2021 Winners

Congratulations to our 2021 UK Agency Award winners!

WINNER ASSETS WHAT OUR WINNERS SAY TROPHY SHOP


Best Social Media Campaign

Winner – Frank & Weetabix – Weetabix n Beanz


Best SEO Campaign

Winner – Mediaworks & Leisure Lakes Bikes – Standing Out From the Competition in a Pandemic Cycling Boom


Best PPC Campaign

Winner – MCG Digital Media & Porthaven Care Homes – Providing the Care Home Industry a Welcome Boost During 2020


Best PR Campaign

Winner – Franses & WaterBear Network – Global Launch

Silver Award – Darren Northeast PR Ltd – Sculpture By The Lakes


Best Not-for-Profit Campaign

Winner – Ready10 & Just Park – Freeing up parking spaces for NHS heroes

Silver Award – Small Films and MCH London – Advertising Agency


Best Marketing Campaign

Winner – Genesis & NI Executive – COVID-19 – We all must do it to get through it


Best Integrated Campaign

Winner – The Think Tank & Asendia – e-PAQ Launch


Best Event

Winner – Substance Global, SEGA & Atlus West – Persona 5 Royal European Preview Event

Silver Award – Flagship Consulting, Peppercomm & trivago – Welcome to #StamfordBeach


Best New Business Campaign

Winner – Blend & Cass Information Systems – Inbound sales in the cloud


Best Crisis Communications or Response Campaign

Winner – Hewitt Matthews & UUKi – #WeAreTogether


Campaign Effectiveness Award

Winner- Frank & Weetabix – Weetabix n Beanz

Silver Award – StrategiQ & Jacada Travel – From Flights Grounded to Flying High


Best Agency Culture

Winner – Absolute Digital Media

Silver Award – the tree


COVID Business Continuity Award

Winner – Evoluted

Silver Award – StrategiQ


Rising Agency Star Award

Winner – Sophie Brannon – Absolute Digital Media

Silver Award – Theo Meddelton – Darren Northeast PR Ltd


Best New Agency

Winner – Hard Numbers


Digital Agency of the Year

Winner – Foolproof, a Zensar company

Silver Award – Click Consult


Media Buying Agency of the Year

Winner – M&C Saatchi Performance


B2B Agency of the Year 

Winner – iseepr

Silver Award – MOI


eCommerce Agency of the Year

Winner – Impression

Silver Award – Vervaunt


SEO Agency of the Year

Winner – Impression


PPC Agency of the Year

Winner – Impression


Integrated Search Agency of the Year

Winner – MRS Digital


Social Media Agency of the Year

Winner – the tree


Marketing Agency of the Year

Winner – MOI


Creative/Advertising Agency of the Year

Winner – Genius


Design Agency of the Year

Winner – Foolproof, a Zensar company


UX Agency of the Year

Winner – Fathom


Independent Agency of the Year

Winner – Evolved Search


PR Agency of the Year

Winner – Pearl Comms


Innovative Agency of the Year

Winner – Bridge


Integrated Agency of the Year

Winner – Smarts

Silver Award – Adtrak


Most Impressive Small Agency Growth

Winner – Move Marketing

Silver Award – Venture Forge


Most Impressive Large Agency Growth

Winner – Absolute Digital Media


COVID-19 Outstanding Response Award 

Winner – Delivered Social – Growth Marketing Through COVID-19

Best Ecommerce Website

2021 Winner

connective3 & thortful

— From challenger brand to industry leader
"12 months ago, online greetings card marketplace thortful were seen as a challenger brand, competing for market share in an industry with significant media spend from big name brands. With a brief to deliver an organic search strategy focussed on improving rankings across core terms, we delivered an integrated SEO strategy so successful that they now capture more than 80% of the 'generic card market. We did this through a campaign combining on-site technical optimisation, and digital PR activity, which drove a nearly 500 links in 12 months.

Having previously captured 25% of the market, they now rank 1st for terms such as "funny cards", and "rude cards" and second for "birthday cards". They are now the market leader in this category, having overtaken well-established brands such as Moonpig and Card Factory.

These improvements, alongside wider improvements across other occasions, have seen their overall visibility increase by nearly 400% in less than a year. When lockdown came into effect in March, thortful were well positioned to take advantage of the surge in demand for online cards due to their increased organic visibility, and June 2020 saw their most successful trading month on record."

Best Ecommerce Website

2021 Winner

connective3 & thortful

— From challenger brand to industry leader
"12 months ago, online greetings card marketplace thortful were seen as a challenger brand, competing for market share in an industry with significant media spend from big name brands. With a brief to deliver an organic search strategy focussed on improving rankings across core terms, we delivered an integrated SEO strategy so successful that they now capture more than 80% of the 'generic card market. We did this through a campaign combining on-site technical optimisation, and digital PR activity, which drove a nearly 500 links in 12 months.

Having previously captured 25% of the market, they now rank 1st for terms such as "funny cards", and "rude cards" and second for "birthday cards". They are now the market leader in this category, having overtaken well-established brands such as Moonpig and Card Factory.

These improvements, alongside wider improvements across other occasions, have seen their overall visibility increase by nearly 400% in less than a year. When lockdown came into effect in March, thortful were well positioned to take advantage of the surge in demand for online cards due to their increased organic visibility, and June 2020 saw their most successful trading month on record."

Best Ecommerce Website

2021 Winner

connective3 & thortful

— From challenger brand to industry leader
"12 months ago, online greetings card marketplace thortful were seen as a challenger brand, competing for market share in an industry with significant media spend from big name brands. With a brief to deliver an organic search strategy focussed on improving rankings across core terms, we delivered an integrated SEO strategy so successful that they now capture more than 80% of the 'generic card market. We did this through a campaign combining on-site technical optimisation, and digital PR activity, which drove a nearly 500 links in 12 months.

Having previously captured 25% of the market, they now rank 1st for terms such as "funny cards", and "rude cards" and second for "birthday cards". They are now the market leader in this category, having overtaken well-established brands such as Moonpig and Card Factory.

These improvements, alongside wider improvements across other occasions, have seen their overall visibility increase by nearly 400% in less than a year. When lockdown came into effect in March, thortful were well positioned to take advantage of the surge in demand for online cards due to their increased organic visibility, and June 2020 saw their most successful trading month on record."

Best Ecommerce Website

2021 Winner

connective3 & thortful

— From challenger brand to industry leader
"12 months ago, online greetings card marketplace thortful were seen as a challenger brand, competing for market share in an industry with significant media spend from big name brands. With a brief to deliver an organic search strategy focussed on improving rankings across core terms, we delivered an integrated SEO strategy so successful that they now capture more than 80% of the 'generic card market. We did this through a campaign combining on-site technical optimisation, and digital PR activity, which drove a nearly 500 links in 12 months.

Having previously captured 25% of the market, they now rank 1st for terms such as "funny cards", and "rude cards" and second for "birthday cards". They are now the market leader in this category, having overtaken well-established brands such as Moonpig and Card Factory.

These improvements, alongside wider improvements across other occasions, have seen their overall visibility increase by nearly 400% in less than a year. When lockdown came into effect in March, thortful were well positioned to take advantage of the surge in demand for online cards due to their increased organic visibility, and June 2020 saw their most successful trading month on record."

Best Ecommerce Website

2021 Winner

connective3 & thortful

— From challenger brand to industry leader
"12 months ago, online greetings card marketplace thortful were seen as a challenger brand, competing for market share in an industry with significant media spend from big name brands. With a brief to deliver an organic search strategy focussed on improving rankings across core terms, we delivered an integrated SEO strategy so successful that they now capture more than 80% of the 'generic card market. We did this through a campaign combining on-site technical optimisation, and digital PR activity, which drove a nearly 500 links in 12 months.

Having previously captured 25% of the market, they now rank 1st for terms such as "funny cards", and "rude cards" and second for "birthday cards". They are now the market leader in this category, having overtaken well-established brands such as Moonpig and Card Factory.

These improvements, alongside wider improvements across other occasions, have seen their overall visibility increase by nearly 400% in less than a year. When lockdown came into effect in March, thortful were well positioned to take advantage of the surge in demand for online cards due to their increased organic visibility, and June 2020 saw their most successful trading month on record."

Best Ecommerce Website

2021 Winner

connective3 & thortful

— From challenger brand to industry leader
"12 months ago, online greetings card marketplace thortful were seen as a challenger brand, competing for market share in an industry with significant media spend from big name brands. With a brief to deliver an organic search strategy focussed on improving rankings across core terms, we delivered an integrated SEO strategy so successful that they now capture more than 80% of the 'generic card market. We did this through a campaign combining on-site technical optimisation, and digital PR activity, which drove a nearly 500 links in 12 months.

Having previously captured 25% of the market, they now rank 1st for terms such as "funny cards", and "rude cards" and second for "birthday cards". They are now the market leader in this category, having overtaken well-established brands such as Moonpig and Card Factory.

These improvements, alongside wider improvements across other occasions, have seen their overall visibility increase by nearly 400% in less than a year. When lockdown came into effect in March, thortful were well positioned to take advantage of the surge in demand for online cards due to their increased organic visibility, and June 2020 saw their most successful trading month on record."

Best Ecommerce Website

2021 Winner

connective3 & thortful

— From challenger brand to industry leader
"12 months ago, online greetings card marketplace thortful were seen as a challenger brand, competing for market share in an industry with significant media spend from big name brands. With a brief to deliver an organic search strategy focussed on improving rankings across core terms, we delivered an integrated SEO strategy so successful that they now capture more than 80% of the 'generic card market. We did this through a campaign combining on-site technical optimisation, and digital PR activity, which drove a nearly 500 links in 12 months.

Having previously captured 25% of the market, they now rank 1st for terms such as "funny cards", and "rude cards" and second for "birthday cards". They are now the market leader in this category, having overtaken well-established brands such as Moonpig and Card Factory.

These improvements, alongside wider improvements across other occasions, have seen their overall visibility increase by nearly 400% in less than a year. When lockdown came into effect in March, thortful were well positioned to take advantage of the surge in demand for online cards due to their increased organic visibility, and June 2020 saw their most successful trading month on record."

Best Ecommerce Website

2021 Winner

connective3 & thortful

— From challenger brand to industry leader
"12 months ago, online greetings card marketplace thortful were seen as a challenger brand, competing for market share in an industry with significant media spend from big name brands. With a brief to deliver an organic search strategy focussed on improving rankings across core terms, we delivered an integrated SEO strategy so successful that they now capture more than 80% of the 'generic card market. We did this through a campaign combining on-site technical optimisation, and digital PR activity, which drove a nearly 500 links in 12 months.

Having previously captured 25% of the market, they now rank 1st for terms such as "funny cards", and "rude cards" and second for "birthday cards". They are now the market leader in this category, having overtaken well-established brands such as Moonpig and Card Factory.

These improvements, alongside wider improvements across other occasions, have seen their overall visibility increase by nearly 400% in less than a year. When lockdown came into effect in March, thortful were well positioned to take advantage of the surge in demand for online cards due to their increased organic visibility, and June 2020 saw their most successful trading month on record."

Best Ecommerce Website

2021 Winner

connective3 & thortful

— From challenger brand to industry leader
"12 months ago, online greetings card marketplace thortful were seen as a challenger brand, competing for market share in an industry with significant media spend from big name brands. With a brief to deliver an organic search strategy focussed on improving rankings across core terms, we delivered an integrated SEO strategy so successful that they now capture more than 80% of the 'generic card market. We did this through a campaign combining on-site technical optimisation, and digital PR activity, which drove a nearly 500 links in 12 months.

Having previously captured 25% of the market, they now rank 1st for terms such as "funny cards", and "rude cards" and second for "birthday cards". They are now the market leader in this category, having overtaken well-established brands such as Moonpig and Card Factory.

These improvements, alongside wider improvements across other occasions, have seen their overall visibility increase by nearly 400% in less than a year. When lockdown came into effect in March, thortful were well positioned to take advantage of the surge in demand for online cards due to their increased organic visibility, and June 2020 saw their most successful trading month on record."

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Testimonials

Winner

We’re thrilled to have scooped awards at the UK Agency Awards, taking home SEO Agency of the Year and Best SEO Campaign! Thank you to the UK Agency Awards for a brilliant night, and congratulations to all the other winners.

Giorgio Cassella
Giorgio CassellaFounder, Evoluted

Winner

The Social Media Agency of The Year category celebrates agencies that excel beyond their size, demonstrating exceptional work and delivering results that rival larger competitors. For Kitch, this recognition underscores our commitment to excellence and our ability to create a substantial impact with a compact, agile team.

Natalie Dunning
Natalie DunningCEO, Kitch

Shortlisted

We’re thrilled to have picked up the award for ‘Best New Business Campaign (small)’ for our work with one of our newest clients. This year was the first year we’ve been shortlisted, so to win such a prestigious award really is a testament to the team, as well as our client, for putting their trust in us to deliver.

Beth Nash
Beth NashFounder, Smartmonkey

Winner

At Bind Media, awards represent more than just recognition – they are a symbol of our core values. They reinforce the importance of teamwork, the drive for excellence, and the strength of our people-first philosophy. Winning prestigious titles, like this one, serves as a powerful motivator to continue delivering outstanding results for our clients while nurturing a workplace where our team can thrive.

Madeleine TovarSenior Brand Executive, Bind Media

Shortlisted

Being shortlisted for this award is a proud moment for our entire team. It’s validation that strategic clarity and deep client relationships can drive outstanding results — even with small budgets and in complex sectors.

Miriam Drahmane
Miriam DrahmaneCEO, BCM Agency

Shortlisted

Being shortlisted for this award is a proud moment for our entire team. It’s validation that strategic clarity and deep client relationships can drive outstanding results — even with small budgets and in complex sectors.

Miriam DrahmaneCEO, BCM Agency

Winner

Winning Best Event Agency is a proud milestone for First Event. Awards provide an opportunity to step back from the pace of delivery, reflect on the work and recognise the contribution of the people behind it. They also give the team an external benchmark for the creativity, strategic thinking and operational expertise it brings to clients’ events.

Stephanie Cawood
Stephanie CawoodSenior Marketing Manager, First Event

Winner

Being shortlisted across three categories is a brilliant reflection of the standard our team holds itself to every single day. This isn’t recognition for one campaign or one person. It’s recognition for the way the whole agency works together across search, so I couldn’t be prouder of the team.

Luke HodgkinsFounder & CEO, Rise Up

Shortlisted

Being shortlisted for the Emerging Talent Award has given me an opportunity to reflect on just how much I’ve learned in a relatively short period of time. It has made me even more excited about what I can do next, the ideas I can develop and where I can take my career within B2B communications.

Eloise Shenton
Eloise ShentonSocial Media Manager, Spa Communications

Shortlisted

Writing the entry meant putting a year of change into a thousand words. Reading it back, we realised how far the team had come. The shortlist is confirmation that other people can see it too.

Alfie DawsonFounder, Bordeaux & Burgundy
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