theFashionSpot Brings Home OMMA Award for Website Excellence in Fashion and Beauty Category

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Evolve Media Corp.’s theFashionSpot (TFS) (www.thefashionspot.com), the largest fashion-focused community and fashion editorial site on the web, was honored with the OMMA Award for Website Excellence in the Fashion/Beauty/Cosmetics category at the 2012 OMMA Awards on Monday, October 1^st. The annual event, hosted by MediaPost in New York City, recognizes web publishers and developers for outstanding content, design and user interface.

“theFashionSpot team is so honored to receive the prestigious OMMA Award”

theFashionSpot is one of the most respected sources for fashion on the web and is comprised of industry insiders, including designers, models, and fashionistas. Covering everything from fashion trends to celebrity style and behind the scene reporting of runway shows, TFS delivers the latest news from experts with exclusive access to events and coveted designers. The site’s thriving community is actively engaged in fashion-focused discussions and has generated over 8.5 million posts.

“theFashionSpot team is so honored to receive the prestigious OMMA Award,” said Mike Dodge, President of AtomicOnline, Evolve Media Corp.’s publishing division. “We are very proud of how far the site has come; what began as a tight-knit community of designers, stylists and fashionistas has grown into an award-winning fashion editorial destination that reaches 2.4 million beauty & style fans each month. We’ll continue to provide our community, as well as our marketers, with premium content on the latest styles, hottest events and exclusive industry buzz.”

About theFashionSpot:

Originating in July 2001, theFashionSpot (www.theFashionSpot.com) made a name for itself as an invitation only community of designers, stylists and fashionistas that dissected designer collections, celebrating some and skewering others. Building the largest fashion-focused community on the web, theFashionSpot.com has grown into a well-respected fashion editorial site with a strong and active community element. The site currently reaches 2.4 million unique visitors each month, with close to 70,000 registered members playing an active role in the site’s forum. It is that in-market participation and authenticity that makes theFashionSpot.com the largest fashion community site and attracts other sites such as ShoeBlog, My‘It’Things and FadedYouthBlog for cross-promotion, content syndication and ad sales. theFashionSpot is part of AtomicOnline (www.AtomicOnline.com), the publishing unit of Evolve Media (www.evolvemediacorp.com).

MediaPost Communications

MediaPost Communications is an integrated publishing and content company whose mission is to provide a complete array of resources for media, marketing and advertising professionals. MediaPost's annual OMMA Awards celebrate the year’s most innovative and brilliant online advertising creative, campaigns and web sites across 66 categories within three disciplines. The 2012 OMMA Awards winners were announced during the gala reception on October 1st at the conclusion of the first day of the OMMA Global Conference. www.mediapost.com/events