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IT ISN’T NORMAL. BUT IT’S BECOMING OURS.
The Global Search Awards shortlist is out, and it’s our strongest showing yet – more categories, more clients, more disciplines represented than ever before. Six nominations. Four clients. Multiple corners of Search & Discovery, all recognised in the same breath.

THE NOMINATIONS
Best Use of Search – Retail/Ecommerce (SEO)
TIDAL Digital & Perfume Direct, Scent of Discovery
Most Innovative Campaign (SEO)
TIDAL Digital & Perfume Direct, Scent of Discovery
Best Use of AI in PPC
TIDAL Digital & Perfume Direct, Launch of the Fakefluencers
Best Use of Search – Automotive
TIDAL Digital & Rolls-Royce, Commission Impossible. Until Now.
Best Low Budget Campaign (PPC)
TIDAL Digital & British Fossils, Fossil Fuelled Growth
Best Integrated Campaign
TIDAL Digital & DIBS, Deep Depths of Success
Four clients. Six nominations. A spread across SEO, PPC, and integrated strategy.
Scent of Discovery for Perfume Direct picks up its second consecutive double nomination – Best Use of Search and Most Innovative Campaign – proof that this isn’t a one-off result but a repeatable methodology. Search & Discovery thinking applied in full: not SEO in the traditional sense, but a comprehensive approach to how customers find, explore, and choose across every platform that matters.
Launch of the Fakefluencers returns to the shortlist too, this time in Best Use of AI in PPC. The campaign keeps proving the same principle wherever it lands: technology in service of a strategic idea, not as the idea itself.
Commission Impossible. Until Now. for Rolls-Royce marks new territory for us – our first Automotive nomination, and proof that Search & Discovery thinking scales from perfume to some of the most considered, high-value purchases in the world.
Fossil Fuelled Growth for British Fossils is back too, continuing to prove that category ownership thinking isn’t reserved for big budgets or crowded consumer markets. It’s a recognition of what rigorous, brand-led strategy can achieve when the brief demands you work smarter, not just spend more.
Deep Depths of Success for DIBS rounds things out with a Best Integrated Campaign nod – recognition that the strongest work doesn’t sit in one channel, it moves across all of them.

WHY THE SEARCH AWARDS MATTER TO US
Search & Discovery is at the core of how we think about growth. Not search as a channel, but search as a system – the belief that brands serious about compound growth need to be discoverable wherever their customers explore, ask questions, and make decisions. Google, yes. But also TikTok, Reddit, AI systems like ChatGPT, and every emerging discovery channel that follows.
Six shortlists, across six categories, for four different clients, are the kind of external validation that confirms the methodology holds – not just in our own analysis, but in the wider industry’s assessment.
WHAT’S NEXT
Winners are announced on the 23rd of September. Last year we brought home five trophies. This year, we’re aiming to repeat it – or beat it.
To the team: this is what building a genuine practice looks like. To our clients: this is what happens when you trust the thinking and give the work room to breathe.
We’re not done.