Published by Sue Johns-Chapman
Published Date 16.10.2025 
Awards are more than recognition; they’re proof that bold ideas, sharp execution, and measurable results matter. We’re proud to share that Amsive’s work has been shortlisted across six categories at the 2025 Global Digital Excellence Awards. These nominations spotlight data-led creative, technical rigor, and results to amplify our clients’ business growth.
Who we are and what we do
Amsive is a data-led performance marketing agency. We help brands acquire, engage, and retain their next best customers by uniting audience intelligence, channel strategy, and creative into measurable growth. Our proprietary Audience Science® approach brings together customer intelligence, audience development, and measurement to realize new heights of marketing ROI.
Shortlisted Categories
Standout Use of Influencer Marketing
Amsive & Hiscox: Building a B2B Insurance Brand Through the Voices That Build Small Businesses
Standout Public Sector / Not-for-Profit / Charity Website of the Year
Amsive & American Montessori Society: AMS Digital Platform
Standout Integrated B2C Campaign of the Year
Amsive & Commerce Bank: Turning Impressions into Accounts
Standout Paid Media Campaign of the Year
Amsive & Commerce Bank: Turning Impressions into Accounts
Standout Organic Social Campaign of the Year
Amsive & Hiscox: Building a B2B Insurance Brand Through the Voices That Build Small Businesses
Standout ROI Campaign of the Year
Amsive & Nueske’s: Delivering Meaty Returns — How a Bacon-Fueled Bing Performance Max Strategy Drove 1,025% ROAS at Scale
Hiscox: From Content to Conversations: Building Trust Through Influencer Storytelling
Small business owners often lack trusted voices in insurance, a category that can feel distant and transactional. Hiscox wanted to change that.
We partnered to bring small business stories to the forefront, aligning Hiscox’s content hub and podcast with authentic, creator-led narratives. By pairing influencers with real reach and niche authority, we connected Hiscox to both broad audiences and tight-knit business communities.
The execution wasn’t just social promotion. Posts became business stories, woven into influencer feeds, reinforced through SEO-focused content integrations, and amplified across LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. Paid support ensured scale, while Hiscox’s lead-gen engines captured interest lower in the funnel.
The result? More than 8.3M engagements, 131K content clicks, and influencer-driven traffic that was six times more effective than branded content alone. For Hiscox, this campaign proved that insurance marketing can feel human when it’s rooted in authentic conversations.
American Montessori Society: From Legacy Site to Growth Engine
The American Montessori Society (AMS) serves four distinct audiences: educators, parents, school leaders, and adult learners. But their website wasn’t able to keep up.They wanted to improve search visibility, mobile usability, and foundational user journeys like “Find a School.”
Instead of patching problems, AMS embraced a full digital transformation. We rebuilt the platform around user research, with conversion-focused journeys for conference registrations, memberships, and teacher education. The site became both a member hub and a business driver.
Key innovations included AI-powered search, indexing and modernization of decades of hidden content, and React-based tools that let individual schools and teacher education programs manage their own presence within the AMS ecosystem. For smaller schools, having a fully built professional presence was a game-changer. This change also created a brand standardization for the larger AMS organization.
The transformation increased engagement times by 46%, and boosted 100% of AMS resources for discovery. More than a redesign, the site became a revenue engine that empowers an entire education community.
Commerce Bank—From Impressions to Accounts: Proving the ROI of Brand Media
Commerce Bank was investing in brand media but struggled to connect impressions to real business results. Together, we set out to prove that brand could drive measurable acquisition.
We modeled audiences from Commerce’s CRM data, targeted 12 micro-markets, and rolled out a phased brand program across CTV, programmatic video, streaming audio, and YouTube. Each channel was optimized in real time, with lift studies and matchback analyses linking exposure directly to a account openings.
The creative strategy layered in upper funnel brand messaging for both the affluent and mass market in addition to lower funnel tactic that were already in market with cash incentives.
Layering in the brand support, not only drove towards our primary goal of awareness but also showed lift in lower funnel conversion tactics.
The payoff was clear: 46.15M impressions delivered, significant lifts in awareness, ad recall, brand consideration, and most importantly, statistically significant growth in Relationship Checking accounts as well as a lift in conversion lift This campaign transformed brand from a cost center into a measurable growth driver, creating a repeatable playbook for financial marketers.
Nueske’s: From Niche Channel to Profit Engine
Microsoft’s advertising ecosystem has long been seen as secondary compared to Google. For Nueske’s, a premium smokehouse brand, that presented both a challenge and an opportunity. Could Bing deliver real eCommerce growth?
We designed a 60-day Performance Max test on Microsoft, activating the full Nueske’s catalog from day one. AI automation was guided with Search Themes to capture high-intent demand, while remarketing and lookalikes sped up learning. Proven creative from Google campaigns was repurposed to highlight heritage, craftsmanship, and gifting, all of which resonate with affluent food lovers.
The test delivered more than results: it rewrote the channel’s role in Nueske’s media plan. The campaign achieved an astonishing 1,025% ROAS. Efficiency nearly matched brand search, but with incremental non-brand conversions.
In two months, Microsoft went from afterthought to budgetable growth pillar. For Nueske’s, this win was proof that smart strategy can turn overlooked channels into profit engines.
What being shortlisted means to our clients and our team
Recognition from the Global Digital Excellence Awards is energizing for our teams and meaningful for our clients. It shines a light on the connected work across audience strategy, creative craft, channel innovation, and analytics — and it pushes us to raise the bar again.
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