2026 Gold Winner
VantagePoint™: Defining the New Standard of Economic Truth in a Zero-Click World

The Challenge
The rapid adoption of Generative AI and LLMs is fundamentally changing how consumers discover brands. As AI surfaces content directly in search results, traditional click-based attribution has become obsolete, leaving brands blind to their true ROI and publishers uncompensated for their real influence.
The Strategy
Partnerize built VantagePoint, the industry's first independent, auditable attribution solution for the AI-driven "zero-click" economy.
Execution and Innovation
Using patented journey-reconstruction intelligence, it revealed "Clickless Affiliation", capturing conversions where no trackable click occurred, while quantifying the 2.06x hidden influence publishers provide beyond the click.
Results
VantagePoint achieved rapid enterprise adoption from giants, restoring economic transparency to both brands and publishers by connecting AI discovery to verified sales at SKU level.
Judges' Verdict
"A genuinely first-to-market solution that reconstructs customer journeys in opaque environments."
"A strategically vital piece of work that doesn't just improve tracking; it creates a shared measurement framework for the future of an AI-led industry."