Results
Best Mix of Creativity & Performance Excellence
Rosie Gentile
FCB
Rosie Gentile is an Italian born and Canadian bred citizen of the world, who currently leads FCB’s North America creative data and performance specialty, FCB/SIX. Rosie’s role leading CRM at a creative agency is unique in and of itself, but her approach and leadership across the network has proven a real competitive advantage for FCB a...
FINALIST: The Rocket Mill Creative Team
With RocketMill’s heritage primarily rooted in Performance, we set out to build a team that combined the intensity and accountability of Performance Marketing, with traditional craft methodologies and experience vital to producing remarkable creative work for all audiences, across all channels and platforms.
Best Transformation Award
Performics Technology & Intelligence
Performics’ Technology & Intelligence team was established 4 years ago. With an everchanging digital landscape, Performics recognised this and as a result created the T&I team to build modular, light-weight technology and solutions that bridge the gap between advertiser needs and channel capabilities, while growing organic revenue for ...
Data Driven Excellence Award
Karen Snape
Jaywing
With a track record spanning 20+ years across globally recognised brands like Mazda, Hermes, ASDA and Jet2, Karen's expertise lies in transforming data into actionable insights that drive powerful strategies – skills derived from over a decade each in the credit risk and marketing industries.
FINALIST: Gamelight Team
Gamelight consists of an ever-expanding international team that is spread across 12 locations worldwide—from the Hamburg office to China, Canada, and Europe. The team has been handpicked for their skills and passion for the mobile app market. Offering remote working options makes it possible to acquire experts from around the world, cr...
FINALIST: Naomi Yonge
LiveRamp
Naomi Yonge, LiveRamp’s Data Scientist Consultant Manager, is a prime contender for the Data-Driven Excellence Award. Since joining LiveRamp in 2018, Naomi has been a key member in the development of LiveRamp’s groundbreaking measurement solution, helping to propel the data collaboration platform to market leadership as well as ...
Diverse / Inclusive Workplace
DEIB Trailblazers
The notable DEI initiatives at Sharethrough are a collaborative effort led by the DEIB Taskforce, the dedicated People and Culture Team as well as Kimberly Stone. The People and Culture team, a trio dedicated to diversity, inclusivity, and belonging, has implemented a multifaceted strategy. They prioritize empowering employee voices th...
FINALIST: Capability Team @ Performics UK
Performics are a recognised global performance specialist, proud of delivering performance marketing solutions direct to clients looking for a specialist digital agency. Within our UK agency, every single person works tirelessly to ensure that while we utilise the global network we are part of; giving clients access to marketing specia...
Emerging Performance Marketer
Jorja Wells
Tesco Bank
Jorja has made a seismic impact since joining Tesco Bank’s Search Marketing Team as an Executive in September 2021. Over the last 12 months, Jorja has delivered on her early promise in spades, being promoted to Search Marketing Manager in June 2023 where she has taken on a channel leadership role with the General Insurance produc...
FINALIST: Dani Rule
Croud
Who do the world's biggest brands trust with their performance marketing budgets? Dani Rule. From starting as an Account Executive with no prior marketing experience, Dani's ascent to Programmatic Manager speaks volumes about her exceptional performance and work ethic. She has not only become the lead day-to-day contact for key c...
FINALIST: Rory Sowoolu-Cowie
Cardlytics
Rory joined Cardlytics in April 2022 as a client success manager, and instantly set himself apart from his peers, with his can-do attitude, his dedication to building strong relationships with clients, and his understanding of our data and tech to create new solutions that continually deliver exceptional results, for his clients. He de...
Performance Marketing Leader of the Year
Sam Knights
SMG
Sam Knights, a seasoned marketer with over two decades of experience, began his career at Procter & Gamble, where he managed iconic brands like Duracell, Braun, and Gillette. In 2012, driven by his mission to reimagine the supplier-retailer-customer relationship, he joined a startup shopper marketing agency. Eight years later, af...
FINALIST: Angus Sladden
Rakuten Advertising
Driven by the love of the outdoors, deep and meaningful conversations, and performance marketing, Angus Sladden has traversed sales, operations and technical roles over the last 15 years to become Rakuten Advertising’s youngest Vice President in history. Angus’ professional journey crossed various domains including digital marketing, S...
FINALIST: Emily Barfuss
Ogury
Emily is a passionate adtech leader with a stellar reputation for building global brands for multi-million revenue companies. She isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo and spent the past year unlocking the power of marketing and communications across the 17 territories she oversees at Ogury. A member of the Executive Committee, Emil...
FINALIST: Vickie Cooper-Samios
VERB Brands
Vickie, as the driving force behind our paid media offerings for an extensive luxury brand portfolio, exemplifies unparalleled leadership and commitment to innovation. Her strategic vision encompasses championing equality, promoting work-life balance, and advocating for women in leadership roles. Vickie's focus on growing digital matur...
FINALIST: Zuzanna Gierlinska
(former) GroupM Nexus
Zuzanna’s contribution to our industry is admirable, as is her commitment to be a guiding light for the next generation of women in advertising. Visionary leaders are few and far between and those who remain authentic, approachable and humble are rare - Zuzanna has these qualities in abundance. Zuzanna is a people-centric business lea...
Performance Marketing Employer of the Year
Croud
At the heart of Croud's success, is our people. From its inception Croud has been, and will remain, a people-first agency. As our co-founders have always said from the outset - there’s no such thing as a great agency, just great people in agencies. A key element of Croud's ethos is a focus on employee well-being and professional devel...
Performance Marketing Innovators
Suzanna Chaplin
esbconnect
Suzanna flies the flag for female leaders in an industry still largely dominated by her male counterparts. As a leader, she has transformed a legacy email marketing company - esbconnect - into a modern data and technology business supporting the needs of marketers today. Suzanna has been instrumental in building a consumer database of...
Performance Marketing Personality of the Year
Lee-Ann Johnstone
Affiverse
With over 20 years experience in Performance Marketing, Lee-Ann Johnstone is the founder and CEO of Affiverse, a dynamic and innovative boutique digital marketing agency that has disrupted the performance marketing landscape and consistently demonstrated outstanding results since its inception in 2019. Lee-Ann spent two decades succes...
FINALIST: Chris Robinson
The Goat Agency
Influencer marketing is no longer just an awareness-driving channel. It is a full-funnel, data-driven performance marketing channel. Well, certainly according to Chris Robinson! As Paid Social Director at global social-first marketing agency, Goat, he has been banging this drum for the past 3 years, and in 2023 he established himself ...
FINALIST: Lauren, Ogúndèkó
Kinesso
Lauren Ogundeko, the Chief Digital Officer at KINESSO UK&I, is a pioneering force in the performance marketing industry. With a strong personal brand and influence within the sector, Lauren has demonstrated engaging communication, thought leadership, and industry influence through various initiatives. She has strived to better the indu...
Performance Marketing Team of the Year
Anything is Possible Digital Team
In 2023, Anything is Possible's Digital Team took centre stage. Our mission? A hefty 20% boost in digital media fees. Challenge accepted! Craig Starling, our new Head of Digital, quickly turned the team from a collection of great individuals - hungry upstarts and seasoned campaigners - into a single unified force. We synchronised ever...
FINALIST: Performance @ PHD
In recognition of the growing pressure on clients to deliver both brand and performance success in the short and long-term, the Performance @ PHD team has invested in new talent, innovated in new spaces, and created new products and services – all of which have seen the team grow, its clients grow and its revenue grow. This included d...
FINALIST: RocketMill
RocketMill's ambition is to always put our people first by empowering them to create impact everywhere - in their careers, in our company, in the industry, and beyond. To achieve this, we've implemented new initiatives this year (and expanded existing ones) to ensure the team feels included, valued, and celebrated while experiencing 31...
Return of Investment Dynamo
Dominic Bowman
Croud Luxe
Dom, an esteemed Paid Search expert at Croud Group and VERB Brands, has swiftly garnered a strong reputation since joining in 2021. Starting as an account executive, Dom's prowess lies in his innate problem-solving abilities and rapid learning, allowing him to excel in managing prestigious clients like Victoria's Secret, Timberland, an...
FINALIST: Cardlytics Grocery Team
Cardlytics offers extensive insight and digital advertising support for Grocery Retailers, with access to spending data from over 20 million UK bank accounts. We work with Grocers to run discrete digitally targeted offers to incentivise customers to make an additional purchase, or increase transaction spend, by giving them cashback to ...
FINALIST: Louisa Jones
Scibids
Louisa Jones is Scibids’ Senior Sales Director for the UK, joining the business as its very first sales hire for the UK market. She has almost 10 years’ experience in programmatic advertising, previously holding positions at Sizmek and Unruly. Louisa’s extensive experience has provided her with the skills required to effectively commer...
Star Performer of the Year
Aaron Watkins
MG OMD
Aaron Watkins has demonstrated consistently over the previous year, why he is a star performer within Performance Marketing and a future leader in the agency sphere. Aaron has not only been pivotal in leading innovation and transforming Paid Search for MG and wider across OMG. But has delivered 18 awards in 2023, driving over £40Millio...
FINALIST: Kali Fyfe
The Goat Agency
Kali has single-handedly created a new business function at Goat which is now crucial to our success as an agency and our ability to drive performance for clients. Originally, joining in a newly established Paid Social Analyst role, her responsibilities were intended to be pretty simple; someone that would churn out the data and resul...
FINALIST: Katie Smith
GroupM Nexus
If you combine an inquisitive mindset with the thirst for learning and add in a sprinkle of collaborative know-how and a brilliant ability to listen, then you have Katie in a nutshell. Coming to the industry in 2019 at 26 years old has meant that she’s had to learn fast and inhale knowledge like air to become a standout performer in th...
FINALIST: Liora Fox
Ogury
Liora is an outstanding team leader at Ogury, leveraging her extensive agency experience and relationship-building skills to excel. She always puts clients first, anticipating their needs to navigate a complex landscape and unlock new business units and markets. Liora’s achievements to date have led her to a well-deserved promotion to ...
FINALIST: Paige Mizrahi
EssenceMediacomX
Paige has demonstrated exceptional performance across a breadth of brands such as ITV and RHS, significantly enhancing the effectiveness agenda within a mere 4.5-year tenure in the media industry. Beginning her career at Google, Paige has risen through the ranks at EssenceMediacomX moving from an planning executive to Associate Directo...
Sustainability Champion of the Year
Frank Maguire
Sharethrough
Frank has spent over a decade at Sharethrough conducting research to better understand how humans respond to advertising and sharing strategies, insights and best practices that help brands and agencies adapt their unique advertising challenges to ever-evolving media consumption behaviors. This year, Frank was featured in 20+ articles ...