2019 Shortlist

BEST USE OF SEARCH – RETAIL

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Bluerank & Mall.pl – Revenue Catcher: 3D Data-Driven Strategy

Click Consult & Liverpool ONE – Welcoming Record Numbers to Liverpool ONE

Dept & nettoshop.ch – One Size Does Not Fit All

Docklin Digital & Apotek Hjaertat – Automation & Innovation Driving Growth

Havas Media, Ecselis & giffgaff – Powered by Search, Run by You,

Impression and Feel Good Contacts – Visionary Gains

Loud Mouth Media & Harry Corry – Omni-Channel Approach through Google Ads

Precis & Musti Group – Consolidated Omni-Growth

Propellernet & Evans Cycles – Heartwork

Wolfgang Digital & Littlewoods Ireland – From Vanity to Sanity

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – FINANCE

Sponsored by Loud Mouth Media

Absolute Digital Media & Uncle Buck – Bucking The Trend

Core & Aviva Ireland – How to win at search in a market where queries shrink 20% year on year

Cube Group & Provident Poland – Data-Driven Two-Fold Increase in the Red Ocean of Loan Industry

Digitaloft & Veygo – Driving SEO Success with Digital PR

Edit & Paymentsense – The Small Business Series

Evolved Search – Lending an Expert Hand to ABC Finance

Evolved Search – Making Content Count for Money Guru

Found & AllClear – Results Insured

Peak Ace & Nets – The Digital Reinvention of a Nordic Payment Giant

Re:signal & WorldRemit – Sending Money Around the World

Verve Search & GoCompare – Wheeler Dealer

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – TRAVEL / LEISURE

Blueclaw & Royal Caribbean – Cruise Deals: 101% Increase in Bookings For A Global Travel Brand

Crafted & Preferred Hotels & Resorts – Global Remarketing with Incredible Efficiency

Edit & SpaSeekers.com – Global Relaxation

Harvest Digital & Sziget – Sziget Festival 2018

iProspect Ireland & Aer Lingus – A Direct Route to Direct Response

iProspect Ireland & Clayton Hotels – Click On Clayton: Putting the Click Back into PPC

Loud Mouth Media & Flash Pack – European Google Ads Campaign

MediaCom Worldwide & American Airlines – How MediaCom helped on-board new valuable and loyal customers for American Airlines

Propellernet & Celebrity Cruises – Music Mapped

Reprise – A Smart Search Strategy for Smartbox

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – GAMING

Blueclaw & Betway – Bond in Numbers: 53 Links + 78 Pieces of Coverage From a 4-Figure PR & Content Marketing Campaign

Core & National Lottery Ireland – Ok Google, What’s Next?’

Greenhouse & TOTO – Content is King

Serpact & Efirbet – BG and EN SEO Campaign

The Media Image & Grosvenor – Knockout Results For A Rising Sportsbook Contender

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – THIRD SECTOR

Crafted & The British Library – Getting more from Google Grants

Dept & CTA  – Working together for a sustainable farming future in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific

Further Digital Marketing & British Safety Council – Core Product UK SEO Campaign

Harbingers & Szlachetna Paczka – All Omnichannel Aboard!

Liberty + Love Pork – Rejuvenating the Image of Pork

MediaVision & City Lit – Course Subscriptions & Revenue Via PPC

Passion Digital & National Trust – How we connected 83% more people with the places they love

SIDN & Roncalli Foundation – SEO Campaign

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – B2B

Amplifyd & Travelperk – Making Adwords Great Again

Bluerank & Mascus – Better Together

Hallam – Using automation and integration to boost search profitability

iProspect Ireland & Fujitsu PFU – Redefining PPC Best Practice

MediaVision & Instant Offices – Outstanding Growth in the Property Sector

Peak Ace & Nets – The Digital Reinvention of a Nordic Payment Giant

Pixel Nordic AB – Pixel helped Capcito, a startup within fintech, to rank number one and cut AdWords costs by almost 1 million SEK

Semetrical & Arkadin – Global B2B SEO Campaign

Up&More & Edenred – Reaching right businesses with trendline and machine learning

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – B2C

Absolute Digital Media & Uncle Buck – Bucking The Trend

Digitaloft & Veygo – Driving SEO Success with Digital PR

Evolved Search – Making Content Count for Money Guru

Impression & Buzzgrass – Sewing the Seeds for Top of Funnel Growth

Impression & Harvey Water Softeners – User Centric Search Expansion

iProspect Ireland & Aer Lingus – A Direct Route to Direct Response

iProspect Ireland & Clayton Hotels Click On Clayton – Putting the Click Back into PPC

iProspect Ireland & Energia – Tearing up the PPC rulebook

Mabo & New Cakes – Have Their Cake And Eat It

MediaCom Worldwide & Sony PlayStation – Propensity to Play

Wolfgang Digital & Littlewoods Ireland – From Vanity to Sanity

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – HEALTH

Absolute Digital Media & Longevita Hair Transplant – Hair To The Throne

Basta digital & iClinic – The Most Visible Eye Clinic

Cdweb, Seda S.P.A. – Search Strategy

Dept & Parnassia Groep – Digital mindset helps an additional 100,000 patients

Impression & Feel Good Contacts – Visionary Gains

Mediacom & Canesten – Let’s Talk Health

Neadoo Digital LTD & Papadent – Medical Update Recovery

SIDN & Sanitas

SYZYGY & Specsavers – Audience-first, Audiology Appointment Growth

The SEO Works – Boost Weldricks Pharmacy online health

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – REAL ESTATE & PROPERTY

Carat, Barratt London & The London That Could Have Been – 134% Increase in Page One Keywords From PR Driven SEO

Clean Digital & Harness Property Intelligence – PPC for 9,000 Unique Commercial Property Listings

Jellyfish & L&C Mortgages – Project Carrot

MediaVision & Fresh Student Living – Exceeding Targets for Organic Growth

MediaVision & Instant Offices – Outstanding Growth in the Property Sector

Performics France – SeLoger ESA Best of Search Real Estate & Property

PromoTraffic & Inter Bud – How to reach a customer interested in buying a flat online?

Up&More with Vantage Development – Google Ad(Vantage)

 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – FMCG

Absolut Drinks – Searcher Interests Drives eCRM & Sales

Booster Box & Tannico – ED-209 (Ad Customizer)

Greenhouse & Kruidvat – Fast Moving Search Terms

Mediaworks & GSK – Nicotinell Success

Mindshare UK – Warburtons Gluten Free Rebrand: Criteo Launch

Precis & Musti Group – Consolidated Omni-growth

s360 & Arla Foods – Closing the Content Gap with a World of Cheese

SIDN & PULEVA

Yellowgrape & VoordeelVanger – Data-driven visibility increase with +682% revenue uplift

Zenith & Nomad Foods – Scaling SEO at Speed for Nomad Foods Europe

 

BEST LOCAL CAMPAIGN

Adwise & United Retail – More store visits with a smart local advertising strategy

Bloofusion Germany – Connecting Online and Offline with Location-Based Ads

Bluerank – Local Mitsubishi campaigns made simple with custom PPC automation

Core & Lidl / Buymie – Combining Value and Convenience to Beat the Competition

Elephate & Morizon – Bike-Friendly Cities in Poland. A Smooth Ride to Media Success.

Innovation Visual & Cannon Hygiene UK – Putting Cannon Hygiene‚ local service centres on the map

Kubix Digital & Oleg Cassini – How we grew sales for the global brand Oleg Cassini locally

Promotraffic & TopSanit – Don’t Flush Revenue Down the Drain

Sixt rent a car – Being on Fire at Large Scale Local SEO

SYZYGY & Specsavers – Better Hearing Bus Campaign

Up&More & mPay – The Mobile-Payments Evolution

 

BEST LOW BUDGET CAMPAIGN

Adwise & FixjeiPhone – How the right preparation, a car ride, the new iPhone XS and pulling an all nighter resulted in 1.700+ backlinks and 170.000+ YouTube views in less than a week

Core & Lidl – Lighting a Fyre Under PPC

Delante & Epstryk – Turn your online light for less than 5000 Euro per year!

Dept & De Splenter Schoenen – 3237% ROAS selling the last pair of shoes with Shopping 3D

Local Fame – Unleashing the power of local search for the beauty sector

Promotraffic & Atramentowka – Small budget, big success- how to understand the Client’s needs

Retro Digital & Aploq Translations – It’s not every day you turn 500 euros per month into €20,456!

Sempai & DrTusz – How to catch up to the competition in SEO with a monthly budget of 500 euro

Taste, a.s. & Armed.cz – Redesign Hell: Let’s Fight, You Will Lose!

The Engine Iceland – Channel 2 Sport Station in Iceland, Project increase subscriptions

 

BEST USE OF PR IN A SEARCH CAMPAIGN

Barracuda Digital & Enviro Waste – Delivering sustained organic results via the circular economy

Blueclaw & Betway – Bond in Numbers: 53 Links + 78 Pieces of Coverage From a 4-Figure PR & Content Marketing Campaign

Edit & SpaSeekers.com – Global Relaxation

Evolved Search – Making content count for Money Guru

Impression & Envirobuild – A New Species of Search Led PR

iProspect & The Body Shop – Charting the rise of veganism through data storytelling

Propellernet & Evans Cycles – Heartwork

Selesti & Lexham Insurance – Revving up results on the road to a 234% increase in organic sessions

Verve Search & Lenstore – 24 Hour London

Wolfgang Digital & DID Electrical – Newsjacking with Nostalgia and Generating an 80:1 ROAS

 

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN A SEARCH CAMPAIGN

Bluebird Media & Artiks – Prospecting for Profitability: Hyper Local Social Driving Sales and Search Demand

ForwardPMX & Virgin Holidays – Trending Travel Guide

Harbingers & Capgemini – Recruitment Heroes

UNIQ GmbH & Urlaubsguru – deutschlandLiebe

Wolfgang Digital & DID Electrical – Newsjacking with Nostalgia and Generating an 80:1 ROAS

Wolfgang Digital & Elverys – How a legacy brand achieved legendary results

Wolfgang Digital & Littlewoods Ireland – From Vanity to Sanity

 

BEST USE OF DATA

Absolut Drinks – Searcher Interests Drives eCRM & Sales

Adwise & Kees Smit Tuinmeubelen – Use of in-store data to optimize the mobile advertising experience

Bluerank & Mall.pl – Revenue Catcher: 3D Data-Driven Strategy

Dept & nettoshop.ch – One Size Does Not Fit All

ForwardPMX & Virgin Holidays – Reaching New Heights

iProspect & Eurostar – Inspiring Real Connections for Smooth Customer Journeys

MediaVision & Instant Offices – Outstanding Growth in the Property Sector

Precis & Musti Group – Consolidated Omni-Growth

Wolfgang Digital & DID Electrical – 0 to 50

Wolfgang Digital & Elverys – How a legacy brand achieved legendary results

 

BEST INTEGRATED CAMPAIGN

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Bloofusion Germany – Connecting Online and Offline with Location-Based Ads

Harbingers & ZooArt – Making Money and Making a Change

Impression & Harvey Water Softeners – User Centric Search Expansion

Kubix Digital & KIA – Putting Power Into the Engine with Integrated Search Strategy

Peak Ace & Nets – The Digital Reinvention of a Nordic Payment Giant

PromoTraffic &  SELFIEROOM – Strategy Tailored to Sales Funnel

Reprise/Initiative Junior and LEGO – Passion Points’ Campaign

Selesti & JDP – Digital Growth Acceleration Campaign

The SEO Works – The SEO Works help Rab Scale new Heights

Wolfgang Digital & DID Electrical – 0 to 50

 

BEST MOBILE CAMPAIGN

Adwise & Kees Smit Tuinmeubelen – Use of in-store data to optimize the mobile advertising experience

Booster Box & Subito – Occupy Key Macro-Areas

MediaCom Worldwide & Bose – From Online to Offline: Search Driving Store Visits

Semahead & Pakuten – Mobile: The Driving Force Behind Sales

Up&More & blinkee.city – A smart way to change an app install into purchases

Up&More & mPay – The Mobile-Payments Evolution

 

BEST PPC CAMPAIGN

Sponsored by Kenshoo

Adequate & Vola – How to double conversions of a market leader

Bluerank & Mall.pl – Revenue Catcher: 3D Data-Driven Strategy

Core & Aviva Ireland – How to win at search in a market where queries shrink 20% year on year.

iProspect Ireland & Aer Lingus – A Direct Route to Direct Response

iProspect Ireland & Bank of Ireland – Leveraging Brand Affinity to Target Competitors and Decrease CPA By -81%

iProspect Ireland & Energia – Tearing up the PPC rulebook

iProspect Ireland & Workplace by Facebook – Driving Global Efficiency at Scale

Merkle | Periscopix & Twitter – Making Paid Search real-time with the power of Tweets

Wolfgang Digital & Elverys – How a legacy brand achieved legendary results

Yellowgrape &  VoordeelVanger – Data-driven visibility increase with +682% revenue uplift

 

BEST SEO CAMPAIGN

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Adwise & FixjeiPhone – How the right preparation, a car ride, the new iPhone XS and pulling an all nighter resulted in 1.700+ backlinks and 170.000+ YouTube views in less than a week

Bluerank & Wittchen – May the Synergy Be With You

Bluerank For DOZ – SEO Emergency Quest

Impression & Cromwell – How we REACTed to the JavaScript landscape

Impression & Eventopedia – The Case of the Uncrawlable Pages

Jellyfish & L&C Mortgages – Project Carrot

Passion Digital – Winning Positions 0 and 1 for Teletext Holidays

s360 for Arla Foods – Closing the Content Gap with a World of Cheese

Semetrical & Arkadin – Global SEO Campaign

Taste, a.s & Armed.cz – Incorrectly Done Web Redesign Can Disarm Us!

 

BEST PAN EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN

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Bluerank & Mascus – Better Together

Crafted & Preferred Hotels & Resorts – Global Remarketing with Incredible Efficiency

Docklin Digital & Desenio – The Art of SEM

Growww Digital & Popgom – Data Driven Results

Oban International & Big Bus Tours – Delivering massive international growth in a fiercely competitive segment of the tourism industry

PromoTraffic&SneakerStudio – Expansion into 17 markets: Machine Learning and Marketing Automation.

Reprise – A Smart Search Strategy for Smartbox

Reprise/Initiative Junior & LEGO – “Passion Points” Campaign

 

BEST USE OF CONTENT MARKETING

Sponsored by SEMrush

Carat, Barratt London & The London That Could Have Been – 134% Increase in Page One Keywords From PR Driven SEO

Digitas & ESERP – Education Loves Content Marketing

Elephate & Morizon – Bike-Friendly Cities in Poland. A Smooth Ride to Media Success

Evolved Search – Making Content Count for Money Guru

ForwardPMX & Virgin Holidays – Trending Travel Guide

Harbingers & Dr. Max – Your Money or Your Life!

Jellyfish & L&C Mortgages – Project Carrot

s360 & Arla Foods – Closing the Content Gap with a World of Cheese

Verve Search & Lenstore – 24 Hour London

Wolfgang Digital & Arctic Adventures – Building On Bigfoot

 

MOST INNOVATIVE CAMPAIGN

Absolut Drinks – Searcher Interests Drives eCRM & Sales

Adpeak & Pracuj.pl – Big Data, Scripts and Automation from Words to Action

Bluerank – Personalized user experience for more engagement and sales – smart remarketing for Brand24

ForwardPMX & Virgin Holidays – Trending Travel Guide

iProspect Ireland & Clayton Hotels Click On Clayton – Putting the Click Back into PPC

Jellyfish & L&C Mortgages – Project Carrot

Kubix Digital & Mavi – Doubling E-Commerce Revenue in a Declining Economy is Like Still Fitting Into Your Skinny Jeans

MediaVision & Instant Offices – Outstanding Growth in the Property Sector

Nordic Morning & Arla Foods – Achieving Content Velocity with Intelligent Automation

Promotraffic & Rolmarket – Crops Increased by 30%

 

BEST SOFTWARE INNOVATION

Bluerank

cognitiveSEO

Data Elasticity SL (Safecont.com)

Factor-a | part of DEPT

Jellyfish

Kenshoo

OnCrawl Rankings

Performics Germany GmbH

SEOmonitor

Squared.io

 

BEST PPC MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SUITE

ADchieve

Kenshoo Search

Sempai SEM Agency – Sempai Merchant 360

Spaceboost – The PPC automation software to democratize paid search advertising

Squared.io – Audit & Automation for Google Ads

 

BEST SEO SOFTWARE SUITE

Botify

cognitiveSEO – Cutting-Edge SEO Tools

OnCrawl Data³

rankingCoach 360

SEMrush – SEO & Content Workflow

Senuto – SEO Analytics Platform

Surfer

 

BEST SEARCH SOFTWARE TOOL

Botify

cognitiveSEO – Cutting-Edge SEO Tools

crawlOPTIMIZER.com – SEO Tool for Automated Log File Analysis

DeepCrawl – Web Performance Data at Scale

Marin Software – MarinOne

OnCrawl – Technical SEO Platform

SEMrush Search Visibility Toolkit -Dominating SERPs in Organic and Paid

Squared.io – Audit & Automation for Google Ads

upUgo Beta

Yext

 

BEST IN-HOUSE TEAM

Sponsored by Pixel Nordic

Better Collective A/S – Organic Performance & Digital Intelligence

Groupon – SEM

HomeToGo GmbH – Inbound Marketing Team

MoneySuperMarket – Digital Team

Telegraph Media Group  – Telegraph Commercial SEO

UNIQ GmbH – #badass Online Marketing Team

 

BEST SMALL PPC AGENCY

Bluebird Media

Booster Box

BoostRoas

Clean Digital

Docklin Digital

Fluid Digital

Kubix Digital

Loud Mouth Media

Marketing Signals

Semetrical

 

BEST LARGE PPC AGENCY

Sponsored by Tribe Global

Adwise

Crafted

Dept

Hallam

Impression

iProspect Ireland

NMPi

Precis Digital

SIDN

Wolfgang Digital

 

BEST SMALL SEO AGENCY

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Absolute Digital Media

Blue Array SEO

Digitaloft

Kubix Digital

Marketing Signals

Pixel Nordic

Re:signal

Relevance

Semetrical

Storm Creative

 

BEST LARGE SEO AGENCY

Sponsored by SEOmonitor

Click Consult

Crafted

Evolved Search

Hallam

Impression

Verve Search

Wolfgang Digital

 

BEST SMALL INTEGRATED SEARCH AGENCY

ASSISTED

Kubix Digital

MediaVision

Relevance

Retro Digital

We are Harbingers

 

BEST LARGE INTEGRATED SEARCH AGENCY

Sponsored by Harbingers

Bluerank

Crafted

Hallam

Impression

iProspect UK

Mediaworks

ROAST

Sempai SEM Agency

SIDN

Wolfgang Digital

 

YOUNG SEARCH PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR

Dilan Sisodia – Storm Creative

Dominic Whittington – Semetrical

Hazel Ramsell – Evolved Search

Leo Worsley – Hallam

Matthew Soakell – Mabo

Neslihan Busra Emikoglu – BoostRoas

Olivia Smith – Digitaloft

Roman Adamita – BoostRoas

 

THE EUROPEAN SEARCH DIVERSITY, INCLUSION & EQUALITY AWARD

Areej AbuAli

Found

Maddie Crawford

MediaCom UK

Pixel Nordic AB

rankingCoach GmbH

Reprise

Retro Digital Ltd

The Media Image

Wolfgang Digital

Women.Digital

 

EUROPEAN SEARCH PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR

Recognition of a talented and inspiring practitioner who has revolutionised the European search industry.

The winner of this award will be announced at the award ceremony.