Book Marketing Society Awards 

BMS are committed to promoting excellence in book trade marketing. As part of this commitment, we sponsor and administrate a number of Awards schemes, one to reward the best marketing campaigns throughout the year, both for adults and for children, and one to reward the best blurb each year.

The remaining schedule for the BMS Best Marketing Campaign Awards for 2011 is as follows:

Third Award:
Submissions by 17 Jan 2012
For marketing campaigns run between September and December 2011. Entry deadline for submissions will be on January 17th 2012, with the winners being announced at the following Open Meeting on February 8th.

The 2012 schedule for the BMS Best Marketing Campaign Awards as follows:

First Award:
Submissions by 18 May 2012
For marketing campaigns run between January and April 2012.

Second Award:
Submissions by 21 Sept 2012
For marketing campaigns run between May and August 2012.

Third Award:
Submissions date TBC
For marketing campaigns run between September and December 2012.

Book Marketing Society Best Blurb Awards

2011
Congratulations to the Orion team behind Justin Cronin's The Passage for winning this year's prize, with titles from Sceptre, Penguin and Headline achieving runner-up slots.

2010
First place was awarded to The Other Hand by Chris Cleave and, very close behind in joint second place, The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom and Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson.

All of the winners for the best blurb awards can be found by clicking through to our past winners page here.

BMS Awards Submission Form

 Click below to download the Book Marketing Society Awards submission form:

       

               

 Click below to download the Best Blurb Awards Awards submission form:

       

               

For further details, please email jo@bookmarketing.co.uk

The winning and highly commended entries for the BMS Best Marketing Campaigns throughout the year will automatically be entered onto the long list for the annual Marketing Campaign Award at the Bookseller Industry Awards, held in conjunction with the Book Industry Conference each Spring.

 

The Book Marketing Society Campaign Awards are judged by a panel consisting of:

• Alastair Giles (BMS Secretary)
• Dominic Gettings (EuroRSCG)
• Hugh Salmon
• Jo Henry
• Jon Slack



Plus two guest judges.

 

The BMS Best Blurb Awards are judged by a panel consisting of:

• Damian Horner, independent marketing consultant
• Dominic Gettings (EuroRSCG)
• Rob Williams
• Alastair Giles
• Jo Henry

The judges draw up a shortlist which is then tested on consumers, via the BML BookZone consumer panel, and the overall winners are based on a mixture of judging panel and consumer votes. The results of the consumer voting are released to the BMS membership.