Recognition
200+ awards in 17 years.
We don’t chase awards. But when Inc., the Telly Awards, Hermes, the BBB, Stevie, and Energage keep recognizing the work year after year, it reinforces what our clients already know.
Why It Matters To Us
We don't chase trophies. We're proud of what they stand for.
Two hundred-plus awards is a number we're genuinely proud of, but not because we like shiny things on a shelf. Every one is a signal that the work we're doing for our partners is worthwhile: real meetings booked, real pipeline built, real commercial companies growing.
Recognition for growth, for culture, for creative work, it all traces back to the same place, doing right by the clients who trust us with their pipeline. That's the scoreboard that actually matters to us. The awards just confirm we're keeping it honestly.
See the client results behind them →By The Numbers
A track record that compounds.
A decade-plus of recognition across growth, workplace culture, and creative excellence.
10×Inc. 5000Fastest-growing U.S. private companies, 2014 to 2024
14×Telly AwardsExcellence in video and creative production
11×Hermes Creative AwardsInternational creative and communications honors
8×MarCom AwardsMarketing and communication achievement
8×STL Top WorkplacesSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, by employee feedback
6×Stevie AwardsAmerican Business Awards honoree
6×Employee EngagementRecognized for culture and engagement
5×Best Places to WorkSt. Louis Business Journal
5×Communicator AwardsAcademy of Interactive and Visual Arts
3×Entrepreneur 360Entrepreneur's best entrepreneurial companies
3×Inspiring WorkplacesPeople-first workplace recognition
1×BBB Torch AwardFor Marketplace Ethics and integrity
Growth + Culture
Growing this fast, and still a Best Place to Work.
Plenty of companies grow by burning their people out. We've scaled to 500+ U.S.-based teammates and 2,000 clients while being named a Best Place to Work, year after year. That isn't a coincidence. It's the strategy.
8xSt. Louis Post-Dispatch Top Workplaces
5xBusiness Journal Best Places to Work
6xEmployee Engagement Awards
3xInspiring Workplaces
Why It Works
Happy people build better pipelines.
This isn't a feel-good slogan. It's the engine behind our partners' results.
1
We invest in our people
Real career paths from SDR to VP, serious coaching, and a culture worth staying for, so we keep our best on your account.
2
Happy reps do better work
Motivated, tenured A-players make sharper calls, build real rapport, and book higher-quality meetings than burned-out churn ever could.
3
Our clients win
Better conversations become qualified meetings and real pipeline, the exact results those workplace and growth awards are quietly measuring.
The full list
203 awards and honors, year by year
20264 honors
- Inspiring Workplaces 2026 Finalist (opens in a new tab)
- ON Conferences Top 100 Marketer Award
- St. Louis Business Journal Top 100 St. Louisans to Know
- STL Titan Award (opens in a new tab)
202519 honors
- St. Louis Business 500 List 2025
- Best 100 Strategy Podcasts The Grow Show
- Scott Scully: Titan STL 2025
- Inspiring Workplaces 2025 Finalist
- Communicator Award of Distinction (opens in a new tab)
- Gold Hermes Creative Award (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Award of Excellence (opens in a new tab)
- Platinum Viddy Award (opens in a new tab)
- Gold Viddy Award (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal’s Top 150 Privately Held Companies (opens in a new tab)
- SBM Best PR Firm 2025
- SBM Best Marketing Firm 2025
- Inc 5000 List 2025 Cloud Solutions
- Gold Brandon Hall Award in New Hire Training
- SBM Best In Customer Service List
- Clutch: Top Lead Generation Company (2025)
- Clutch: Top Appointment Setting Company (2025)
- Clutch: Top Outbound Call Centers (2025)
- Clutch: Top Lead Qualification Company (2025)
202426 honors
- DOORWAYS’ Centurian Volunteer Award (opens in a new tab)
- Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Silver Award in New Hire Onboarding 2024 (opens in a new tab)
- 2024 Inc 5000 List #1080 (opens in a new tab)
- 2024 Inc 5000 List #3808 (opens in a new tab)
- SBM Most Innovative Companies 2024 (opens in a new tab)
- SBM Best PR/Marketing Firms 2024 (opens in a new tab)
- Silver Telly in General-Corporate Image (opens in a new tab)
- Silver Telly in General-Automotive (opens in a new tab)
- Silver Telly in General-Automotive (opens in a new tab)
- Bronze Telly in General-Corporate Image (opens in a new tab)
- Bronze Telly in General-B2B: Business-to-Business (opens in a new tab)
- Corporate Livewire’s Lead Generation Specialist of the Year
- #1 STL Biz Jour List of Largest Adv Marketing Firms (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Awd: Best B2B Series The Grow Show (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Awd: Year in Review 2022 in Employee & Internal Communications (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Awd: GBD 2023 Video Corporate Social Responsibility (opens in a new tab)
- Hermes Creative Award Gold: Framework IT Site (opens in a new tab)
- Hermes Creative Award Gold: 2023 Retrospective Video (opens in a new tab)
- Stevie Award: Maverick of the Year: Eric Watkins
- Stevie Award: Cause & Green, Employee Giving & Volunteerism
- Top Workplaces USA Culture Excellence Award: Innovation (opens in a new tab)
- Top Workplaces USA Culture Excellence Award: Leadership (opens in a new tab)
- Top Workplaces USA Culture Excellence Award: Compensation & Benefits (opens in a new tab)
- Top Workplaces USA Culture Excellence Award: Purpose & Values (opens in a new tab)
- Inspiring Workplaces 2024 (opens in a new tab)
- Top Workplaces USA 2024 (opens in a new tab)
202332 honors
- Bronze Telly Award in Broadcast Television (opens in a new tab)
- Top Workplaces USA 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- Corporate Livewire’s Innovation in Lead Generation Services
- St. Louis Business Journal’s Best Places to Work 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards in Innovation (opens in a new tab)
- Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards in Leadership (opens in a new tab)
- Hermes Creative Gold Winner 2023 in B2B Website (opens in a new tab)
- Hermes Creative Gold Winner 2023 in Redesign Website (opens in a new tab)
- American Business Awards: Bronze Stevie in Employee Communications
- Communicator Award of Excellence in Individual Episodes-Business-to-Business for B2B Podcasts (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Award of Distinction in General-Corporate Image for Film & Video (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Award of Distinction in Features-Animation or Motion Graphics for Branded Content (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Award of Distinction in Print Advertising-B2B Advertising for B2B Design & Print (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Award of Distinction in Print Content-Medical & Pharma for B2B Design & Print (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal’s 2023 largest advertising, marketing, and PR firms (opens in a new tab)
- Bronze Telly Award in Broadcast Television (opens in a new tab)
- Bronze Telly Award in General-Social Impact (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Top Workplaces 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- SBM STL Best PR Firms (opens in a new tab)
- SBM STL Most Innovative Companies (opens in a new tab)
- SBM STL Best Marketing Firms (opens in a new tab)
- Inc 5000 List #4246 Abstrakt Marketing Group (opens in a new tab)
- Inc 5000 List #345 Abstrakt Cloud Solution (opens in a new tab)
- Signature Foundation’s Best Dressed Drummer 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- Brandon Hall Group’s Excellence Award for Best New Hire Onboarding (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal’s top 150 privately held companies (opens in a new tab)
- SBM Best Marketing Firms 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- Neighborhood Transformation Award 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Award in Professional Development 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Award in Employee Appreciation 2023 (opens in a new tab)
- MarCom Awards: Educational Podcast Series (The Grow Show) (opens in a new tab)
- MarCom Awards: Education Single Episode (The Grow Show) (opens in a new tab)
202222 honors
- Gold AVA Digital Award
- Platinum AVA Digital Award
- Gold Hermes Creative Award (opens in a new tab)
- STL Titan Award: Eric Watkins (opens in a new tab)
- Platinum Hermes Creative Award (opens in a new tab)
- Corporate Livewire’s B2B Company of the Year
- St. Louis Business Journal’s Largest Marketing/PR/Advertising Firms (opens in a new tab)
- SBM Best PR Firms (opens in a new tab)
- SBM Future 50 Companies (Abstrakt) (opens in a new tab)
- SBM Future 50 Companies (Sapper Consulting) (opens in a new tab)
- Silver Telly Award in General Automotive for Local TV (opens in a new tab)
- Inspiring Workplaces Top 50 Winners in North America (opens in a new tab)
- Inc. 5000 List #2771 (opens in a new tab)
- 2022 St. Louis Post Dispatch Top Workplaces (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal’s Advertising, Marketing and PR List (opens in a new tab)
- American Business Awards: Social Video (opens in a new tab)
- American Business Awards: Sustainability Video (opens in a new tab)
- SBM Most Innovative Companies (opens in a new tab)
- SBM Best Consulting Firms (opens in a new tab)
- Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Award in Best New Hire Onboarding
- Marcom Platinum Winner in Internal Communication (opens in a new tab)
- Marcom Gold Winner in Animation (opens in a new tab)
202121 honors
- AVA Digital Awards: Platinum Award in Long-Form Video Meeting Open/Close (opens in a new tab)
- AVA Digital Awards: Gold Award in Creativity Web Motion Graphics Design (opens in a new tab)
- Corporate Livewire’s B2B Company of the Year 2021
- Platinum Hermes Creative Award in Corporate Image (opens in a new tab)
- Gold Hermes Creative Award in Website Redesign (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Award of Distinction in Craft Motion Graphics and Design (opens in a new tab)
- Bronze Telly Award in Local TV (opens in a new tab)
- Bronze Telly Award in Local TV (opens in a new tab)
- Small Business Monthly’s Best PR Firms in St. Louis 2021 (opens in a new tab)
- Inspiring Workplaces 2021 Inspiring Innovation Award (opens in a new tab)
- Inspiring Workplaces 2021 Inspiring Wellbeing Award (opens in a new tab)
- Inc. 5000’s List of 2021 Fastest Growing Companies No. 4806 (opens in a new tab)
- Small Business Monthly’s Most Innovative Companies in St. Louis 2021 (opens in a new tab)
- Signature Foundation Dragon Boat Races 2021: Most Improved (opens in a new tab)
- Signature Foundation Dragon Boat Races 2021: Best Team Spirit (opens in a new tab)
- Signature Foundation’s Emperor of Wellness 2021 (opens in a new tab)
- Platinum Viddy Award Winner (opens in a new tab)
- Gold Viddy Award Winner (opens in a new tab)
- Summit Creative Award Winner (opens in a new tab)
- Platinum MarCom Winner
- Small Business Monthly’s Best Marketing Firms in St. Louis 2021 (opens in a new tab)
202019 honors
- Corporate Livewire’s B2B Company of the Year
- Platinum Hermes Creative Award (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal 2020 Best Places to Work Finalist (opens in a new tab)
- #1 on St. Louis’ Largest Advertising Marketing and PR Firms List (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Award of Distinction in Design & Campaign Branding (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Award of Distinction in Craft-Motion Graphics (opens in a new tab)
- Bronze Stevie Award in Support Staffer of the Year
- Bronze Stevie Award in Product Management Department of the Year
- Bronze Telly Award in General-Social Impact (opens in a new tab)
- Bronze Telly Award in General-Public Interest/Awareness (opens in a new tab)
- Small Business Monthly’s “2020 Best PR Firms” (opens in a new tab)
- Small Business Monthly’s list of Most Innovative Companies (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Post Dispatch Top Workplaces 2020 Midsize Companies (opens in a new tab)
- Videographer Award of Excellence in Motion Graphics for Service
- Videographer Award of Distinction in Video for Web Legal
- Inc. 5000 List 2020 #3627 (opens in a new tab)
- Bronze Stevie Award in Most Valuable Corporate Response
- Platinum Marcom in Digital Media/Social Media (opens in a new tab)
- Small Business Monthly’s 2020 Best Marketing Firms (opens in a new tab)
201916 honors
- Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Awards: B2B Company of the Year
- Hermes Creative Award (opens in a new tab)
- Communicator Award: Award of Distinction for Branded Entertainment (opens in a new tab)
- 2019 Better Business Bureau TORCH Award (opens in a new tab)
- 2019 Entrepreneur 360 List (opens in a new tab)
- 2019 Inc. 5000 List (opens in a new tab)
- The Telly Awards: Silver Winner (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal “No. 3, St. Louis’ Largest Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Firms” (opens in a new tab)
- North American Employee Engagement Awards: Innovation and Excellence Award (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Top Workplaces 2019
- 2019 Summit Creative Award (opens in a new tab)
- 2019 Videographer Award (opens in a new tab)
- Small Business Monthly “Best Public Relations Firms in St. Louis” (opens in a new tab)
- Small Business Monthly Best in Business “Most Innovative Companies in St. Louis” (opens in a new tab)
- Small Business Monthly Best in Business “Best Marketing Firms in St. Louis” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal “2019 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies” (opens in a new tab)
201816 honors
- 2018 Summit Creative Award (opens in a new tab)
- 2018 Workforce Game Changer (opens in a new tab)
- Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts Communicator Award (opens in a new tab)
- American Business Awards Support Staffer of the Year (opens in a new tab)
- Hermes Creative Award (opens in a new tab)
- Employee Engagement Social Responsibility Finalist (opens in a new tab)
- Employee Engagement Culture and Purpose Finalist (opens in a new tab)
- EY Entrepreneur of the Year Winner (opens in a new tab)
- MarCom Platinum Award, “Abstrakt’s Spooktacular Thriller Cover” (opens in a new tab)
- MarCom Gold Award, “AMG News: Definitely Not Fake News” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal’s 50 Fastest Growing Companies of 2018
- St. Louis Post Dispatch “Top Workplace 2018” (opens in a new tab)
- Small Business Monthly 2018 Best in Business “Best Marketing Firm” (opens in a new tab)
- Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal “No. 1, St. Louis’ Largest Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Firms” (opens in a new tab)
- 2018 Entrepreneur 360 List, Ranked No. 4 (opens in a new tab)
20179 honors
- Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private U.S. Companies (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal “No. 4, St. Louis’ Largest Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Firms” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal “Fastest Growing Companies” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal “Best Place to Work” (opens in a new tab)
- Entrepreneur Magazine “Top Company Cultures” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Top Workplace 2017″ (opens in a new tab)
- EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist
- St. Louis Small Business Monthly “Future 50 Award” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Small Business Monthly Best in Business “Best Marketing Firm” (opens in a new tab)
201610 honors
- St. Louis Business Journal “No. 5, St. Louis’ Largest Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Firms” (opens in a new tab)
- Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private U.S. Companies (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Small Business Monthly “Future 50 Award” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Small Business Monthly “Best Marketing Firms” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Top Workplace 2016″
- St. Louis Business Journal “Best Place to Work” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal “Young Professional Award” (opens in a new tab)
- Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Business Journal “No. 1, St. Louis’ Largest Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Firms” (opens in a new tab)
- 2018 Entrepreneur 360 List, Ranked No. 4 (opens in a new tab)
20154 honors
- St. Louis Small Business Monthly “Best Marketing Firms in St. Louis” (opens in a new tab)
- St. Louis Small Business Monthly “Five-Star Workplaces”
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Top Workplace 2015″
- St. Louis Business Journal “Best Place to Work” (opens in a new tab)
20145 honors
- St. Louis Business Journal “No. 3 Fastest Growing Company” (opens in a new tab)
- Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private U.S. Companies No. 768 (opens in a new tab)
- Inc. 5000 Honors: No. 10 Top Missouri Companies (opens in a new tab)
- BMA/TAMS: Best in Class “Inline Tradeshow Exhibit” (opens in a new tab)
- BMA/TAMS: Silver Award “Total Communications” (opens in a new tab)
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Recent Recognition
The latest from the press room.
A selection of recent award announcements. Recognition earned across growth, culture, and creative work.
★Earns Spot as a 2025 Inspiring Workplaces FinalistMarch 2025★Appears on the Inc. 5000 List for the 10th TimeAugust 2024★Takes Home Five Honors in the 45th Annual Telly AwardsJune 2024★Receives Culture Excellence Awards from Energage Top WorkplacesApril 2024★Honored with Silver and Bronze Stevie Awards, 2024 American Business AwardsApril 2024★Celebrates a Double Win: Two Hermes Creative AwardsApril 2024★Named a Top Workplace USA for a Second Consecutive YearMarch 2024★Appears on the Inc. 5000 List for the 9th TimeAugust 2023
★Wins at the 29th Annual Communicator Awards2023
★Appears on the Inc. 5000 List for the 6th TimeAugust 2020★Wins Corporate LiveWire B2B Marketing Company of the YearJuly 2020More company announcements in Abstrakt news →
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