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Four industry awards in five years

Four Prestige Awards wins and a Movers & Shakers finalist place. Here is what each one was for, and the proof.

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Prestige Awards wins
1
Finalist place
2019
First shortlist

Every award

Four wins and a finalist place, in order

From Barcelona in 2019 to the Middle East in 2025.

Each award below names the organiser, the category and the result exactly as the organiser gave it to us. Where an award came with a badge, the badge is the one they sent.

  • The Agency, finalist for best digital business, Movers and Shakers Business Awards 2019, Prestige Clubs

    2019

    Movers & Shakers Business Awards 2019

    Finalist, Digital Business Award

    Run by the Barcelona International Business Club. We were one of two finalists for the Digital Business Award. The result was announced at the gala dinner in Barcelona on 21 February 2020.

  • Corporate LiveWire Barcelona Prestige Awards badge: The Agency.io, 2020 winner, Social Media Marketing Company of the Year

    2020

    Barcelona Prestige Awards 2020

    Winner, Social Media Marketing Company of the Year

    Run by Corporate LiveWire. The win was confirmed on 13 March 2020 and came with a crystal trophy and a framed certificate.

    The full story of this win

  • Corporate LiveWire Spain Prestige Awards badge: TheAgency.io, 2020-22 2x winner, Social Media Marketing Company of the Year, Barcelona

    2021

    Spain Prestige Awards 2021/22

    Winner again, Social Media Marketing Company of the Year

    Our second win in the same category. As a past winner, the organiser considered us again and issued a 2x Award Winner certificate in April 2021.

    The full story of this win

  • Southern Europe Prestige Awards 2024/25 winner badge The Middle East Prestige Awards 2024/25 winner badge

    2025

    Southern Europe and The Middle East Prestige Awards 2024/25

    Winner in both, Social Marketing Agency of the Year

    Named Social Marketing Agency of the Year in the Southern Europe edition on 3 February 2025, then in the Middle East edition later that month. Two editions, two winner badges.

    The full story of this win

The judges

What the judges said

Both notes came from the organiser, in 2020 and in 2021.

The judges were impressed with your team's personal nature, consistency of reviews and overall attentiveness. It makes you stand out in a very competitive industry and I hope this achievement serves as a springboard for more success.

Corporate LiveWire, Barcelona Prestige Awards, 24 February 2020

The community feel around what you do is still apparent and the personal service really sets you apart in a competitive industry.

Corporate LiveWire, Spain Prestige Awards, 5 April 2021

Neither note is about a tool or a tactic. Both are about how we treat the people we work for. That is still the part of the job we guard most closely, now that the work runs on AI.

Proof

How to check each award

Every award here can be traced back to the organiser that gave it.

  • The Prestige Awards

    Corporate LiveWire publishes every edition as an online guide, and lists the Barcelona 2020 edition on prestigeawards.co.uk. Both certificates, as issued, are on our Prestige Awards page.

  • Movers & Shakers

    The club's own site has since closed, so its finalists page is kept in the web archive, where the Digital Business Award lists its finalists.

Then and now

From social media to AI systems

The awards came from our social media years. The way we work came with us.

We started as a social media marketing agency, and every one of these awards was for that work. We have been building with AI since 2019. Today we build AI marketing systems for established firms: a website that AI search can read, AI agents that answer and book every enquiry, the CRM, and one dashboard to run it all.

  • 300+ AI systems built

    Built and trained for real businesses, then run for them, not handed over as a login.

  • 500+ AI agents deployed

    Agents that answer, qualify and book enquiries on websites, Instagram, WhatsApp and email.

  • 8+ years in business

    Long enough to have won in one kind of marketing, then rebuilt the whole offer around AI.

  • A call every two weeks

    On every plan, so the personal service the judges praised is part of the product, not a promise.

If you want to judge us on today's work rather than past awards, start with the free AI audit below. It shows what ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest say about your business.

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Where to go next

Four pages that go deeper on what this one covers.

Questions

Our awards: your questions

What awards has The Agency won?

Four Prestige Awards wins: Barcelona 2020, Spain 2021/22, and Southern Europe and the Middle East in 2024/25. We were also a finalist in the Movers & Shakers Business Awards 2019, for the Digital Business Award.

Who runs the Prestige Awards?

Corporate LiveWire, a business publication based in Birmingham in the UK, runs them through Fenice Media. It holds regional editions, such as Barcelona, Spain, Southern Europe and the Middle East, and publishes each one as an online guide.

What did The Agency win the Prestige Awards for?

Social Media Marketing Company of the Year in 2020 and again in 2021, then Social Marketing Agency of the Year in both Southern Europe and the Middle East in 2024/25. The judges praised our personal service, the consistency of our reviews and how closely we look after clients.

Did The Agency win the Movers & Shakers award?

We were a finalist. The Barcelona International Business Club named two finalists for its 2019 Digital Business Award, and we were one of them. The result was announced at the gala dinner in Barcelona on 21 February 2020.

Were the awards for AI work?

No. They were for our social media marketing work, which is where we started. We have built with AI since 2019, and today we build AI marketing systems for established firms. The personal service the judges praised has not changed.

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