Awardco has been recognized by the American Business Awards^® with a Bronze Stevie^® Award for Achievement in Product Innovation, honoring the company’s continued investment in building modern tools for recognition, engagement, and employee experience.

The recognition highlights a year of rapid platform innovation at Awardco, including major product launches and enhancements designed to help organizations create stronger workplace cultures, improve engagement, and deliver more flexible employee experiences at scale.

In the last two years Awardco has introduced several significant platform enhancements and innovations, including:

• A-Pay™ cards, giving employees more flexibility and choice in how they receive and use rewards
• External Recognition™, extending recognition beyond traditional employee boundaries to support frontline, contract, and customer-facing workers
• AwardCodes™, an industry-first method of recognizing and rewarding deskless employees
• Awardco 2.0, a redesigned platform experience focused on simplicity, usability, and accessibility
• Awardco Engage™, a new employee listening and insights solution that helps organizations turn feedback into meaningful action
• Awardco Intelligence™, a growing set of AI-powered capabilities designed to help organizations better understand, support, and motivate their people
• Awardco Nominations™, a first-of-its-kind feature for organizations to run structured, high-impact award programs without relying on spreadsheets, inboxes, and manual coordination

Together, these reflect Awardco’s broader approach to product development: building connected experiences that help work feel more human, more rewarding, and more effective.

“Our product team continues to push the platform forward in meaningful ways,” says Steve Sonnenberg, Awardco Co-Founder and CEO. “This recognition reinforces our commitment to innovation and to creating experiences that genuinely improve how organizations recognize, engage, and support their people.”

The American Business Awards are among the largest business awards programs in the United States, recognizing organizations across industries for achievement in innovation, growth, leadership, and customer impact.

What this means for customers

For Awardco customers, the recognition signals continued momentum behind the platform and its product roadmap.

Over the last several years, Awardco has expanded from a recognition platform into a broader employee engagement engine—bringing together recognition, rewards, incentives, listening, and engagement tools in a single connected experience. The company’s recent product investments reflect growing demand from organizations looking for flexible, scalable solutions that can adapt to changing workforce expectations.

The award also reinforces Awardco’s continued focus on:

• Delivering innovation that solves real operational challenges
• Building flexible experiences for global and distributed teams
• Simplifying administration while improving employee participation
• Connecting recognition and engagement into a more unified strategy

With additional product launches already underway in 2026, Awardco continues to invest in helping organizations build cultures where recognition and engagement are part of everyday work.

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