Partnership Awards
Rewarding exceptional partnerships that fuel customer value, creativity and growth
Scope of the Awards
Affiliate & partner Marketing
As brands take a holistic approach to partnerships to hit business objectives. The awards seek to recognise joined-up partner marketing strategy across affiliate, performance, brand, content, app and influencer partnerships.
influencer partnerships
The creator economy is set to drive $billions in sales for brands who are successfully embracing the creativity and reach of creators. Our judges will reward exceptional influencer partnerships via a brand or agency that have met defined KPIs or outcome-based targets.
performance-based partnerships
Rewarding performance-based partnerships and campaigns. Focusing on the human elements of the partnership whilst also recognising the important part technology and data plays in driving customer value.
Testimonials

Todd Crawford
VP Strategic Initiatives
“The Partnership Economy is growing and evolving at an astonishing rate. It is important that we recognize the people, technologies, and relationships driving these changes. PerformanceIN has been recognizing partnerships as they have evolved over the past 16 years at their annual awards in the UK. It is very exciting that they are now bringing these awards to North America.”

Rahul Titus
Head of Influence, EMEA
“It’s great to see Influencer Partnerships take center stage with an awards programme that celebrates exceptional creator partnerships.”

Nicole Ron
SVP of Marketing & Business Systems
“This dynamic channel is always innovating to meet consumer needs while delivering valuable outcomes for brands and publishers. It’s wonderful to take a moment to showcase some of the incredible work that continues to propel this industry’s successes.”

Maura Smith
CMO/SVP of Marketing
“PerformanceIN has long served as the industry leader in performance awards. Their legacy is one that is deeply rooted in showcasing marketers’ strengths across a myriad of categories which in turn, offers value to all marketers. I expect nothing less from the launch of their US Partnership Awards.”
Platinum Partners
Category Sponsors
Founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1998, CJ continues to lead the industry as the largest, most trusted name in global performance marketing, specializing in affiliate marketing technology and services.
We are the platform of choice for driving profitable growth for over 3,800 global brands around the world across all verticals including retail, travel, finance, and network & home services. Our technology powers a partnership ecosystem where over 167K publishers and brands engage billions of consumers worldwide.
As part of Publicis Groupe, aligned with Publicis Media, we leverage unparalleled data, technology, and strategic expertise to bring a truly customer-centric approach to performance marketing. Our people dare to think big and drive even bigger results.
The leading global partnership management platform, impact.com has been transforming the way enterprises manage and optimise all types of partnerships—including affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more—since its founding in 2008. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform helps brands, and publishers and agencies build authentic, enduring and rewarding relationships with consumers by providing visibility across the entire consumer journey. impact.com users are able to aggregate, orchestrate and optimise the total value of the entire mix of partnerships with ease and transparency – driving growth and creating new value for consumers. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as TUI, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, Fanatics, Levi’s and Hello Fresh, visit www.impact.com.
Neo Media World is a digital-first global team with media expertise from brand to performance. Brands look to Neo as their competitive advantage to best engage their customers across disciplines including programmatic, social, paid search, analytics, technology, organic search, affiliate marketing, e-commerce and across traditional channels. Mindshare and Neo recently announced the completion of their integration, providing clients with a broader range of transformative media services. Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients in the age of transformation. Discover more about Neo Media World at www.neomediaworld.com, and follow us on Twitter @NeoMediaWorld, LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/neomediaworld/, and Instagram @NeoMediaWorld.
Partnerize is the leader in partnership automation. The Partnerize platform is the only of its kind to deliver a fully integrated, comprehensive suite of discovery, recruitment, optimization, payment, brand safety and fraud prevention capabilities for marketers seeking a high transparency, scalable subsidy to alleviate pressure on their unit economics as a result of over dependence on primary sales and marketing channels. Supported by unrivaled service including the category’s only in-housing support program, with Partnerize, you’re in control of the entire partnership marketing lifecycle—all on a single platform. Partnerize has a global footprint, retaining offices in Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. For more information on how Partnerize helps turn your partnerships into a profit center, please visit https://partnerize.com/en.
Rakuten Advertising connects leading agencies, brands and publishers to active and engaged consumers around the world. With access to Rakuten’s diverse media properties and audiences, combined with an award-winning performance network and proprietary consumer research, Rakuten Advertising creates the right conditions to reach new customers and sustain long-lasting loyalty. Its foundation of advanced technology, data and strategic services positions Rakuten Advertising to offer a diffand proprietary consumer research, Rakuten Advertising creates the right conditions to reach new customers and sustain long-lasting loyalty. Its foundation of advanced technology, data and strategic services positions Rakuten Advertising to offer a differentiated suite of marketing and advertising solutions, while constantly pushing the industry forward. It is a division of Rakuten Inc. (4755: TOKYO), one of the world’s leading Internet service companies. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices throughout EMEA, APAC, LATAM and North America. Learn more at www.RakutenAdvertising.com.