On Wednesday, 11 September 2013, at the luxurious Moscow restaurant  Russia's first award ceremony in affiliate marketing "RACE Awards 2013" was held. Best professionals of affiliate industry have got their crystal figurines. The ceremony was organized under cooperation of key market players of affiliate marketing. The event was part of the first day of the exhibition Russian Affiliate Congress and Expo. Therefore «RACE Awards» was a real celebration and a pleasant surprise for all the participants.

In the Great Hall of the restaurant "Falconry" guests enjoyed cocktail dinner and music of famous singer - Olga Dibrova (Gorchitza) in electronic, dance-rock and funky-house style. All guests, without exception, noted high level of organization, friendly atmosphere of the evening, magnificent interior of the restaurant and gourmet refreshments.

In his welcome speech Oleg Vlasov, director of RACE, said: 

"Today is a special night for us. «RACE Awards» is the only contest in Russia and the CIS awarding for achievements and contributions to the development of affiliate marketing industry.

Russian Affiliate Congress and Expo was first held only a year ago, but during that time all of us had done a tremendous job! We managed to bring together all international and domestic experiences and practices in the most interesting and fast-growing market.

We are very pleased to see that the ideas that were new here a couple of years ago are now successfully implemented, affiliate market is developing and gains popularity in Russia. Finally, we have the honor to announce the best representatives of the industry!

Let everyone relax and enjoy the moment today. Thank you for being with us, and have a good evening!".

This year companies-participants competed for the title of best affiliates and affiliate marketing experts; best agency and aggregator of affiliate programs; best affiliate programs on Forex, tourism, e-commerce , online gaming, gambling, Internet services, as well as financial market and insurance.

So crystal figurines "RACE Awards 2013" and title "Best!" were given to: 

• Mikhail Garkunov - "Best affiliate manager"

• Ploskonosov Maxim - "Best lead manager"

• MMCISpartners - "Best Affiliate Program in CIS"

• Forex-Market - "Best affiliate program on Forex"

• Forex4you - "Best Forex company in affiliate programs"

• OptionRally - "Best affiliate program on the market of binary options"

• AdmitadGmbH - "Best aggregator of affiliate programs"

• Optimizm.ru - "Best SEO agency"

• C-Media - "Best Internet advertising agency"

• Webmoney - "Best Payment System"

"We are very pleased to win this prize. We have been doing this affiliate program for more than 5 years and objectively currently we are probably the most successful, honest, open and competitive program for partners on the market. So I think we deserved this award. Thanks to the organizers for a good evening, we loved live music. It was a pleasure to talk with colleagues and those who work as we do," Igor Moshkov, representative of Forex4you, the winner in nomination "Best Forex company in affiliate programs", said.