Awards

	MediaPost's Media Magazine Creative Media Awards \| Online Media Search Covario and SolarCity awarded best Online Media Search for their U.S. Local Solar Campaign. A locally targeted paid search campaign increased the number of nationally qualified leads 347%, year-on-year, and drove costs down 35% over a three month period.

	San Diego Business Journal Award \| Most Admired CEO Award Covario CEO Russ Mann wins the Most Admired CEO Award in the medium-sized private company category. The 5th annual Most Admired CEO awards recognize dynamic business leaders and role models, who are selected for both their company achievements and their contributions to the San Diego business community, as recognized by their own employees.

	OMMA Magazine \| 2011 Search Agency of the Year Covario was singled out for its “break-through” year in both SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing). OMMA selected Covario because of the five-year-old agency’s emergence as a provider of high-performing search strategies for both organic and paid search for a host of global Fortune 500 clients and top 1,000 Internet retailers.

	Best in Biz Awards \| Best New Product of the Year Covario named the bronze winner in the Best New Product of the Year category for its Cross Media Optimization Dashboard, by the Best of Biz Awards. The technology platform consolidates advertising data from paid and organic search (SEO), display, TV, radio, out-of-home, print, and social media into a single data warehouse. Based on a proprietary data management system, the platform allows for on-demand cross-media reporting to drive analysis of models for attribution, media interaction and advertising planning.

	Lead411 \| Technology 200 Covario named #92 in Lead411's 2011 revenue-based ranking of the 200 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the US. This is the second consecutive year that Covario has made the list.

	Software Magazine \| Software 500 Covario made the list for the second year in a row and ranked #375 in Software Magazine's 29th Annual revenue-based ranking of the world's largest software and services companies. Covario also placed as one of the top 10 fastest-growing companies with revenues between $10 million and $30 million.

	MediaPost OMMA Award for Online Advertising Creativity \| Search Marketing: SEO Campaign Covario and Nikon awarded first place for best Search Marketing: SEO Campaign. The campaign integrated keyword research, content optimization, restructuring the Web site using best practices focusing on valuable keywords, and improving navigation to other relevant content on the Nikon USA site. It succeeded in capturing top Google organic rankings at a rate 26 times higher than Nikon's primary competitor.

	MediaPost OMMA Award for Online Advertising Creativity \| Search Marketing: SEM Campaign Covario was recognized together with its long-standing client Lenovo as a finalist for best Search Marketing: SEM Campaign. Covario worked with Lenovo to completely redesign their paid search program to meet branding goals for Lenovo’s “For Those Who Do” campaign. The program was so successful; it became the basis of the overall 2011 branding campaign Lenovo used globally to achieve its goal of becoming one of the world’s leading personal computing providers.

	Silicon Valley Communications \| Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards \| Best New Product Covario named a finalist in the 3^rd annual Golden Bridge Awards: Best New Products and Services: SaaS and Cloud Computing for its Cross Media Optimization Dashboard. The technology platform helps global marketers and their advertising agencies understand the correlations between online, offline and social media marketing channels relative to their respective impact on sales and other metrics.

	AlwaysOn \| Global 250 Top Private Company Covario named one of the top 250 U.S. private pioneering growth companies that are creating new business opportunities in various global technology sectors. Covario was recognized as a leader in the area of SaaS (Software as a Service) and enterprise software applications.

	Stevies 2011 \| American Business Awards Covario named a finalist in two categories for the 9th annual Stevie American Business Awards: Fastest-Growing Company of the Year and Best Product of the Year in the Software as a Service category.

	San Diego Magazine \| 2011 Top Tech Executives Covario Vice President of Development, Steve Beal named the Top Technology Executive of the Year in the private small company category. The 4th annual awards recognize the most outstanding Information Technology Executives who work in San Diego.

	JMP Securities Hot 100 \| Best Privately-Held Software Companies Covario included in the 2010 JMP Securities report, "Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies." The JMP Securities report profiles the top one hundred leading private companies in the software industry as identified by the research team at JMP Securities.

	Lead411 \| Technology 500 Covario named #156 in Lead411's 2010 revenue-based ranking of the 500 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the US.

	IAB MIXX Award \| Search Marketing Campaign Covario and Adobe win Gold for best Search Marketing Campaign, for Adobe’s “Connect & Conserve” campaign. The campaign integrated search marketing with display advertising and offline print, radio and out-of-home advertising to promote the solution as a green technology capable of delivering reduced costs and improved worker productivity.

	MediaPost OMMA Award for Integrated Online Campaigns \| Technology & Web Services Covario and Intel win first place for best Integrated Online Campaign: Technology & Web Services, for Intel’s “Core Family” campaign. The campaign has a global reach (35+ countries, 25+ languages) and targets multiple consumer audience segments by leveraging and integrating a host of 20+ media channels including TV, print, retail, digital out-of-home media, events, banners, videos, blogs and bulletin boards, search advertising and paid social advertising. Tightly integrated with all components of the campaign, search advertising managed by Covario, plays an integral role in this global program.

	MediaPost OMMA Award for Online Advertising Creativity \| Search Marketing: SEM Campaign Covario and Adobe win first place for best Search Marketing: SEM Campaign, for Adobe's “Creative Suite 5 (CS5)” campaign. The campaign promoted 15 products in 30 countries supporting 19 languages across five search engines with a budget approximately 40 percent less than the product launch for the previous version. Identifying search intent allowed Adobe to recognize the purchase cycle through text ads, landing pages, calls-to-action and more.

	MediaPost OMMA Award for Online Advertising Creativity \| Mobile Marketing: Campaign Covario and Intel named finalists for best Mobile Marketing Campaign for Intel’s “Core Family” campaign. Intel and Covario initiated a nine-week campaign for Intel's Core chips in the U.S. and Indonesia to better understand how consumers respond to different types of mobile advertising. The effort focused on high-end devices and tested standard and expandable units, behavioral targeting and compared browser-based versus in-app ads.

	Software Magazine \| Software 500 Covario ranked #365 in Software Magazine's 28th Annual revenue-based ranking of the world's largest software and services companies.

	INC 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies Covario, the leader in search marketing software and solutions, ranked #420 on the 2010 Inc. 500 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

	Stevies 2010 \| American Business Awards Covario named a finalist in three categories for the 8th annual Stevie American Business Awards: Fastest-Growing Company of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year and Executive of the Year in the computer software category.

	Ernst & Young Award \| Entrepreneur of the Year Covario CEO Russ Mann wins the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for Emerging Businesses in San Diego, CA. The awards recognize outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate extraordinary success in the areas of innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their business and community.

	San Diego Business Journal Award \| Information Technology Executive of the Year Covario Vice President of Development, Steve Beal named an Information Technology Executive of the Year finalist in the medium private company category. The 3rd annual awards recognize the most outstanding Information Technology Executives who work in San Diego County, as recognized by their own employees or clients.

	AlwaysOn \| OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies Covario named one of the nation's top 100 private companies pioneering cloud computing and SaaS (Software as a Service). Covario was recognized as a leader in the area of on-demand software business management applications. The AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 companies are leaders amongst their peers and developing game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players.

	DPAC Award \| Best Search Campaign Intel and Covario win first place for Best Search Campaign for Intel’s “Sponsors of Tomorrow” campaign. The campaign launched in 35+ countries within first 45 days and targets multiple audience segments by leveraging and integrating a host of media channels including TV, print, retail, digital out-of-home media, events, banners, video, blogs and bulletin boards and search advertising. Tightly integrated with all components of the campaign, paid search advertising, managed by Covario technology, plays an integral role in this global program.

	INC 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies Covario, the leader in search marketing software and solutions, ranked #233 on the 2009 Inc. 500 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies.