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    Meet the winners of the 2019 Search Engine Land Awards

    Agencies, teams, personalities and a couple of the industry's most cherished community leaders honored for stellar work and the examples they set for the industry.

    Sel 800x450 BkgSEATTLE — Felicia DelVecchio, director of digital media at DAC Group, and Andrew Cooper, associate director of e-commerce at agency Metric Theory, were named Search Marketers of the Year at the 2019 Search Land Awards on Tuesday at the SMX Advanced conference.

    DelVecchio and Cooper were just two of the winners named across more than a dozen categories in the annual awards program.

    Cooper’s employer, Metric Theory, also won the agency of the year award in the category of SEM, while Wolfgang Digital won agency of the year in the SEO category.

    And in the in-house team category, the search team at mobile provider Sprint won in the SEM category, while the team at HomeToGo, a vacation home rental company, won in the SEO category.

    In addition to handing out trophies for 17 categories tied to either search marketing initiatives, teams or personalities, Search Engine Land also gave its longtime contributing editors Barry Schwartz and Greg Sterling Outstanding Community Service Awards for their years-long commitment to educating and supporting the search community.

    Here is the full list of winners:

    Best B2B Search Marketing Initiative – SEM
    AIS Media, Inc.

    Best B2B Search Marketing Initiative – SEO
    Merkle for Samsung

    Best Overall SEM Initiative – Enterprise
    Media Experts for MINI

    Best Overall SEO Initiative – Enterprise
    Wolfgang Digital for DMI

    Best Local Search Marketing Initiative – SEM
    Rise Interactive for Stanley Steemer

    Best Local Search Marketing Initiative – SEO
    Wpromote for InterDent

    Best Retail Search Marketing Initiative – SEM
    Crealytics for Lands’ End

    Best Retail Search Marketing Initiative – SEO
    Gen3 Marketing for brainMD

    Best Overall SEO Initiative – Small Business
    TopHatRank for WineOnSale.com

    Best Overall SEM Initiative – Small Business
    DAGMAR for Inman-Murphy

    Best Integration Of Search Into Cross-Channel Marketing Campaign
    MilliporeSigma

    Outstanding Community Service Awards
    Search Engine Land Contributing Editors Barry Schwartz and Greg Sterling

    In-House Team Of The Year – SEM
    Sprint

    In-House Team Of The Year – SEO
    HomeToGo

    Agency Of The Year – SEM
    Metric Theory

    Agency Of The Year – SEO
    Wolfgang Digital

    Search Marketer Of The Year – Female
    Felicia DelVecchio

    Search Marketer Of The Year – Male
    Andrew Cooper


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    About the Author

    Henry Powderly

    Henry Powderly

    Henry Powderly was vice president of content for Third Door Media, publishers of Search Engine Land and MarTech. With more than a decade in editorial leadership positions, he was responsible for content strategy and event programming for the organization.