Winners Revealed for the European Golden Link Awards 2023

Elevating performance is the name of the game, and at Rakuten Advertising, we’re thrilled to honour those who excel at it.

Now in its fourth year, our European Golden Link Awards have firmly established themselves as a highlight of DealMaker Europe. This year, we had over 50 outstanding entries spanning our 11 categories which celebrate our partners who are outthinking their competition – every single time.

Hosted by comedian Sikisa Bostwick Barnes, our awards ceremony was held in the afternoon of  DealMaker Europe and brought together the best and brightest brands from across our European Affiliate Network.

This year, we had a record number of entries and our esteemed panel of judges had their work cut out to select the winners.

A huge thank you to our judges for supporting our awards:

• Matthew Wood, Founder of PerformanceIN
• Chikay Lo, Founder at Lo Digital
• Robin Langford, Premium Content Editor at Performance Marketing World

The European Golden Link Awards 2023 Winners

Partnership of the Year

• Winner: Reward & Harvey Nichols
• Highly Commended: Dealmoon x Penhaligons

Best Managed Affiliate Programme – Complete & Complete Lite

• Winner: Harrods
• Highly Commended: Dr Martens

Best Managed Affiliate Programme:  Exchange & Advisory

• Winner: Customer First Digital & Threadbare
• Highly Commended: Tiffany & Co

Best Global Expansion Strategy

• Winner: NET-A-PORTER EU
• Highly Commended: H&M

Social Impact Award

• Winner: ARKET
• Highly Commended: Bravo Savings Network

The Outthink & Outperform Award

• Winner: Gymshark
• Highly Commended: Face the Future, Dealmoon and Customer First Digital

Best Influencer Marketing Campaign

• Winner: Karma’s Not Another Influencers Campaign
• Highly Commended: Weekday

Affiliate Manager/ Team of the Year: Advertiser

• Winner: Pernilla Rutgersson, H&M
• Highly Commended: Suzanne Cook, Customer First Digital

Affiliate Manager/Team of the Year: Publisher

• Winner: stylink
• Highly Commended: The TopCashback Partnerships Team

Publisher of the Year

• Winner: Topcashback
• Highly Commended: Blue Light Card

Advertiser of the Year

• Winner: H&M

On behalf of everyone at Rakuten Advertising, a huge congratulations to the winners and highly commended entries and thank you to everyone who participated in the awards.

Here’s to next year!