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Are you a Microsoft partner that has embraced the Microsoft marketplace as core to your go-to-market strategy? Either selling with or through other partners via marketplace? If so, we want to celebrate you!

The nomination window for the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards is open now through July 18, 2025. Submit your nomination for a chance to be recognized as the Microsoft Marketplace Partner of the Year!

About the Marketplace Partner of the Year Award:

• Recognizes partners that have successfully adopted the marketplace as core to their go-to-market and joint-selling opportunities with Microsoft.


• Partners positioned to win this award will demonstrate through their nomination how they are helping customers solve challenges and achieve business goals with their solutions offered through the marketplace.


• Successful entries will also include quantifiable success through growth in customer acquisition, marketplace billed sales (MBS), Azure consumption revenue (ACR), and/or billed seats – whether selling digital direct, through channel partners, or co-selling with Microsoft.


• Competitive submissions will demonstrate effective utilization of marketplace features such as private offers, multiparty private offers, and/or CSP private offers as well as opportunities Microsoft offers to build partnerships such as ISV Success and Marketplace Rewards.


• Preferred qualification – your organization has a publicly available offer that is transactable and surfaced on digital storefronts (Azure Marketplace and/or Microsoft AppSource).

Call to Action

• Prepare your nomination & submit before July 18, 2025! Visit https://aka.ms/POTYA for more details.


• Additional resources:
  
  
  
  • Complete award guidelines: https://aka.ms/POTYA_Guidelines
  
  
  • Guidance from the judges: https://aka.ms/POTYA_JudgesGuidance
  
  
  • Frequently asked questions: https://aka.ms/POTYA_FAQ