Digital City Awards 2022: The Winners

Compering last night’s ceremony was Sheila Gordhan, the musician, public speaker and DistroTV presenter. She led the proceedings throughout the night, as the winners were revealed one by one.

Congratulations to all the finalists and of course the winners, who went above and beyond to make a difference through digital innovation. Let’s see who won.

Digital City Awards 2022: The Winners

Digital Transformation Award: Digital Urban Place – Wirral Geospatial Planning

Also nominated:

• AND Digital/Lookers – Click and Drive
• Ardent Atlas Database
• City of Georgetown, USA – LaserficheLloyds Banking Group – Diary Manager

Digital Marketing Campaign of the Year: connective3 & Canine Cottages – Doggy Devotion

Highly Commended: Spike Digital & Bargain Max – Brand Ranking Campaign

Also nominated:

• Checkd Group – The Group Chat
• The Think Tank & Asendia – Asendia Vertical Industries Campaign

Tech for Good Award: Silverchip – Donate A Laptop and School Meal Finder

Sponsored by Hyper Island

• ilumoni
• Prodo and Housing Solutions – AI Assist
• Slalom – OnSide

Best Use of Technology – Not-for-profit: Armchair Adventures

Highly Commended: I4YPC – ‘RapYourTown’ and ‘SnapYourTown’

Sponsored by AND Digital

• Blue Sapphire Media & St Columba Rugby
• Few and Far & St. George’s Crypt – “Then & Now…”
• Prodo and Housing Solutions – AI Assist
• The University of Manchester – AI targeting ‘zombie’ batteries
• RNCM & The University of Manchester – ‘Unsupervised’
• GM Cyber Foundry

Best Use of Technology: Silverchip – Suits Me

Highly Commended: The Creative Media Team at The Manchester College – Virtual Work Experience

Also nominated:

• Fantom Factory – SkySpark Engineer eLearning
• Flex Legal – SQE Journal
• ilumoni
• Latus Health – Yodha
• Malinko
• Outcider – Stakeholder Mapping

WebDev Project of the Year: Intersoft

Also nominated:

• Connect Internet Solutions – North West Air Ambulance Charity website
• Fantom Factory
• Revize Government Websites – City of Olympia, WA
• Velstar & Avon – avon.uk.com using Shopify Plus

App of the Year: Silverchip – Suits Me

Also nominated:

• AND Digital & Lowell – Debt repayment app
• Timeline Television – Stream Anywhere

Best Ecommerce Agency: Supercharged Commerce

Also nominated:

• AYKO

Best SaaS Company: Intersoft

Also nominated:

• Commonplace Digital
• Total Processing

Best Workplace: TalkTalk

Highly Commended: Nimble Approach

Also nominated:

• Code Computerlove
• Mina
• Motion Software

Best Start-up: PixelMax

Also nominated:

• ddroidd
• Mina

Best Small Digital Company: XR Games

Highly Commended: Gazooky Studios

Also nominated:

• Circus PPC
• Cloud Galacticos
• Digiryte
• Fantom Factory

Best Medium Digital Company: Silverchip

Highly Commended: Access

Also nominated:

• Checkd Group
• Colewood Digital
• Door4
• Indiespring
• ProdoSmart Media Group

Best Large Digital Company: connective3

Sponsored by Fast

Also nominated:

• Cantarus
• Code Computerlove
• CTI Digital
• Pentest People

Best Use of Emerging Technology: iomart

Also nominated:

• Segmentify & Ebuyer – Omni-Channel AI Personalisation

Innovation of the Year: Beacon – The Beacon click fraud protection platform

Also nominated:

• AND Digital/NBrown – Progressive replatforming for retail
• Atlas – The Headless WordPress Platform
• Autocab & Uber – Local Cab partnership with Uber
• Fantom Factory – Clever Cloud
• Fast – Headless Checkout
• ROAR Digital Marketing – The SEO Bomb®
• The Moscow Department of Information Technologies – The “Snow” Project

Digital Leader of the Year: Phil Swan, Digital Director, Greater Manchester Combined Authority 

Highly Commended: Rosa Mitchell, Head of Digital PR, connective3

Also nominated:

• Ben Taylor, Founder, 3D Online
• Jamie Hinton, Co-founder and CEO, Razor
• Kate White, Senior Development Manager, Kaplan Financial
• Lauren Millward, Communication and Engagement Lead, Greater Manchester Combined Authority
• Martin Vares, Founder & CEO, Fractory
• Simon Mabey, Founder and Director, Digital Urban Place