Last night saw the 6th annual Performance Marketing Awards take over the stunning Great Room, at the Grosvenor House Hotel, on London’s prestigious Park Lane and what an evening it was…

Over 800 guests came together to network and celebrate the huge innovation and success of the performance marketing industry over the last year and to raise a glass to the award winners!

Miles Jupp proved an entertaining host with his hilarious observational comedy and engaged the crowd as 30 thrilled winners collected their awards.

The ceremony was followed by the hugely popular ROCKAOKE band and many a team took to the stage to give a rendition of their favourite songs as high-spirited guests filled the dance floor.  The dancing continued into the night as fabulous DJs, The Broken Hearts, worked the decks and drew the incredible evening to a close.

The event could not have taken place without the support of all our fantastic sponsors including our co-sponsor, 7thingsmedia , champagne reception & after-party sponsor, TradeDoubler and all our category sponsors.  We’d like to extend a huge thank you to them all and look forward to working with them again in the future.

For detailed insight into all of the Performance Marketing Award winners, download our online Book of the Night. The A4u team would like to offer a massive congratulations to everyone that walked away with an award or a high commendation!  Each and every one was truly well-deserved.

Last night’s Performance Marketing Awards demonstrated what a stellar year in performance marketing it has been and we’re anticipating great things to come as performance marketing continues to take more budget across the wider digital spectrum, supported by the entrepreneurial spirit of the dynamic companies and individuals leading the way.

Here’s to 2013!

Save the date for next year’s Performance Marketing Awards taking place on 7th May 2013.

Celebrating innovation and growth within the dynamic performance marketing industry is what the Performance Marketing Awards are all about so we are very excited to announce that brand new search engine and distribution tool, Paradigm Search, is sponsoring the Best in Travel & Leisure Advertiser category for 2012!

A no-brainer for publishers… a must-have for merchants.

Paradigm Search is both a powerful search engine designed to help publishers increase their online earning potential, and a brand new distribution tool for merchants to help them increase their exposure across the affiliate marketing channel.

Paradigm Search can seamlessly combine industry product feeds (both live availability and static inventory) from all major UK affiliate networks into one clean, highly optimised product comparison search engine. The platform is highly optimised to generate maximum advertising yield for publishers, while enabling merchants to retain maximum control over their product distribution.

Launching in Summer 2012, Paradigm Search will shift affiliate marketing to a new paradigm.

We’re very pleased to be welcoming them as part of the Performance Marketing Awards 2012 and look forward to finding out who the lucky winner of this award will be.  Shortlisted for the Best in Travel & Leisure Advertiser award are affilinet & nonstopConsulting for Virgin Atlantic, LBi bigmouthmedia & Best Western, Commission Junction & TUI and Commission Junction & Thistle.  Good luck to them and to all the shortlisted companies.

The Performance Marketing Awards 2012 in association with 7thingsmedia looks set to be the most exciting year yet.

The evening kicks off with champagne reception in association with TradeDoubler which is followed by a sumptuous 3-course meal.  Comedian Miles Jupp then hosts the ceremony as we all find out who 2012′s deserving winners are and celebrate their success.

It’s then time to tune your vocal chords and get your dancing shoes on with our after-party, also in association with TradeDoubler, which includes our live ROCKAOKE band and fabulous DJ’s the Broken Hearts!

Read more about the order of events for the evening here.

This will truly be a night to remember!

Tomorrow night, the winners of 24 award categories will be announced at the much anticipated Performance Marketing Awards 2012.

Today, as final preparations are being made in the busy A4u office, we’re very pleased to welcome AffiliateFuture to the glamorous event!  AffiliateFuture will sponsor the Best Consumer Targeting Campaign category which recognises a campaign that has successfully targeted consumers to influence the customer journey and generate sales for a brand.

Shortlisted for the award are 7thingsmedia for Agent Provocateur, M/Six & Affiliate Window for TalkTalk, Criteo for Total Jobs, Mediaplex (Valueclick) for Doctors without Borders, Merchenta for Virgin Balloons and ZenithOptimedia for B&Q in partnership with Top Cashback.

AffiliateFuture is the most authoritative and innovative affiliate marketing network. It has experience working with clients ranging from blue-chip brands to dotcom retailers and demonstrates particular strength in the travel sector through it’s award winning technologies. AffiliateFuture has been established for more than ten years and has offices in London, New York and Madrid.

Managing national and international affiliate marketing programmes, it’s network brings merchants and affiliates together for high performance results. AffiliateFuture has more than 300,000 affiliates across multiple verticals. It strives to get the best out of affiliate marketing through first class service, continual improvement and transparency.

Understanding the most effective way of representing brands on affiliate sites is a critical factor in the success of AffiliateFuture.

We join AffiliateFuture in wishing the fantastic shortlisted entrants luck and cannot wait to welcome them to the Grosvenor House Hotel on Tuesday evening!

The Grosvenor House Hotel is the place to be tomorrow evening as the top players in performance marketing gather in their finest, to raise a glass to the deserving winners of this year’s Performance Marketing Awards!

This morning we’re delighted to welcome the IAB as sponsor of the Best Use of Data category!

With over 700 members, the IAB is made up of leading media owners, agencies, brands and technology companies in the UK internet industry. Online is an exciting and fast-growing medium and their job at the IAB is to work with members to ensure that marketers can identify the best role for online and the emerging mobile market, helping them engage their customers and build their brands.

The IAB produces research, events, training and conferences, acting as the authoritative and objective source for all internet advertising issues whilst promoting industry-wide best practice and policy.

Shortlisted for the Best Use of Data award are 7thingsmedia for Affiliate Manager Plus, Digital Window – The Strategy Team, Affliate Window for Sky, Churchill Insurance (with Quidco and OMG), Mythings for Littlewoods and Affiliate Window with Quico for RAC.

We look forward to greeting them all tomorrow evening and to welcoming them and the IAB to the glittering event.

The Performance Marketing Awards recognise the entrepreneurial and cutting -edge spirit of our ever-growing industry and is an opportunity to celebrate and network in style.

We can’t wait. Can you?

Next Tuesday evening will see the best and brightest in performance marketing gather at the Grosvenor House Hotel, on London’s prestigious Park Lane, to recognise the success and and evolution of our dynamic industry at the annual Performance Marketing Awards!

We’re thrilled to announce that Found. will be joining us on the glamorous night, as sponsors of the Best in Technology & Telecoms Advertiser award!

Found. champions the wider integration of Performance Marketing across all digital channels; delivering tactical, accountable and measurable results for its clients; all bound by client-led success metrics; ranging from KPI delivery to risk & reward (CPA) remuneration.

The multi award-winning agency’s highly innovative approach continues to push the boundaries within the Search, Social, Mobile and Affiliate sectors.

It is with pleasure that we welcome them to the event and join them in wishing the shortlisted entrants good luck.  Shortlisted are Affiliate Window for Vodafone, Affiliate Window & Buy.at for Carphone Warehouse, Affiliate Window for BSkyB, Affiliate Window & Buy.at for O2, MEC for T-Mobile and TradeDoubler for BT.

We’re can’t wait to find out which deserving entrants will walk away with an award on May 15th 2012. Can you?

At the exciting Performance Marketing Awards ceremony on May 15th, the Best in Finance Advertiser award will recognise an advertiser, operating within the finance vertical, who has effectively integrated their affiliate marketing activity into their digital marketing strategy.

This award will be sponsored by eProspects and we’d like to extend them a warm welcome to next week’s event.

eProspects is UK’s leading online performance based advertising company.

The most successful and fastest growing company in its sector, eProspects helps its clients acquire customers profitably, at scale with minimal risk and cost by leveraging its proprietary technologies, industry specific expertise and multi-channel media approach.

Founded in 2007, eProspects has subsequently grown to over 35 employees and is based in Canary Wharf, London.

Shortlisted for the Best in Finance Advertiser category are Affiliate Window for RAC, Arena Media for Legal & General, LV= and Neo@Ogilvy for AMEX.

We’re looking forward to the much anticipated evening next Tuesday and wish all our shortlisted entrants the very best of luck.

Just a few days remain until the Performance Marketing Awards 2012 takes over the Great Room at the Grosvenor House Hotel to award the top achievers in the performance marketing industry with their well-deserved trophies and celebrate a year of industry success, growth and innovation.

As we undertake the final preparations for next Tuesday’s glittering ceremony, we are delighted to take a moment to welcome another fantastic sponsor to the ranks.

MymCart are mobile commerce specialists and as such, are lending their support to the event by sponsoring the Best in Mobile award!

MymCart’s platform seamlessly enables customers to transact through mobile platforms with the ease of an online website.

It’s proprietary technology enables it to deliver solutions which range from wholesale m-commerce delivery of mobile websites and apps through to bespoke adaptations of it’s platform.

MymCart provides either pre-populated or self-build mobile web sites and apps.  It’s customers can build and maintain their own mobile websites and apps optimised for today’s smartphones, ensuring that customers, browsing their website on a mobile device, get a good user experience and do not abandon their visit.

Shortlisted for the Best in Mobile award are Commission Junction for Argos, Linking Mobile, Quidco for Quidco mobile, TradeDoubler for Figleaves and TradeDoubler & Quidco for the Body Shop.

We wish them all luck and look forward to welcoming them and MymCart to the event next week.

nonstopConsulting will be joining the Performance Marketing Awards next Tuesday 15th May, as sponsor of the Best in Technology & Telecoms Publisher category.

This category recognises a publisher, operating within the technology and telecoms vertical, who has been successful in engaging Advertiser relationships and aligning revenue opportunity with Advertiser goals alongside transparency, value-add, innovation, collaboration and general vertical performance.  Shortlisted for this award for 2012 are Broadbandchoices.co.uk and uSwitch.  The best of luck to them!

nonstopConsulting is one of the EU and UK’s leading affiliate management agencies and celebrates its 10th birthday this year.  In 2006 the agency strengthened its focus on serving an international client base and is now the largest independent Affiliate Management Agency in Europe serving over 100 merchants in the retail, telecoms, travel and finance categories.

The agency represents merchants that run Affiliate Programs in more than 20 countries worldwide including the UK, US, Latin America, France, Germany, Australia, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and South Africa. To service the international merchants and affiliates, the agency has established a native speaking account management infrastructure that promotes good communication and leverages the individual strengths within it ensuring that merchant strategy can be implemented effectively within each local market.

nonstopConsulting can truly claim to be in a class of its own on the international stage, supported by innovative technology and regional expertise and is just one of the leading companies supporting the Performance Marketing Awards this year.

The Performance Marketing Awards brings together these fantastic sponsors as well as high-achieving professionals from across the performance marketing industry and as such, offers a unique opportunity to network and spread your brand message, generating good business leads with strong potential for ROI.

The Performance Marketing Awards take place in just a few days! Don’t miss your last chance to join us in your finery at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Contact Mark Atherton today on +44 (0)117 203 3113.

Here at A4u heights, it’s hard to believe the 2012 Performance Marketing Awards take place next week! Final preparations are being made for what promises to be a night of networking and a celebration to remember!  Tuxes have been hired, shoes have been polished and dress choices have been agonised over! We’re looking forward to greeting the top industry players at the Grosvenor House Hotel and raising a glass to the deserving award winners.

Today we’re delighted to welcome another fantastic category sponsor to the event.

Club Med offer worldwide resorts, luxury villas and chalets and premium all-inclusive holidays  to over 80 exclusive Resorts all around the world.

All inclusive, All exclusive, All yours.

With Club Med all-inclusive expect stunning locations, superb accommodation, gourmet food, endless bar drinks and snacks, fantastic children’s clubs and a multitude of sports and activities.

All Club Med Resorts have a Trident rating that ensure the same level of high quality everywhere in the world.

Club Med Affiliate program:

If you have a relevant website, you can earn revenue easily through the Club Med Affiliation Programme by referring customers online. You just have to display your choice of Club Med advertising material on your site, and they will pay you a commission for every purchase made through your website.

Club Med are sponsoring the Best Travel & Leisure Publisher category and join us in wishing the following shortlisted entrants lots of luck on the night; Found. for Handpicked Hotels & InvisibleHand.

Would you like to be in attendance on May 15th to be the first to find out who the winners are and to meet with the best and brightest in the performance marketing industry? It’s not too late! Contact Mark Atherton on +44 (0)117 203 3113 for a last minute place!