Cleveland, September 30, 2026 / PRNewswire / -- An independent digital marketing agency, Code3, announced that the company won the “Programmatic Optimization Award” in Amazon Ads Partner Awards of 2026 and also shared the award with Gigi for a project related to Nordic Naturals. Code3 drives full-funnel growth for modern brands by integrating e-commerce, media, and creativity.
This global Amazon Ads honor was awarded just a few weeks after Code3 won all three of its nominations for the 2026 Meta Agency Awards. To date, Code3 has recently garnered four important honors in related awards at Meta and Amazon Ads.
Code3 The awards received in 2026 include:
- Amazon Ads Partner Awards ——Programmatic Optimization Award—— Gigi & Code3 x Nordic Naturals
- Meta Agency Awards — Annual Creative Excellence Event — Code3 x Feastables
- Meta Agency Awards — Annual Effect Marketing Campaign — Code3 x Christian Dior Couture
- Meta Agency Awards — Annual Brand Marketing Campaign — Code3 x Christian Dior Couture
These recognitions cover a range of different customers, challenges, and strategies, but they all collectively reflect the breadth of Code3's work in e-commerce, media, and creativity.
Code3 CEO Craig Atkinson said: "Winning four awards in Meta and Amazon Ads is an excellent way to wrap up Code3 this year, which has already been a very important one. What I am most proud of is the diversity of these award-winning works. These four awards do not represent four versions of the same approach; rather, they represent different teams addressing various business challenges in the fields of creativity, media, and e-commerce, while continuously innovating and moving forward together with our trusted customers and partners."
Amazon Ads Partner Award : Gigi & Code3 x Nordic Naturals
Gigi and Code3 won the 2026 Global Amazon Ads Partner Award Programmatic Optimization Award due to their collaboration with Nordic Naturals. This award is intended to recognize agencies and technical partners that have excelled in optimizing complex campaigns and have significantly contributed to advertisers' success and measurable results through Amazon Ads.
The goal of Nordic Naturals is to expand its established Amazon business while entering new product categories. Gigi and Code3 utilized the findings from Amazon Marketing Cloud ( AMC ) that live sports events are a strong factor in acquiring new customers, and built scenario-oriented programmatic strategies around this insight. The team used the findings from AMC to guide various aspects such as frequency, attribution windows, remarketing audiences, and Performance + targets, while also launching a new programmatic live sports activation solution with the help of Amazon Publisher Cloud.
This strategy helped Amazon's revenue increase by 33% year-on-year, more than three times the brand's initial growth target of 10%. The brand keyword search rate reached 3.9 times the benchmark for displayed ads, and the return on investment for new customer advertising increased by 87% year-on-year. At the same time, with a 30% increase in budget, CPM decreased by 16%.
This award also further demonstrates the capabilities of Code3 in e-commerce and programmatic advertising, and highlights the importance of connecting data, media, and measurement systems in driving growth, rather than relying solely on traditional Amazon advertising methods.
Three items Meta Agency Awards: Code3 x Feastables and Christian Dior Couture
Before Amazon Ads won any awards, Code3 had already swept all three awards for which they were nominated in Meta Agency Awards of 2026.
Annual Creative Excellence Event: Feastables
Feastables has already established a high level of recognition and a large fan base among young consumers. However, when it comes to transforming this awareness into purchases at the family level, Code3 sees an opportunity: to target another group of audiences – mothers.
Code3 combines focus groups specifically for mothers, audience research, competitive analysis, and media insights to better understand what mothers need to see from Feastables in order to build trust in the brand. These insights serve as the foundation for ongoing creative testing projects. Code3 continuously tests specific content, elements, formats, and character settings to determine what is most effective, and applies these learnings to the next round of creativity.
This effort resulted in a 147% increase in click-through rates, a 23.9 percentage point improvement in ad recall, and a 5.1 percentage point rise in brand favorability, demonstrating the effectiveness of treating creativity as a lever for continuous optimization rather than a one-time deliverable.
Annual Effect Marketing Campaigns and Annual Brand Marketing Campaigns: Christian Dior Couture
Code3 won two awards due to its collaboration with Christian Dior Couture, receiving recognition in the areas of performance marketing and brand marketing respectively.
These two awards highlight an increasingly core approach of Code3: integrating brand and effectiveness, rather than viewing them as separate disciplines. By connecting media strategies, audience insights, platform capabilities, and measurement systems, Code3 and Christian Dior Couture create work that not only strengthens the brand but also brings meaningful business results.
Winning awards in both categories simultaneously also reflects the depth of their cooperative relationship, as well as their dedication to continuously seeking new ways to drive business forward together.
Code3 Annual Recognition
The awards won by Meta and Amazon Ads have further added to the series of industry recognitions that Code3 has received this year in the fields of e-commerce, media, and creative work.
Earlier this year, Code3 was awarded the Celeste AI Pioneer ( Agency ) Award by Skai for improving advertising performance and identifying new growth opportunities through the application AI. In three client projects, leveraging Skai's Celeste AI, Code3 identified an incremental revenue opportunity of $839,000 for the fourth quarter, drove new customer sales growth by 12% to 19%, and accelerated the reporting workflow by 25%.
Code3 also won a bronze award in the digital commerce categories of The Drum Awards, for, and Marketing due to its collaboration with Elida Beauty. The creative content produced for POND, Noxzema, and Caress by Code3 resulted in 10 times more views, 2 times more product clicks, and 17.7 times more attributed revenue compared to the brand's own videos from the same period.
These recognitions collectively constitute a milestone for Code3: its award-winning works cover the breadth of the company's capabilities, as well as some of the most influential platforms in the field of digital marketing.
Atkinson added, "This year, one thing has become very clear: what drives Code3 forward is not a single team, a single channel, or a single type of work. There are many people in our company doing work that deserves recognition, as well as customers and partners who are willing to work with us to achieve these results. We are incredibly proud of the accomplishments we have made together, and clearly, we have not stopped looking for our next victory yet."
About Code3
Code3 is an independent digital marketing agency that integrates e-commerce, media, and creativity to drive full-funnel growth for modern brands. The company was established in 2010 and is wholly owned by Graham Holdings Company ( NYSE : GHC ). Code3 provides measurable business results for emerging brands as well as Fortune 500 companies by combining strategic expertise, advanced technology, and creative excellence.
For more information, please visit www.code3.com.
