Gong, the leading revenue AI company, has revealed the winners of the 2025 Golden Gong Awards, now in its sixth year. These awards highlight how high-performing revenue teams are harnessing AI to achieve predictable business results beyond mere automation. Selected from nearly 200 nominations, the honored organizations demonstrate the impact of Gong's Revenue AI OS in driving tangible revenue success and strategic advantages.
The 2025 Golden Gong winners exemplify how Gong's Revenue AI Operating System correlates with measurable revenue achievements. These organizations have leveraged AI insights to enhance sales performance, streamline operations, and accelerate growth. By integrating real-time analytics and intelligent workflows, they have set new benchmarks for revenue efficiency and effectiveness in competitive markets.
In the Bar Raisers category, Wolters Kluwer Legal and Regulatory U.S. stands out for transforming sales enablement through Gong's real-time analytics and AI insights. The team analyzed seller behaviors to achieve a 57.1% win rate, reduce ramp times, and optimize coaching, ultimately elevating overall performance.
The Strategists category honors Experian Employer Services, where the sales enablement team boosted win rates by 25% and increased sales volumes by 10%, showcasing strategic AI application for sustained revenue growth.
PayPal earned recognition in The Transformers category by expanding Gong across its sales teams, resulting in over 7,600 hours saved annually and a 35% improvement in monthly efficiency, enhancing productivity and revenue visibility.
The awards also spotlight visionary leaders who champion AI implementation for organizational success. These individuals and teams have driven the adoption of Gong's operating system to foster alignment, scalability, and impactful revenue strategies.
Cisco's Revenue Team of the Year award celebrates their initiative to unify a large, distributed global sales force on Gong, improving efficiency, alignment, and forecasting accuracy.
Paula Hansen, CRO at Docusign, is named CRO of the Year for using Gong to ensure visibility, consistency, and scalable revenue impact across customer engagements.
Pradeep Konduru, Revenue Operations Leader of the Year at Procore, is recognized for tech adoption efforts that boosted sales productivity, expanded deal capacity, improved win rates, and saved 2,000 hours annually per rep.
Matt McBreen, Enablement Leader of the Year at ADP, implemented Gong across a large revenue organization to enhance visibility and alignment.
Sebastian Ellios, Customer Success Leader of the Year at Sprout Social, scaled coaching with Gong, achieving a 6.29% increase in logo retention and enabling focus on high-value accounts for greater revenue impact.
The winners are being celebrated at Gong's sold-out Celebrate '25 user conference in Austin, TX, attended by over 900 revenue leaders. This event underscores the growing adoption of revenue AI to transform sales and customer success strategies.
These Golden Gong Awards validate the power of revenue AI in delivering predictable growth. By honoring teams and leaders who integrate Gong's OS into their workflows, the program inspires broader innovation in how organizations leverage AI for competitive advantage and sustained revenue success.
Gong uses AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world's most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph of customer interaction data, intelligent agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 4,800 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical sales workflows, and close more deals with less effort.
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