Three Years of Award-Winning Work
YBM Agency Awards: The Work Behind 10 Recognitions
Four wins. One Silver. Five finalist and shortlist placements.
YBM was built to solve business problems that rarely fit neatly inside a single marketing channel.
A struggling campaign may begin with broken tracking. Poor lead quality may trace back to the website, the offer, or a service area drawn too broadly. Lost revenue often disappears somewhere between a form submission and the first sales call. Our work follows the problem wherever it leads—through strategy, paid media, social, websites, CRM, sales workflows, and automation.
Awards give that work a public record. Every entry must explain the problem, defend the decisions, and prove the outcome. Then an independent jury measures it against work from agencies across the country.
For a growing independent agency, that scrutiny matters.
"For an agency, awards are both PR and validation. They show that we can compete, keep pace with the industry, and produce strong results even with smaller budgets."
Since 2024, YBM has earned 10 US Agency Awards recognitions: four wins, one Silver, and five finalist or shortlist placements across AI, social media, PPC, local marketing, integrated campaigns, and agency performance.
Each year marked a new stage in the agency's growth. In 2024, we earned our first national award. In 2025, our work expanded across four categories. By 2026, YBM campaigns were reshaping revenue, lead quality, response time, sales workflows, and the way multi-location businesses operated.
The Team Behind the Campaigns
YBM also received Silver for Best Small Agency of the Year in 2026.
The recognition reflected how a 23-person remote team maintained a consistent standard across different disciplines. Shared audits, common performance goals, and close collaboration allowed the agency to trace problems across the full customer journey.
"The thoughtful approach to managing remote teams and maintaining quality through structured audits further reinforces a disciplined and effective operating model."
YBM and East Coast Granite and Cabinet Connect also earned a Best Marketing Campaign shortlist for Your Neighbors in the Carolinas, bringing the agency's three-year total to 10 recognitions.
From Award Entries to the Judges' Table
In 2024, YBM earned its first national award by using AI to understand a local market more deeply.
In 2025, the agency showed that the same discipline could travel across organic social media, PPC, and multi-location marketing. By 2026, our work had reached deeper into the businesses themselves: where leads came from, how quickly someone responded, what sales knew, which numbers could be trusted, and where revenue was being lost.
Three years of that work brought YBM 10 industry recognitions.
It also brought Sofia Stannard to the other side of the process. In 2025, YBM's founder and CEO served as a Jay Chiat Awards juror in the Public Relations category for the 4As. In 2026, she is returning to the jury to evaluate another year of work from across the industry.
YBM has now prepared the entries, put its results before independent judges, collected the awards, and taken a seat at the judging table.
That perspective shapes the work we build for clients. A strong award case cannot be invented when the submission deadline arrives. It begins much earlier—with a difficult business problem, a sharp strategy, decisions that can withstand scrutiny, and results worth documenting.
Let's Build the Next Award-Winning Case Together
Bring YBM the business problem keeping you awake. We will trace it through the marketing, website, data, CRM, follow-up, and sales process; find what is holding growth back; and build the kind of work that changes the numbers and earns the industry's attention.
The next YBM award could have your company's name on it. Let's build the case together.