Agency adds global Amazon Ads Partner Award to three Meta Agency Award wins, capping a banner year of recognition across Code3’s media, creative and commerce capabilities
CLEVELAND, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Code3, an independent digital marketing agency uniting commerce, media and creative to drive full-funnel growth for modern brands, is celebrating another major industry win: the 2026 Amazon Ads Partner Award for Programmatic Optimization, earned alongside Gigi for work with Nordic Naturals.
The global Amazon Ads honor comes just weeks after Code3 swept all three 2026 Meta Agency Awards for which it was nominated, bringing the agency’s latest run to four major wins across Meta and Amazon Ads.
Code3’s 2026 wins include:
- Amazon Ads Partner Awards — Programmatic Optimization Award — Gigi & Code3 x Nordic Naturals
- Meta Agency Awards — Creative Excellence Campaign of the Year — Code3 x Feastables
- Meta Agency Awards — Performance Campaign of the Year — Code3 x Christian Dior Couture
- Meta Agency Awards — Brand Campaign of the Year — Code3 x Christian Dior Couture
The recognition spans distinctly different clients, challenges and strategies, but together reflects the breadth of Code3’s work across commerce, media and creative.
“Four wins across Meta and Amazon Ads is an incredible way to cap off what has already been a huge year for Code3,” said Craig Atkinson, CEO of Code3. “What I’m most proud of is the range of work being recognized. These aren’t four versions of the same playbook. These are different teams solving different business challenges across creative, media and commerce, and doing it alongside clients and partners who trust us to innovate and keep pushing the work forward.”
Amazon Ads Partner Award: Gigi & Code3 x Nordic Naturals
Gigi and Code3 earned the Global 2026 Amazon Ads Partner Award for Programmatic Optimization for their work with Nordic Naturals. The award celebrates agencies and technology partners demonstrating excellence in sophisticated campaign optimization, while driving advertiser success and measurable results at scale through Amazon Ads.
Nordic Naturals set out to grow its already-established Amazon business while expanding into newer product categories. Using Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC), Gigi and Code3 identified live sports as a strong driver of new-to-brand acquisition and built a context-led programmatic strategy around that insight. The teams used AMC findings to inform everything from frequency and attribution windows to remarketing audiences and Performance+ objectives, while Amazon Publisher Cloud helped power a new programmatic guaranteed live sports activation.
The strategy helped drive 33% year-over-year Amazon revenue growth, more than three times the brand’s original 10% growth goal. Branded search rate reached 3.9x display benchmarks, while new-to-brand return on ad spend improved 87% year over year. At the same time, CPM decreased 16% despite a 30% increase in budget.
The win marks another major recognition for Code3’s commerce and programmatic capabilities and reinforces the role of connected data, media and measurement in driving growth beyond traditional Amazon advertising tactics.
Three Meta Agency Awards: Code3 x Feastables and Christian Dior Couture
The Amazon Ads win follows Code3’s sweep at the 2026 Meta Agency Awards, where the agency won all three categories for which it was nominated.
Creative Excellence Campaign of the Year: Feastables
Feastables had already built massive awareness and fandom among younger consumers. But when it came to turning that awareness into household purchases, Code3 saw an opportunity to win over a different audience: moms.
Code3 combined a moms-only focus group, audience research, competitive analysis and media insights to better understand what moms needed to see from Feastables to build trust in the brand. Those insights became the foundation for an ongoing creative testing program, with Code3 testing specific messages, hooks, formats and personas to understand what resonated and applying those learnings to the next round of creative.
The work drove a 147% increase in click-through rate, a 23.9-point lift in ad recall and a 5.1-point lift in brand favorability, demonstrating the impact of treating creative as an ongoing optimization lever rather than a one-time deliverable.
Performance Campaign of the Year and Brand Campaign of the Year: Christian Dior Couture
Code3 took home two awards for its work with Christian Dior Couture, earning recognition for both performance and brand marketing.
The dual wins underscore an approach increasingly central to Code3’s work: bringing brand and performance together rather than treating them as separate disciplines. By connecting media strategy, audience insights, platform capabilities and measurement, Code3 and Christian Dior Couture built work designed to strengthen the brand while driving meaningful business results.
The recognition across both categories also reflects the depth of the partnership between the two teams and their shared focus on continually finding new ways to move the business forward.
A Year of Recognition Across Code3
The Meta and Amazon Ads wins add to a year of industry recognition spanning Code3’s commerce, media and creative work.
Earlier this year, Code3 received the Celeste AI Pioneer (Agency) Award from Skai for its application of AI to improve advertising performance and uncover new growth opportunities. Across three clients, Code3’s work with Skai’s Celeste AI identified $839,000 in incremental Q4 revenue opportunity, drove a 12–19% increase in new-to-brand sales and made reporting workflows 25% faster.
Code3 also earned Bronze in Digital Commerce at The Drum Awards for Marketing for its work with Elida Beauty. Creative produced by Code3 for POND’S, Noxzema and Caress generated 10x more views, 2x more product clicks and 17.7x more attributed revenue compared with brand-produced video during the same period.
Together, the recognition represents a milestone for Code3: award-winning work spanning the full breadth of the agency’s capabilities and some of the most influential platforms in digital marketing.
“This year has made one thing really clear: there isn’t one team, one channel or one type of work driving Code3 forward,” Atkinson added. “We have people across this agency doing work worth recognizing, and clients and partners willing to build it with us. We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished together, and we’re definitely not done looking for the next win.”
About Code3
Code3 is an independent digital marketing agency uniting commerce, media and creative to drive full-funnel growth for modern brands. Founded in 2010 and fully owned by Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC), Code3 helps brands accelerate growth across today’s most influential platforms. By combining strategic expertise, advanced technology and creative excellence, Code3 delivers measurable business outcomes for emerging brands and Fortune 500 companies alike.
Learn more about Code3 and its approach to modern digital marketing at www.code3.com.
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