 Azerbaijan's Trend News Agency received ‘Brand Award Azerbaijan’ in the nomination "Exclusive News Agency of the Year" in 2009.Trend News Agency received ‘Progress’ award for ‘significant contribution to the formation of common information space in Eurasian region and development of the Azerbaijan-Russia relations’.Trend News Agency became an associate member of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the biggest and most authoritative organization in the world, uniting 18,000 printed publications and about 15,000 websites, representatives of media outlets and other industrial players worldwide.