YATELEY, U.K. - s4story -- Virens has been named Digital Marketing Agency of the Year in the London & Southeast Prestige Awards 2026/27.

The Yateley-based agency works with small businesses across Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire and further afield, providing website design, SEO, Google Ads and local marketing support.

The Prestige Awards judging panel selects winners based on merit, considering factors including service excellence, the quality of products and services, innovation, customer feedback and reviews, ethical and sustainable business practices, and overall consistency and business performance.

For Virens, that makes the award particularly meaningful.

"We're really pleased to have won this," said Emily from Virens. "Awards are lovely recognition, but what matters most to us is what sits behind them: doing good work, looking after clients properly and giving small businesses advice they can actually use."

Virens has built its approach around making marketing easier for small business owners to understand and manage. Rather than recommending services for the sake of it, the agency focuses on identifying where marketing spend and effort are most likely to make a useful difference.

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That can include improving websites to generate more enquiries, helping businesses appear more prominently in local search, managing Google Ads, improving Google Business Profiles, or identifying marketing activity that simply isn't worth continuing.

As a small agency, clients work directly with the people carrying out the work. Virens believes this helps it better understand each client's business, priorities, target customers and budget before recommending what to do next.

The Digital Marketing Agency of the Year award adds to the agency's growing list of independent recognition while reinforcing the approach it has taken since the business began.

Emily added: "We'll keep doing what we've always tried to do: give straightforward advice, care about the detail and tell clients when we think something isn't worth spending money on. We might just have another trophy on the shelf while we're doing it."

More information about Virens and the award can be found at:

https://virens.co.uk/digital-marketing-agency-of-the-year-2026-27/