TekRevol Earns MarCom Platinum Award for Digital Media Excellence

Building technology that drives real-world change has always been at the core of what TekRevol does. In 2022, that commitment earned international recognition, a MarCom Platinum Award in Digital Media | Mobile App/Web.

The winning entry wasn’t a commercial product or a brand campaign. It was the Stop Vaping Challenge App, a cross-platform mobile application built in partnership with the University of Toronto, designed to help teens and young adults quit vaping, a growing public health crisis affecting millions across North America.

The MarCom judges evaluated thousands of entries from dozens of countries. They awarded TekRevol Platinum, the highest distinction in the competition, because the work didn’t just meet the brief. It exceeded every standard they measured it against.

About the MarCom Awards

The MarCom Awards is one of the oldest, largest, and most respected creative competitions in the world. Administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), an international organization founded in 1995, consisting of thousands of marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, and digital professionals, the competition receives over 6,500 entries annually from dozens of countries.

The evaluation process is rigorous and peer-driven. Entries are judged on quality, creativity, and resourcefulness across hundreds of categories spanning print media, digital media, and strategic communications. Companies are not self-nominated into recognition; they are evaluated, measured, and either found worthy or they aren’t.

The Platinum Award represents the highest level of achievement within the competition. Only around 16% of all entries ever receive this distinction. Winning one means your work was placed alongside the best creative and digital professionals in the world and judged to belong there.

The Problem That Started It All

Before there was an award, there was a crisis.

Vaping-associated pulmonary injuries were rising sharply among young adults aged 18 to 34. Approximately 81 million daily e-cigarette users across the United States were developing dependencies that the healthcare system could not address through traditional means. Pamphlets weren’t working. Warnings weren’t working. The audience most at risk, teenagers and young adults, weren’t responding to the tools available to them.

The University of Toronto recognized that the answer wasn’t another awareness campaign. It was a digital solution built specifically for the way young people actually live, on their phones, motivated by community, driven by challenge, and progress.

That’s when they came to TekRevol.

The App That Earned the Platinum

The Stop Vaping Challenge App was designed from the ground up to meet young users where they were, not where healthcare professionals wished they were.

TekRevol’s team began with a comprehensive discovery and strategy phase, mapping out not just the technical requirements but the behavioral psychology behind addiction and habit change. The result was a cross-platform mobile application and web-based admin panel that combined health purpose with genuine product thinking.

The app gave users a simple, friction-free onboarding experience and then built an entire ecosystem around their journey to quit. Features included daily and weekly challenges that kept users engaged and accountable, a leaderboard and progress tracking system that introduced healthy competition, a friends and community module that replaced the social pull of vaping culture with peer support, and a memories feature that helped users mark and celebrate milestones in their recovery.

The admin panel gave the University of Toronto full visibility into performance metrics, user behavior, and critical statistics, ensuring the platform could be monitored, refined, and scaled as the user base grew.

What TekRevol delivered wasn’t just a functional app. It was a behavior change platform, one that understood its audience deeply enough to actually move them.

What the Platinum Means

Winning a MarCom Platinum in the Digital Media | Mobile App/Web category is not a routine achievement. The category attracts submissions from the world’s leading creative agencies, enterprise marketing departments, and specialized digital studios. Every entry competes on equal footing, judged solely on the merit of the work.

For TekRevol, this recognition affirmed something the team had built into the project from day one: that the best digital products are not the ones with the most features or the most sophisticated architecture. They are the ones who understand a human problem deeply enough to solve it in a way that people actually embrace.

The Stop Vaping app was built for an audience that had no reason to trust another health tool. It earned their trust through design, through community, and through an experience that respected their intelligence and met their needs. That is what the MarCom judges recognized. That is what Platinum reflects.

What Came After

Winning the Platinum pushed TekRevol’s healthtech practice forward in concrete ways. The team strengthened its cross-platform development capabilities, refined its approach to behavioral UX design, and took on more complex social impact projects, apps built not for commercial growth alone, but for community change.

As a mobile app development company operating across healthtech, fintech, education, and social impact, TekRevol has continued applying those same capabilities across dozens of projects globally. The standard set by Stop Vaping, purpose-driven, user-first, creatively uncompromising, remains the benchmark today.

Where We Stand Today

The 2022 MarCom Platinum Award is one chapter in a longer story of recognition, alongside rankings from Clutch, SoftwareWorld, DesignRush, Inc. 5000, and others. But it holds a particular place, because it recognized something beyond technical capability.

For TekRevol, this recognition affirmed something the team had built into the project from day one: that the best digital products are not the ones with the most features or the most sophisticated architecture. They are the ones who understand a human problem deeply enough to solve it in a way that people actually embrace.

Apps that change behavior. Platforms that serve communities. Digital products that make a measurable difference in the lives of real people. That has always been the foundation. Every award, every recognition, every client relationship traces back to it.

That foundation has not changed. It never will.