Bigmouthmedia, the world's largest independent search engine marketing company, has announced that it has reached the finals of the Fast Growth Business Awards, in the category of "Media Business of the Year", joining 3 other market-leading companies from across UK including Iris, thebestof.co.uk and TILT, The Insert and Leaflet Team.

Organised by Crimson Business in conjunction with Growing Business Magazine, the short-listing judges were overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of entries. Ian Wallis, editor of Growing Business magazine and Growingbusiness.co.uk comments:

"With almost 350 entries across 14 categories, the competition was fierce. The four finalists for Media Business of the Year demonstrated great plans for future development as well as a substantial year on year turnover and profit, growing market share and a strong brand."

Winners of the awards will be announced at a prestigious awards ceremony at the London Marriott on 29 March 2007. 14 businesses will win their categories and one business will be crowned the T-Mobile Fast Growth Business of the Year.

It has been an exciting time for bigmouthmedia - the news of the nomination comes shortly after a string of successes in other business and industry awards. These recent wins include the 'AXA Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year Award' at the National Business Awards 2006 and ‘Best Use of Search Optimisation/Search Marketing' with client Superbreak - the online travel company - at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising Awards in February.

Commenting on the Fast Growth Business Awards announcement, Heather Luscombe, bigmouthmedia's Marketing and Communications Director said:

"This is fantastic news. The Fast Growth Business Awards gives credit to growing UK industry and we are excited to be a part of this. We'll be keeping everything crossed until the winners are announced in March."

Notes to Editor:

About bigmouthmedia
Bigmouthmedia, part of the Global Media Group is a leading digital marketing agency based in the UK, Mainland Europe, Asia and the USA. With over 300 clients across all sectors, ranging from SME's to major global brands, bigmouthmedia offers a range of search engine marketing and pay per click management services leveraged to offer its clients maximum return for their online investment.

Founded in 1997 by Steve Leach and Heather Luscombe, the company currently has offices in Edinburgh, Manchester, London and New York, and counts among its clients British Airways, MTV, Barclays, Tesco and Hilton. Parent company Global Media has a further 7 offices around the world and clients including AOL, lastminute.com and ebay. Bigmouthmedia was named the AXA Small to Medium Business of the Year at the 2006 National Business Awards, with comments from the judges including: "Successful on a global scale. Impressive, knowledgeable" and "A real market leading service performed exceptionally well."

About Crimson Business
The 2007 Fast Growth Business Awards are organised by Crimson Business. Crimson Business specializes in publishing information for small and medium size businesses. Crimson has established more relationships with entrepreneurs than any other b2b publisher resulting in favourable position as market leader. For more info visit www.crimsonbusiness.co.uk. Specifically, Crimson has provided practical and inspirational information for growing businesses for over 6 years via its flagship brand ‘Growing Business'.

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