2026 CJ Excellence Awards Winners

✨ Best Creator Strategy

Showcase how you cracked the content code. Whether you launched a game-changing creator strategy or partnered with the CJ Influence Team for breakthrough results, we want the details. This award celebrates the strategic minds who've turned content and creators into serious revenue drivers.

Winner: Intuit TurboTax

✨ Best Channel Expansion & Activation Strategy

Breaking out of your comfort zone paid off. This category celebrates strategy that unlocked new performance channels—from influencer and paid media to retail media—all while reactivating high-potential partners you'd been sleeping on. Show us how strategic expansion delivered measurable growth across emerging and long-tail segments.

Winner: Expedia Group + VEVE & SitePlug by Affinity

High Commendation: Antonioli + SPRNV

✨ Best Global Growth Strategy

Taking your performance strategy worldwide? We're here for it. This award celebrates programs that scaled internationally, hit the ground running in new markets, or delivered region-specific growth using CJ's global infrastructure. Show us how you made the world your marketplace.

Winner: EssilorLuxottica

✨ Best Use of CJ Technology or Solutions

Smart marketers don't just use tools—they master them. This award spotlights campaigns that harnessed CJ's platform capabilities to drive real innovation and performance. Whether you maximized Marketplaces, CLO, CJ Leads, Integrations, Pub Tag, APIs, or product feeds—show us how technology enabled your scale, efficiency, and results.

Winner: Autodesk + tvScientific by Pinterest

✨ Most Innovative Collaboration

Some partnerships transcend the ordinary. This award celebrates strategic collaborations that go beyond traditional affiliate models. Whether brand-to-brand, brand-agency, or cross-channel publisher collabs, show us the partnerships that delivered breakthrough results by thinking outside the box.

Winner: Macy's + Capital One Ad Solutions

High Commendation: Minty

✨ Advertiser of the Year - SME

The Advertiser of the Year – SME award is given to a mid-market advertiser within CJ's network, with the best growth in revenue and actions from July 2025 to June 2026.

Winner: IBEROSTAR HOTELS & RESORTS

✨ Agency of the Year

The Agency of the Year award is presented to an agency that has demonstrated outstanding achievements in client retention, new business acquisition, and significant growth in both revenue and actions achieved between July 2025 and June 2026.

Winner: Gen3 Marketing

✨ Publisher of the Year

The Publisher of the Year award is given to a Publisher with the best volume and growth change in revenue and actions from July 2025 to June 2026.

Winner: VEVE & SitePlug by Affinity

✨ Advertiser of the Year - Large Enterprise

The Advertiser of the Year – Large Enterprise award is given to an enterprise advertiser with the best volume and growth change in revenue and actions from July 2025 to June 2026.

Winner: Bank of America