Categories
Welcome to the Performance Marketing World UK Awards 2024! These Awards are the industry’s annual celebration of best in class campaigns, strategies, teams and individual pioneers in digital marketing today.
UK Categories - Sectors
New Consumer Product Launch
This category recognises new consumer product launches
within the sector.
B2B
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions across the B2B
marketing sector
Finance and Insurance
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions across the finance
and insurance sector.
Wellness, Healthcare and Beauty
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions across the wellness,
healthcare and beauty sector
Fashion
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions across the fashion
sector.
Food, Drink and Alcoholic Beverages
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions across the food,
drink and alcoholic beverages sector.
Hospitality & Travel
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions across the hospitality
and travel sector.
Automotive
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions across the
automotive sector.
Charity
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions across the charity
sector.
Retail
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions across the retail
sector.
Direct to Consumer
This category recognises campaigns that drive effective
customer conversions and/or actions via a direct to
consumer channel (as opposed to via a third party
retailer).
UK Categories - Strategy
E-Commerce
This category recognises a campaign that has met a brand or client’s marketing objectives by delivering a successful retail, e-commerce or mobile commerce strategy.
Judges will be looking for entries that explain clearly the
strategy’s objectives, audience and sales targets, and
quantify the value of the commerce strategy to the business
or client, along with any other results and effectiveness
measures of success.
Social Commerce
This category recognises a campaign that has met a brand or client’s marketing objectives by delivering a successful social commerce strategy.
Judges will be looking for entries that explain clearly the
strategy’s objectives, audience and sales targets, and
quantify the value of the commerce strategy to the business
or client, along with any other results and effectiveness
measures of success.
Growth Marketing
This category recognises a campaign that has met a brand or client’s marketing objectives by delivering a successful growth marketing strategy.
Judges will be looking for entries that clearly explain the
strategy’s objectives, audience acquisition, engagement
and retention targets, and quantify the value of the growth
marketing strategy to the business or client, along with any
other results and effectiveness measures of success.
Influencer Marketing
This category celebrates the value and growing power of influencer marketing in performance marketing.
Judges will look for entries that have shown true audience
insight in their influencer marketing campaign strategy,
and a clear alignment between influencers and channels
chosen for overall brand identity to deliver actionable
results for clients or brands. Entries should include overall
campaign goals, cost per conversion targets and results,
including enquiries, new customer acquisition as leads or
direct transitions.
Integrated
This category recognises a campaign that has met a brand or client’s objectives by delivering a marketing strategy across multiple channels.
Judges will be looking for entries with evidence of campaign
activity across a minimum of three channels and explain
the strategy’s objectives, audience and targets. Entries
should also quantify the value of the integrated marketing
strategy to the business and how the channels worked
together, along with any other results and effectiveness
measures of success.
Lead Generation
This category recognises a campaign that has met a brand or client’s marketing objectives by delivering a successful high-quality leads strategy.
Judges will be looking for entries that clearly explain
the objectives, target audience, budget allocation, ROI,
platform utilised, content or offer, and quantify the value of
leads to the business or client, along with any other results
and effectiveness measures of success.
Marketing Innovation
This category recognises a campaign that has met a brand or client’s marketing objective by out-of-the-box thinking.
Judges will be looking for entries that explain why the
strategy was chosen, why it is creative or innovative,
its objectives and the impact it had on the overall
performance.
Email, Mobile and App Marketing
This category recognises a campaign that has met a client or brand’s marketing objectives by delivering an email, mobile or mobile app marketing strategy that has convincingly hit measurements and/or app optimisation targets.
Judges will be looking for entries that clearly explain the
objectives, audience engagement or download targets,
along with any other effectiveness results. B2C, D2C and
B2B campaigns all qualify for this category.
Paid Search
This category recognises a campaign that has met a brand or client’s marketing objectives by delivering a successful bidding strategy.
Judges will be looking for entries that explain the strategy’s
objectives, ROI, budget allocation, platform utilised, target
audience, and quantify the value of the campaign to the
business or client with results and effectiveness measures
of success.
Paid Social
This category recognises a campaign that has met a brand or client’s marketing objectives by delivering a successful paid social media strategy.
Judges will be looking for entries that clearly explain
the strategy’s objectives, ROI, platform utilised, target
audience, budget allocation and quantify the value of the
social strategy to the business or client, along with any
other results and effectiveness measures of success.
Partner and Affiliate Marketing
This category recognises a campaign that successfully delivers new audiences, leads, revenue or brand awareness.
Judges will be looking for entries that clearly explain the
objectives, target audience, channels, partners and
platforms chosen. In your entry, please quantify the
partnership or affiliate marketing strategy to the business
or client along with any other results and effectiveness
measures of success.
Purpose
This category recognises a campaign that raised awareness or positive sentiment towards a cause or issue, and / or helped shift culture, change behaviour or drive actions.
Judges will be looking for entries that have identified a
specific audience need and created a piece of work that
improves social, environmental and economic outcomes
through the use of performance marketing techniques and
/ or technology.
SEO
This category celebrates SEO best practice.
Judges will look for entries that demonstrate an effective
and creative SEO strategy and implementation for long
or short term goals. Entries must clearly describe the SEO
objectives, approach, tactics and results for the company
or client.
UK Categories - People, Agencies & Team
Sustainable Initiative of the Year
This category recognises a team, initiative or technology platform that helped enhance transparency, accountability or sustainability in the performance marketing industry.
Judges will be looking for entries that clearly demonstrate
how the initiative had a measurable impact on helping the
company, client or marketing supply chain meet higher
ethical or environmental standards. Entries are welcome
from brands, agencies or tech providers.
In House Agency of the Year
This category will focus on a team in a business or agency deploying successful approaches to taking a performance marketing discipline in-house (as opposed to working with an agency).
Teams will be judged on specific campaign performances or a body of work. Entries should demonstrate conversions achieved or customer actions delivered which have had a measurable impact on their brand’s businesses.
This year, shortlisted agencies will be invited to present
their entry to a group of judges on 11th September. This will
be via Zoom.
Team of the Year
This category will focus on a team in a business or agency deploying fresh approaches to targeting relevant audiences, customer conversion and retention.
Teams will be judged on specific campaign performances
or a body of work. Entries should demonstrate conversions
achieved or customer actions delivered which have
had a measurable impact on their brand or customers’
businesses. Entries are welcome from brands, agencies or
tech providers
UK Marketer of the Year
This award will celebrate the talented individuals that are leading the charge and creating great performance marketing campaigns, using smart technology and techniques, that delight and engage customers and drive effective conversions for measurable business growth.
Entries are welcome from brands, agencies and tech
partners.
Performance Marketing Agency of the Year
This award celebrates the very best performance marketing agency who has evidence of financial success, client retention and acquisition, collective creativity and a deep understanding of marketing technologies, business and talent base and who has produced outstanding results for their clients.
Entries must be accompanied by evidence of client ROI and testimonials. Teams will be commended for their dedication to diversity within their agency and/or wider industry. The initial entry can be up to two sides of A4.
This year, shortlisted agencies will be invited to present
their entry to a group of judges on 11th September. This will
be via Zoom.
Independent Performance Marketing Agency of the Year
This award celebrates the very best independent performance marketing agency who has evidence of financial success, client retention and acquisition, collective creativity and a deep understanding of marketing technologies, business and talent base and who has produced outstanding results for their clients.
Entries must be accompanied by evidence of client ROI and testimonials. Teams will be commended for their dedication to diversity within their agency and/or wider industry. The initial entry can be up to two sides of A4.
This year, shortlisted agencies will be invited to present
their entry to a group of judges on 11th September. This will
be via Zoom.
Global Categories
This year the Awards will celebrate and recognise agencies
and brands of all sizes and structures, from every corner of
the world. While a global footprint isn’t required, your work
must exemplify excellence on a global scale.
International Agency of the Year
This award celebrates the very best performance marketing agency with a presence across more than two countries who has evidence of financial success across these markets, client retention and acquisition, collective creativity and a deep understanding of marketing technologies, business and talent base and who has produced outstanding results for their clients.
Entries must be accompanied by evidence of client ROI and
testimonials. Teams will be commended for their dedication
to diversity within their agency and/or wider industry. The
initial entry can be up to two sides of A4.
International Growth Award
This award celebrates work that has helped scale an
organisation across markets anywhere in the world. Must
have seen growth across two or more territories.
Best International Performance Marketing Campaign
This award will reward any work that involves performance
marketing outside of the UK, including PPC, SEM, affiliate,
e-commerce, paid social and app marketing.
International Marketer of the Year
This award will celebrate the talented individuals that are leading the charge and creating great performance marketing campaigns, using smart technology and techniques, that delight and engage customers and drive effective conversions for measurable business growth.
Entries are welcome from brands, agencies and tech
partners.