Archive for the 'Awards' Category

Brett Hurt, Our CEO, Founder & Friend, Named Austin’s Entrepreneur of the Year

May 31st, 2009 by Brant Barton | Co-Founder and VP of Business Development

It’s been an exciting couple of weeks at Bazaarvoice. First, on May 21st, Bazaarvoice was named the #1 Best Place to Work in Austin. We got a great photo of our entire team, including international team members who were in town for our quarterly company offsite at the Alamo Drafthouse, in front of our massive [...]

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BrandVoice wins Shop.org Innovation Contest: All About ROI

January 27th, 2009 by Brett Hurt | Founder and CEO

We’re thrilled to win the Inaugural Innovation Contest at the 2009 Shop.org Strategy and Innovation Forum. One of our newest and most powerful programs, BrandVoice, will be featured among five winning ideas on Tuesday, February 3rd at the conference.
Attendees will hear all about the amazing results manufacturers and retailers have seen with BrandVoice by way [...]

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Bazaarvoice Philanthropy Recognized and a Call to Action

January 15th, 2009 by Brett Hurt | Founder and CEO

When we received our 2008 copy of the Austin Business Journal’s Book of Lists, I was thrilled to see us listed as #15 on the list of Austin Corporate Philanthropists, based on 2007 participation.
What strikes me most about this list is that the companies ahead of us have hundreds or thousands of employees – we [...]

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First-ever European Social Commerce Award Winners

November 11th, 2008 by Sam Decker | Chief Marketing Officer

The first European Social Commerce Summit had many tricks and surprises, but the one thing that didn’t surprise many of us was the winner of the coveted Social Commerce Achievement Award - Wehkamp. We feel privileged to be working with many of our innovate clients, both across the UK and EU, but this one stands [...]

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Bazaarvoice’s view in this uncertain economy

October 18th, 2008 by Brett Hurt | Founder and CEO

Things certainly change quickly – in the economy, in technology, and online – and I want to take a moment to fill you in on our outlook.
I’m extremely bullish on Bazaarvoice, as I have been all along. We have always spent judiciously and balanced between high growth and cashflow neutrality, and our current investments have [...]

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Ask & Answer Wins 2008 ClickZ Marketing Excellence Award

October 14th, 2008 by Sam Decker | Chief Marketing Officer

Ask & Answer has been in the market for nearly two years. Its purpose is to plug another major hole in conversion: answering customers’ questions in a salient, scalable way. Over the last year we’ve been able to measure the impact on conversion and reduced support costs.
Two years ago, we were honored to win ClickZ’s [...]

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Bazaarvoice Summit Cliffnotes #12: PETCO: UGC Goes Multichannel

September 22nd, 2008 by Sam Decker | Chief Marketing Officer

This is the twelfth in our series of key takeaways from some of the presentations and panel discussions offered at the Social Commerce Summit in May 2008.
John Lazarchic, VP of eCommerce at PETCO (a Social Commerce Achievement Award winner), has always been a pioneer in making the most of user-generated content. As one of Bazaarvoice’s first [...]

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Bazaarvoice named finalist for AlwaysOn Global 250

July 7th, 2008 by Sam Decker | Chief Marketing Officer

AlwaysOn is one of my favorite sources for tech news and opinions, and I’m thrilled that we were named finalists of their Global 250.
This list just expanded from the Global 100 after six years, but they still have the same goal: to “find the top emerging private companies that are creating new business opportunities in [...]

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