Osher Günsberg Announces the Winners of SEMrush’s Inaugural Australian Search Awards at Sydney Opera House

Online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform, SEMrush last night held its inaugural SEMrush Australian Search Awards at a gala dinner hosted by Network TEN’s Osher Günsberg at Sydney Opera House, which was attended by the who’s who of the online marketing industry in Australia, including major brands, agencies and freelancers.

The awards included 19 categories, and the organisers were inundated with entries of an outstanding quality, that far exceeded their expectations. The boldest marketing campaigns that achieved exceptional growth and increased revenues, were recognised and rewarded and the winners are:

BEST USE OF SEARCH - E-COMMERCE
Impressive Digital 

BEST USE OF SEARCH – FINANCE
Web Profits & FIIG Securities - An Underdog Story

BEST USE OF SEARCH - NON-COMMERCIAL SECTOR
PN Digital - ABBTF 'Education on Becoming a Bricklayer'

BEST LOW BUDGET CAMPAIGN
StudioHawk & LearnMate - Lessons in SEO

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN A SEARCH CAMPAIGN
Pullman Adelaide’s "Mum and Me"

BEST USE OF DATA IN A SEARCH CAMPAIGN
Jayride - Profitability at scale

BEST INTEGRATED CAMPAIGN
Web Profits & Aussie Broadband - Say No To The 6 pm Slowdown

BEST B2B CAMPAIGN 
Digital Squad – “The Lead Agency SEO” Campaign.

BEST B2C CAMPAIGN
Yellow Octopus – ‘Olli The Octopus Breaks Out’

BEST LOCAL CAMPAIGN

$40000 project to Dominate Nationwide Local Search - gotocourt.com.au

BEST SEO CAMPAIGN
Overdose Digital & Adore Beauty - Breaking the Boundaries of Ecommerce SEO

BEST ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN 
Rocket Agency & Luna Park Sydney - Winterfest 2018

BEST CONTENT MARKETING CAMPAIGN 
Web Profits & Bellamy’s Organic - Bellamy’s Firsts

YOUNG SEARCH PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
Harry Sanders Director StudioHawk

BEST IN-HOUSE TEAM
Ice Jewellery

BEST AGENCY
Prosperity Media

BEST CONTENT MARKETING TEAM
LegalVision

SEMrush SEARCH PERSONALITY 
Jason Mun

ONLINE PRESENCE BREAKTHROUGH
Yellow Octopus – ‘Olli The Octopus Breaks Out’

Jim Stewart, CEO and founder of Stewart Media said: "The SEMrush Search Awards were the biggest thing to happen in the search community in Australia in 20 years."

The award finalists and winners were selected after a rigorous two-stage judging process, by a judging panel featuring many esteemed senior executives in the marketing, advertising, digital and search space in Australia, including entrepreneur, author and a speaker Jeff Bullas, Kevin Indig, Technical SEO, Atlassian, Peter Mead, Head of SEO at Bitcoin Australia, Jim Stewart, CEO and Founder, Stewart Media, Dan Petrovic, Dejan Marketing, Jeremy Cabral, COO at Finder, Lyndon Barnett, Vodafone Australia, Shefali Joshi from Monash University, Phil Leahy, Founder of Retail Global, Irene Lee from Canva and other international experts.

“Australia has transformed itself from an underdog to a powerful player in the digital marketing space. The talent and the level of professionalism we have seen in this market has been improving rapidly over the last few years. SEMrush was honoured to host our first Search Award ceremony in Australia, celebrate the success of the search community and inspire them to do an even greater job next year. And we, as an online visibility management platform, will help them make best decisions based on data and have all necessary daily tools in one space,” said Olga Andrienko, Head of Global Marketing at SEMrush.

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To see all of the photography and video of the event, please go to: http://www.semrushawards.com/gallery and to download a selection of the best high-resolution images for publication, see our Google Drive.

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SEMrush is a trusted data provider on search volume, website traffic and digital trends. Comprised of over 30 tools and collecting search data for 140 countries, SEMrush provides SEO, PPC and content marketing solutions for in-house marketing teams and agencies that work with clients in any industry.