Visionary Awards
Recognizing Leaders Shaping the Future of Multi-Location Marketing
The Agentic Marketing Visionary Awards recognize CEOs and CMOs at large, complex organizations operating where AI-powered customer experience, reputation, local discovery, and multi-location marketing transformation are becoming increasingly important.
This Award is Different
Most industry awards look backward. They often recognize companies for legacy scale, executive visibility, or past market dominance.
The Agentic Marketing Visionary Awards are designed to look forward. They recognize CEOs and CMOs at large, complex organizations operating in markets where AI-powered customer experience, reputation, local discovery, and multi-location marketing are becoming increasingly important.
These leaders represent organizations facing one of marketing’s next major challenges: how to understand local customer signals, respond faster, and create consistent customer experiences at greater scale.
The award exists to spotlight leaders and companies operating where this shift matters most. Recognition is not an endorsement, sponsorship, or claim of verified internal AI workflows. It is an editorial recognition of leaders and organizations positioned at the center of the future of multi-location marketing.
“We created this award to spotlight the leaders operating where marketing is headed next: AI-powered customer experience, local discovery, reputation, and brand consistency at scale.”- Birdeye Research Team
How Winners Are Chosen
The 2026 Agentic Marketing Visionary Awards recognize marketing leaders at large, complex organizations where AI-powered customer experience, reputation, local discovery, and multi-location marketing transformation are becoming increasingly important.
Honorees are selected through Birdeye’s editorial review of publicly available information, third-party signals, company scale, industry relevance, location footprint, marketing leadership role, and evidence of digital or AI-related market activity. The evaluation focuses on observable indicators rather than private internal systems or unverified workflows.
Recognition does not imply that an honoree or their company uses Birdeye products, endorses Birdeye, or has verified internal AI or agentic marketing workflows unless separately confirmed.
Organizational Scale & Complexity
Why is this organization relevant to agentic marketing?
We evaluate the size, location footprint, brand complexity, and customer engagement environment of each organization. Multi-location brands face unique challenges across reviews, listings, local discovery, reputation, social engagement, and customer experience, all areas where AI-powered marketing transformation is becoming increasingly important.
Marketing Leadership Role
Is the honoree in a role connected to this transformation?
We review the honoree’s publicly available title, responsibilities, company profile, and leadership visibility to assess whether they are positioned to influence marketing, brand, digital, customer experience, or growth strategy at scale.
Public Digital & AI Signals
What observable signals suggest market relevance?
We consider publicly available and third-party signals related to digital transformation, AI-related initiatives, customer experience innovation, local marketing maturity, brand presence, and market activity. These signals help identify organizations operating in categories where agentic marketing is especially relevant.
Industry Relevance
Is the company in a category where local customer experience matters?
We evaluate whether the organization operates in an industry where reviews, local search, listings, reputation, customer engagement, and brand consistency materially affect customer acquisition and retention.
Editorial Review
Can the recognition be supported by observable information?
Each honoree is reviewed against publicly available information, third-party signals, and Birdeye’s internal editorial criteria. The awards do not rely on private internal workflow claims unless independently confirmed.
Peer Validation Matters
In addition to our committee evaluation, nominees receive a nomination link through which their professional network can add peer validation, a signal of the real-world influence and respect these leaders have earned beyond their own organizations.
Community signal is one input among many, but it reflects something our committee cannot fully measure: the degree to which a leader's peers recognize their impact.
Not a Participation Award
Being named a Birdeye Agentic Marketing Visionary is a selective recognition. Winners are identified through external research, public signals of AI and marketing innovation, and validation against scale and leadership criteria.
The distinction is editorial: it highlights leaders whose public work signals they are shaping where multi-location marketing is headed.
The Gap Is Already
Widening
Enterprise executives receive a constant stream of award invitations, survey requests, and recognition opportunities. Most of them are designed to sell something, a conference ticket, a media feature, a vendor relationship.
This award is built differently, for a specific reason.
The next two years will determine which multi-location brands build a durable AI advantage and which fall behind. That gap is already widening. The leaders we recognize in 2026 are the ones whose public work signals they're shaping what comes next.
Recognition Built to Last
Personalized Trophy & Winner Badge
Physical trophy and digital winner badge for LinkedIn and professional profiles, a permanent mark of the distinction.
Co-Branded Social & PR Content
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Recognition Across Birdeye's Partner & Media Network
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The #1 Agentic
Marketing Platform
Birdeye is the #1 Agentic Marketing Platform for multi-location brands. Where other tools show data, Birdeye's AI agents drive real business outcomes, automating the full marketing flywheel across awareness, conversion, and experience.
Powered by BirdAI and a unified data platform, Birdeye replaces fragmented marketing tools with a single platform that manages the customer journey at scale.
The AI Visionary Awards are part of Birdeye's commitment to advancing the practice of intelligent local marketing, and to naming the leaders who are proving it is possible.
About This Recognition
The 2026 Agentic Marketing Visionary Awards recognize marketing leaders identified through external research, publicly available information, third-party signals, and Birdeye internal review. Recognition reflects Birdeye’s editorial assessment and does not imply product usage, customer status, endorsement of Birdeye, sponsorship, partnership, or verified internal AI, agentic AI, or marketing workflows unless separately confirmed.
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Recognition is based on Birdeye’s editorial assessment using external research, public information, third-party signals, and internal review.