Performance Marketing World Awards UK 2023: shortlist announced

With work for H&M, Mars, BMW, Aldi and Abercrombie & Fitch among the nominations, here are the campaigns, teams and people that made it through to the final judging round, ahead of a glamorous London awards ceremony in November.

Performance Marketing World has released the final shortlist of entries to its UK awards, sponsored by Vitality and Example, with the winners to be announced at a live ceremony in London.

Shortlisted entries are now being invited to book tables at a fabulous gala dinner at JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane on Thursday 9 November 2023.

This year's Awards ceremony will be an evening to remember, starting with a delicious dinner and culminating in an exciting Awards presentation. 

Entries across 29 categories have been selected by a judging panel made up of industry leaders and experts from organisations including Vodafone, ASOS, Vitality and EasyJet. The Chair of Judges this year is Ana Afán Ruiz, Head of E-commerce at Coca-Cola UK

The categories for the awards are designed to showcase outstanding work across a number of performance marketing channels, alongside trophies for the best people, agencies and teams in the industry

Major household global names, including Samsung, Next, AmEx, Primark, EE, ITV, VISA, Aldi, Google, KFC and ASICS feature in campaigns on the shortlist

Each nominee has been picked for outstanding performance marketing practices that have grown new audiences, new markets and world-class businesses

A large number of agencies are up for awards, with Affiverse, Tug, Go Inspire, Reprise, EssenceMediacomX and RocketMill all competing for the title of Performance Marketing Agency of the Year.

The details of shortlisted entries explaining they made it through to the final round is available on the official PMW Awards UK 2023 site with a full list published below:

 

Automotive

Driving Change: Vauxhall’s Innovative EV Calculator Drives Awareness (Vauxhall)

Performics @ Starcom 

UpSellit Drives Conversions for National Tyres (National Tyres)

UpSellit and essencemediacom

The art of battling giants with slingshot precision for polestar (Polestar)

iProspect

The Zen way: Breaking from tradition to shake up the new car market (ZenAuto)

RocketMill

 

B2B 

abrdn: Boosting global brand awareness with search (abrdn)

Performics @ Starcom

Great Things (Taylor and Francis)

KISS Communications 

How Bordeaux & Burgundy Skyrocketed Campaign Output By 250% (Armis)

BORDEAUX & BURGUNDY | The Marketing Agency Built for SAAS

Helping Google break business stereotypes, eliminate campaign bias and grow its business (Google)

EssenceMediacomX

E-Commerce

Supercharging Peak with First-Party Data (Hobbycraft)

Performics @Spark Foundry

Unlocking the Power of Connected Commerce for L'OR (JDE L'OR)

Havas Media

Powering omnichannel retailer sales: How we transformed Crown Paints’ DTC shopping experience (Crown Paints) 

OMG Transact & Adimo

VEVE generated over 900K clicks for Tesco at an average conversion rate of 9%, delivering a ROAS of 45X (Tesco)

VEVE

 

Fashion

The Sale Before The Sale (BrandAlley)

BrandAlley

Global Runway to Digital Success (Primark)

Performics @ Starcom

Zero Degrees - Abu Dhabi Winter Retail Season 2022 (Retail Abu Dhabi)

Avantgarde Middle East

 

Finance and Insurance

Driving Awareness and Consideration for Samsung Care+ (Samsung)

Performics @ Starcom

AXA: Banking on Exceptional Content in Search (AXA)

Performics @ Starcom

Send - With Love (Flutterwave Send)

Digital Ethos

Taking the Zenus Infinite Debit Card Global (Zenus Bank)

Zenus Bank

Food and Drink

Forbidden fromage: Babybel’s journey from invisible to #1 in SERPs (Bel - Babybel plant based)

Performics  @Spark Foundry

Supercharging the launch of KFC’s owned delivery service (KFC)

GroupM Nexus and Mindshare

Reduce, Reinvest, Repeat: Helping Sainsbury’s Argos slash its media carbon footprint (Sainsbury's Argos)

EssenceMediacomX

 

Growth Marketing

Sowing the seeds for long-term growth (Dobbies Garden Centres Limited)

Go Inspire Group

Partnering to exponentially increase performance marketing (Skinny Foods and Cannon Digital Marketing)

Precise TV

Zenus Bank - Research, Advertise, Grow, Repeat (Zenus Bank)

Zenus Bank

Making ITVX Unmissable (ITV)

EssenceMediacomX

 

In House Agency of the Year

FT Live

Financial Times (FT Live Digital and Performance Marketing Team)

Delivering Record-Breaking Targets In-House with Innovation and Design Excellence

Verisure UK

Influencer Marketing

ASICS and World Mental Health Day (ASICS)

Performics @ Starcom

LIWA Village (DEC 16 2022 to JAN 3 2023) -– Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi.

Avantgarde Middle East

LTK X Abercrombie & Fitch Cyber Week Campaign (Abercrombie & Fitch)

LTK

#PartyNeverStops (FLANNELS)

Whalar

 

Integrated

Helping customers ‘Take home life in their stride’ to drive 64% more sales (HomeServe)

RocketMill

Making ITVX Unmissable (ITV)

EssenceMediacomX

Making Digital Work Harder with Data Insights (Milk & More)

Tug Agency

Helping Google break business stereotypes, eliminate campaign bias and grow its business (Google)

EssenceMediacomX

Anchored in Excellence Through OneSearch (Maersk)

Havas Media

Believe the Hype (Hyperoptic)

Croud

Lead Generation

Creating difference that matters for Nissan’s Lead Generation  (Nissan)

MG OMD

Driving brand awareness and converting new student sign ups within the student demographic (Fiver)

Student Beans 

Target High Value Sources of Growth (Crown Jewels Consultants (CJC) Ltd.)

Crown Jewels Consultants (CJC) Ltd.

Allowing SMEs To Grow Their Business (Twill)

Havas Media 

Brewin Dolphin: Generating more leads through innovation and testing (Brewin Dolphin)

Walk-In Media RBC 

Pivoting from quantity to quality to drive 50% more revenue from paid media (Harvey Water Softeners)

RocketMill

Marketer of the Year

Ishita Khare - Performics @ Starcom

Kubi Springer - Avantgarde Middle East

Antony Juen-Hing Fung - Crown Jewels Consultants (CJC) Ltd.

Marketing Innovation 

How VISA leveraged Ogury’s cookieless technology to engage users during the 2022 FIFA World Cup (VISA)

Ogury

Leveraging Predictive Audiences To Boost Secondary Shoppers' Revenue (ASDA)

Performics @ Spark Foundry

The Domino's Effect: How Fusing Attention & Context Data Made Sales Fall in Place (Domino's x Gum Gum)

Havas Media 

Creating Difference that Matters with SpecsTech (Specsavers)

MG OMD

Delivering instore sales come rain or shine (Primark)

Performics @ Starcom

Herdify X Whistl: Boosting door-drop success for Abel & Cole (Abel & Cole)

Herdify & Whistl

New Consumer Product Launch

How Data Made EE the No. 1 Network for Samsung’s S23​ (EE)

EssenceMediacomX

Making ITVX Unmissable (ITV)

EssenceMediacomX

Paid Search

Outsmarting The Big Spenders: Activating Full Funnel Search To Drive Revenue (Asda George)

Performics @ Spark Foundry

Winning Peak with Profit Data (Virgin Experience Days)

iCrossing

Creating Difference that Matters with SpecsTech (Specsavers)

MG OMD

Managing Capacity on LNER with 1PDRK (LNER)

MG OMD

Driving high value search leads for BMW in an industry first (BMW)

Total Media

Transforming and scaling H&M's paid search strategy for 70% YoY more online revenue

iProspect

Paid Social 

#PartyNeverStops (FLANNELS)

Whalar 

Successfully diversifying ad platforms (Gym King)

Journey Further

Greally Reaching Our Target Audience Through Location-Targeting (Milk & More)

Tug Agency

Changing Perceptions of the Next Generation of Peugeot Buyers (Peugeot)

Performics @ Starcom

Galaxy makes sustainability tasty in a sales-driving brand equity campaign (Mars Galaxy)

EssenceMediacomX

Partner and Affiliate Marketing

Driving Cost Effective Growth for Best Western GB (Best Western GB)

Acceleration Partners and Awin

Helping ManyPets deliver many sales (ManyPets)

The Specialist Works

Redefining the role of Affiliates in the path to purchase (Aer Lingus)

MG OMD

Performance Marketing Agency Of The Year

Affiverse (formerly Affiliate Insider)

Affiverse Agency

20% Global Growth in a Year of Innovation

Tug Agency 

A TRUE Marketing Performance Partner: Delivering Outcomes NOT Output: Go Inspire Group

Go Inspire Group

Reprise Digital UK - Performance Marketing Agency of the Year 2023

Reprise Digital UK

EssenceMediacomX: Built to Breakthrough

EssenceMediacomX

Full service with performance at the core

RocketMill

Purpose

PRA Group Global Inclusion Week (PRA Group)

PRA Group, Inc.

How BMW Canada Increased Brand Metrics While Delivering A Carbon-Neutral Campaign with Sharethrough GreenPMPs (BMW Canada)

Media Experts

MPB - From Investment to Invest-meaning​ (MPB)

EssenceMediacomX

UN Women - Turning Hard News into Hard Donations (UN Women)

EssenceMediacomX

Reduce, Reinvest, Repeat: Helping Sainsbury’s Argos slash its media carbon footprint​ (Sainsbury's Argos)

EssenceMediacomX

 

Retail

Sowing the seeds for long-term growth (Dobbies Garden Centres Limited)

Go Inspire Group

Creating Difference that Matters with SpecsTech (Specsavers)

MG OMD

Applying a performance mindset to TV for NEXT level results (NEXT)

iProspect

How Data Made EE the No. 1 Network for Samsung’s S23​ (EE)

EssenceMediacomX

Reduce, Reinvest, Repeat: Helping Sainsbury’s Argos slash its media carbon footprint (Sainsbury's Argos)

EssenceMediacomX

SEO 

Climbing Trees & Avanti Travel Insurance – Flying Onto Page 1 Rankings (Avanti Travel Insurance)

Climbing Trees

Proof's In The Pudding – Using Holistic Search To Drive Sweeter Results (Asda)

Performics @ Spark Foundry

Optimising User Experience With Core Web Vitals (American Express)

iCrossing UK

Accelerating Growth Through Enterprise-SEO (END. Clothing)

Tug Agency

The Mixer (Campari Group)

Greenpark

Emergency Response for Ukraine (Save the Children UK)

EssenceMediacom

Sustainable Initiative of the Year

Decarbonizing Media and Ad Tech with Scope3 (Scope3)

Scope3 

Proving Sustainability Doesn't Mean Reduced Performance (Sainsbury's Argos and MPB)

EssenceMediacomX

Team Of The Year

Performics @ Starcom

Performics @ Starcom

LIWA Village 

Avantgarde Middle East

Rakuten Advertising DealMaker Team Powers Thousands of In-Person Connections for Growth

Rakuten Advertising

Zenus Bank - Growing Team, Growing Ambitions

Zenus Bank

Travel 

Managing Capacity on LNER with 1PDRK (LNER)

MG OMD

Reaching 2.7 million through the power of performance - South West Rail

iProspect 

VEVE generated GMV worth over $20MN for TUI, delivering a ROAS of 20X (TUI)

VEVE

 

Wellness and Healthcare 

Hitting 2.8 millions incremental traffic gain by combating keyword cannibalisation – Lloyds Pharmacy

iProspect

Zoetis Seeks to Improve The Quality of Life for Pets (Zoetis)

Total Media and Pixability

 

The following awards will be announced on the awards night.  

  • Charity;

  • Hospitality;

  • Mobile and App Marketing and

  • International Agency of the Year

To book your places for the PMW Awards UK 2023, click here.


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