A HAMPSHIRE woman has scooped a top digital marketing award.

The 2016 UK Search Awards were in full swing when comedian Jason Manford and leading Digital Marketing Strategist Bas van den Beld announced that Sam Noble of Park Gate-based agency Koozai was the UK Search Personality of the Year.

The UK awards celebrate the expertise, talent and achievements of the search industry.

After receiving her award at he Bloomsbury Big Top in London, Sam said: “I’m still in shock; what an honour to have received this award -especially as it’s judged by people that I look up to and respect in the industry.”

Sam’s time is split at least four ways at all times. The Paid Media expert works full-time as Koozai’s director of strategy, helping the leading digital marketing agency to deliver award-winning results for its wealth of clients.

Sam is also a regular speaker at high-profile marketing events, conferences and workshops like Brighton SEO, Pubcon, The Inbounder, SMX, RIMC and Learn Inbound.

In addition to this, Sam works as chief editor of State of Digital, a collaborative digital marketing knowledge platform for those in the industry and runs bi-monthly digital Koozai networking events through her co-founded organisation Digital Females, which aims to increase the number of women working in the digital marketing industry.

Presenting Sam with her award, Bas van den Beld commented: “I have seen this person grow and it has made me proud, proud of the industry and proud of that person.

"This year especially she has been pushing he industry forwards, helping others, making it all come together, building bridges between SEO and PPC, everything.

“On top of that this is a really nice person with a warm heart.”