The BIMA Awards are a highlight of the year for those in the digital industry.
The event itself bucks tradition with more of a party vibe and much to see in the way of innovative digital demos, but what really brings people to the event are the awards themselves and the opportunity to meet with others who are at the top of their game.
The shortlist has recently been announced for this year’s awards. There are a lot of familiar faces; R/GA London have been shortlisted seven times in six separate categories, We Are Social have been shortlisted six times and Razorfish four times, but there is also new blood in the Startup of the Year category.
Individuals are nominated for the Student of the Year category, a Premium Award alongside the Grand Prix and Agency of the Year categories. All other categories are organised under Sectors, which includes Automotive, B2B & Professional Services and Consumer Goods, and Disciplines, which includes Content, Data and Immersive.
The 2015 BIMA Award winners will be announced at the Awards Party on 17 September at One Embankment.
2015 Finalists:
Startup of the Year
Cornerstone — 383
Get Invited — Get Invited
Only — Only
Seenit — Emily Forbes
StashMetrics — Sam Oakley
The Happiness Index — The Happiness Index
Student of the Year
Bamboozle — Mads and Charlie
Countdown for Npower — Joel Buckley
Endangered Soles — Frazer Price, Teddy Souter, John Trainor
Game On or Game Over — Nicholas Kugge & Zoe Jezeph
Give a shit — Elin Jarlstrom & Søren Birk
Urban Bees — Carine Olsen
Automotive
C-Class iPad App — Digital Annexe
Lexus NX House — Amaze
The AA Breakdown and Traffic App — Rufus Leonard & The AA
The Attention Test — ais London
What drives us is you — Isobar
B2B & Professional Services
Allianz Presents #SchoolRunStories — Gravity Thinking
Honeywell RMU — Sequence Agency
Licence Bureau Compliance Portal — DotLabel
Sky's the limit: FerroNATS — CDD
Soundjack — Nimbletank
The world is in beta — VML
Consumer Goods
#STANDFORSOMETHING — ODD
Ben McBean's #First Big Poppy Run — AKQA
Glenfiddich: Father's Day Restoration Project — Gravity Thinking
Like A Girl — Holler and Leo Burnett
Lucozade Sport Conditions Zone — Knit and TRO
Taste With Tarquin — Havas Helia
The Spirit of BACARDI, a graphic novel — Citizen
TWEET TO EAT — AMVBBDO
Consumer Retailers
#MINDFCUK — Lost Boys
#UGGSOS — Lost Boys
Fortnum & Mason E-Commerce re-design and build — Red Badger
Online Field Trips — Zone
THE OUTNET Sergio the Shoe Hunter — Atelier
Consumer Services
Do-it — SOON_
PlayStation.com — BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
Scottish Friendly Refresh — Blonde
Tesco Bank Mobile Services — Nile, Tesco Bank & Tesco Bank customers
Education
FeelingNuts — DF London, Attention Seekers
Online Field Trips — Zone
Pelican Books — Fiasco Design
Rugged Rovers — Preloaded
The Holidays are Made With Code — Nexus Interactive Arts
Internal Communications
'Throw it out there' — Aviva Customer Cup — Big Dog agency
Orange — Global brand guidelines — e3
Sainsbury's History Timeline — We are Tilt Ltd
Shell Ideas 360 — Browser London
Media
Adventure Time: Finn & Jake's Big Adventure — Waste Creative Ltd
BFI Player 2.0 — Ostmodern
Don't Stop The Music — Rocket / Fresh One / Oxfam
Madeon: Adventure Machine — Sony Music Digital Creative & We Make Awesome Shit
The New Doctor Lands — Red Bee Media
Public Life
#DontPanicButton — We Are Social
BFI Player 2.0 — Ostmodern
FeelingNuts — DF London, Attention Seekers
Google Year In Search — R/GA London
Look at Me — WCRS
Reverse The Odds — Maverick Television & Chunk
The Next Photo — Wunderman UK
Sport & Leisure
#allin or nothing — We Are Social
Brazuca — We Are Social
Google World Cup — R/GA London
Hilton Weekends — 383
House of Mamba — AKQA
Lucozade Sport Conditions Zone — Knit and TRO
Wellbeing & Health
ghd Christmas 2014 #getthehintdarling — Atelier
The London Stare — Razorfish
The Story of the Tooth — Hometown
UV Blaze — Redweb
Why A & E? — 2am
Content
#allin or nothing — We Are Social
BBC Earth — BBC
Best Summer Ever Project — AnalogFolk
Brazuca — We Are Social
THE OUTNET Sergio the Shoe Hunter — Atelier
The Spirit of BACARDI, a graphic novel — Citizen
Data
Brainlabs & Which? - Mad Scientists — Brainlabs
Google World Cup — R/GA London
Google Year In Search — R/GA London
Karen — Blast Theory
Lucozade Sport Conditions Zone — Knit and TRO
Immersive
Canon at photokina 2014 — Imagination
Inside Rolls-Royce — Imagination
Kasabian in 360 — Visualise Creative Ltd
Monty's Magical Toy Machine — Techdept Limited, Microsoft Advertising UK, adam&eveDDB, Manning Gottlieb OMD
Sunset Overdrive Glitch — McCann London / B-Reel
Integrated
Africa United — We've Got Your Back — M&C Saatchi London / TouchCast / Freuds / KYNE
DesignSpark Power Hack — Freestyle Interactive
Don't Stop The Music — Fresh One / Rocket / Oxfam
FeelingNuts — DF London, Attention Seekers
Kinder Surprise — Storymakers — Pablo London
Location
Hiut Denim Shop Window Hack — Knit and TRO
Look at Me — WCRS
Lucozade Sport Conditions Zone — Knit and TRO
TWEET TO EAT — Clear Channel UK, Talon, OMD UK, AMV BBDO
Mobile
Heineken @wherenext — R/GA London
Pelican Books — Fiasco Design
Taste With Tarquin — Havas Helia
The New Eurosport — Huge
The Next Photo — Wunderman UK
TWEET TO EAT — AMVBBDO
Native Mobile Apps
FanDuel — Kotikan
Liftshare — DigitasLBi
Minicabit — Nimbletank
RTE International — Nice Agency
The AA Breakdown and Traffic App — Rufus Leonard
Performance
Brainlabs & Alpharooms: Real Time Bidding For The First Time Ever — Brainlabs
Flight to Ferry — DigitasLBi
Unleashing the potential of broad tail search to increase audience, traffic and revenue — iCrossing
Ve-Etihad Abandoned Booking Campaign — Ve
Social
Brazuca — We Are Social
FeelingNuts — DF London, Attention Seekers
Forza Fuel — DF London
Language of Football — AKQA
Like A Girl — Holler and Leo Burnett
My Burger — Razorfish
THE OUTNET Sergio the Shoe Hunter — Atelier
UX & Service Design
BFI Player 2.0 — Ostmodern
Easyfundraising ios mobile app — ribot
Google World Cup — R/GA London
Jump — London Bus Tracker — Noble Union
My Burger — Razorfish
Ximbio — Cyber-Duck
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Video
Google Year In Search — R/GA London
Like A Girl — Holler and Leo Burnett
Online Field Trips — Zone
The Attention Test — ais London
THE OUTNET Sergio the Shoe Hunter — Atelier
Web Design & Build
Brompton Bicycles — Ngoar (Development) Webcredible (UX & Design)
Fortnum & Mason E-Commerce re-design and build — Red Badger
My Burger — Razorfish
The Guardian Bookshop — Lab
The Independent — i100 — Nice Agency
The New Eurosport — Huge
World Baking Day — M&C Saatchi London