As we all know, last Thursday night BIMA announced the winners of the BIMA Awards 2008, in association with Digital Arts.
Nine agencies and individuals were given the main categories awards; Proximity London (B2B), Poke (B2C), The Rumpus Room & The Sweet Shop (Film & Animation), Less Rain (Games), AKQA (Integrated Campaign), Agency Republic (Social Media), CHI & Partners (Website), Will Saunders (Student) and AKQA (Agency of the Year).
A range of additional sub-categories acknowledged specific campaigns, aiming to capture specific talents and merit the successes of modern digital media. This produced a diverse range of winners including; Clock Limited’s ‘Creative Pool’ campaign for Channel 4 taking the Technology & Innovation award for the B2B category, and magneticNorth’s work with the BBC on its ‘Climate Change: Bloom’ website being awarded the Content & Design award in the Website category.
AKQA undoubtedly had the biggest success of the night, winning the sought-after ‘Agency of the Year’ accolade, after winning six additional awards for work on behalf of Xbox, Nike and Unilever’s ‘Pot Noodle’. The agency then finished the night by receiving BIMA’s top award - the Grand Prix, celebrating the best work from all of the award winners, for its work on Nike’s Bootcamp campaign.
With inspiring future talent now a big focus for BIMA, the student award was given to Will Saunders from Hull School of Art & Design for his work entitled ‘Screaming Sky’.
The dinner was attended by some of the industry’s most respected and established agencies and brands, including the likes of Poke – who received three awards, all for work on Orange’s ‘Unlimited’ and ‘Balloonacy’ campaigns – as well as MRM Worldwide UK, IMG Digital Media and Imagination, having picked up one award each.
Digital creativity and music go hand in hand, and one of the highlights of the evening was the BIMA DJ competition. With some of the UK’s top digital creative agencies in the same room, those harbouring raw DJ talent stepped up to the decks to go head to head with their peers. After a good show by all, Ollie Blackmore from Selesti was rewarded with an Xbox for his attempts.
A full list of 2008 winners can be found here, and roll on next year.
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