The Textie Awards
EXCELLENCE, DELIVERED
Honoring the best in business messaging
Smart senders in fintech, finance, retail, ecommerce, healthcare, tourism—you name it—are using text messages to build engagement, grow business, and drive action.
And we’re here to call out the most impressive examples at the second annual Textie Awards.
Interested in participating? Talk to your Bandwidth rep to get your nomination in! Click here to view the rules and eligibility details.
How the Textie Awards work
Criteria
A panel of industry experts evaluates nominees and considers factors including:
- Measurable impact on the business and/or end user
- Differentiation in the market
- Strategy and adaptability
- Technological innovation
- Social good and accessibility
Nominations for The Textie Awards are pouring in because winners walk away with:
- The Texties Trophy: A display-worthy symbol of your achievement
- Top-tier dinner: A celebratory dinner at your favorite restaurant for you and three teammates
Travel and accommodations for one company representative to join us at our flagship Reverb event, featuring…
- Exclusive networking: Connect with top-tier Global 2000 professionals at an invite-only cocktail event
- Spotlight session: Join us at a featured session showcasing your success and case study
- Personalized experience: Enjoy a private tour of our Customer Experience Center and one-on-one time with industry experts
- Textie Award show feature: Be celebrated live during The Textie Awards ceremony
- Success Story video: A custom-produced video by Bandwidth, capturing your use case and achievements
- Podcast spotlight: Your story featured in a dedicated episode, shared across YouTube and social media
- Multi-channel promotion: A news release and promotion across Bandwidth’s social media, email, and website
- Hosted article opportunity: Share your insights in a featured article authored by you and promoted by Bandwidth
Check out the 2024 Textie Award winners
Attentive
Longtime pioneers in SMS marketing, Attentive has just launched AttentiveAI, which helps brands build smarter SMS programs. (And it’s really smart—it’s been trained on over two trillion data points and 90 billion messages across over 70 verticals.)
Early results for iconic household name brands:
- 120% more clicks
- 117% more purchases
- 115% more revenue
DeansList
DeansList Two-Way Texting allows each teacher to get their own number, which they can share with students and families to facilitate frequent, informal conversations. And every single message can be automatically translated to cross language barriers.
- Over 170,000 conversations
- Thousands of translated messages
- 5x increase in school subscriptions in one year
Review Wave
Independent medical practices can now easily communicate with patients and increase their reviews on Google, Yelp, Facebook, and other platforms. The result: better SEO, more visibility, and increased revenue.
One clinic saw these results in just six months:
- 930% increase in new Google reviews
- 21.6% increase in new patients
- 11.2% increase in total appointments
While a chiropractor got these gains in 6 months:
- 2000% increase in new Google reviews
- 58.6% increase in new patients
- 14.7% increase in total appointments
Yotpo
Yotpo’s winning case study with Princess Polly, an Australian women’s wear brand, showcases their SMS messaging capabilities as a part of their leading retail communication platform.
- 43% Month-over-month subscriber growth from checkout and pop-up opt-ins
- 41% conversion rate and 73x ROI from non-engaged segment during flash sale
- 84% conversion rate on welcome flow based on Yotpo’s Shopify integration
2024 Textie Award finalists
Directful
Directful created a purpose-built platform to help companies in the hospitality industry drive revenue, starring an AI engine to predict guests’ future travel intentions.
Using the power of SMS, Respectful has generated over $107M in revenue for its customers, with an industry-topping 17% conversion rate.
MessageDesk
Real estate agents lose deals when clients can’t figure out the right number to reach them. MessageDesk solves that problem by adding text to agents’ existing landlines.
Thanks to the power of texting, they just helped close a $110M real estate listing.
MyTextMate
A large part of academic success is staying organized and managing time to avoid missed assignment deadlines.
92% of MyTextMate users said the patented technology helps them stay more organized, and 57% said it improved their grades.
Reachify
As Reachify says, “We are helping restaurants focus on the food and not the phone.”
Restaurant-specific call deflection and Ordering AI save time and improve the guest experience.
Over 1,000 restaurants now use Reachify and report that call volumes are reduced by 20-80%.