BMS Awards: Oct-Dec 2021
POSTED ON: 27/01/22
TAGS: BMS Awards
by Lucy Upton
And the winner is . . . announcing the top campaigns of Q4 2021!
or see below for the full list…

A NOTE FROM THE CHAIR OF JUDGES, MIRIAM ROBINSON:
‘Your submissions this quarter were, as they always are, just a joy to read. What’s exciting is that, as we see a diversification of publishing propositions, we are also seeing this amazing diversification of campaign strategies to match – or maybe we are able to publish more bravely because we know that we have incredible marketers who get savvier and savvier all the time with how to bring complicated, harder-to-categorise titles to readers.
In Q4 we always, of course, see the mega, blockbuster campaigns but I think we all agreed that they were particularly mega and blockbustery! But also that they combined the weight and punch and graft of the biggest campaigns with subtlety, nuance, empathy and social consciousness, in a way that felt really exciting. Creative angles felt more unexpected, and we loved the way that multiple campaigns acknowledged when they didn’t fully know their audience – and sought the right help to make sure they fully understood who they were speaking to and how.
Overall, really inspiring, really creative and really impressive.’
Q4 – October to December 2021
MULTI-TITLE
Entries rolled to Q1 2022
GUERRILLA
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco
Marketer: Laura Bartholomew / Hodder & Stoughton
WINNER: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Marketer: Casey Davoren / Little, Brown
CHILDREN’S
HIGHLY COMMENDED: What is racism? by Katie Daynes and Jordan Akpojaro
Marketer: Sarah Connell / Usborne
WINNER: Greg the Sausage Roll by Mark and Roxanne Hoyle
Marketers: Lauren Floodgate, Jannine Saunders / Penguin Children’s
YOUNG ADULT
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Terciel and Elinor by Garth Nix
Marketer: Emma Quick / Hot Key (Bonnier)
WINNER: Afterlove by Tanya Byrne
Marketers: Beth McWilliams, Aashfaria Anwar / Hachette Children’s
DEBUT
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Slimming Eats by Siobhan Wightman
Marketer: Sahina Bibi / Hodder & Stoughton
WINNER: Free by Lea Ypi
Marketer: Ania Gordon / Penguin Press
ADULT NON-FICTION
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Will by Will Smith
Marketers: Rebecca Ikin, Claire Bush, Lydia Weigel / Cornerstone
WINNER: The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
Marketers: Hayley McMullan, Richard Vlietstra / Simon & Schuster
ADULT FICTION
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Keisha the Sket by Jade LB
Marketers: Lydia Weigel, Emma Wallace / Merky Books
WINNER: The Haunting Season by various
Marketer: Emily Moran / Little Brown
Q4 Spotlight Award Winners
AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT:
Black Skin by Dija Ayodele
Marketers: Vicki Watson, Katrina Smedley / HQ
INNOVATION:
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai WeiWei
Marketers: Rosanna Boscawen, Chloe Healy / Vintage
CREATIVITY:
A Class Act by Rob Beckett
Marketer: Julie MacBrayne / Harper NonFiction
GRAFT:
Windswept and Interesting by Billy Connolly
Marketer: Sarah Arratoon / John Murray
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