Awards & Recognition

BIMA Awards

Celebrating the best of British Ingenuity. Then. Now. Next.

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BIMA Awards 2025 - 40 years of BIMA

 

The BIMA Awards are the UK’s longest standing and most prestigious digital and tech awards. Since 1985, they’ve set the gold standard in digital excellence,  recognising work that pushes boundaries and creates real impact across business, culture, and society.

This year we’re celebrating a milestone: 40 years of BIMA. The Awards ceremony will mark the occasion in style, as we celebrate both our incredible winners and four decades of driving digital forward.

Join us as we honour the best of today and the future that lies ahead.

Celebrate the winners and 40 years of BIMA – book your tickets today.

 

BIMA Sustainability Council Co-Chair

Neil Clark, Planet Officer and Service Design Lead, TPXimpact
"It's great to see the planet as a central part of the BIMA awards this year... I can't wait to see how agencies have been going beyond just low carbon stuff; I want to see how and why the planet has been a stakeholder of their projects!"

BIMA Awards Judges

Ben Scoggins, CEO, Organic
"The BIMA Awards are amazing. They recognise the best thinking, craft and execution in the digital industries - they open our eyes, our hearts and our minds, and show off brilliant commercial impact. As a result, being asked to be a judge is an absolute treat!"

BIMA Awards Judges

John Paul Toher, Head of Digital, Workhouse Agency
"I found judging the 2022 BIMA Awards to be both an interesting and rewarding experience. BIMA put a lot of effort into organising the panels and the entries were enjoyable to review."

BIMA Awards

What’s new?

The BIMA Awards celebrate impact when the best of British creativity meets technology and innovation.

We believe that all our BIMA members are part of this category of ingenious creators and innovators – that’s why our annual Awards is now positioned as having an unique focus. Our awards categories will now be separated into three areas of British Ingenuity, we need to celebrate them all to succeed on a world stage.

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The three areas of British Ingenuity:

Campaign:
Creativity, emotional,results-oriented. Categories will feature our campaign-first members fromperformance marketing to social

Product:
This is for the technological, precise, systematic thinkers. Categories will be curated to favour our
developer-first members with categories focussing on transformation and build.

Sectors and Special Categories:
This is for the categories that have a home in both camps. For sector based and broad categories such as Social Good and Agency of the year.

 

Entry information

It’s not about the size of your agency or PR budget. It’s not about the sector, format or channel. BIMA Awards are about original thinking. It’s about impact. It’s about something you did – or something you’re doing – that could influence the next decade.
It’s a level playing field for big agencies and small, new or niche companies. Entering is quick and easy. There are 27 categories and you’ll be judged by the very best in the business. BIMA Members get their first entry for free.

Download the 2025 Entry Pack

2025 key dates:

  • Call for judges // Monday 14 April
  • Award Entries open // Tuesday 22 April
  • Earlybird entry deadline // Friday 13 June
  • Call for judges closes // Friday 4 July
  • Entry deadline // Friday 11 July
  • Late entry deadline // Thursday 31 July
  • Round one judging (online) // 1-12 September
  • Round two judging (in-person) // 15-19 September
  • Shortlist announced // Monday 29 September
  • BIMA Awards 2025 Ceremony // Thursday 20 November Book your tickets

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