It looks like Bing is holding an Agency Awards event on September 15th in New York City. Bing launched the domain bingagencyawards2016.com and yesterday posted on Twitter the introduction to the event.
The Bing Agency Awards, Bing said "aims to recognize and reward outstanding creative, effective and passionate work by Search Advertising individuals, teams and agencies working with Bing Ads." You can nominate your agency "for as few or as many categories as you'd like."
There is currently a list of 92 or so agencies on the eligibility list over here. they currently include; 360i, 3Q Digital, Acronym Media, Inc., Adlucent, Adobe Systems Incorporated, AI Media Group, AKQA, Assembly Media, Beeby Clark + Meyler, Bennett Kuhn Varner, Camelot Communications, Ltd, Canvas Worldwide, Carat, Carmichael Lynch, Catalyst, Catalyst Canada, Cossette Communications, Cossette Media, Did-It LLC, Digitas, Direct Access Digital, Element Agency, Elite SEM, Empower Media, Essence Digital, FKQ Advertising Inc, GroupM, H&L Partners, Hacker Agency, Havas, Havas Canada, Horizon Media, iCrossing, Initiative, iProspect, iProspect Canada, Jellyfish, Jungle Media, Kepler Group LLC, Keypath Education, Klick, Leapfrog Online, M2 Universal, MacLaren Canada, MARC USA | Results:Digital, Maxus, Maxus Canada, MEC, MEC Canada, Media Experts, Media Vest, Mediacom, Mediacom Canada, Merkle, Mindshare, Mindshare Canada, Moxie Interactive, Inc., NBS Marketing Inc., Neo@Ogilvy, Noise, OMD Canada, OMD/Resolution Media, Page Zero, Pepperjam, Performics, PHD Canada, Phd/Resolution Media, PMG, PMX, Point It Digital Marketing, Premier Placement Media, Razorfish, Red Ventures, Reprise Media, Reprise Media Canada, Resolution Media, Resolution Media Canada, Rosetta, SapientNitro, Search Discovery, Inc., Shopzilla, SMG PM, Spark, Starcom, Team Detroit, The Garage/Team Mazda, The Search Agency, Titan SEO, Universal McCann, Verb Interactive, LLC, Vincodo, LLC, Y Marketing, and ZenithOptimedia.
Nominations are considered based on quality and depth of your engagement with Bing so please be as detailed as possible with your submission.
There are a total of 12 awards: There are Agency awards including:
- Partner of the Year
- "Featurist" of the Year
- Optimizer of the Year
- Philanthropist of the Year
- Independent Agency of the Year
- Agency of the Year
- Growth Agency of the Year
- Accreditation Champ of the Year
- Exec of the Year
- Bing Ads Trailblazer of the Year
- Account Team of the Year
- Lifetime Achievement
Forum discussion at Twitter.