Online Marketing Challenge

2011 Winners

Global 2011 Winner

Our Global Winning team comes from University of Houston under Professor Steven Koch. The team of Erin Blatzer, Lauren Davis, Carolina Thomas, and Jeffrei Clifton worked promoting events for the Houston Symphony and impressed the judges by their great results and reports.

Regional Winners

• Our Asia Pacific Winner, under Professor Katrina Hibbs comes from the Edith Cowan University (Australia). The team was comprised of Joe Sorgiovanni, Zhe Pan, Yusuke Ogura, and Elizabeth Fu. They worked with Muddy Creek, an all natural body soap company.
• Our Americas Winner comes from James Madison University (US) under Professor Theresa Clarke. The team of Lindsay Keller, Molly Shea, and Larissa Cookson. The team worked with SOS Advertising, a custom printing company.
• Our Europe Winner comes from the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland), under Professor Tymoteusz Doligalski. The team consisted of Anna Bowżyk, Marcin Pogroszewski, Łukasz Lewandowski, and Karol Chilimoniuk. They worked with an extreme sports center, Adrenalina Park.
• Our Middle East/Africa Winner under Professor Nadira Alaraj comes from Bethlehem University (West Bank). The team was comprised of Farah Abu Sahliya, Firas Awni Nofal, Ramzy Wael Zreineh, Saher Rudy Qawas, and Jack Tony Mikhail and they worked with a contemporary visual arts high school, Dar Al-Kalima College.

NGO Impact Award Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners of the NGO Impact Award, an award that recognizes Google Online Marketing Challenge student teams that made an outstanding difference to their nonprofit partners via superb online marketing campaigns.

Congratulations to the following winners!

1st Place - $15,000 donation to TrashDesignManufaktur

Michael Albrecht and Christian Pfeifhofer taught by Dr. Horst Treiblmaier from Vienna University of Economics and Business worked with TrashDesignManufaktur. TrashDesignManufaktur is a non-profit organization in Vienna which offers unemployed persons the opportunity to learn new skills by up-cycling electronic waste and discarded machines into high-quality design objects, such as jewelry and furniture.

2nd place - $10,000 donation to Istituto Oikos

Sebastiano Comin, Simone Dolci, Elena Merazzi, Elena Moriondom and Giuseppe Scampa taught by Dr. Nicoletta Vittadini from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore collaborated with Istituto Oikos. Istituto Oikos operates in Europe and in developing countries to advocate for and promote environmental conservation.

3nd place - $5,000 donation to Houston Symphony

The team of Erin Blatzer, Lauren Davis, Carolina Thomas, and Jeffrei Clifton taught by Professor Steven Koch from University of Houston partnered with the Houston Symphony. The Symphony is one of America's oldest performing arts organizations and performs approximately 170 concerts each year for more than 350,000 Houstonians.

Semi-Finalists and all other competing teams

To see which teams made our Semi-Finalist list (the Top 100 globally) as well as the ratings for all competing teams, take a look at the 2011 Team Results. (For privacy reasons, ratings are listed according to the AdWords Customer ID of each competing team).

Below, you can see the top semifinalists from each region.

CID	Region	Country/Territory
250-785-4986	Americas	Canada
884-131-0586	Americas	United States	Americas Winner
526-276-6639	Americas	United States
116-639-1275	Americas	United States	Global Winner
630-494-5588	Americas	United States
217-894-2402	Europe	Poland
340-539-5851	Europe	Germany
396-386-3988	Europe	Poland	Europe Winner
458-314-7616	Europe	Germany
117-061-3690	Europe	Czech Republic
619-250-0890	Japac	Philippines
603-515-7256	Japac	Taiwan
326-490-9990	Japac	Australia
137-598-1037	Japac	Australia	JAPAC Winner
120-061-0502	Japac	Australia
399-645-6775	MEA	Nigeria
647-067-7737	MEA	Ghana
714-958-9486	MEA	Palestinian Territories
273-937-4790	MEA	Palestinian Territories	MEA Winner
980-662-8688	MEA	Palestinian Territories