2016 Shortlist


BEST USE OF SEARCH – RETAIL

1SEO.com Retail Customers Answers the Calling of Divinity Clergy Wear

Catalyst & SK-II The Power of PLAs

Gen3 Marketing – Say Hello to Unbranded – Hello Moto (Motorola)

iCrossing -Peekaboo We See You Increasing ROI by nearly 300% For The Childrens Place via CRM

IMI Makes Safe Step Walk-In Tub Even More Accessible

Mindshare & Jaguar Land Rover Increasing Conversions & CTR through Real-time Ad-Copy Price Adjustments

Point It & Microsoft Store  Surprise Product Launch

Wordstream & FlowerMuse  Blooming in a Crowded Retail Niche

Zimmerman & BFO Increase Traffic 2400% for Jamba Juice

 

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – FINANCE

Catalyst and HSBC  Driving Deposit Growth Through Search

Go Fish Digital & Online Trading Academy  A smart investment in SEO

IMI  National Funding Keeping Small Business Alive

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – TRAVEL / LEISURE

Aristotle Inc – Aristotle & Utah Office of Tourism Search Campaign

Beeby Clark Meyler – Beeby Clark  Meyler & Marriott Marriott Traveler Paid Search

Milestone Internet Marketing Inc – FAQ Concierge    Enables Voice Search and Direct Answers

TopSpot Internet Marketing – Itzana Resorts & Residences Search Program

Two Octobers – Growth for Colibri Hotel Collection

Wordstream – Wordstream & insightCuba Setting Sail for New Travel Markets

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – THIRD SECTOR

1SEO.com Digital Agency – 1SEO.com Digital Agency Deals CCGNJ800 Gambler in on a Successful Digital Marketing Campaign

Bluetrain Inc.  – Student Energy with Google Ad Grants Campaign

LSEO.com – LSEO.com and The Commonwealth Medical College From Zero Awareness to $1000000 In Revenue In 4 Months A Case Study On Integrated Marketing For A Non-Profit Medical College’s New Program

Two Octobers –  International Expansion for the Davis Phinney Foundation

 

BEST LOCAL CAMPAIGN

1SEO.com Digital Agency Deals CCGNJ800 Gambler in on a Successful Local Marketing Campaign

39 Celsius Web Marketing – A Beauty Retailer Local Search Campaign

Aimclear & FlatRate Movers – SRSLY Local Precision

Belk  iCrossing Connecting with Customers In-Store

Geek Powered Studios – Absolute Life Wellness Center Local Campaign

Primrose Schools and BLITZ Agency with partners 3Q Digital and MBuy – Facts & Ways National Local Search Campaign

SalesX & Optmyzr – Midwest Dental PPC Campaign

Wordstream & Firstline Locksmiths – Locking up the Local SERP

 

BEST LOW BUDGET CAMPAIGN

1SEO.com Digital Agency – How to Do More with Less 1SEO.com Digital Agency & ProCom Use PPC to Win More and Spend Less

BMC Software – ITIL Guide SEO Campaign

Reprise Media – Reprise & Non-Standard Auto Insurance Client – Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket

Rogue Marketing Agency – Rogue Marketing Capital Plus Lead Gen

BEST USE OF PR IN A SEARCH CAMPAIGN

Aimclear – PR Earns Inc. 5000 Again!

Avalaunch Media and Woozy Moo PR Focused SEO Campaign

SEO-PR – Optimized vs Unoptimized Video News Releases

Walker Sands Digital – Dotcom Distribution Digital Ecosystem Campaign by Walker Sands

 

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN A SEARCH CAMPAIGN

1SEO.com Digital Agency – How to Make the Right Impression 1SEO.com Digital Agency & Luxury Bazaar Win With Social Media

1SEO.com Digital Agency – Image Beauty Beatifies Its Social Media Image With Digital Marketing

1SEO.com Digital Agency – Shira Esthetics Hones in On Its Social Media Aesthetic With Help From 1SEO.com Digital Agency

C-4 Analytics – Driving Sales One Facebook Ad At A Time

Elite SEM – Henri Bendel Campaign

Performics – Kohl’s Lauren Conrad Digital Runway – Performics Paid Search & Social

Zebra Advertisement – Zebra Advertisement & School Apply

BEST USE OF VIDEO IN A SEARCH CAMPAIGN

360i – Malibu Search for Summer- 360i and Malibu Rum

Advice Local – Alex From Target Campaign

Mannix Marketing & Atlantic British – Repair & Maintenance Academy Video Campaign

Merkle & Eastwood  Leveraging Video to Increase Brand Awareness and Drive Sales

Reprise SEO Enhanced Coca-Cola Big Game Experience

 

BEST INTEGRATED CAMPAIGN

1SEO.com Digital Agency – Against the Odds 1SEO.com Digital Agency Builds Winning Integrated Campaign for CCGNJ800 Gambler

3Q Digital – 34% More Scale and 28% Reduced CPA for an Outdoor eTailer through Channel Expansion

Barefoot Proximity & Cincinnati Children’s – Transforming Heart Care at Every Life Stage

iCrossing – Driving Growth For DIRECTV in a Cord-Cutting Era

Katana & eSignal – Website Redesign & Integrated Media Campaign

LSEO.com – LSEO.com and The Commonwealth Medical College From Zero Awareness to $1000000 In Revenue In 4 Months A Case Study On Integrated Marketing For A Medical College’s New Program

MediavestSpark – Integrating Paid Search With TV To Drive Conversion for Morgan Stanley

Overit – Collaboration of SEO PPC & PR Translate to Success for LinguaLinx

 

BEST MOBILE CAMPAIGN

1SEO.com Digital Agency – Elevate Styles Weaves a Successful Mobile Presence With Help From 1SEO.com Digital Agency

1SEO.com Digital Agency – Empire CLS Wins the Mobile Grand Prix With 1SEO.com Digital Agencys PPC Expertise

PMG – Using Algorithms to Drive Mobile Efficiency in Search

Red Ventures – Customer Service Campaigns Giving the Consumer What They Want

 

BEST PPC CAMPAIGN

1SEO.com Digital Agency – Luxury Bazaar Gets On-Trend Above-Target PPC Results from 1SEO.com Digital Agency

1SEO.com Digital Agency – The Recycling Company Earns Green While They Stay Green Thanks to 1SEO.com Digital Agencys PPC Management

1SEO.com Digital Agency – The Wise Center for Plastic Surgery Gets a PPC Facelift from 1SEO.com Digital Agency With Beautiful Results

Aimclear – FlatRate Movers Scaling PPC Tests For Big $

BLITZ Agency – Primrose Schools and BLITZ Agency with partners 3Q Digital – Facts & Ways National Advertising Campaign

Catalyst – Catalyst and HSBC  Driving Deposit Growth Through Search

CommerceHub – How Novel Bing Ads Shopping to the Rescue

Nebo – Nebos GSMA Mobile World Congress 2016 Paid Media Campaign

Portent – Portent & Nintex  Automate Everyday PPC Campaign

 

BEST SEO CAMPAIGN                       

1SEO.com Digital Agency – How a Cross-Agency Initiative Produced Cross-Country Results 1SEO.com Digital Agency & NMBOC

1SEO.com Digital Agency – Sculpting a Winning Digital Marketing Campaign 1SEO.com Digital Agency & Healthy Solutions by Dr. Luciano

360i – 360i & Monster.com Helping Job Seekers Find Better SEO Campaign

Go Fish Digital – Mining for SEO wins against the biggest jewelry companies on earth

Goralewicz.com – One global domain vs. multiple TLDs for an international brand – Picodi.com migration campaign

Internet Marketing Inc – IMI Makes Safe Step Walk-In Tub Even More Accessible

Internet Marketing Inc – IMI National Funding Keeping Small Business Alive

Mannix Marketing Inc – Koke Inc & Mannix Marketing – Organic SEO Campaign

Walker Sands Digital – Grubhub SEO Campaign by Walker Sands

 

BEST USE OF CONTENT MARKETING

Go Fish Digital and 1776 – Innovation That Matters 2016 Data Campaign

BMC Software  ITIL Guide SEO Campaign

Digital Third Coast & Olivet Nazarene University – The United States of Crazy Laws Content Marketing Campaign

Inturact & SpinalCord.com

Nebo – Nebo Brings Post Properties Brand Story to Life Through Content Marketing

Reprise Media – We Have Your Content Covered

SuperOffice  SEO & Content Marketing Strategy 2016

Walker Sands Digital – Newark element14s ImAnEngineer Campaign by Walker Sands

 

INNOVATION – CAMPAIGN

360i & CubeSmart – Bringing Sophistication to Self-Storage

Adlucent & Folica – Using Customer Match to reactivate dormant customers

Go Fish Digital – Demolish Your Clients Products for links press and conversions

Hive Digital Inc. – Innovative Link Development Strategy

Milestone Internet Marketing Inc – Search Optimized storytelling website by Milestone- Chase Park Plaza Hotel Case Study

Mindshare & Xaxis – Audience Search Powered by Xaxis & Yahoo Gemini Campaign

PMG – Using Algorithms to Drive Mobile Efficiency in Search

INNOVATION – SOFTWARE

Adobe Experience Manger

Adobe Media Optimizer

Botify – Web Crawler & Log Analyzer

DeepCrawl

Mindshare Jaguar Land Rover & Kenshoo Real-time Ad Copy Updates

OnCrawl Open Source Log Analyzer

Optmyzr Enhanced Scripts for AdWords

SEORadar Watching Warning Protecting SEO Traffic

The Searchmetrics Suite Research Cloud

Trisolute Software  Trisolute News Dashboard  mobile and desktop

BEST PPC MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SUITE

AdAlysis

Adlucents Deep Search data and analytics platform

Adobe Media Optimizer

cClearly Paid Search Targeting Platform

Marin Software

NetElixir – LXR Guide

Optmyzr PPC Management And Reporting Suite

 

BEST SEO SOFTWARE SUITE

Botify – Web Crawler & Log Analyzer

Conductor Searchlight

Forecheck SEO & Website Optimization Software

Kerboo

Linkdex – All new Linkdex The SEO platform of choice for Professional Marketers- Credit to the entire Lindkex team and all of our partners and clients for their contribution towards making Linkdex the foremost market leading SEO platform.

OnCrawl SEO crawler & log analyzer

Rio SEO – Best SEO Software Suite

Searchmetrics Inc – The Searchmetrics Suite

SEORadar – Watching warning and protecting your SEO traffic

 

BEST SEARCH SOFTWARE TOOL

Back Azimuth Consulting – HREFLang Builder

Botify – Web Crawler & Log Analyzer

Conductor – Conductor Searchlight

DeepCrawl

Kerboo

Moz – Moz Local

Rio SEO Local Manager

Trisolute Software  Trisolute News Dashboard  mobile and desktop

Yext – Yext Listings and Pages

 

BEST IN HOUSE TEAM

MilliporeSigma Digital Acquisition Marketing Team

The Absolut Company Growth Hacking Team

The Solid Wood Cabinet Company

 

BEST SMALL INTEGRATED AGENCY

NetElixir

Rogue Marketing Agency

 

BEST LARGE INTEGRATED AGENCY

97th Floor

Aimclear Marketing Agency

Avalaunch Media

iCrossing A Marketing Agency for the Modern World

TopSpot Internet Marketing

Walker Sands Digital

 

BEST SMALL PPC AGENCY

Chacka Marketing

Granular

SalesX, Inc

 

BEST LARGE PPC AGENCY

Adlucent

BFO (Be Found Online)

Jellyfish

Point It

 

BEST SMALL SEO AGENCY

1906

Geek Powered Studios

Go Fish Digital

 

BEST LARGE SEO AGENCY

1SEO.com Digital Agency

BFO (Be Found Online)

Stone Temple Consulting

 

YOUNG SEARCH PROFESSIONAL

Erika Schmidt, Digital Strategist & PPC Warrior –  Intuitive Digital

Jack Taylor, Paid Search Strategist – Wordstream

Jessica Mash, Paid Media Specialist – Nebo

Lindsey LaMair, Digital Marketing Director – Webspec Design

Mitch Larson, Ad Operations Analyst – Aimclear

Nils Evensen – 97th Floor

Sebastien Edgar- Searchmetrics Inc

Trevor Johnson, Senior Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Specialist – Walker Sands Digital

Zach Schimenz, Search Engine Marketing Specialist – Local Search Masters

 

US SEARCH PERSONALITY

The winner will be annouced on the evening of the awards.