Shortlist Announced for the European Golden Link Awards 2023
The Rakuten Advertising Golden Link Awards celebrate and showcase our advertisers, publishers and agencies who are out-delivering on their objectives to drive next-level performance. Read on to learn who has made the shortlist!

Now in its fourth year, our European Golden Link Awards celebrate and showcase all our advertisers, publishers and agencies who are out-delivering on their objectives to drive next-level performance.
This year, we had over 50 outstanding entries spanning our 10 categories including new additions ‘Best Influencer Marketing Campaign’ 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 Europe, 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 three 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
- Robin Langford, Premium Content Editor at Performance Marketing World
- Chikay Lo, Founder of Lo Digital
This year, voting for ‘Advertiser of the Year’ and ‘Publisher of the Year’ will take place LIVE at DealMaker Europe. More details will be announced shortly.
A big thank you to everyone who has participated in our awards and huge congratulations to our finalists:
Partnership of the Year
- H&M & Stylink
- Maje & Lyst
- Reward & Harvey Nichols
- Dealmoon & Penhaligons
- Clarins & TopCashback
- AMEX & Finder
Best Managed Affiliate Programme – Complete & Complete Lite
- Mountain Warehouse
- Harrods
- Citadium
- Dr Martens
- Harvey Nichols
- Clarins
Best Managed Affiliate Programme: Exchange & Advisory
- SPRNV & The Double F
- Tiffany & Co
- Customer First Digital & Decree
- Customer First Digital & Threadbare
- Patisserie Valerie
Best Global Expansion Strategy
- Stylink Social Media GmbH
- H&M
- Soho Home
- Superdry EU
- NET-A-PORTER EU
- MATCHES
Social Impact Award
- Bravo Savings Network
- ARKET
The Outthink & Outperform Award
- Harrods
- Customer First Digital & Decree
- Face the Future, Dealmoon and Customer First Digital
- Fortnum & Mason
- Gymshark
Best Influencer Marketing Campaign
- Karma’s Not Another Influencers Campaign
- Weekday
Affiliate Manager or Team of the Year: Advertiser
- Crystal Simile, Global Affiliate Marketing Manager at Princess Polly
- The Harvey Nichols Affiliate Team
- Suzanne Cook, Digital Marketing Manager at Customer First Digital
- Pernilla Rutgersson, Global Affiliate Marketing Responsible at H&M
Affiliate Manager or Team of the Year: Publisher
- Imogen Goodwin, Director of Fashion & Beauty at Dealmoon
- The stylink Team
- The Bravo Savings Network Team
- The Topcashback UK Partnerships Team
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 Europe on the 29th June!