Content Marketing Awards 2020 Finalists Revealed

For the last five years, I have had the honor of judging the Content Marketing Awards. The field of entries encompass a wide breadth of content marketing. They are original, innovative, and thought provoking. Past winners represent some of the most respected brands, agencies, and publishers from around the globe.

This week, CMI announced finalists for the top seven categories. These grand prize awards showcase elite content marketers and their teams and are highly coveted. The finalists for the top seven awards are:

Content Marketing Project of the Year finalists include 7 of the 81 category winners:

• All Things Hair (Agency: Green Park Content)
• Coles (Agency: Medium Rare Content Agency) (Company: Coles)
• How Santander built a content marketing machine (Agency: Brand Movers) (Company: Santander Consumer Bank Danmark)
• Jetstar Magazine (Agency: Medium Rare Content Agency) (Company: Jetstar)
• ServiceNow: Workflow Quarterly (Agency: Message Lab and Athletics) (Company: ServiceNow)
• TD Ameritrade Institutional Content Program (Agency:Imagination) (Company: TD Ameritrade Institutional)
• TURN ON – Das SATURN Magazin (Agency: Content Fleet GmbH) (Company: MediaMarktSaturn Deutschland)

Best B2B Branded Content Campaign finalists include :

• Behind the Scenes with the Storytellers (Company: PhotoShelter)
• Industrial Tube Content Brings Incredible Returns (Agency: TopSpot Internet Marketing) (Company: Industrial Tube & Steel)
• PMI and the World’s 50 Most Influential Projects (Agency: Ketchum) (Company: Project Management Institute)
• Reinventing the Wheel with Vonage’s B2B Ads (Company: Vonage)
• The Forecast by Nutanix (Agency: Marketing Insider Group) (Company: Nutanix)

Best B2C Branded Content Campaign finalists include:

• A Just OK Comic-Con is not OK (Agency: Hearts & Science) (Company: AT&T)
• Klarna Shopping Hacks (Agency: Make Your Mark) (Company: Klarna)
• Not all ’99s are equal (Agency: 256) (Company: Irish Life)
• The BackSA Gift Guide (Agency: Medium Rare Content Agency) (Company: BankSA)
• The Massacre of Black Wall Street (Company: Atlantic Re:think)

Agency of the Year finalists for agencies with LESS than 100 employees:

• Imprint
• Mahlab
• Message Lab
• Stein IAS
• Zahra Media Group

Agency of the Year finalists for agencies with MORE than 100 employees:

• Group SJR
• Manifest
• Medium Rare Content Agency
• Pace
• Two Rivers Marketing

B2B Content Marketer of the Year finalists include:

• John Ville, Editorial Director, Atlassian
• Kristin Twiford, Content Marketing Director, PhotoShelter
• Tricia Carey, Director of Global Business Development – Denim, Lenzing Fibers

B2C Content Marketer of the Year finalists include:

• Bozoma Saint John, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Glennon Doyle and Stacey Bendet, Founders, #ShareTheMicNow and #KeepSharingTheMic
• Jay Curley, Global Head of Integrated Marketing, Ben & Jerry’s
• Wendy Zamora, Director of Content Marketing, Malwarebytes

The awards ceremony was originally set to take place in Cleveland. Now, the winners will be revealed in a special livestream at Content Marketing World.

For a complete list of all 81 Content Marketing Awards finalists and winners, check out the Awards website.

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