2023 SHORTLIST
Sectors
Automotive
Driving Change: Vauxhall’s Innovative EV Calculator Drives Awareness
Performics @ Starcom
Client: Vauxhall
Vauxhall successfully tackled the industry-wide perception of expensive electric vehicles (EVs) and increased purchase intent through an engaging myth-busting campaign. By utilizing an interactive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator, the campaign showcased the cost benefits of owning an EV compared to internal combustion engine (I...
The art of battling giants with slingshot precision for polestar
iProspect
Client: Polestar
A tale of building fame by stealth to exceed all brand targets and deliver a staggering 80% annual sales uplift. Through stylised precision in audience targeting, fame signalling and luxury association-building, we successfully placed Polestar 2 front of mind amongst those most likely to test drive and convert. Accelerating growth in a...
The Zen way: Breaking from tradition to shake up the new car market
RocketMill
Client: ZenAuto
ZenAuto is a new and vibrant B2C sister company of the Zenith Group, who have been leasing fleets of cars to big businesses for the last thirty years. Their ambition was to challenge the traditional norms and behaviours of the car leasing category with an offering more aligned to the demands of modern, digital consumers. Compared to...
UpSellit Drives Conversions for National Tyres
UpSellit and EssenceMediacom
Client: National Tyres
National Tyres partnered with UpSellit to reshape automotive ecommerce by seamlessly integrating personalised incentives and real-time data. This innovative approach successfully reduced bounce rates, validated incrementality, and preserved profit margins. Results from March 2022 to June 2023 boasted an 8.4% campaign conversion rate. T...
B2B
abrdn: Boosting global brand awareness with search
Performics @ Starcom
Client: abrdn
Aberdeen Standard Life rebranded with a new identity and brand name: abrdn. As their agency partner during this transformation, we were tasked with increasing brand awareness and engagement among existing and potential B2B clients worldwide. To achieve this, we developed an organic search strategy to support the brand migration to a ...
Great Things
KISS Communications
Client: Taylor and Francis
Taylor and Francis, one of the leading academic publishers in the UK, wanted to establish and increase brand awareness in the US, particularly within STEM, and publicise their Open Access mission. The world of academic publishing is fast-moving - with digital and Open Access publishing accelerating its reach to new levels. Taylor and F...
Helping Google break business stereotypes, eliminate campaign bias and grow its business
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Google
According to the UN, it could take almost 300 years to achieve gender equality. With women’s jobs being 1.8x more vulnerable than men due to the pandemic, and gender having the most available data out of any under-represented group, the Google Ads team was determined to affect maximum change, knowing advertising and media has a part to...
How Bordeaux & Burgundy Skyrocketed Campaign Output By 250%
Bordeaux & Burgundy | The Marketing Agency Built for SaaS
Client: Armis
As the digital marketing landscape evolves, standing out among the competition requires a unique blend of creativity, strategy, and dedication. We’ve been on a transformative journey since 2020, helping SaaS businesses achieve their goals by delivering creative and capacity B2B marketing solutions. We have been recognised for our excep...
Charity
UN Women - Turning Hard News into Hard Donations
EssenceMediacomX
Client: UN Women
On 6th February 2023, a devastating earthquake hit Türkiye and Syria devastating an area the size of the UK. Over 55,000 people lost their lives, and more than 100,000 were injured and searching for their relatives. We wanted to help. But being 2,106 miles away, where would we start? UN Women is the leader in helping women and child...
Fashion
Global Runway to Digital Success
Performics @ Starcom
Client: Primark
Primark, a renowned retailer offering affordable fashion choices, embarked on a digital transformation to adapt to the changing landscape of the industry. Despite its focus on in-store trading, Primark recognized the need to engage with customers online and appointed Publicis as its agency partner to support. The key challenges were th...
The Sale Before The Sale
BrandAlley
Client: BrandAlley
BrandAlley.co.uk, the UK's leading off-price premium and luxury brand e-tailer, conducted a successful Black Friday campaign titled 'The Sale Before The Sale.' By launching the campaign a month ahead of traditional Black Friday, BrandAlley captured customer demand in a less competitive space. The tagline 'You Want It, We Got It' emphas...
Zero Degrees - Abu Dhabi Winter Retail Season 2022
Avantgarde Middle East
Client: Retail Abu Dhabi
The Abu Dhabi Winter Retail Season, organized by Retail Abu Dhabi, aimed to attract visitors from across the Emirates instead of being limited to the capital's residents. To achieve this objective, our marketing team launched the 'Zero Degrees' campaign, taking over the Abu Dhabi Winter Retail calendar from 25th November 2022 to 31st J...
Finance and Insurance
AXA: Banking on Exceptional Content in Search
Performics @ Starcom
Client: AXA
AXA approached our team at Starcom with a pressing issue. Despite their reputation as a leading UK financial brand, their car and home insurance website pages were experiencing low traffic. Low media share of voice, challenges within the aggregators, and a lack of engagement in the consideration phase of the purchase journey all con...
Driving Awareness and Consideration for Samsung Care+
Performics @ Starcom
Client: Samsung
Samsung, the leading global tech brand, launched their customer care program, Care+ to provide extended warranty coverage, expedited repair services, and personalised assistance. To drive awareness of the new product, our objective was to drive adoption of Samsung Care+ among new device owners, positioning it as the ultimate and cost-e...
Send - With Love
Digital Ethos
Client: Flutterwave Send
Send by Flutterwave is a remittance app with aspirations to be the leading app for the African diaspora to send money. Its parent company, Flutterwave, is Africa’s largest fintech company, specialising in providing payment infrastructure for global merchants and payment service providers. Since 2016, they have seen stable and consisten...
Taking the Zenus Infinite Debit Card Global
Zenus Bank
Client: Zenus Bank
Taking the Zenus Infinite Debit Card Global Zenus has transformed access to US banking by offering a seamless way for people worldwide to open a US bank account and receive a virtual Visa Infinite debit card. Our goal is to acquire new active clients and achieve global scalability. We conducted thorough market research and launched e...
Food and Drink
Forbidden fromage: Babybel’s journey from invisible to #1 in SERPs
Performics @Spark Foundry
Client: Bel (Babybel plant based)
Bel needed an innovative strategy to focus on increasing visibility and brand awareness aimed at driving increased organic traffic to their channels. The website optimisation and content assets also needed to deliver a rich, relevant content experience to have a direct impact on consideration, and dispel any scepticism around the taste...
Reduce, Reinvest, Repeat: Helping Sainsbury’s slash its media carbon footprint
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Sainsbury's Argos
Sainsbury’s is committed to decarbonising its business and has committed to becoming Net Zero across its own operations by 2035. Media investment can have a heavy carbon footprint. One million ad impressions is equivalent to one metric tonne of carbon – or one round trip flight from Boston to London. We knew we needed to act, so we ...
Supercharging the launch of KFC’s owned delivery service
GroupM Nexus and Mindshare
Client: KFC
KFC set out to launch its own delivery service in a cluttered and highly competitive space to take full advantage of the delivery market’s growth. As consumers typically order via delivery aggregators due to their popularity, ease of use, and range of restaurants in one place, KFC needed to entice its audience with something excitin...
Hospitality
Re-establishing footfall post-COVID to Mitchells and Butlers restaurants across the UK
Agency: Havas Media Network
Client: Mitchells and Butlers
New Consumer Product Launch
Making ITVX Unmissable
EssenceMediacomX
Client: ITV
ITV has spent 72 years as a linear broadcaster. In 2022 their core business strategy was transformed in response to changing media habits and the rise of streaming. The launch of ITVX was the newest, freshest and biggest streaming service to hit the UK market. Within four months, ITVX hit one billion streams and became the most ...
Retail
Applying a performance mindset to TV for NEXT level results
iProspect
Client: NEXT
Using a performance mindset, we built a data-rich strategy and test-and-learn approach to convince a results-driven retail brand obsessed with incrementality to embrace the power of addressable TV. And we proved its value with NEXT level results.
Creating Difference that Matters with SpecsTech
MG OMD
Client: Specsavers
Specs This is the story of how our suite of custom developed tools, SpecsTech, enables MG OMD to create difference that matters to Specsavers, unlocking over £43M in sales revenue annually. Today, Advertisers have access to more technologies than ever before. Technologies that offer sophisticated automation, delivering unriv...
Reduce, Reinvest, Repeat: Helping Sainsbury’s slash its media carbon footprint
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Sainsbury's Argos
Sainsbury’s is committed to decarbonising its business and has committed to becoming Net Zero across its own operations by 2035. Media investment can have a heavy carbon footprint. One million ad impressions is equivalent to one metric tonne of carbon – or one round trip flight from Boston to London. We knew we needed to act, so we ...
Sowing the seeds for long-term growth
Go Inspire Group
Client: Dobbies Garden Centres Limited
The Challenge: Deliver measurable growth and improved marketing performance vs. business KPI benchmarks: 80% ROI £5:1 SCR 20% EBIT 40% Response Rate •Demonstrate the contribution of free Dobbies Club benefits to ofrequency oadditional revenue oAverage Customer Value (ACV) •Facilitate hyper-personalised communications ...
Travel
Managing Capacity on LNER with 1PDRK
MG OMD
Client: LNER
As a long-distance rail company, LNER’s customer base (and revenue source) is mostly discretionary leisure and business travellers. On top of this, train operation comes with high fixed costs. To meet business revenue goals, every train journey needs to depart the station at close to full capacity. This makes LNER’s business model incr...
Reaching 2.7 Million Through The Power of Performance and Data-Driven Content & Digital PR
iProspect
Client: South Western Railway
Following two years of lockdown playing havoc with the travel industry, SWR faced its fair share of challenges. We identifired the new way people were using SWR services vs. pre-pandemic. Our innovative three-fold strategy exceeded expectations in an extremely competitive industry with online aggregators.
VEVE drove incremental reach and boosted sales for TUI, delivering a ROAS of 20X
VEVE
Client: TUI
TUI Group, a leading leisure, travel, and tourism company based in Germany, partnered with VEVE to expand its marketing efforts beyond traditional channels and tap into the untapped potential of OEM and browser advertising. With the goal of boosting sales, acquiring new customers, and eliminating competition, VEVE devised a strategic p...
Wellness and Healthcare
Hitting 2.8 Million Incremental Traffic Gain By Combatting Keyword Cannibalisation
iProspect
Client: Lloyds Pharmacy
When The LloydsPharmacy website setup suffered keyword cannibalisation and negatively impacted performance, we leveraged SEO tactics to combat the healthcare competition. The integrated strategy we developed for LloydsPharmacy didn't just deliver fantastic performance, it delicately managed the complexities of both arms of the business...
Zoetis Seeks to Improve The Quality of Life for Pets
Total Media & Pixability
Client: Zoetis
More than a third of global households own pets with the most popular being dogs and cats. At some stage in their lifetime, dogs and cats are affected by Osteoarthritis which can have a significant impact on their quality of life. To help raise awareness of this condition, Total Media partnered with Pixability for Zoetis' YouTube Osteo...
Strategy
E-commerce
Powering omnichannel retailer sales: How we transformed Crown Paints’ DTC shopping experience
OMG Transact & Adimo
Client: Crown Paints
OMG Transact's collaboration with Adimo yielded an innovative and industry-leading eCommerce solution. Leveraging Adimo's technology, we implemented over 500 tailored 'Price First' Buy Now touchpoints across Crown Paints’ product pages. This streamlined the shopper journey, enabling real-time comparison of prices, offer and retailer av...
Supercharging Peak with First-Party Data
Performics @Spark Foundry
Client: Hobbycraft
Driving short-term results with less budget while building the maturity of a brand in the long-term is not an easy challenge. By conducting an overall assessment of Hobbycraft brand, using Publicis’ proprietary solution DMI (Digital Maturity Index), Spark Foundry identified effectively where the short- and long-term growth opportunitie...
Unlocking the Power of Connected Commerce for L'OR
Havas Media
Client: JDE L'OR
In 2022, L'OR, a division of global coffee powerhouse Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE), launched their first barista-style coffee machine on the fiercely competitive British market. Facing established major players such as Nespresso and De'Longhi posed a formidable obstacle, but Havas devised a multifaceted plan to propel L'OR to success. ...
VEVE drove new customer acquisition and generated incremental revenue for Tesco, delivering a ROAS of 45X
VEVE
Client: Tesco
Tesco, a prominent multinational retailer in the UK, experienced a significant surge in online sales during the pandemic, underlining the need to increase its e-commerce penetration in the market. In pursuit of this objective, Tesco partnered with VEVE, a renowned performance marketing platform, to generate incremental revenue for new ...
Growth Marketing
Making ITVX Unmissable
EssenceMediacomX
Client: ITV
ITV has spent 72 years as a linear broadcaster. In 2022 their core business strategy was transformed in response to changing media habits and the rise of streaming. The launch of ITVX was the newest, freshest and biggest streaming service to hit the UK market. Within four months, ITVX hit one billion streams and became the most ...
Partnering to exponentially increase performance marketing
Precise TV
Client: Skinny Foods and Cannon Digital Marketing
Precise TV is the world’s first and leading YouTube advertising platform. The award-winning contextual intelligence platform leverages a combination of proprietary machine learning models to connect brands to the video moments that matter across YouTube, TikTok and connected TV, driving full funnel business outcomes for advertisers loo...
Sowing the seeds for long-term growth
Go Inspire Group
Client: Dobbies Garden Centres Limited
The Challenge: Deliver measurable growth and improved marketing performance vs. business KPI benchmarks: 80% ROI £5:1 SCR 20% EBIT 40% Response Rate •Demonstrate the contribution of free Dobbies Club benefits to ofrequency oadditional revenue oAverage Customer Value (ACV) •Facilitate hyper-personalised communications ...
Zenus Bank - Research, Advertise, Grow, Repeat
Zenus Bank
Client: Zenus Bank
Zenus has transformed global access to US banking by offering a streamlined process for individuals to open US bank accounts and instantly receive virtual Visa Infinite debit cards through their app. This breakthrough eliminates the historical limitations tied to US citizenship or residency. With a vision to provide people worldwide...
Influencer Marketing
#PartyNeverStops
Whalar, TikTok
Client: FLANNELS
FLANNELS (a designer brands retailer) wanted to drive awareness and consideration for the upcoming holiday season. And they did just that with a full funnel TikTok campaign which amassed a massive 18x ROAS on the conversion phase. How? They turned to TikTok and eight fashion creators to create bespoke content which would generate ...
ASICS & World Mental Health Day
Performics @ Starcom
Client: ASICS
Mental health is no joke and, when it comes to body positivity, influencer campaigns can be a source of anxiety for many. ASICS wanted to support their audience with a unique campaign that lives up to the company name – Anima Sana In Corpore Sano: a healthy mind in a healthy body. The campaign subverted expectations of the traditional ...
LIWA Village
Avantgarde Middle East
Client: Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi.
The LIWA Festival aimed to expand its target market from thrill-seekers to families, children, and regional visitors for its December 2022 event. To achieve this, we created LIWA Village, an oasis city in the heart of the Liwa Desert, merging Emirati heritage with the future of motorsports to offer an elevated getaway experience. The v...
LTK X Abercrombie & Fitch Cyber Week Campaign
LTK
Client: Abercrombie & Fitch
Following the success of their Q4 campaign in 2021 – where UK market share grew by 9.4% YoY – Abercrombie & Fitch were ready to partner with LTK again to deliver another series of long-term campaigns in 2022. The objective was to continue to grow the UK creator programme by driving sales, traffic and ROI in the British market. Over the...
Integrated
Anchored in Excellence Through OneSearch
Havas Media
Client: Maersk
Following a shift in business approach from Maersk, moving from being predominately an ocean shipping company to an end-to-end logistics provider, Havas were tasked with driving brand awareness and new user growth across this newly diversified set of products/services. As a key channel in their media mix, Search was an integral drive...
Believe the Hype
Croud
Client: Hyperoptic
Hyperoptic is the UK’s largest exclusively full fibre broadband provider, competing in a highly challenging market, with competitors firmly established with great awareness among consumers. However the broadband market lacks differentiation, so Croud needed to amplify the niche that Hyperoptic had carved out - including capitalising on...
Helping customers ‘Take home life in their stride’ to drive 64% more sales
RocketMill
Client: HomeServe
HomeServe is a leading provider of home assistance cover but they had a problem; not enough people were aware of the protection they offer to cover their homes plumbing, drainage, heating and electrical needs. So they set out to address this challenge by evolving their digital acquisition strategy to also support brand awareness amongs...
Helping Google break business stereotypes, eliminate campaign bias and grow its business
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Google
According to the UN, it could take almost 300 years to achieve gender equality. With women’s jobs being 1.8x more vulnerable than men due to the pandemic, and gender having the most available data out of any under-represented group, the Google Ads team was determined to affect maximum change, knowing advertising and media has a part to...
Making Digital Work Harder with Data Insights
Tug Agency
Client: Milk & More
Müller bought Milk & More in 2018, a milk delivery business aiming to expand its product offering and grow its digital customer base. Tug and Milk & More have a long-standing agency/client relationship spanning over 10 years. We worked with Milk & More to help them mitigate revenue loss due to the UK’s cost of living crisis. With inf...
Making ITVX Unmissable
EssenceMediacomX
Client: ITV
ITV has spent 72 years as a linear broadcaster. In 2022 their core business strategy was transformed in response to changing media habits and the rise of streaming. The launch of ITVX was the newest, freshest and biggest streaming service to hit the UK market. Within four months, ITVX hit one billion streams and became the most ...
Lead Generation
Allowing SMEs To Grow Their Business
Havas Media
Client: Twill
Twill, a Maersk subsidiary, streamlines ocean and inland freight logistics for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). With transparent pricing, simplified paperwork, and robust tracking, Twill enables SMEs to focus on growth while ensuring efficient supply chains. The goal was to secure 3,000 new customers, leveraging Meta and LinkedIn. ...
Creating difference that matters for Nissan’s Lead Generation
MG OMD
Client: Nissan
This is the story of how Nissan United redefined the lead generation programme for Nissan, leading to cost per sale rates 81% above previous targets. Nissan had been facing growing challenges in their lead generation and reaching high-quality in-market leads efficiently was increasingly difficult in a competitive landscape. Nissan Unit...
Driving brand awareness and converting new student sign ups within the student demographic
Student Beans
Client: Fiver
Fiverr partnered with Student Beans to increase awareness and engagement among the student demographic. Student Beans’ student community insights showed that Fiverr faced low awareness, with 48% of students unfamiliar with the brand. Students associated Fiverr primarily with side hustles and money-making opportunities. To address these...
Pivoting from quantity to quality to drive 50% more revenue from paid media
RocketMill
Client: Harvey Water Softeners
A key part of Harvey Water Softeners sales cycle is lead capture and onward nurturing. Noticing a decline in lead quality, they challenged RocketMill with driving leads with a higher propensity to convert. Flipping their existing strategy to focus on lead quality, not quantity, we drove a 50% increase in revenue from paid search and pa...
RBC Brewin Dolphin: Generating more leads through innovation and testing
Walk-In Media
Client: RBC Brewin Dolphin
RBC Brewin Dolphin is a UK wealth manager with a 250-year heritage and audience of people with £300k+ investable assets. This audience is largely AB 45+ with most located in London / SE England with pockets of wealth Nationally. Whilst we spend a focus on brand building, there are key sales pipelines with Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL...
Target High Value Sources of Growth
Crown Jewels Consultants (CJC)
Client: Crown Jewels Consultants (CJC)
Generating leads is often THE top expectation faced by marketers. After falling short of industry benchmarks, a new strategic perspective was needed, and fast. Leveraging indisputable data and learning from statistical observations, this document details how an underperforming conversion rate was transformed into one that outperformed ...
Marketing Innovation
Creating Difference that Matters with SpecsTech
MG OMD
Client: Specsavers
This is the story of how our suite of custom developed tools, SpecsTech, enables MG OMD to create difference that matters to Specsavers, unlocking over £43M in sales revenue annually. Today, Advertisers have access to more technologies than ever before. Technologies that offer sophisticated automation, delivering unrivalled efficiencie...
Delivering instore sales come rain or shine
Performics @ Starcom
Client: Primark
The retail landscape post-pandemic has dramatically changed, with online shopping now dominating. As high street stores face closure and online sales surge, a brand with no ecommerce presence like Primark stood at a critical crossroad. That’s when Starcom came in, taking the challenge head-on, convincing Primark to embrace the use of a...
Herdify X Whistl: Boosting door-drop success for Abel & Cole
Herdify & Whistl
Client: Abel & Cole
Abel & Cole is an established brand with a loyal and engaged following. However, due to multi-box discounts and diminishing ROAS, acquisition costs were skyrocketing. They wanted to use the power of their existing communities to find new customers, but didn’t know how to reach these communities in the real world (ie, not through the...
How VISA leveraged Ogury’s cookieless technology to engage users during the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Ogury
Client: VISA
As the world's leading online payment system, VISA has been facilitating transactions between consumers, retailers, financial institutions and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories since 1958. A sponsor of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, VISA called on long-time AdTech partner Ogury to deliver a campaign that would de...
Leveraging Predictive Audiences To Boost Secondary Shoppers' Revenue
Performics @Spark Foundry
Client: ASDA
A collaboration with Spark Foundry planning and strategy, and the Asda digital marketing, this campaign exemplifies a successful integration of human expertise and algorithmic targeting and optimisation. By leveraging insights from various data sources, we surpassed the clients revenue and retention objectives with maximum efficiency. ...
The Domino's Effect: How Fusing Attention & Context Data Made Sales Fall in Place
Havas Media
Client: Domino's x Gum Gum
In a dwindling takeaway market, Domino’s UK urgently needed the attention of new customers to drive pizza sales and gain market share. Although many programmatic media owners offered technology to optimise towards Attention, the methodology relied on historical campaign data and did not consider the surrounding media context. Agains...
Mobile and App Marketing
A Truly Global App
Zenus Bank
Paid Search
Creating Difference that Matters with SpecsTech
MG OMD
Client: Specsavers
This is the story of how our suite of custom developed tools, SpecsTech, enables MG OMD to create difference that matters to Specsavers, unlocking over £43M in sales revenue annually. Today, Advertisers have access to more technologies than ever before. Technologies that offer sophisticated automation, delivering unrivalled efficiencie...
Driving high value search leads for BMW in an industry first
Total Media
Client: BMW
The automotive industry is heavily reliant on the generation of leads to capture interest from users potentially interested in their cars. BMW have historically placed focus on the volume of leads and overall cost per lead (CPL) generated, but as a result of the global supply chain disruptions post-Covid-19, BMW faced the challenge of ...
Managing Capacity on LNER with 1PDRK
MG OMD
Client: LNER
As a long-distance rail company, LNER’s customer base (and revenue source) is mostly discretionary leisure and business travellers. On top of this, train operation comes with high fixed costs. To meet business revenue goals, every train journey needs to depart the station at close to full capacity. This makes LNER’s business model incr...
Outsmarting The Big Spenders: Activating Full Funnel Search To Drive Revenue
Performics @ Spark Foundry
Client: Asda George
How do we build our brand, drive revenue and gain new customers (cost efficiently) in a fiercely competitive UK Fashion market against some of the leading industry giants with massive advertising budgets? The top three competitors alone dominate with over 60% of the total market share, leaving us with an uphill battle to carve out o...
Transforming and Scaling H&M's Paid Search Strategy for 70% YoY More Online Revenue
iProspect
Client: H&M
With 100 million members across 75 countries and over 4.2k stores, how do you face a titanic challenge like injecting 65% new customer volumes through Paid Search by 2025? Especially, when you’re fishing in an ocean with no bait as cookies depreciate quickly, and the right audience is harder to surface from these great depths. We suc...
Winning Peak with Profit Data
iCrossing
Client: Virgin Experience Days
For over 15 years, iCrossing and Virgin Experience Days have forged an unwavering alliance, enabling us to harness highly sensitive business data to drive substantial growth year after year. In 2022 Virgin Experience Days asked iCrossing to devise a strategic initiative to improve the profitability of their paid search channels, with a...
Paid Social
#PartyNeverStops
Whalar, TikTok
Client: FLANNELS
FLANNELS (a designer brands retailer) wanted to drive awareness and consideration for the upcoming holiday season. And they did just that with a full funnel TikTok campaign which amassed a massive 18x ROAS on the conversion phase. How? They turned to TikTok and eight fashion creators to create bespoke content which would generate ...
Changing Perceptions of the Next Generation of Peugeot Buyers
Performics @ Starcom
Client: Peugeot
A stunning new range of cars and a refreshed brand positioning has set Peugeot on the road to a new era, so it came to TikTok to reach the next generation of Peugeot fans at scale and drive desirability among a new, younger audience of potential buyers. We did this by creating a brand- new “Always-in” strategy. Working with five TikT...
Galaxy makes sustainability tasty in a sales-driving brand equity campaign
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Mars Galaxy
Reaching Our Target Audience Through Location-Targeting
Tug Agency
Client: Milk & More
Milk & More is a milk delivery business aiming to expand its product offering and grow its digital customer base. They enlisted Tug’s paid social services to achieve this. Tug helped Milk & More identify their core target audience personas, and overlaid this with postcode data to focus on hotspot areas for our target profiles. The acti...
Successfully diversifying ad platforms
Journey Further
Client: Gym King
Journey Further and Gym King’s Paid Social audience strategy underwent an expansion throughout 2022. A bespoke research and segmentation piece identified our most valuable target audience and, importantly, revealed where these users spend their time online; they over-index on Snapchat and TikTok. This knowledge, alongside other facto...
Partner and Affiliate Marketing
Driving Cost Effective Growth for Best Western GB
Acceleration Partners & Awin
Client: Best Western GB
Best Western GB has over 250 independently owned and managed hotels throughout Great Britain. Whether customers are looking for coastal charm, a rural retreat or city chic, Best Western GB has a perfectly placed hotel for their needs. The travel and hospitality industries were ground to a halt amidst the global pandemic; forced lock...
Helping ManyPets deliver many sales
The Specialist Works
Client: ManyPets
In December 2022 ManyPets asked The Specialist Works to increase response volume in the affiliates channel through new campaign tactics. The Specialist Works identified that they could target relevant and engaged audiences by sending out email campaigns that coordinated with the TV spot schedule. By aligning media and message through t...
Redefining the role of Affiliates in the path to purchase
MG OMD
Client: Aer Lingus
This is the story of how our strategic affiliate programme structure enabled MG OMD to redefine the role of affiliates in the path to purchase for Aer Lingus, leading to programme revenue soaring by 38%. Following one of the most turbulent periods for this brand, MG OMD challenged themselves to increase performance for Aer Lingus, whil...
Purpose
How BMW Canada Increased Brand Metrics While Delivering A Carbon-Neutral Campaign with Sharethrough GreenPMPs
Sharethrough
Client: BMW Canada
BMW’s main objective was to promote their branded content series aiming to convince potential EV consumers of their leadership and commitment to the environment. Delivering the campaign using Sharethrough GreenPMPs was the optimal solution to achieve their campaign objectives while also aligning with BMW’s overall commitment towards gr...
MPB - From Investment to Invest-meaning
EssenceMediacomX
Client: MPB
MPB is dedicated to revolutionising online retail by making used photo and video equipment accessible and affordable for all. We ensured that its media investment was just as planet friendly by revamping its programmatic supply chain in a way that not only exceeded performance KPIs by 30% but also produced carbon impressions that we...
PRA Group's Global Inclusion Week
PRA Group
Client: PRA Group
Established in 1996, PRA Group (Nasdaq: PRAA) is a publicly traded global financial services company and an industry leader in the nonperforming loan asset class. When PRA Group’s UK business began celebrating Inclusive Employers’ “National Inclusion Week,” the company saw an opportunity to create its own Global Inclusion Week (GIW) in...
Reduce, Reinvest, Repeat: Helping Sainsbury’s Argos slash its media carbon footprint
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Sainsbury's Argos
Sainsbury’s is committed to decarbonising its business and has committed to becoming Net Zero across its own operations by 2035. Media investment can have a heavy carbon footprint. One million ad impressions is equivalent to one metric tonne of carbon – or one round trip flight from Boston to London. We knew we needed to act, so we ...
UN Women - Turning Hard News into Hard Donations
EssenceMediacomX
Client: UN Women
On 6th February 2023, a devastating earthquake hit Türkiye and Syria devastating an area the size of the UK. Over 55,000 people lost their lives, and more than 100,000 were injured and searching for their relatives. We wanted to help. But being 2,106 miles away, where would we start? UN Women is the leader in helping women and child...
SEO
Accelerating Growth Through Enterprise-SEO
Tug Agency
Client: END. Clothing
END. Clothing is a leading retailer of high-end fashion. In 2022, the company appointed Tug to lead their SEO strategy, as organic growth had plateaued during 2020 and 2021. This led to an over-reliance on Paid Media, which END. were keen to reduce. We worked on maximising visibility for non-END. brand pages and category and departme...
Climbing Trees & Avanti Travel Insurance – Flying Onto Page 1 Rankings
Climbing Trees
Client: Avanti Travel Insurance
With a shift in target audience, Avanti Travel Insurance needed to gain and retain page 1 rankings by the end of an 18-month SEO campaign increase the brand’s organic visibility and remain competitive. Creating a campaign designed to attract links from the NHS was a hugely ambitious idea that worked. Just 12 weeks after implementatio...
Emergency Response for Ukraine (Save the Children UK)
EssenceMediacom
Client: Save the Children UK
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. This instigated a rapid emergency response by EssenceMediacom on behalf of Save the Children to ensure much needed aid to the people, and children, of Ukraine. This urgent crisis campaign quickly and effectively used intelligently informed SEO strategy and a total cam...
Optimising User Experience With Core Web Vitals
iCrossing UK
Client: American Express
American Express’s slow homepage speed was hindering user experience, so it was clear we needed to define a clear strategy in order to improve page speed scores and provide a smooth and responsive interaction for users. To do this, we’d have to ensure the homepages met or surpassed Google’s passing threshold of 70%-page speed across bo...
Proof's In The Pudding – Using Holistic Search To Drive Sweeter Results
Performics @ Spark Foundry
Client: Asda
Proofs in the Pudding... This is a real showcase of SEO best practice at its finest. No siloes, but instead showing what a holistic approach to search can achieve. We all know the struggles of duplicated content. Despite variations in the URL structure, the products and keywords targeted by these pages are often identical or very simil...
The Mixer
Greenpark
Client: Campari Group
The Mixer is an all-in-one ‘drinkspiration’ platform providing everything needed to make any event or occasion a big success. The Mixer brings together data and editorial written by Food, Beverage & Lifestyle experts to inspire sparkling, memorable moments through cocktail making at home with friends and loved ones. As a brand-agnostic...
People, Agencies & Teams
In House Agency of the Year
Delivering Record-Breaking Targets In-House with Innovation and Design Excellence
Verisure UK
Verisure UK achieved record-breaking lead generation through in-house innovation this past year. As Europe's largest home alarm company, Verisure UK faced the challenge of increasing lead generation and sales appointments in 2022 with the same budget as the previous year. This was against the backdrop of significant changes in digital ...
FT Live
Financial Times (FT) Live Digital and Performance Marketing Team
The FT Live Digital and Performance Marketing team deserves to win the best in-house agency award for their exceptional performance in driving growth and delivering outstanding results. Due to the pandemic, FT Live rapidly transformed its business model from hosting exclusively in-person events to offering virtual events. To maximize t...
International Agency of the Year
Croud
Croud is a full-service digital marketing agency that leverages a unique business model to deliver more for some of the world’s leading brands. Founded in 2011, Croud combines a team of some 480+ in-house digital marketing experts with a global network of 2,000+ on-demand specialists known as ‘Croudies’ to deliver the global scale and ...
Marketer of the Year
Antony Fung
Client: Crown Jewels Consultants (CJC)
Generating leads is often THE top expectation faced by marketers. After falling short of industry benchmarks, a new strategic perspective was needed, and fast. Leveraging indisputable data and learning from statistical observations, this document details how an underperforming conversion rate was transformed into one that outperformed ...
Ishita Khare
Client: Performics @ Starcom
Ishita Khare, an extraordinary leader within the Performance Experience team at Performics @ Starcom, has a track record of success spanning four years in the company and eight years in the marketing industry. Her expertise in SEO and data-driven insights have revolutionised the team’s approach to client deliverables, making her an inv...
Kubi Springer
Client: Avantgarde Middle East
The LIWA Festival, organized by the DCT, sought to expand its target market for December 2022 from thrill-seekers to families, children, and regional visitors, with a goal of attracting at least 20,000 ticket sales. The objective was to highlight the Liwa Desert as an iconic heritage site and an attractive getaway destination. This led...
Performance Marketing Agency Of The Year
20% Global Growth in a Year of Innovation
Tug Agency
Here at Tug, we stick to our motto - Work Hard and Be Nice to People, and it’s reflected in our key successes for 2022. Last year, we won 32 new clients across all Tug territories, driving £1.75 million of revenue into the business. We’ve come a long way since opening in 2006, and in the last year we opened new offices in Singapore and...
A TRUE Marketing Performance Partner: Delivering Outcomes NOT Outputs.
Go Inspire Group
Client: Go Inspire Group
We could spend a lot of time navel-gazing on our mission and vision, but it’s not really our style. Ultimately, Go Inspire are a Marketing Performance Partner, that deals in OUTCOMES, not outputs. We’re pragmatic yet imaginative, and we like to get stuff done. We keep it simple: Right message. Right person. Right time. Rig...
Affiverse (formerly Affiliate Insider)
Client: Affiverse Agency
Affiverse (Formally AffiliateINSIDER) is a boutique performance marketing agency founded by industry veteran and PMA board member Lee-Ann Johnstone, in 2019. With the vision to do affiliate marketing better, Lee-Ann embarked on a journey to create a performance marketing agency built on three core pillars; an agency that provides quali...
EssenceMediacomX: Built to Breakthrough
EssenceMediacomX
EssenceMediacomX is part of EssenceMediacom in the UK, having officially launched in January 2023. Its foundations combine Essence’s performance, data, analytics, and creative technology DNA with MediaCom’s scaled multichannel audience planning and strategic media expertise; but we see this year’s agency launch as chance to disrupt the...
Kinesso UK
We drive growth for our clients through a planning and operating model we call Flow, the continuous movement of people along the path to purchase. Flow encompasses the entire customer journey and underpins our planning, optimisation, and measurement strategies. It helps to predict the actions and outcomes from three coefficients: custo...
PMG - Full service with performance at the core
RocketMill is an independent performance marketing agency. Our team of +170 fuse technology with craft and performance with brand to create a full service offering, bringing together media, creative, customer experience, data and technology specialists with a progressive mindset and a common purpose to drive business forward for our cl...
Sustainable Initiative of the Year
Decarbonizing Media and Ad Tech with Scope3
Scope3
Client: Scope3
The unnecessarily complex and inefficient advertising ecosystem that exists today is costing brands, marketers and quality publishers while also contributing an excess of carbon emissions. Scope3 was started with the explicit mission to change that, and continues to be laser focused on decarbonizing media and advertising. Not only ha...
Proving Sustainability Doesn't Mean Reduced Performance
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Sainsbury's Argos and MPB
EssencemediacomX has built a reputation for leading in digital strategy and execution, however best practices in media were never crafted with sustainability in mind. The question was, could we optimise against reducing carbon in our campaigns whilst still reaching an optimal audience and driving performance for our clients? No one els...
Team of the Year
LIWA Village
Avantgarde Middle East
Client: Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi.
The LIWA Festival, organized by the DCT, aimed to expand its target market from thrill-seekers to families, children, and regional visitors for its annual event. The main objective was to emphasize the Liwa Desert as an iconic heritage site and an attractive getaway destination for people from all walks of life. To achieve this, the LI...
Performics @ Starcom
Client: Performics @ Starcom
Performics @ Starcom, a globally recognised performance marketing arm of Publicis Media, has taken the industry by storm with their innovative strategies and data-driven approach, achieving remarkable success over the past year. It’s all in the numbers: a 71% all-time high new business conversion rate, 95% client retention rate, and 7 ...
Rakuten Advertising DealMaker Team Powers Thousands of In-Person Connections for Growth
Rakuten Advertising
Rakuten Advertising developed DealMaker events years ago to help advertisers and publishers connect, learn, and do business. The guiding principle is to create value for the industry. The DealMaker Team wanted to do more than “just” bring together members of the industry, they wanted to ensure that attending was time well spent by arch...
Zenus Bank - Growing Team, Growing Ambitions
Zenus Bank
Client: Zenus Bank
Zenus Bank has transformed access to US banking services globally, enabling individuals and businesses in 180 countries to open accounts and obtain premium Visa debit cards without US residency or citizenship. Through strategic marketing efforts of Marketers Beyond Borders, including market research and targeted campaigns, Zenus has...
GRAND PRIX
Driving Change: Vauxhall’s Innovative EV Calculator Drives Awareness
Performics @ Starcom
Client: Vauxhall
Vauxhall successfully tackled the industry-wide perception of expensive electric vehicles (EVs) and increased purchase intent through an engaging myth-busting campaign. By utilizing an interactive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator, the campaign showcased the cost benefits of owning an EV compared to internal combustion engine (I...