DMN and The Hub have combined forces this year to present the Marketing&Tech Innovation Awards, which honor the most innovative strategies, platforms, and people in marketing today. I was thrilled to be a judge in this year’s selection. The winners will be announced on March 10th, but take a peek at the finalists below and let me know who you think should win!

Case Study Categories

Analytics Innovation

evolve24
Sales Predictions Using Social Conversations

Experian Marketing Services and Golfsmith
Analytics for the Holidays

Grapeshot and Sawyer Studios
Lila & Eve

Merkle
Connected Attribution Solution

Visual IQ and BuildDirect
Marketing Attribution Solution Implementation

Content Marketing Innovation

Aflac
One Day Pay

gen.video
How Scalable UGC Video Content Catapulted Crest Pro-Health HD to #1

New York International Auto Show
Virtual Tour

Stein IAS
The Digital Marketing Maturity Campaign

Verifone Media and Aria Resort & Casino
Verifone Media helps Aria Resort & Casino Enhance Tourist Engagement on the Vegas Strip

Email Marketing Innovation

Experian Marketing Services and Finish Line
Finish Line: College Fleece Program

Experian Marketing Services and Delta Air Lines
Delta’s Flight Cycle Program

Merkle and Samsung
SUHD Product Launch

Merkle and Marriott
Marriott Drives App Engagement Through Email

netCORE Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Reliance Life Insurance Company Ltd.
Connecting the Dots and Humanizing Email Experience See Faster Email-to-Sale Conversions

Mobile innovation

Event Marketing Strategies and Nationwide
Nationwide: Make Safe Happen Safety Experience

FORENSIQ
Mobile Ad Fraud Study – Mobile Device Hijacking

Harte Hanks and Samsung Mobile
Samsung Note 4 Product Launch with Harte Hanks  

Stein IAS and Key Technology
Mobile Virtual Reality Experience

Omnichannel marketing innovation

Experian Marketing Services and American Eagle Outfitters
Reserve, Try and Buy: An Omnichannel Shopping Experience

FordDirect
ConsumerConnection

RedPoint Global and Xanterra Parks & Resorts
Xanterra Parks & Resorts – A Journey to One-to-One Marketing Excellence

Belk Inc., iCrossing, and Kenshoo
Driving Triple-Digit Increase in Conversion Rates

WIT Strategy and Selligent and Extra Space Storage
Selligent/Extra Space Storage

Social innovation

Grey Global Group and Volvo Cars North America
Volvo Interception

LEWIS Pulse
#Trending: Raising the Bar on Cross-Channel Social Media Coverage for Events

Plat4orm PR and Metia
Microsoft in Health

Principal Financial Group
See Your Retirement

W2O Group
Nothing can be perfect

Platform Categories

Most Innovative Analytics Platform

Brandwatch
Brandwatch Analytics

Experian Marketing Services
The Intelligence Manager of the Experian Marketing Suite

Fluid PR, Inc.
AppsFlyer

Merkle
Citizens Big Data Platform

Origami Logic
Marketing Signal Measurement Platform

Most Innovative Customer Experience Management Platform

MaritzCX
MaritzCX Platform

Epsilon
Epsilon’s Agility Loyalty

Influitive

Kitewheel
The Kitewheel Customer Journey Hub

Qubit
Qubit Visitor Cloud

Most Innovative Integrated Marketing Suite

Act-On Software

Blanc & Otus
Oracle Marketing Cloud

Blueshift
Blueshift Segment-of-One Marketing Automation

Experian Marketing Services
The Experian Marketing Suite

Salesforce
Salesforce Marketing Cloud: Personalize and Optimize 1:1 Customer Journeys

Most Innovative Mobile Marketing Platform

BLANC & OTUS
DoubleDutch

Comunicano, Inc.
FollowAnaytics’ Enterprise Mobile Analytics Platform

HookLogic
The HookLogic Platform: Powering Mobile Ads with Attribution Data, Anti-Ad Blocking, and Awesome Results

Button
Button

Swirl Networks, Inc.
Swirl Network’s Beacon Marketing Solution

Most Innovative Social Media Platform

500px
500px, photo sharing’s underdog, swings big in 2015

Sprout Social

Tracx
Tracx Social Business Cloud

Stars of Martech Categories

Content Marketing Scribe
Cassandra Jowett, Senior Content Marketing Manager, Influitive

Craig Vore, Insights Manager, Strategy & Optimization, Outsell

Denice Surjan, Senior Marketing Manager, Experian Marketing Services

Dr. Maruthi Viswanathan, Managing Director, RxPrism Health Systems

Steve Sachs, CEO, OneSpot

Data Scientist

Christopher S. Penn, Vice President of Marketing Technology, SHIFT Communications

Jonathan Smalletz, Lead Analyst, Merkle

Stacey Hawes, Senior Vice President, Data Solutions, Epsilon

Digital Ace

Chad Blodgett, Senior Vice President of omnichannel, Rakuten Marketing

Tuomas Peltoniemi, President, Asia, Digital Arts Network

 

Marketing Technologist

Emad Georgy, SVP & Global Head of Software Development & Product, Experian Marketing Services

Francis Wallinger, Chairman, Alchemetrics Ltd

Gwendolyn Lefevre, Vice President, Marketing Operations & Digital Marketing, Bottomline Technologies

Programmatic Prognosticator

Amy Good, Adaptive Media Investment & Technology Lead, Nestle Purina Pet Care

Lewis Gersh, CEO, Founder and Chairman, PebblePost

Victor Wong, CEO and cofounder, PaperG

Social Strategist

Michael Rusten Gabriel, Marketing Manager, Envision Creative Group

Stephanie Capouch, Social Media Manager, WP Engine

 

For more information about the finalists and the event, click here.

 

@Drnatalie, VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research

Covering Customer-facing Customer Experience Capabilities – People, Process and Technology

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