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The Mobile Excellence Awards is the industry's leading and most influential awards program and honours innovation, creativity and excellence in mobile entertainment. This year, GetJar was selected for its innovative premium advertising system, Pay-Per-Download (PPD) that allows developers and brand owners to bid for premium visibility and drive downloads for their apps on the GetJar mobile app store. Additionally, GetJar is closing in on the billion download mark, making it the second largest app store in the world, reports ELTA/LETA.

"It's a tremendous honour to be recognized as a leading mobile app store and we share the credit with our developers and partners," said GetJar CEO, Ilja Laurs. "We've always believed in giving content owners and developers large and small the necessary tools to stand out in the marketplace and we're glad that the top industry leaders agree."

Ilja Laurs, the founder and CEO of GetJar Networks, was listed one of the 40 most influential leaders in the world’s mobile communication industry in 2009. He is the first Lithuanian included on the list published by the Informa Telecoms & Media, the leading provider of business intelligence to global telecoms and media markets.

GetJar is also the recipient of the 2009 Meffy Award for Best Direct to Customer Service.