2023 Shortlist

Influencity is an all-in-one influencer marketing tech solution that helps brands and agencies of all sizes and from all over the world manage end-to-end campaigns at scale. They use data to help customers make the best decisions for their influencer marketing strategy. The platform puts +170M influencer profiles at users’ fingertips and allows companies to filter influencers by niche, demographics, follower quality, and much more. Influencity provide accurate, on-demand influencer performance metrics that allow companies to make data-driven decisions when choosing their content creators. Lastly, their campaign and reporting tools provide forecasts and compile data so that performance can be estimated and measured from campaign to campaign, season to season, and year to year.

https://influencity.com/

Billion Dollar Boy (BDB) is a leading global influencer agency, using industry-leading tech solutions to deliver integrated, effective creator advertising.

BDB was among the first global creator marketing agencies and has evolved to be one of the world’s fastest-growing agencies, with offices in London, Bristol, Germany, New York, New Orleans.

Since 2014, BDB has partnered with some of the world’s leading brands – including Heineken, King, PepsiCo, Campari Group, Amazon, and L’Oreal – connecting them with more than 13,000 vetted content creators and reaching over 10 billion users globally.

BDB is also an official marketing partner of Meta and TikTok, and was the first influencer marketing agency to be accepted into The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.

https://www.billiondollarboy.com/

Captiv8 is the ultimate influencer marketing solution for brands looking to drive creator commerce on a global scale. With a customer-centric mindset and innovative approach, Captiv8 aims to eliminate any obstacles or challenges that arise in influencer marketing.

The global end-to-end platform provides marketers with the ability to plan influencer campaigns, discover exceptional partners, manage creative workflow, manage creator payments, build scalable affiliate programs, and access custom reporting and campaign analytics – all within the same tool.

Captiv8’s commitment to providing exceptional service has been recognized with several accolades, including the Gold Winner, #1 Best Influencer Marketing Award by the Influencer Marketing Awards, the award for #1 Best Influencer Marketing Platform on G2, and a 5-star rating from Influencer Marketing Hub.

Captiv8 is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, and is dedicated to helping our customers achieve their influencer marketing goals. Visit Captiv8.com today to learn more about how we can help you drive creator commerce and succeed in influencer marketing.

https://captiv8.io/ Twitter

Post For Rent is revolutionizing Influencer Marketing by creating a powerful, data-driven network that integrates all existing services into one global ecosystem. Since the early days of Influencer Marketing, Post For Rent has been committed to creating an AI and data-oriented, automated ‘all-in-one’ solution to meet the industry’s ever-changing needs.

Its software and in-house services have always been tailored to enhance productivity and ROI for campaigns. Since 2020, Post For Rent has been connecting leading digital agencies between mid-size and 150+ size, across regions from the Middle East to California, US, into the PFR franchise network, using its top 10 award-winning software as a backbone.

By 2023, Post For Rent is proud to say it is a globally recognized, powerful 360-degree Influencer Marketing focused group with its own tech assets, a full-service agency department, YouTube MCN, and a Talent Management powerhouse with exclusive franchise network partners in e.g., Turkey, Hungary, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.

https://www.postforrent.com/

MCR-Agency was founded in 2020 over two lawyers in Barcelona (Spain). Nowadays, MCR-Agency represents more than 60 channels all over LATAM and Spain, been the top1 result in Google as “Online Content Creators”. With more than 15 professionals in the online marketing, MCR-Agency is scaling the influencers marketing in the big platforms to achieve the best ROI for the brands.

https://www.mcr-agency.com/

Founded in 2007, Acceleration Partners is the recognised leader in partnership marketing and a six-time Global Performance Marketing Award (GPMA) winner in the “Best Affiliate and Partner Marketing Agency” category. Acceleration Partners manages programmes in 40+ countries for more than 170 brands including Target, Columbia, ButcherBox, and Reebok. Acceleration Partners’ fully remote global staff of 300+ maintains a singular focus on delivering exceptional outcomes; and delivers deep and data-driven expertise in all key partnership marketing tactics, including affiliate, influencer, content, mass media, and B2B partner marketing. In addition, Acceleration Partners has received awards for its performance and exceptional culture, including “Best Agency” and “Best Team in Performance Marketing (“Performance Marketing Awards”), US Changemakers (“PerformanceIN”), “Best Workplaces” (Inc.), “Best Places to Work” (Glassdoor), and “Most Committed to Work-Life Balance” (Digiday).

https://www.accelerationpartners.com/uk-en