{"id":30254,"date":"2017-10-06T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=30254"},"modified":"2017-10-09T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:22:54","slug":"founder-fingerpaint-wins-top-boss-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2017\/10\/founder-fingerpaint-wins-top-boss-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder Of Fingerpaint Wins \u2018Top Boss\u2019 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30255\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/10\/mitzen-getzs-award-c-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/10\/mitzen-getzs-award-c-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/10\/mitzen-getzs-award-c.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Mitzen of Fingerpaint in Saratoga Springs is a Digiday Top Boss award winner.<br \/>Courtesy Fingerpaint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Media and marketing publication <i>Digiday<\/i> has named Ed Mitzen of Fingerpaint in Saratoga Springs, as one of its Top Boss award winners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mitzen, who founded the agency in 2008, won the award from <i>Digiday<\/i> in its full-service industry category. Fingerpaint has offices in downtown Saratoga; Conshohocken, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; and Scottsdale, Ariz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The company ranked No. 1 on this year\u2019s Albany Business Review List of Largest Advertising, Public Relations, Digital and Creative Agencies in the Albany area ranked by total local staff with 100. In 2016, Fingerpaint had nearly $30 million in local revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other winners in the <i>Digiday<\/i> awards this year are the heads of companies such as Bleacher Report and Hypr. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year\u2019s Digiday Top Boss Awards go to senior executives from Mindshare, Bleacher Report, AdColony and others who are building positive relationships with their employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Top Boss Award recognizes managers who go above and beyond to deliver results, build a strong team dynamic and provide mentoring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><!--more-->Erin Vitellaro, Mindshare Chicago\u2019s managing director of client leadership, and PMG founder and CEO George Popstefanov won in the media agency category. Winners in the sports media category were Bleacher Report president Rory Brown and Intermarkets\u2019 vice president of ad operations Stephanie Snow. AdColony\u2019s vice president of creative Doug Manson won in the advertising technology category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They\u2019ll be recognized at an awards gala on <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Nov. 7 at the Edison Ballroom in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media and marketing publication Digiday has named Ed Mitzen of Fingerpaint in Saratoga Springs, as one of its Top Boss award winners. Mitzen, who founded the agency in 2008, won the award from Digiday in its full-service industry category. Fingerpaint has offices in downtown Saratoga; Conshohocken, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; and Scottsdale, Ariz. The company ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":30255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Founder Of Fingerpaint Wins \u2018Top Boss\u2019 Award - Saratoga Business Journal<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2017\/10\/founder-fingerpaint-wins-top-boss-award\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Founder Of Fingerpaint Wins \u2018Top Boss\u2019 Award - Saratoga Business Journal\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Media and marketing publication Digiday has named Ed Mitzen of Fingerpaint in Saratoga Springs, as one of its Top Boss award winners. 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