Digital City Awards 2022: The Winners

Digital City Awards 2022 - Sheila Gordhan

Leaders from the digital ecosystem gathered last night at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester for the chance to celebrate all the winners at this year’s Digital City Awards.

Sponsored by Klaviyo, the awards rounded off the second day of the successful Digital City Expo, all part of the wider Digital City Festival taking place across Manchester this week. Today (March 11th) marks the festival’s final day of celebrations.

Local, national and international companies came together at the event to recognise the success of their peers and socialise in style at the high-profile venue.

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    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:

    Best Ecommerce Agency: Supercharged Commerce

    Also nominated:

    Best SaaS Company: Intersoft

    Also nominated:

    • Commonplace Digital
    • Total Processing

    Best Workplace: TalkTalk

    Highly Commended: Nimble Approach

    Also nominated:



    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:

    Best Large Digital Company: connective3

    Sponsored by Fast

    Also nominated:

    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



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