Last week, on the 17th March, the first ever German Search Marketing awards gala; the SEMY Awards for short, took place. The evening which occurred during SMX München was a wonderful event to honour the best of the best in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The winners were selected from a shortlist of nominations which had been agreed by a 13 member jury, the chairman of whom was Bastian Grimm, Peak Ace; (Please note a full list of Jury members can be seen below).
Majestic as announced on their German twitter channel – Majestic_DE were proud to be the first ever diamond sponsor of the event, and show their support and faith in organisers as Majestic sparklers, and special Majestic giveaways were available throughout the evening. In addition, several Majestic Ambassadors attended the event to celebrate and congratulate the winners.
Awards were presented to 12 categories with the main areas being:
- SEO
- SEA
- Social Media
- Online Marketing Personality of the Year
The SEMY Awards Jury consisted of:
- Bastian Grimm
- Jens Fauldrath
- Sandra Finlay
- Dr. Mario Fischer
- Curt Simon Harlinghausen
- Ron Hillmann
- Alexander Holl
- Philipp Klöckner
- Kerstin Pape
- Philipp Roth
- Martin Röttgerding
- Eva Rausch von Traubenberg
- Oliver Zenglein
The nominees in each category were:
- Best SEO Tools – LinkResearchTools, Searchmetrics, Trisolute Software
- Content Marketing Campaign – BlueGlass Interactive, contentking.de, menadwork kommunikation
- Best SEO Agency – Barketing IMS, Catbird Seat, One Advertising
- Best SEA Tool – intelliAd Media, Marin, Productsup, Refined Labs
- Best SEA Campaign – GetGoods.de, GroupM, Polylike, WinLocal
- Best SEA Agency – Catbird Seat, crealytics, QUISMA
- Best Social Media Tool – BuzzRank, socialBench, uberMetrics Technologies
- Best Social Media Campaign – idolCARD, Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz, Performics Newcast, Tourismus Innsbruck
- Best Social Media Agency – Projecter, Socialmarketingagentur, viermalvier.at
- Online Marketer of the Year – Andreas Bruckschlögl, Karl Kratz, Tom Thaler
- Upcoming Marketing – Daniel Herndler, Simon Köstler, Martin Tauber
- In-house Marketing Team – DB Vertrieb, Flottweg, Sixt, Xing
The winners in each category were:
- Best SEO Tools – Searchmetrics
- Content Marketing Campaign – contentking.de
- Best SEO Agency – One Advertising
- Best SEA Tool – Productsup
- Best SEA Campaign – Polylike
- Best SEA Agency – QUISMA
- Best Social Media Tool – uberMetrics Technologies
- Best Social Media Campaign – idolCARD
- Online Marketer of the Year – Andreas Bruckschlögl
- Upcoming Marketing – Martin Tauber
- Inhouse Marketing Team – Xing
The evening was a great event with 350 guests and an exclusive gala dinner, comedy entertainment and an awesome SMX after party. If you going to SMX München 2016 then look out for details as you will want to ensure you buy your ticket as soon as possible; they will almost certainly be selling out again based on how successful this year’s event was! 🙂
SEMY awards photo time with @randfish and @jbobbink at the @tryMajestic table with stroopwafels #smx pic.twitter.com/yhp5rHm1BJ
— David Iwanow (@davidiwanow) March 17, 2015
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