Tuesday night saw the 3rd annual A4U Awards at the London Hilton.  An industry highlight of the year, I wanted to congratulate each of the following Affiliate Doctors on their fantastic achievements.  Here’s what they had to say …

Publishers Choice Awards (voted for by the 20,000+ affiliates4u.com member base):

Kirsty McCubbin – Affiliate Marketing Blog of 2009

Kirsty managed to scoop what is considered by many to be one of the most coveted awards in the industry for her stirling efforts with www.affiliatestuff.co.uk. Unable to attend the event in person (Oz isn’t exactly up the road!), Kirsty sent the following message on the night:

“Wow, what can I say?  It’s a real honour to win the award; I’m completely blown away and thrilled.

It’s gutting not to be there to share the fun and revelry with you all on such a glittering evening, but on the plus side I’ve probably just spared myself a monster hangover.

Thanks to everyone who voted for the blog, and please do have a drink or four on my behalf tonight!”.

Chris Clarkson (Sunshine.co.uk) –  Affiliate Manager 2009

For the second year running, Chris picked up the award given to “an individual who has excelled by creating relationships, driving revenue opportunities, utilising effective communication channels and generally being a super star affiliate manager!”.

Chris said:

“Delighted to have won it again, although personally I’d have voted for Naomi Brown from Firebox!”.

Mark Russell and Existem AM – Affiliate Management Agency 2009

Existem Affiliate Management had a top night and managed to do the treble …

Talking about the night, Mark said, “We are delighted to have won the award for a third successive year and I am pleased that once again all the hard work and dedication from the team has been recognised by the affiliate community”.

In addition to the Affiliate Management Agency award, Hannah Swift of Existem AM also won the Publishers Choice of Account Manager 2009 for her outstanding contribution in going “beyond the norm in their role to maximise the merchant/affiliate relationship and the returns generated”.
 
Kier Marston and the Webgains Network – Innovative Affiliate Network of the Year 2009 (Highly Commended)

This award is given to a network that “has continued to introduce one or a combination of new innovations that enable publishers to drive sales, and internal innovation with tools, initiatives or campaigns”.

Webgains MD, Robert Glasgow said:

“Webgains won ‘Highly Commended’ for its affiliate matchmaking tool – iSense Site Seeker in the Innovative Affiliate Network of the Year award category. This is not the first time we have been short-listed in this category; our Voucher Management Tool was nominated at last year’s awards. This recognition bears testament to the all the hard work our in-house development team puts into creating applications and tools designed to support our clients.”… ” … we would like to congratulate all the winners and runner ups, as well as all those nominated, and thank all those who participated in the nomination and voting processes.”.

John Lamerton and Easy Content Units – Innovative Publisher of the Year 2009 (Highly Commended)

This award was given to the ECU team for developing a brand new service that “fully embraces the concepts behind the many facets of Affiliate Marketing”.

John said:

“I can’t take any of the credit for our Highly Commended award – ECU has been built from the ground up by our head techie Stu, and super-speedy affiliate support comes from my fellow director Jason Brockman. I’m just the guy who scribbles stuff down and says ‘how hard can it be to…’.

I’m really proud that ECU made it onto the shortlist to be honest, let alone finishing as runners-up in a category that contains some huge, huge names, millions of pounds worth of talent and some of the best ideas and brains in the industry. That our little 4-month old idea, built by three blokes in a pub using their own money was able to compete on a level playing field with the big-boys and their bottomless pits of cash bodes very well for the future of ECU I think”.

By all accounts it was a top night and we would like to extend congratulations to everyone else that was nominated for their respective categories on the night.

For a breakdown of the awards, check out the complete A4U Awards Winners List.

You can also see some pics from the evening here and here.