iGB Affiliate Awards 2011 Winners Announced

iGaming Business congratulates the 15 winners of the iGB Affiliate Awards 2011. The winners are:

- Best Affiliate Manager; James Wood, Bet365
- Best Affiliate Program; Bet365.
- Best Affiliate Network; Income Access
- The Lou Fabiano Award for the Best iGaming Community; GPWA
- Best Affiliate Program Newcomer; Go Wild Affiliates
- Best Affiliate Newcomer; BettingPro
- Best Payment System; Moneybookers
- Best Innovation in the iGaming Industry; ValueChecker.co.uk
- Best Casino Affiliate; CasinoCity.
- Best Poker Affiliate; PokerStrategy
- Best Sports Betting Affiliate; Oddschecker.com
- Best Bingo Affiliate; BingoPort
- Best Non-Traditional Affiliate; Affiliate Guard Dog
- Best Overall Affiliate; PokerStrategy
- Outstanding Contribution to the iGaminjg Industry; Dominique, GamesandCasino.com

The evening’s festivities, held on the 27th of January at The Brewery in London, recognises the rising stars in the iGaming Affiliate industry and acknowledges this year’s innovative and high performing companies. A notable winner was Bet365 who went home with the highly coveted awards of the Best Affiliate Manager and Best Affiliate Program.

“The iGB Affiliate Awards are always a truly memorable event, however the awards last week were an event that neither I nor my team will ever forget”, stated James Wood, Affiliates Operations Manager at www.bet365.com. “The affiliate team at bet365 work extraordinarily hard, aided by great inter-departmental support, fantastic technology and outstanding products. To be recognised for these consistent efforts is an honour. Suffice to say, winning the Best Affiliate Program Award is testament to the hard work we put in every day. To be recognised individually for the Best Affiliate Manager award is a very proud moment for me, and has only served to inspire me to develop our affiliate programme even further. I would also like to congratulate each and every one of the other winners, well done.”

Returning winners PokerStrategy were recognised again this year for their superb efforts as affiliates within the industry with a website that encourages high conversions, easy navigation and a large volume and quality of players.

“We just want to say thank-you to everyone who voted for us”, said Dominik Kofert, CEO at www.PokerStrategy.com ‘It was an incredible feeling for the whole team to hear we had won and to be recognized for our efforts. We’ve won two years in a row now, so we now have a good benchmark to make sure we stay on top over the next year – we are aiming to win again in 2012!’

The awards were voted then judged against a set of strict criteria’s for each of the categories. Each judging panel consisted of independent experts to ensure that the integrity of the Awards was upheld. The specific experts were invited according to the judging criteria of each award to give their expert opinion on chosen areas, for example; landing page professionals, SEO gurus, branding experts etc… A full list of the judge’s summary and comments on each of the winners can be found on www.igbaffiliateawards.com/content/winners-revealed.