ABOUT THE APP GROWTH AWARDS 2018
The App Growth Awards are the annual barometer, the yearly monument, the 12-monthly night of recognition of industry brilliance, for the global app marketing and growth ecosystem.
Launched in 2017, by the organisers of the App Promotion Summits, the awards were the first to recognise innovation and success within the app marketing ecosystem, and drew submissions from 20 countries, spread over 5 continents. To say the night itself was a success would be an understatement – fast paced, actioned packed and alcohol fuelled. An amazing time was had by all, check out the App Growth Awards Showreel Video for proof from your peers.
THE APP GROWTH AWARDS 2018
What about the 2018 awards?
First and foremost, they will continue to facilitate and celebrate progress in the global app marketing and growth ecosystem.
Secondly, they will still be completely FREE TO ENTER – regardless of the size of your organisation we do not want to make money a barrier to you entering. It simply wouldn’t be right.
On top of that they’re going – to be bigger, better and even more impressive. Take our word for it.
HOW TO ENTER THE APP GROWTH AWARDS 2018
The first thing for you to be aware of is that it is completely, 100%, free to enter.
To submit an entry, look through the categories below, pick the ones that you are confident of being a Rockstar in and click on.
You’ll then be taken to the online system and it will be self-explanatory.
THE APP GROWTH AWARDS 2018 CATEGORIES
These are the 15 categories that you can choose from to submit your entry, along with a brief description:
To enter a category, please click on it and then you’ll be taken to our online entry submission page. Should be a doddle, if it isn’t or if you’ve got any questions then please email lauren@stage.apppromotionsummit.com or use the Contact Us form.
ATTEND THE APP GROWTH AWARDS 2018
We would love to have you come along to awards ceremony. It is going to be an absolute blast.
There’s actually 3 ways of buying a ticket for the App Growth Awards, here they are:
1) You can buy them as part of an App Promotion Summit Berlin package (this is by far the most economical way) by clicking here. If you have already purchased a ticket for App Promotion Summit Berlin, please contact us on info@stage.apppromotionsummit.com to upgrade your ticket.
2) You can purchase 10 tickets, branding and become an official table host for just €2000. To find out more about this option please email lauren@stage.apppromotionsummit.com
3) You can buy a standalone App Growth Awards ticket for you and your colleagues by filling in this form:
BECOME A PARTNER
What an amazing opportunity to illustrate your company’s dedication to the growth of the app marketing ecosystem!
(and to get your brand out there…)
If you’d like to support the recognition and expansion of the app marketing and growth ecosystem and help make the App Growth Awards the annual celebratory barometer for success then becoming an official supporting partner will be a perfect fit.
We have a range of packages available from hosting a table at the awards (€1000 – which includes a bottle of Belvedere) all the way up to being the Lead App Growth Awards Partner (€15,000) where you’ll receive naming right and immense branding benefit.
For more information on the packages available and to receive the App Growth Awards Partnership Prospectus please email lauren@stage.apppromotionsummit.com and we’ll follow up with you immediately. Why delay?
2018 JUDGES
We know the importance of having an incredible jury, we realise the importance of having a selection of leading individuals to give their verdicts on the entries.
That’s why we’ve got our ears to the ground, creating a hit list of 2018 Judges. All of them are going to play a vital role in deciding the winners, plus they’ll get a free ticket to the evening!
If you’d like to nominate yourself or a colleague to be a judge then great! Please email lauren@stage.apppromotionsummit.com with some details – like your LinkedIn page so we can check you out and follow up with details about your duties.
CONTACT US
Got a question? Interested in officially supporting the awards? Could you help us spread the App Growth Awards 2018 word? Like more information on securing a branded table at the awards gala reception including a bottle of Belvedere? Please just fill in the form below or send an email to lauren@stage.apppromotionsummit.com
APP GROWTHS AWARDS 2017 – A RECAP
Watch this short highlight video to get a feel for the 2017 gala awards and what it felt like for our first winners:
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Here’s the full list of winners from the inaugural App Growth Awards, which was held at the Hotel Adlon:
APP GROWTH AWARDS 2017 WINNERS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Are the App Growth Awards completely independent?
Yes, 100%, of course, without a doubt.
All the judging is done online and the judges never meet, therefore regardless of whether a company sponsors the awards or anything like that this will have no bearing whatsoever on the outcome. The integrity of the awards is absolutely essential to us, they are completely independent.
What is the deadline for entries?
You must submit your entry by midnight on Thursday 18th October 2018.
If I win an App Growth Award what do I receive?
Kudos, prestige, a very high level of smugness, a physical reward, the right to tell everyone that you’re the best in the business and we’re also building up a prize pot so that each winner will take home an industry related prize.
Do I have to pay to attend if I’m a shortlisted finalist?
No – we want you in the room to collect your award, so all shortlisted finalists will receive free entry to the App Growth Awards Reception.
When and where will the winners be announced?
The App Growth Awards 2018 winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Hotel Adlon, Berlin on the evening of Thursday 6th December 2018.
How can my company get involved in the awards as an official partner?
We have a number of opportunities around the awards for partners. To find out more please fill in the contact form here or send us an email to lauren@stage.apppromotionsummit.com
Where can I find the Terms & Conditions?
All of the T&Cs are at the bottom of this page.
PAST JUDGES
Russell Buckley
Partner, Kindred Capital
Russell Buckley is a Partner with Kindred Capital, the early stage venture investor, based in London and Chairman of Touch Surgery and Tapdaq. He is a previous Global Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association and was an active Angel Investor in over 40 companies (via Ballpark Ventures). Russell’s previous role was with mobile advertising startup, AdMob. He learned about AdMob soon after its launch, joining as its first employee in 2006. His remit was to launch AdMob into the EMEA market and four years later, AdMob was sold to Google for $750m.
Saleha Riaz
Reporter, Mobile World Live
Saleha Riaz works at Mobile World Live, where she creates news content, blogs and video interviews on all topics related to the mobile industry, but with a particular focus on apps. She has previously been on the judge’s panel for the GSMA Glomo Awards.
Ian Fogg
Senior Director, Mobile & Telecoms, IHS Technology
Mr. Ian Fogg is Senior Director and head of the Mobile and Telecoms team for IHS Technology.
He directs research, consulting, analysis and forecasting of the mobile and telecoms market. In mobile, IHS delivers strategic insights for media firms, device makers, operators, equipment vendors and other companies that are refining their mobile strategies. He has delivered custom consultancy and presentations for global companies headquartered in Europe, North America and Asia, covering ideation, roadmap validation, market sizing, disruptive strategy and competitor analysis, among other areas. Mr. Fogg is widely quoted on mobile, personal technology, mobile strategies and media in both industry trade publications and in leading media outlets, such as the BBC, CNN, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph and Reuters.com. Also, he is an energetic, thought-provoking conference speaker. Prior to becoming an analyst, he worked for a number of companies in mobile, as a product marketing manager at mobile operator 3 and as a producer that helped launch the interactive TV service at Cable & Wireless, now VirginMedia. He also was in the marketing department of the innovative mobile device maker Psion. Mr. Fogg holds a Master of Arts (Hons.) from the University of St Andrews, U.K.
Peggy Anne Salz
Lead Analyst & Founder, MobileGroove
Peggy Anne Salz is the Lead Analyst and Founder of MobileGroove, providing analysis, custom research and strategic content marketing to the global mobile industry, and mentoring and consulting to tech startups.
She has written 9 books about mobile, including The Everything Guide To Mobile Apps (published by F+W).
Raphael Heiner
Head of Mobile, PwC Germany
Raphael is an app enthusiast, principal within PwC’s Customer Practice and Head of Mobile PwC Germany. Raphael has 2o+ years of professional consulting experience in the area of digital, mobile and customer centric strategy & transformation. He consults FT500 and middle market clients in all aspects with regard to CX/UX strategy, marketing, sales, service and related IT enablement. Raphael earned master degrees in law and business administration/economics and accredited lawyer and certified treasurer. Raphael has served as a judge on various digital/mobile summits.
A pioneer of mobile app development, Alex Jubien started his career as a mobile developer in 2003. He then moved to product and management roles, and became Head of Mobile at Deezer (main competitor of Spotify) and Viadeo (main competitor of LinkedIn). The apps of these services are used daily by millions of users worldwide.
Alex is now the founder of ThinkMobile, a mobile strategy consultancy. He’s also a speaker, lecturer, trainer, startup coach and startup advisor.
Vanessa Estorach is the founder of mobile marketing agency e-growing. She is an entrepreneur and tech lover, always looking on the marketing side of IT.
Building on many years of experience in marketing and digital strategy, Vanessa is now specialising in mobile acquisition, mobile retention and app growth hacking.
Vanessa also co-founded the Women in Mobile initiative in order to create a networking space where the best and brightest international women in mobile can meet and exchange ideas on how to shape the future of mobile apps.
Andreas Constantinou
CEO & Founder at /data
As Director and Founder, Andreas oversees the growth and strategy at VisionMobile. He has been working on the mobile industry since 2000, helping take the very first smartphones to market. Since then he’s worked with the top brand names in the mobile industry including Microsoft, Intel, Google, Mozilla, Amazon and AT&T. Over the past ten years, Andreas has grown VisionMobile into the leading analyst firm in the developer economy, with a client base and reputation that out-rivals companies many times the size.
In his academic life, Andreas is an Adjunct Professor at Lund University, Sweden, where he teaches Internet Business Models, and an Adjunct Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business where he teaches Entrepreneurship. Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Image & Video Compression from the University of Bristol, UK.
Prior to founding VisionMobile, Andreas spent 3 years at Orange Labs division, including serving as a technology lead for the Orange-Microsoft relationship. He is passionate about mapping the trends that will shape how people communicate, work and play.
Gen is the Director of Women Who Code London and is a very active leader in the Tech community in London. Aside from her involvement with Women Who Code she is a Lead for Google Women Techmakers, NASA Space Apps Challenge and Twitter Developer Community London. She is also part of the leadership committee for Ada’s List (a network for women in technology). She is co-organiser of COED:CODE, OpenTechSchool London and London Game Developers. She was the Head of Developer Outreach at Skills Matter and a former VP / Business Development Manager / Project Manager at Citigroup. In 2016 Gen helped lead Anita Borg Institute London and was actively instrumental in delivering the very first 1-Day Grace Hopper Conference in Europe which was held in London.
Alfonso Marone
Managing Director, Point79
Alfonso Marone is a Senior Executive with Fortune-50 and FTSE-250 operating experience in the global Media, Communications and Technology sectors.
Alfonso specialises in shaping, running and delivering complex value creation programmes based on strategic M&A, digital innovation, revenue development, operational improvement and international expansion.
Over the past 20 years, he has tackled strategic and operational issues in mobile, entertainment and digital media, B2B information & data, events, and fintech.
He has led cross-border business development and investment programmes across the US, UK, Europe, Australia, India, Latam and Africa markets.
Alfonso has appeared frequently on the international media, including CNBC (Money Program, Squawk Box), the BBC (World, News 24, Radio 4) and the Financial Times.
A retail and marcomms professional with over 20 years experience, Helen has specialised in mobile for more than 10 years and was at the birth of mobile marketing in 2000 as Head of Customer Experience at ZagMe, the location based mobile marketing pioneer.
Today, Helen is a specialist consultant in mobile marketing, advertising and media working on a wide variety of projects including developing mobile strategies, analysing trends, creating products and services, and implementing initiatives for a wide variety of clients including NewsCorp, Teletext, The English National Opera, Dagen, Egmont, BBC and Vodafone to name but a few. She also advises mobile start-ups on their business strategy and marketing efforts and helps mobile network operators and handset manufacturers with their developer relations programmes.
Helen keeps busy running events and initiatives in the mobile and media sectors including the Heroes of the Mobile Fringe Festival, Vodafone Mobile Clicks Awards and the Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards. She runs the popular mobile networking event, Swedish Beers (http://www.swedishbeers.org) in London, San Francisco and Barcelona. Helen is invited to speak at many conferences and events both in the UK and abroad and she is a regular judge for the Meffys and the Mobile Marketing Magazine Awards. She has a regular column in Mobile Marketing Magazine and when she has time, she blogs about mobile marketing at http://www.technokitten.com and tweets regularly at http://twitter.com/technokitten.
Guillermo Escofet
Principal Analyst
A retail and marcomms professional with over 20 years experience, Helen has specialised in mobile for more than 10 years and was at the birth of mobile marketing in 2000 as Head of Customer Experience at ZagMe, the location based mobile marketing pioneer.
London-based Principal Ovum Analyst Guillermo Escofet tracks the global mobile media market, with a special interest in telco-OTT partnerships, mobile advertising and telco digital services strategies.
Guillermo brings 14 years’ experience into his work in analysing the global mobile media sector.
He joined Ovum in 2014, and has provided expertise to our clients in the areas of mobile payments, advertising, and network APIs.
Prior to becoming an analyst, Guillermo had a successful career in business and current affairs journalism. He previously positions as a newspaper reporter in Central America and as a foreign correspondent in Mexico City.
Jasmine Yuen
Product Manager, Telenor
Product manager extremely passionate about building products and services that truly solve customers’ problems. I have cross-functional experience in developing content, marketing and product management, and I apply a data-driven, customer-centric approach to everything I do. Experienced in rolling out products globally and working in multicultural environments.
Axel Hoehnke
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Sembassy.com
Axel is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner with Sembassy.com, a boutique go-to-market advisor, based in Hamburg. His most recent role was CBDO with RadioOpt, which was successfully sold to Vodafone Group in 2017.
Before that, Axel has established the German business for several adtech and mobile startups from Finland, Israel, and the US, among them Smaato, AtlasSolutions, Microsoft Advertising.
Axel co-founded MobileMonday in Germany and co-hosted 100+ events in Berlin, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munichsince 2008.
He earned a masters degree in business administration, innovation management and started his career at Mars, Bertelsmann and Thomson Multimedia.
TERMS & CONDITIONS, AND THE OFFICIAL RULES OF ENTRY:
1. An entry is defined as a written submission proposing a product, service, app, platform or initiative for one award category.
2. The deadline for entries is Thursday 18th October 2018. Submissions must be received before 11:59PM (GMT) on this date to be eligible for entry.
3. Any entry may be withdrawn up until 11.59pm on Thursday 18th October 2018 (the closing date) upon written request to the organisers. Entries may also be self-edited up until the 11.59pm on the closing date.
4. The awards are open to any business or project that has commercially launched, been redeveloped or shown substantial innovation / measurable progress during the awards period, which runs from Thursday 1st December 2017 to Thursday 18th October 2018.
5. Entrants are strongly encouraged to submit joint entries with partner companies where applications, products, projects or services have been jointly developed and/or launched (i.e. a retailer jointly submitting with their mobile agency/apps developer)
6. Entries will be judged solely on the information provided via the online entry form (including video demos provided in support of the entry). Please do not send any additional supporting materials, as this will not be considered (e.g. documents/presentations)
7. All entrants are required to upload a visual demonstration of the company’s product, service or application. We ask that you send links to videos that have been uploaded to an existing online channel, such as YouTube or Vimeo. Please ensure any website access details, usernames and passwords needed for judging are supplied, that they work, and that they will continue to work until the Awards Ceremony.
8. The App Growth Awards reserves the right to use submitted footage for introducing short-listed companies during its awards ceremony (PLEASE NOTE we will request additional video footage from all finalists).
9. The App Growth Awards organisers reserve the right to refuse any entry at the company’s discretion. They also reserve the right to move an entry into a different category if deemed more suitable in both instances, the entrant would be notified.
10. By entering the App Growth Awards, companies are expressly authorizing the organiser of the App Growth Awards to use the specific text and visual materials submitted for the purposes of promoting the industry in presentations, reports for publication, website and media activities as well as other forms of promotions/publicity materials.
11. The judges’ decisions are final and there will be no further correspondence in this regard. Details of the judging panel sessions will not be disclosed.
12. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Hotel Adlon, Berlin on the evening of Thursday 6th December 2018.
