Four European nominations: We're in the final for European Agency Awards 2026!
We have just received the fantastic news that Searchmind has been shortlisted in no fewer than four major categories at the prestigious European Agency Awards 2026!
Being recognised on the European stage is a huge milestone. It shows that when strong data, technical innovation and the right strategy come together, it creates not just impressive graphs, but real, measurable results on the bottom line for our clients.
We are finalists in the following four categories:
Best SEO Campaign (with Organic Basics)
Best PPC Campaign (with DILLING)
eCommerce Agency of the Year
Best Agency Culture
The winners will be revealed at the grand awards show in Ibiza on Tuesday 22 September, and we could not be more excited. But before then, we would like to share the stories, the hard work and above all the fantastic partnerships that lie behind the nominations.
Best PPC Campaign: Profitable multi-market scaling - DILLING
With DILLING, we reinvented the way hyper-scalable and intelligent paid advertising is run. Instead of fixed budgets, we optimised towards a data-driven "efficiency ceiling", keeping costs locked at a fixed, low percentage of revenue. This allowed the budget to grow completely freely, as long as the bottom line held.
By integrating first-party data from post-purchase surveys and Klaviyo directly into Google Ads, we forced the algorithms to exclusively pursue valuable, net-new customers. This dramatically scaled the business across 14 European markets.
Best SEO Campaign: Restoring organic authority (Organic Basics)
The strategy for Organic Basics was about creating long-term digital performance based on real user behaviour. We reversed a declining traffic trend into significant growth by cleaning up AI-generated content and instead prioritising human-driven, high-quality copy.
By implementing strong internal link structures and enriching product schemas with rich attributes, we secured the site's relevance. This carefully considered approach captured the most valuable search intent waves in the market and resulted in a revenue increase of over 40% during the critical peak season.
eCommerce Agency of the Year: Growth through cross-functional synergy
The nomination as eCommerce Agency of the Year cements our position as a decisive growth engine for around 150 ambitious e-commerce and retail brands. We fundamentally do not believe in isolated efforts living in separate closed silos. To achieve real, long-term scaling and maximum digital performance, we instead work in flat, cross-functional teams with full focus on the client's overall business model.
In practice, this ensures a tightly integrated collaboration where our deep specialist expertise across diverse marketing activities merges into a close loop every single day. It is precisely this deep synergy and our data-driven approach to the entire digital value chain that enables us to constantly spot new, untapped growth opportunities and move the bottom line significantly for our partners.
Best Agency Culture: A truly motivating culture with the right people
These results are only possible because we have exactly the right people on board. As nominees for Best Agency Culture, we prove that it is entirely possible to run a high-performance agency when you have a motivating and strong culture behind you. It requires skilled specialists who both possess deep professional expertise and understand the value of a close, equal partnership with the client.
To nurture our community, we reinvest approximately 12% of our operating budget directly into employee wellbeing — including the Stifinder leadership development programme, weekly knowledge sharing, and social clubs.
The results:
Employee wellbeing: 9.1 / 10 on average over six years.
Client satisfaction: 9.2 / 10 over five years
When the right people thrive, the business moves forward.
That is what we call Minding people. Minding business.
Keep your fingers crossed for us in September!
A prize-worthy result is never created alone. A huge thank you goes to our fantastic clients for their deep trust and close, ambitious collaboration – and to the entire team at Searchmind, who put in an enormous effort every single day. It is your exceptional expertise, the right strategy and our strong commitment that make the difference.
We are heading to the awards show on 22 September in Ibiza and keeping our fingers crossed that we can bring some European metal back to the office in Aarhus.
