Award Categories North

For the right agency of professionals, the Digital Agency of the Year Award will provide recognition of a collective entrepreneurial spirit. The judges will be looking for an agency which can harvest collaboration and without sacrificing excellence.

Our judges are looking for stories of agencies using digital to push the business forward with pace and consistency. Is your agency a market leader in one area or is it an incredible multi-platform powerhouse?

The judges are looking to award a digital agency who refuses to be found on the back foot of the digital sector.

There might never be a better era for digital startups than the one we are currently enjoying. As a result, the calibre of start-ups we expect has never been higher, and the category has never been so broad.

The judges will be open to seeing digital startups of all descriptions – everything from ecommerce to game development – but are looking for an entrepreneurial engine clearly driving the success of the start-up through innovation, hard-work and self-confidence.

You could be a team of one or twenty, offering any number of products or services in a growing digital industry; the winner of this award will be a startup whose pro-active business decisions have led to recognisable success and the first of many awards.

This award recognises individual departments or teams. You may not work in a digital industry but your team must be working on digital or technology-related projects that are impacting on the wider business.

Our judges want to hear about the internal teams using digital to push the business forward, either in relation to technological capability or digital output.

You could be made up of marketers, techies and or developers. Perhaps you’ve developed a can’t-live-without internal system or maybe even an ethos for digital across the business? Is your tech-support team offering first-rate customer service or is your marketing team transforming your business’s online presence and driving your growth?

This award is split into small and medium to large categories to recognise the incredible breadth of entrepreneurial talent using digital to make a name in their industries.

Our judges want to see a clear indication of success. This award is not about an individual piece of work but a consistency throughout the year and a collective entrepreneurial approach to business. It is as much about the company’s relationship with digital as it is the successful projects themselves.

What’s your business doing above and beyond the rest and how can you prove what your business has done to make you the DEA Digital Business of the year?

Small Business: 0-50 employees. Medium to Large Business: 50+ employees and/or £3million+ turnover.

Digital entrepreneurs are often young by virtue of their more intrinsic understanding of the digital landscape.

The judges will be looking for a new entrepreneur who didn’t wait for permission to start carving out their own *career. This young person will have not only recognized but also seized a gap in the market, using their intelligence and bravery to turn that idea into something real and profitable.

We’re looking to award an outstanding young individual who continues to take hold of their professional future and has maintained a level of success and judgement normally expected of their older peers.

Most of our awards are about recognising teams. We understand that it takes a team to form a great digital business and a whole company to supply or utilise a great piece of technology. This award however gives credit to an individual or pairing who represents true pioneering advancement in digital. Quite often there is someone within a team driving things forward, predicting trends, doing things differently and getting great results.

You can nominate yourself for this award or you can nominate someone else. Perhaps, you’re a business owner commending your supplier, an agency who sees something in your client, or maybe you feel someone within your team is a true entrepreneur.

Our judges want clear evidence why this person is a digital entrepreneur. Success can be measured in terms of new business, financials, creative output, business growth or the effect you’re having on a team or business.