.

Mission Control is an artificial intelligence social media listening and consumer engagement platform that provides Digital Air Strike’s thousands of clients the ability to track all analytics in a single and very actionable dashboard.

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“I am extremely proud of our innovative product and technology teams. It’s exciting to have our Mission Control platform recognized for the way it leverages social media intelligence to make it actionable for businesses nationwide. Initial feedback indicates that it is already proving to be a game-changer for our thousands of clients,” said Alexi Venneri, cofounder and CEO of Digital Air Strike.

Mission Control was designed to offer actionable social media and review site data at every level — from a single brick and mortar location to a multi-location brand. This is the second People’s Choice Award won by Digital Air Strike. The company’s Review Surge 4.0 technology received a People’s Choice Award for Favorite New Product in 2015.

Digital Air Strike also announced it was named from more than 3,600 nominations as the winner of four American Business “Stevie” Awards including Management Team of the Year and Online Marketing Campaign of the Year for a social advertising campaign that achieved such stellar results Facebook featured it as a Success Story. Digital Air Strike was also a finalist in the highly competitive category of Best Facebook Community/Engagement Campaign in the 2017 PR News Social Media Awards, and was named a finalist for Best Social Media Campaign and Social Agency of the Year in the 2017 Incite Group Corporate Social Media Awards.

Co-founder and CEO Alexi Venneri, was also recently named a Desert Mountain Region finalist in the 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (EY). Finalists from each region were voted on by a panel of independent judges for the opportunity to be considered for the national Entrepreneur of the Year award.

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