The APAC Search Awards’ categories recognise and reward search campaigns across multiple industry verticals and take into account budgets and location. Agency and team Awards are based upon size of agency and employee numbers.
Campaign Awards
Every sector and vertical are different, not just in terms of competition, but in the tactics and strategies required to stand out from the crowd and achieve goals. In each sector, judges will be looking for the thinking and approach specific to the needs of the sector and the clients' goals and how results were met or exceeded.
Judges are looking for SEO that is improving ranking for brands and products – if you are making it easy to find; you are making it easy to buy and therefore increasing profits.
Judges are looking for PPC that is improving ranking for brands and products – if you are ranking top and spending wisely to ensure others will spend wildly then you could take home this award.
Judges are looking for SEO that is improving ranking for brands and products – if you are making it easy to find; you are making it easy to buy and therefore increasing profits.
Judges are looking for PPC that is improving ranking for brands and products – if you are ranking top and spending wisely to ensure others will spend wildly then you could take home this award.
The financial sector is littered with rules and regulations. This award recognises the difficulties the industry faces and celebrates enhanced visibility of websites through SEO
Be it in banking, financial services or insurance if PPC has increased visibility and driven traffic and engagement then you are adding value and we want to recognise and reward that.
The journey from conception to delivery; engagement is what makes you stand out from the crowd. Judges are looking for outstanding SEO that has succeeded despite the travel landscape.
Non-for-profit need all the engagement and visibility possible to increase not only donations but also volunteers, subscriptions and commitment to the cause. Judges are looking for campaigns that have tugged heart and purse strings.
This award recognises and rewards the outstanding SEO being delivered in the B2B industry from high-quality content that matches user intent, to easy to find personalised search results and everything in between that increases engagement.
Judges are looking at how you increased visibility to affect the engagement and bottom line whilst maintaining the relationships we know underpins the B2B industry.
Health is at the forefront of everyone’s mind and finding trustworthy information essential. If your search has reached out and created engagement and made an impression, then you deserve this award.
Driving consumers to engage also involves steering them towards research, which they appear to be obsessed with, and colliding with terms like ‘best’ and ‘near me’. Judges will reward search that manoeuvres through analytics to achieve excellent results.
Home is where the heart is and finding your home is priceless. Judges want to recognise search that has increased viewings (page and property), overcome logistics and built business profits.
FMCG related businesses have moved online and search has been key. If your hunger for excellence led to an outstanding use in the FMCG industry, then our judges want to know about it.
When the chips are down you are a winner. Visibility and engagement across the gaming sector, including online and platform gaming, are recognised and rewarded in this award.
Judges for this award are looking to recognise a SEO campaign that is based on a specific geographical location. Localisation is important to all businesses but how can SEO capitalise on changing search landscapes and still drive tangible results?
Delivering outstanding visibility is essential to a localised market, regardless of the size of business. Entries should show how PPC has achieved success in a changing PPC market to achieve success on a local scale.
Not everybody has six figures search budgets, nor are they always required to achieve a great return on investment. We want to hear about the small but magnificent. The SEO campaigns that have achieved something special on a monthly budget of $3500 or less in fees.
Delivering outstanding visibility is essential to a localised market, regardless of the size of business. Entries should show how PPC has achieved success in a changing PPC market to achieve success on a local scale. Not everybody has six figures search budgets, nor are they always required to achieve a great return on investment. We want to hear about the PPC campaigns that have achieved something magnificent on a monthly budget of $6000 or less in fees and paid media.
We live in a converging world. No longer can the success of any marketing channel be measured in a silo without considering the influence of others. Whether that is a joined up PPC and SEO campaign to maximise search impact, or some perfectly timed search activity to jump capitalise on reach of TV advertising. Tell us about how you have integrated your activity to good effect and for better results. Most Innovative Campaign
PPC has evolved a lot from the days of extensive keyword lists and manual bid changes in a transparent auction. The increased technological influence, the use of scripts and feeds, and ability to target individuals over keywords has transformed PPC as an advertising channel. We are looking for the best of best, where businesses have made the most of the new innovations for maximum effect.
Whether you’ve achieved huge results with a piece of content or dominated the landscape with some technical wizardry. Show us why your campaign deserves the title of Best SEO Campaign.
Innovative use of social media can drive impressive results in search. Judges will be looking for campaigns which have exploited social content or channels to deliver real and tangible results and exceptional engagement.
Data and how it is managed plays a huge role in delivering effective SEO campaigns. Judges will be looking to reward innovative and creative approaches when managing and manipulating data to deliver impressive search results.
Effective PPC is achieved through creative and innovative approaches to Data and how it is managed. Show the judges your expertise in how you take data results to deliver exceptional PPC results.
Innovation / Software Awards
Innovative and ground-breaking software and tools are making the way PPC, SEO and content work quicker, faster and better.
Technology and innovation can be the key to driving awesome results at scale. But what technology is powering the cutting edge for agencies and clients this year?
As PPC software has moved from bid a focus on bid management to feeds, attribution and rich media, who is powering this innovation and who deserves to be awarded for their features introduced this year?
With search engines giving little away to help you improve your natural search positions, third party software can help you super charge your SEO and focus your efforts. We will be looking for the SEO software suite that has shown innovation and rapid development in the last 12 months.
Whether it's PPC or SEO, we want to recognise a specific software tool that has been both essential and revolutionary within the search industry this year.
Agency/Team/Individual Awards
The Agency/Team categories are based on employee count and service offerings. In all categories, the judges will be looking for revenue figures, staff turnover and culture as well as the agency demonstrating creative implementations and achieving excellent ROI for their clients. At least one of the case studies submitted to support this entry should also be entered into at least one of the campaign categories.
New to the world of search and already making their mark through innovation, creativity and an excellent understanding of budgets and costs. Judges want to encourage a new generation of talent and put them in the spotlight. Nominees must be under the age of 30 on the date of the Awards Ceremony.
You might be new, but you are running rings around the old guard! This is your opportunity for recognition amongst your peers and industry experts and your chance to wear a badge of honour that attracts new business. Entries are welcomed from agencies which are under 24 months old.
Recognition of an outstanding small integrated search agency that demonstrates consistently great understanding and use of SEO, PPC and Content Marketing across multiple marketing channels.
Recognition of an outstanding small integrated search agency that demonstrates consistently great understanding and use of SEO, PPC and Content Marketing across multiple marketing channels.
Recognition of an outstanding small integrated search agency that demonstrates consistently great understanding and use of SEO, PPC and Content Marketing across multiple marketing channels.
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