Awards & Nominations
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Awards timeline
2025
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing & HEYDUDE – Silver – Best Full Funnel Strategy
- Gen3 Marketing & Philo – Silver – Best Performance-Based Partnership
- Gen3 Marketing & Sonos – Bronze – Best Brand Awareness Campaign
Nominations & Recognitions
Performance Marketing Awards 2025
Digital Commerce 360 Leading Vendors Report Top 1000 E-Retailer
- Best Performance PR Campaign – Gen3 Marketing & Allbirds
- Best Performance-Based Partnership – Gen3 Marketing & GNC
- Partnership of the Year – Gen3 Marketing & Leonisa
2024
Awards
- Duffy Harvey, Senior Affiliate Manager – 2024 Top 100 Affiliate and Partnership Heroes
- Gen3 Marketing & The Bouqs – Best Full Funnel Strategy
- Gen3 Marketing – Hello Partner Top 30 Affiliate Agencies
- Gen3 Marketing & BBQ Guys Gold Award – Best Performance PR Category – US Partnership Awards
- Gen3 Marketing & Paravel Silver Award – Best Performance PR Category – US Partnership Awards
- Gen3 Marketing & Boutique Rugs Bronze Award – Best Full Funnel Strategy – US Partnership Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- Gen3 Marketing – Agency of the Year
- Gen3 Marketing – Best Affiliate & Partner Marketing Agency
- Gen3 & RoseSkinCo – Best Performance PR
- Gen3 & BBQ Guys – Best Use of Content Commerce
- Gen3 & Paravel – Best Use of Content Commerce
- Gen3 & The Bouqs – Best Full Funnel Strategy
- Gen3 & Cuisinart – Best Affiliate Program Launch
- Gen3 & ProLon – Best Use of AI
- Gen3 Marketing – Best Affiliate & Partner Marketing Agency
- Gen3 Marketing & Lovehoney – Best Full Funnel Strategy
- Gen3 Marketing & Lovehoney – Best Managed Affiliate Program (Enterprise Level)
- Gen3 Marketing & Oak Furniture Superstore – Best Managed Affiliate Program (SME Level)
Digital Commerce 360 Leading Vendors Report Top 1000 E-Retailer
- Gen3 Marketing – Best Affiliate & Partner Marketing Agency
- Gen3 Marketing & PetSmart – Best Retail Partnership
- Gen3 Marketing, impact.com & American Express – Best Finance Partnership
- Gen3 Marketing & Instant Ink – Partnership of the Year
- Gen3 Marketing & GobiHeat – Best Use of a Small Budget
- Gen3 Marketing & PAX – Best Performance PR Campaign
- Gen3 Marketing & The Bouqs – Best Performance PR Campaign
Rakuten European Golden Link Awards
- Slavina Velinova – Affiliate Manager of the Year
2023
Awards
- Agency Team of the Year and Attendee Choice of Agency Team – AWIN & ShareASale ThinkTank Network Awards
- Gen3 Marketing & tails.com – Best Managed Affiliate Program SME – Performance Marketing Awards
- Paresh Vadavia – Lifetime Achievement Award – Rakuten Golden Link Awards
- Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
Nominations & Recognitions
Digital Commerce 360 Leading Vendors Report Top 1000 E-Retailer
- Leading Vendor Affiliate Marketing
Search Engine Land Awards 2023
- (Finalist) Best Commerce Search Marketing Initiative – SEO
CJU Excellence Awards
- (Finalist) Best Agency
- Gen3 Marketing & Recess (Finalist) Best Content Marketing Campaign
Rakuten Golden Link Awards
- (Finalist) Agency of the Year
Performance Marketing Awards
- Gen3 Marketing & Kwik Fit (Highly Commended) Best Managed Affiliate Program Enterprise Leve
- (Highly Commended) Best Affiliate and Partner Marketing Agency
Partnership Awards
- (Finalist) Best Use of A Small Budget
- (Finalist) Together, We Solved That
- Gen3 Marketing & impact.com (Finalist) Best Affiliate and Partner Marketing Agency
2022
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
- Gen3 Marketing – OPM / Agency of the Year – Rakuten Advertising, Golden Links Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – OPM / Agency of the Year – CJ Excellence Awards
- Optimus-pm & tails.com – Best Managed Affiliate Program SME – Performance Marketing Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- Gen3 Marketing – Leading Vendor Affiliate Marketing – Internet Retailer Leading Vendors Top 1000 E-Retailer
- Optimus-pm Kwik Fit & Impact – (Highly Commended) Best Managed Affiliate Program Enterprise Level
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency
- Optimus-pm & Saltrock – (Finalist) Best Managed Affiliate Program SME
- Optimus-pm & Victorinox – (Finalist) Best Travel, Leisure & Lifestyle Campaign
- Optimus-pm & Republic of Cats – (Finalist) Best Program Launch or Migration
Global Performance Marketing Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – (Finalist) Best Agency
- Optimus-pm – (Highly Commended) – Best Affiliate & Partnership Strategy (Europe)
- Optimus-pm & Awin – (Highly Commended) Together We Solved That
Festival of Media Global Awards
- OAK Digital & impact.com – (Finalist) Best Direct to Consumer
2021
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
- Mel Blue (Optimus-pm) – Industry Rising Star – Performance Marketing Awards
- OAK Digital & Boutique Rugs – Best Performance Marketing Campaign – International Performance Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- Gen3 Marketing – Leading Vendor Affiliate Marketing – Internet Retailer Leading Vendors Top 1000 E-Retailer
Rakuten Advertising Golden Links Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – (Finalist) Agency of the Year
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Agency of the Year
International Performance Marketing Awards
- Optimus-pm & Gen3 Marketing – (Finalist) Best Performance Marketing Agency
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Most Effective Agency
- Optimus-pm & tails.com – (Finalist) Best Program Launch or Relaunch
- Optimus-pm & Victorinox (Finalist) Best Managed Affiliate Program Western Europe
Performance Marketing Awards
- Optimus-pm & Sage – (Highly Commended) Best Managed Tech & Telecoms
- Optimus-pm & CMO Stores – (Finalist) Best Managed SME
- Optimus-pm & Kwik Fit – (Finalist) Best Managed Enterprise
Global Performance Marketing Awards
- OAK Digital – (Highly Commended) Best Performance Marketing Agency
- OAK Digital & Hairstory – (Highly Commended) Best Managed Affiliate Program
2020
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
- Optimus-pm & Richer Sounds – Best Managed Affiliate Program SME – Performance Marketing Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- Gen3 Marketing – Leading Vendor Affiliate Marketing – Internet Retailer Leading Vendors Top 1000 E-Retailer
- International Performance Marketing Awards
- Optimus-pm – (Highly Commended) Best Agency
- Optimus-pm & Sage – (Highly Commended) Best International Technology & Telecoms
2019
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
- OPM Pros – OPM / Agency of the Year – CJ Excellence Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Best Retail Search Initiative – Search Engine Land Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- Gen3 Marketing – Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
- OPM Pros – OPM / Agency of the Year – CJ Excellence Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Best Retail Search Initiative – Search Engine Land Awards
2018
Nominations & Recognitions
- Gen3 Marketing – (Finalist) OPM / Agency of the Year – CJ You Awards
- OPM Pros – Leading Vendor Affiliate Marketing – Internet Retailer Leading Vendors Top 1000 E-Retailer
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) OPM / Agency of the Year – Rakuten Golden Links Awards
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) CJU Agency of the Year Award
- AffiliateManager.com – (Finalist) Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency – Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards
- Optimus-pm – (Highly Commended) Industry Choice of Agency
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency
- Optimus-pm & Leisure Pass Group – (Finalist)
- Optimus-pm & Crocs – (Finalist) Best Managed Programnternational Performance Marketing Awards
- Performance Marketing Awards
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency
- Optimus-pm & (Snapfish) Best Managed Program
2017
Awards
- Optimus-pm – Most Effective Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
- AffiliateManager.com – OPM / Agency of the Year – Affiliate Summit West Pinnacle Award
- AffiliateManager.com – Agency of the Year – AvantLink “Best Of” Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- OPM Pros – Leading Vendor Affiliate Marketing – Internet Retailer Leading Vendors Top 1000 E-Retailer
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) – OPM / Agency of the Year Rakuten Golden Link Awards
- OPM Pros & Forzieri – (Finalist) Best Global Strategy – Rakuten Golden Link Awards
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) – Agency of the Year – CJ You Awards
- International Performance Marketing Awards
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Industry Choice Agency of the Year
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Best Managed Affiliate Program (Western Europe)
- OPM Pros & Performance Horizon – (Finalist) Breaking into the European Market
- OPM Pros & Performance Horizon – (Finalist) – Growth in a New Age
- OPM Pros & Performance Horizon – (Finalist) Partnerships built on Data Initiatives
- OPM Pros & Performance Horizon – (Finalist) Driving and Growing Relationships
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Best Managed Affiliate Program
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Best Performance Marketing Campaign or Strategy
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Best Performance Marketing Campaign or Strategy
2016
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
- Gen3 Marketing – OPM / Agency of the Year CJ You Awards
- OPM Pros – Agency of the Year Rakuten Golden Link Award
- AffiliateManager.com – OPM/Agency of the Year Affiliate Summit West Pinnacle Awards
- Optimus-pm – Industry Rising Star (Seve Cantidig-Stagg) Performance Marketing Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Agency of the Year CJ Excellence Awards
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Lifetime Achievement Award – (Paresh Vadavia) Rakuten Golden Link Awards
- OPM Pros & 1-800Flowers.com – (Finalist) – Rakuten Golden Link Awards
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Industry Choice of Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Agency of the Year – Drum Awards
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Innovative Service – Chartered Institute of Marketing
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Agency of the Year – Chartered Institute of Marketing
- Performance Marketing Awards
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) – Best Agency
- Optimus-pm & Kwik Fit – Best Agency Led Campaign
- Optimus-pm & Gant – Best in Retail
- European Performance Marketing Awards
- Optimus-pm (Highly Commended) Best Agency
- Optimus-pm & Leisure Pass Group – (Finalist) Best Travel & Leisure
- Optimus-pm & Slendertone – (Finalist) Best Managed Program
2015
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
- Gen3 Marketing – OPM / Agency of the Year Rakuten Advertising Golden Link Awards
- OPM Pros – OPM / Agency of the Year CJ You Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Agency of the Year – Rakuten Golden Link Awards
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
2014
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
- Gen3 Marketing – OPM / Agency of the Year – CJ You Awards
- OPM Pros – OPM / Agency of the Year Rakuten Golden Link Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) Agency of the Year – CJ Excellence Awards
- OPM Pros & Paula’s Choice – (Finalist) Publishers Choice – Rakuten Golden Link Award
- OPM Pros & 1-800Flowers.com – (Finalist) Publishers Choice – Rakuten Golden Link Award
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
2013
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Agency of the Year – CJ You Awards
- AffiliateManager.com – Manager of the Year (Jon Nunez) – Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) OPM / Agency of the Year – Rakuten Golden Link Awards
- OPM Pros & 1-800Flowers.com – (Finalist) Publishers Choice – Rakuten Golden Link Award
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
2012
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – OPM / Agency of the Year – CJ You Awards
- OPM Pros – Favorite Advertiser for Intuit Small Businesses – People’s Choice Awards CJU Awards
- OPM Pros & 1-800Flowers.com – Publishers Choice – Rakuten Golden Link Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
2011
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Agency of the Year – CJ You Awards
- OPM Pros – OPM / Agency of the Year – Rakuten Golden Link Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
2010
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Agency of the Year – CJ Excellence Awards
- Optimus-pm – Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
Nominations & Recognitions
- OPM Pros – (Finalist) OPM / Agency of the Year – Rakuten Golden Link Awards
2009
Awards
- Gen3 Marketing – Agency of the Year – CJ Excellence Awards
- Optimus-pm – Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
2008
Awards
- Optimus-pm – Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
2007
Awards
- Optimus-pm – Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards
2006
Nominations & Recognitions
- Optimus-pm – (Finalist) Best Agency – Performance Marketing Awards