U.S. Partnership Awards

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April 17, 2024   |   Miami, Florida

2023 Winners

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CHANNEL & STRATEGY AWARDS

Best Affiliate Marketing Strategy - Enterprise Level

Rakuten advertising

Rakuten Advertising delivers performance-driven, brand-driven, and people-driven ad solutions that help the world’s top brands connect with unique, highly engaged audiences – from first impression to final sale. Backed by industry-leading technology, global media properties, and the largest, high-quality partner network, Rakuten Advertising taps into decades of data and experience to develop the strategies and ad experiences that will drive engagement, sales, loyalty, and beyond. A leader in the industry since its beginnings, Rakuten Advertising is a division of Rakuten Group, Inc. (4755: TOKYO), one of the world’s leading internet service companies. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices throughout EMEA, APAC, LATAM, and North America. Learn more at RakutenAdvertising.com.

https://rakutenadvertising.com/en-uk/

Gold Winner:
Disney+ & Neo: Disney+ Day – Affiliate Performance with an Enterprise Approach

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Silver Winner:
AIM & Oracle NetSuite

Best Affiliate Marketing Strategy - SME

 

Gold Winner:
Quince & BDBC

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Silver Winner:
LT Partners & GlassesUSA


Bronze Winner:
impact.com & Merge & Mizzen+Main

Best Always-On Influencer Campaign

Impact.com

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.

https://impact.com/

Gold Winner:
Buttermilk & Primark: US Takeover

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Silver Winner:
Dove & Collectively: Dove 2022 Influencer Community

Best Brand Engagement Campaign

 

Gold Winner:
Dove & Collectively: Dove 2022 Influencer Community

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Silver Winner:
Osmo Salt & GRIN


Bronze Winner:
impact.com & Bowlero

Best Content Partnership

 

Gold Winner:
Driving Greatness: A Tombras led partnership with Forbes Wheels & RealTruck

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Silver Winner:
M. Gemi Elevates Performance with Dedicated Content on Partnerize Platform


Bronze Winner:
Shoplooks & Bloomingdale’s: Harnessing Creator Stories to Impact Growth

Best Cross-Channel Strategy

 

Gold Winner:
Awin: Etsy’s Cyber Sales Event UGC Ads Campaign Lights Up TikTok & Instagram

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Silver Winner:
Vans & Rakuten Advertising: Putting the Sole Back in Prospecting


Bronze Winner:
impact.com & DMi & Rastelli’s

Best Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Campaign or Initiative

 

Gold Winner:
Fire Bee: Celebrating CP Kelco on LinkedIn

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Best Full-Funnel Influencer Campaign

 

Gold Winner:
Alka-Seltzer & Linqia Offer Hangover Relief with T-Pain

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Silver Winner:
Shoplooks & Neiman Marcus: Influencer Campaign Brings in Record-Breaking Sales


Bronze Winner:
Inkbox & GRIN

Best Partnership Optimization Strategy

 

Gold Winner:
Wells Fargo & Rakuten Advertising Use Tech & Innovation to Grow 99%

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Silver Winner:
UpSellit & L*Space


Bronze Winner:
Philips & iO: A Blueprint for Expansion in North America

Best Performance-Based Partnership

 

Gold Winner:
Assembly Partners with Cash App to Drive New to File Customers for Foot Locker

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Silver Winner:
UpSellit & Sideshow


Bronze Winner:
Quince & BDBC

Best Use of a Small Budget

 

Gold Winner:
eAccountable & Parks Project

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Silver Winner:
Osmo Salt & GRIN


Bronze Winner:
IZEA & Together for Safer Roads: World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

Best Use of Creator Content by a Brand

 

Gold Winner:
Post For Rent Turkey, Rafineri & Pegasus Airlines Multichannel Ticket Campaign

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Silver Winner:
LT Partners & Madison Reed


Bronze Winner:
impact.com & Picsart

Best Use of Data and Insights

partnerize

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.

https://partnerize.com./

Gold Winner:
Data-Driven Affiliate Keeps Sales Growing for Hilton & Rakuten Advertising

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Silver Winner:
Tombras & RealTruck’s data-driven partnership is truckin on with Forbes Wheels


Bronze Winner:
impact.com & Acceleration Partners & Allbirds

Best Use of Micro Influencers

 

Gold Winner:
IPSY & GRIN

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Silver Winner:
Karma

Most Creative Campaign

 

Gold Winner:
AvantLink

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Partnership for Good

assembly

Assembly is the modern global omnichannel media agency, bringing data, talent, and technology together to find the change that fuels growth for the best brands on the planet. Our approach connects big, bold brand stories with integrated, global media capabilities that deliver performance and drive large-scale business growth. Our work is powered by our proprietary, in-house technology solution, STAGE, and led by our global talent base of over 1,600 people around the world. We’re purpose-driven at our core and pioneers in social and environmental impact in the agency world. Assembly is a proud member of Stagwell, the challenger network built to transform marketing. For more information, visit assemblyglobal.com. 

https://www.assemblyglobal.com/

Gold Winner:
IZEA, Cactus & Colorado Crisis Services: LGBTQIA+ Community Mental Health Initiative

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Silver Winner:
Dove & Collectively: Dove 2022 Influencer Community


Bronze Winner:
Partake Foods & Rakuten Advertising Drive Outstanding Profit and Social Investments

Agency & Teams Awards

Best Affiliate & Partner Marketing Agency - Boutique

 

Gold Winner:
BDBCreative

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Silver Winner:
eAccountable


Bronze Winner:
Hamster Garage

Best Affiliate & Partner Marketing Agency - Large

VEVE

VEVE is a technology-based performance and brand marketing platform that enables brands to connect with 500 MN+ unique users across various mobile handsets (OEMs), Internet Browsers, App stores and Premium Apps across the globe. The strong collaboration enables brands to access 36% of smartphone and desktop users in North America and 50% across Europe. The massive reach along with the novelty of the VEVE’s on-device ad formats helps brands drive clicks, visits, new user acquisitions, sales, subscriptions, and app installs.

https://www.veve.com/en/

Gold Winner:
Driving Good Growth for Neo Media World’s Clients and People

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Silver Winner:
Acceleration Partners: Creating Partnerships that Drive Exceptional Outcomes


Bronze Winner:
Gen3 Marketing

Best Influencer Marketing Agency

CJ

Founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1998, CJ (formerly Commission Junction), 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. Learn more at www.cj.com

https://www.cj.com/ Twitter

Gold Winner:
HireInfluence

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Silver Winner:
Intuition Marketing LLC dba Intuition Media Group


Bronze Winner:
Collectively

Best Partnerships Team

 

Gold Winner:
Rakuten Advertising Advanced Analytics

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Silver Winner:
AP’s Global Partnerships Team: Not If, but How!


Bronze Winner:
Capital One Shopping Partnerships Team

One to Watch

 

Gold Winner:
Kaia Skillman, Hamster Garage

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Silver Winner:
Carissa Flinders, Awin


Bronze Winner:
Kimberly Smith, CJ

Partnership of the Year

matterkind

Matterkind gives people more relevant marketing experiences while driving sales, qualified leads, and other guaranteed outcomes for brands. Our intentional, audience-first approach is kind and respectful to people and delivers sustainable, high-performance results – not risk – for marketers. Our solutions help brands see up to 30% revenue growth and a 20% increase in efficiencies through offerings that support affiliate and partnership marketing, retail media networks, and other pay for performance programs.

https://matterkind.com/

Gold Winner:
impact.com for Walmart Creator

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Silver Winner:
Dove & Collectively: Dove 2022 Influencer Community

Together - We Solved That!

 

Gold Winner:
LinkConnector & BoardVitals: Custom Setup Delivers 59% YoY Revenue Increase!

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Silver Winner:
PartnerForward Agency, Rakuten Network & Rakuten CLO: WINNING COLLABORATION for ANGARA


Bronze Winner:
impact.com & Rise Interactive & Ulta Beauty

TECHNOLOGY AWARDS

Best Platform for Partnership Success

Strand marketing

Strand Marketing is a boutique digital marketing consultancy focusing on performance-based media buying, and strategic client services. We work with billion-dollar brands, as well as up-and-coming start-ups where our team acts as an extension of our clients’ marketing team. Our expertise in media strategy, marketing operations, and the consumer journey has positioned us uniquely to deliver significant growth for our partners. We take immense pride in supporting customer acquisition expansion and customer retention through our one to one relationships and hands-on execution. In just over four years, our company has achieved remarkable success and our team has more than doubled in size in just the past year.

https://www.strandmc.com/

Gold Winner:
CJ’s Platform: Achieving Partnership Success through Innovative Solutions

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Silver Winner:
Rakuten Advertising Platform Delivers Innovation for Affiliate’s Toughest Challenges

Most Innovative Technology

 

Gold Winner:
Rakuten Advertising’s Insights & Analytics Portal and Data Labs Revolutionize Reporting

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Silver Winner:
LTK Connect


Bronze Winner:
Capital One Shopping’s Hotel Metasearch

The Hookup - Best Tech for Brands

 

Gold Winner:
LTK Connect

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Silver Winner:
impact.com’s Link Scanner

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