Just Global is thrilled to announce the winners of our second annual, Dick Reed Awards.
The winners and nominees this year exemplify the value in collaboration and partnership. These partnerships fuel the growth of our agency and continue to drive innovation across the industry. Despite all the turmoil of 2020, our partners had our backs and continued to collaborate with us as we expanded globally, grew headcount and delivered record growth for customers.
Introduced last year, the Dick Reed Awards honor Just Global’s long-time former CEO while celebrating the people, platforms and solutions that drive results for our clients.
As a champion of collaboration, Dick Reed started the Partner Appreciation Party’s unique tradition over a decade ago. Since Dick’s passing, Just Global continues to honor the legacy and values he instilled in our agency.
We celebrated (virtually) with our partners on Thursday, February 11th and awarded our winners. You can watch the award show below:
Marketer of the Year: North America
Preston Hogue
Regional VP, F5 Networks
If you ask Preston, he will give the credit to everyone else, but the fact of the matter is that he’s played a central role in building, optimizing and evolving one of the best digital Centers of Excellence in B2B tech marketing in 2020. He’s used his deep understanding of tech to launchpad into a demand creator and marketing leader.
Our teams have worked closely to pioneer and align audience management and journey orchestration strategies, global campaign and go-to-market execution, always-on multi-channel demand generation and optimization, not to mention marketing architecture, program and product management.
As a marketer, Preston is extremely data-driven, focused on performance measurement, insights and pipeline predictability, yet he understand the art of marketing and the bigger picture of personalized customer engagement.
Marketer of the Year: APAC
Ines Deciccia
Senior Marketing Communications Manager, Fuji Xerox
Working with a wide range of challenges throughout 2020 as well as the natural complexities caused by COVID, Ines has been able to support multiple internal stakeholders to deliver a number of marketing programs that have delivered real business impact for Fuji Xerox Australia.
Alongside program performance, Ines has been able to conduct every project, run every call and manage every party with good grace and humor.
She makes all of our jobs easier by being a consistently positive influence on everything she does.
Marketer of the Year: EMEA
Tristan Jones
Senior Enterprise ABM & Campaign Manager, UKG
Continually “Banging the drum for ABM,” Tristan is helping us to effectively engage sales, marketing operations, product marketing and Industry marketing to deliver amazing ROI from our ABM initiatives.
From volunteering at STEM events, to managing large scale marketing campaigns, Tristan enjoys bringing people together around technology. With 15 years’ B2B experience, he has executed campaigns across all traditional and digital marketing channels. As a marketing leader, he enjoys creating clear actionable go-to-market strategies, aligning with sales and executing to create significant business impact.
Most Committed to Community
This partner has provide the greatest impact to their people, partners and communities through charitable and other meaningful extensions of their brand.
TCI Marketing Services
The “Lady Tech Marketer” podcast is an amazing extension of the company’s commitment to building a community for women in the field. Through this podcast, TCI Marketing Services has created a community that connects women in tech marketer to collaborate, empower and inspire one another as we navigate our careers.
Most Agile Agency Partner
This award goes to the company who adapted their marketing approach to offer the best solutions across the turbulence of 2020.
We were impressed at LinkedIn’s responsiveness to the changing needs of companies during the pandemic, such as their accelerated rollout of LinkedIn Live as conferences and seminars transitioned from in-person to virtual. Additionally, LinkedIn’s regular insights on user behavior during the pandemic allowed us to stay ahead of changes and better serve our clients.
Most Collaborative Partnership
This company provided ground-level collaboration with Just Global to produce bespoke creative and strategic marketing programs for specific marketer needs.
Agency support across the Search, Display and YouTube platforms has been above-and-beyond expectations, and in the most challenging times: 2020. They have helped us expand our global capabilities for clients as our agency grows. Their teams bring infectious energy and enthusiasm into every interaction. Their deep knowledge of Google products and strategies has been invaluable in the growth of many key clients.
Best Global Partner
This company offer the most robust and data-driven solutions integrated across Just Global worldwide regions.
The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk always finds a way to expand and teach us more about the programmatic landscape as time passes. Their platform has revolutionized the way we do programmatic and has improved our overall output in performance and insights we can provide our clients.
Best Regional Partner: North America
With nuanced understandings of regional behaviors, trends and technologies, this company provide the great support and expertise within specific global theatres.
The Wall Street Journal
WSJ has done an excellent job this year at delivering custom audio, content and virtual event solutions to a highly engaged business audience. Their virtual events continue to be attended by some key executives in the enterprise space and they’ve made custom solutions more turn-key than ever before. Their creative team is also collaborative to help drive recommendations on what type of content and creative that will deliver results across their network.
Best Regional Partner: EMEA
With nuanced understandings of regional behaviors, trends and technologies, this company provide the great support and expertise within specific global theatres.
Cyance
Our Partnership with Cyance has activated new channels for us and their integration with LinkedIn has given them a unique edge in the EMEA market. Their excellent services, their flexibility and their approach to always finding a solution that is tailored to each client is invaluable to Just Global.
Most Inventive Solution
As marketing technology continually evolves, this company invented new product offerings within their disciplines which are game-changers for the market.
Megaphone & Podsights
Megaphone has become a leading Podcast partner for Just Global. Megaphone enables us to hyper target audiences at scale within Podcasts. They are also the first Podcast partner to provide an attribution solution with the introduction of Podsights. Built specifically for podcasting, Podsights connects podcast downloads to on-site activity, giving podcasters and advertisers unprecedented insights into the effectiveness of their campaigns.
Salesperson of the Year: Publishers
From outstanding customer service to solution-oriented product and service offerings, this individual helped Just Global deliver powerful results for our clients.
Leigh Day
Sales Director, Forbes
Leigh brings to the table full-funnel recommendations that span awareness to demand. She delivers on custom content solutions, events, virtual events, content syndication and paid digital media options that are strategic and reach our client’s target audiences. Their program over this past year has been successful despite the overall challenges the year has brought. She is proactive, collaborative, data driven and solution oriented. On top of all that, she is such a pleasure to work with.
Salesperson of the Year: Demand Gen Provider
From outstanding customer service to solution-oriented product and service offerings, this individual helped Just Global deliver powerful results for our clients.
Alison Diss
Account Manager,
Headley Media
Alison is friendly, responsive and knowledgeable. She always comes back to briefs quickly and provides additional recommendations where she thinks there is a better way to address the client challenge. She’s a highly driven individual with a strong work ethic and passion for delivering results.
Salesperson of the Year: Biddable Media Platforms
From outstanding customer service to solution-oriented product and service offerings, this individual helped Just Global deliver powerful results for our clients.
Robby Nichols
Account Strategist, Google
Robby has been Just Global’s Google rep for nearly a year now and he embodies what a digital marketing rock star should be. He has deep knowledge on the intricacies and nuances of Google’s product suite. This has allowed Just Global to implement turn-key solutions such as Offline Conversion Tracking, Automated Bidding and YouTube Demand campaigns for various clients. He doesn’t rest until he has the answer and he brings an energetic joy to every meeting we have with him. We are very lucky to have Robby on our side.
Salesperson of the Year: Data Provider
From outstanding customer service to solution-oriented product and service offerings, this individual helped Just Global deliver powerful results for our clients.
John Connell
EVP Marketing & Digital Product, HG Insights
If you haven’t met John Connell from HG Insights, well, you’re missing out. John is a one-man army of a salesperson who is always able and willing to help out with requests, even when they’re last minute, need the segment yesterday kind of request. John has always been a keen listener and eager to help out in any way he can. He’s solution oriented and looks for ways to enable Just Global with HG Insights data that offers successful results and performance.
Media Partner Executive of the Year
This powerhouse executive inspires us with their commitment to partnership and delivering great work.
Martha Schwartz
President, Co-Founder, Activate
Martha is an amazing leader. She leads a team that listens closely to client needs and painpoints, and actively comes up with new packages and product offerings as solutions that support those client needs. To boot, she is amazingly caring and kind human being. Love the partnership and growth mindset that she brings to the table when she comes to the table with our clients.
Finalists and winners of the Dick Reed Awards were selected and nominated by Just Global teams across specialties ranging from Programmatic, Creative, Search and Social. View the full list of finalists here.
Last year we raised over $8K in donations for the American Brain Foundation. This year, we opened up donations to four of our favorite organizations across our office locations: BRIDGEGOOD (Oakland, CA), BAME Mental Health Foundation (UK), MS Foundation (AU) and Food Bank (Singapore).
