Kia Ora Digital won Best LLM Adoption and Integration by an Agency at the Global Search Awards 2026.
Unlike the campaign awards, this category judges the agency itself: how AI is used in the day-to-day delivery of client work.
For the announcement, read Two Wins at the Global Search Awards 2026.
What the judges said
"A highly impressive entry that showcases a thoughtful and mature approach to integrating AI into client delivery."
Why it matters
"Mature" is the word doing the work here.
Plenty of agencies adopted AI quickly. This category rewards the opposite quality: knowing where it belongs in a delivery process and where it does not, and being able to show the difference in client outcomes rather than in internal time saved.
Taken with the Best Use of AI in Search win on the same night, the two cover both halves of the same argument. One judged what AI did for a client. This one judged how the agency works.
