Each year, we celebrate organizations that turn technology into transformation. They bring content and data together with creativity to deliver experiences that drive growth and efficiency. Along the way, they build stronger connections with their customers.
We’re proud to recognize the 2026 winners and their partners for showing what’s possible when ambitious ideas meet measurable impact.
Business impact
The Business Impact winners show what happens when digital transformation delivers real results for customers and the business.
Nestlé built a connected global marketing content ecosystem with Sitecore Content Hub 2.0 that now supports 16,000 users and 1.4 million centrally managed assets. Its teams produced more than 300,000 assets in a single year. Bridgestone Australia & New Zealand, with Switch, transformed the digital experience for Tony’s Tyre & Auto Care. Online sales grew by 102% and online sales revenue by 57%. Auto servicing revenue rose by 118%. Baylor Scott & White Health, with Altudo FastLane, modernized more than 23,000 pages. The new experience helped increase online booked appointments by 30% and MyBSWHealth logins by 229% year over year.
These stories prove the payoff when organizations remove friction and make it easier for people to take action: better digital experiences become measurable business outcomes.
Digital experience leadership
The Digital Experience Leadership winners demonstrate the impact strong leaders can have when they bring people and technology together around a clear vision for change.
Karin Ng, Head of Digital, Brand and Creative at CIMIC Group, with Codehouse, led her team through the reimagining of 13 sites and completed the work six months ahead of schedule and 40% under budget. Syed Salman Ali, Director Marketing, Technology and Performance at CWS Workwear International, with 7 Kings Code, and his team reduced campaign rollout time from four to six weeks down to just four days and localized content across 19 languages in four days. They completed end-to-end delivery in 3.5 months. Adrienne Pelzel, Director of Digital Marketing, North America at Brookfield Residential Properties, with XCentium, led a transformation that increased average engagement time per user by 13.6% and grew traffic to localized homepages fivefold. Page load speed improved by 61%.
These leaders prove that meaningful digital transformation depends on leadership as much as the technology behind the experience. Their vision and momentum, plus their ways of working, turn that technology into results.
Content and experience innovation
The Content and Experience Innovation winners are finding smarter ways to manage content, from creation through optimization, and delivering better experiences for their customers.
Bayer, with Valtech, created a more efficient digital operating model that saves 0.5 to 1 full-time equivalent (FTE) per market. It also achieved a Site Audit health score of 95 and added 23 top-three ranking keywords. Henry Schein, with EPAM, took a people-first approach to transformation that helped achieve 82% user engagement. It now saves approximately 725 hours of work each week. That’s nearly $1.8 million USD in workforce capacity in the first year that the business can reinvest. PENN Entertainment, with Americaneagle.com, unified more than 40 properties and websites and completed its end-to-end transformation in less than one year. After launch, it saw a fourfold climb in Google rankings.
Together, these winners show how rethinking content operations can help teams work faster and smarter to deliver experiences that perform.
Intelligent tech stack
The Intelligent Tech Stack winners are building more connected, agile foundations that give their teams the speed and flexibility to keep innovating.
Abdul Latif Jameel Motors, with EPAM, lowered infrastructure and hosting costs by 90% and reduced development effort by 60%. It also accelerated time to market by 70%. Delivery time dropped from three weeks to six days. Ausgrid, with Switch, rebuilt more than 400 pages across six sites and made content publishing 50% faster. Pages now load in under two seconds for 90% of users. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, with Perficient, moved from site updates every two weeks to 14 updates each week and reduced accessibility issues by 55%. Its new platform supports 78 components across 550 webpages.
These organizations show what becomes possible when the technology behind the experience is built to scale and adapt as fast as the business moves.
Innovative use of Sitecore
The Innovative Use of Sitecore winners demonstrate how creative thinking and technology can come together to solve meaningful challenges in new ways.
Qalby Etmaan transformed eight consecutive Ramadan seasons of giving into a year-round program. It now has first-party ownership of donor and campaign data and one auditable source of truth for donors and projects. Meritage Homes, with XCentium, created a Realtor Portal that generated more than 11,500 sign-ups in its first year. The portal also introduced real-time pricing updates to help reduce support requests. Marketers gained greater control over content and search, as well as promotions. Vizient, with MSQ DX, brought a conversational assistant into production and introduced live personalization through Sitecore CDP and Personalize. Teams can now tune Sitecore-managed prompts without a development cycle.
These winners show how organizations can use Sitecore in new ways to solve real challenges and give their teams greater control. The result is experiences that weren’t possible before.
Market trailblazer
The Market Trailblazer winners are pushing digital innovation forward and setting new benchmarks for what’s possible.
Fujitsu Limited, with G-Search, reduced its global digital footprint from 70,000 pages to 9,000, an 87% reduction. It also made content production 85% faster and lowered CO₂ emissions per page by 76%. Michigan State University, with RDA, strengthened its digital experience for prospective students. Completed request-for-information submissions rose by 200% and virtual tour sign-ups by 20%. Search engine optimization visibility grew by 44%. IFS, with Horizontal Digital, transformed its digital presence at scale. It migrated 1,300 pages and increased returning visitors by 13.1%.
These organizations are keeping pace with digital change and pushing ahead of it. They’re showing what can happen when teams challenge what’s possible and build experiences designed for what comes next.
New benchmarks for digital excellence
Across every category, this year’s winners demonstrate that digital transformation is defined by what technology makes possible.
From faster content operations and more agile technology foundations to stronger engagement and measurable business growth, the 2026 Digital Impact Awards winners are turning ambitious ideas into real results.
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and the partners who helped bring their work to life.
Learn from the Digital Impact Awards winners
Explore the stories behind this year’s winners and discover how organizations around the world are using Sitecore to create better experiences and work more efficiently, with measurable impact.