Shortlist Announced for the APAC Golden Link Awards 2024

The 2024 APAC Golden Link Awards celebrate and showcase our advertisers, publishers and agencies who are out-delivering on their objectives to drive next-level performance.

This year, we had over 60 outstanding entries spanning our 12 categories including new additions ‘Best International Strategy’ and ‘The Outthink & Outperform Award’ which celebrates our partner brands who are outthinking their competition – every single time.

The Golden Link Award Ceremony will take place in the afternoon of DealMaker Australia, and attending the celebration is already included in your ticket. It’s a win, win! If you’ve not registered yet, you can do so here.

Our five esteemed judges now have the very difficult job of selecting the winners of each of the categories. A big thank you to our panel of experts:

• Matthew Wood, Founder of Hello Partner
• Ashley Hudson, CEO at Retail Global
• Mark Turner, Managing Director of Neo Media World & Head of Affiliate Marketing, GroupM
• Gai Le Roy, CEO, IAB Australia
• Grant Arnott, Managing Director, Power Retail & Click Frenzy

This year, voting for ‘Publisher Choice Award,’ ‘Advertisers Choice Award’ and “Rakuten Rep of the Year” will take place LIVE at DealMaker Australia. More details will be announced shortly.

A big thank you to everyone who has participated in our awards and huge congratulations to our finalists:

Advertiser of the Year

• Kissed Earth
• Petbarn
• Princess Polly

Advertiser of the Year (Self-Managed)

• Giftz
• L’Occitane
• Luxo Living

Affiliate Manager of the Year

• Cristel Gonzales, City Beach
• Rachel Murray, L’Occitane
• Vanessa Tsang, APG & CO.

Agency of the Year

• Sparro
• SPRNV
• The Thoughtful Agency

Best Content Partnership

• Forever New & Sitchu
• Petbarn & Cashrewards
• Urban Outfitters & SmileKOLs

Best International Strategy

• BravoVouchers.com
• Chow Sang Sang
• Hismile
• ShopBack New Zealand

Partnership of the Year

• Bonds & ShopBack AU
• Chemist Warehouse AU & ShopBack AU
• Tony Bianco & The Thoughtful Agency

Publisher of the Year

• Afterpay Australia
• Raiz Invest
• ShopBack AU

The Outperform and Outthink Awards

• Chemist Warehouse AU, L’Oréal Group & ShopBack AU
• Dyson Australia & Cashrewards
• Petbarn & Mastercard

A big thank you to everyone who entered the awards and all our finalists.

Your wins are our wins, and we look forward to celebrating with you at DealMaker Australia on the 12th of September!