The Media Innovation Awards celebrate and honour the very best creative and innovative work produced by media, design and music companies during 2011 and the glitzy gala dinner will take place in Bristol during the Autumn.

The competition is open to all members of creative networks and clusters in the South West as well as their clients. Design companies and are being encouraged to enter the competition by the deadline of 28th February. You can enter online or download an entry pack from www.mediainnovationawards.com. Companies and individuals can enter up to five categories and the search is on for the most innovative New Talent and the company or person worthy of the Most Outstanding Contribution to Innovation award.

Slingshot, a company based in Bristol, won the Mobile Communications award in 2011 for their project “The Tweeture” which was commissioned by Arts Council England and iShed.

Simon Evans from Slingshot said “It was a pleasure to win a Media Innovation Award. As a business looking to develop and exploit innovative technologies such endorsement is essential to convincing clients of our credibility and establishing our place in the market”.

The 16 categories in the 2012 awards will be judged by a panel of highly respected industry leaders to be announced later this month. The categories are:
Television, Video or Film
Website Design and Use
Mobile Application
Graphics
Animation
Installation/Exhibition/Live Events
Radio/Audio/Music
Games Design
Branding
Marketing and Advertising B2B
Marketing and Advertising B2C
Collaboration between Business and Young People
International Trade
Entrepreneurship
New Talent
Outstanding Contribution to Innovation

Karen Stockdale from the Media Innovation Awards said: “This is an important opportunity to celebrate innovation and talent within the sector in the South West and the event enables us to put the spotlight on the world-class creative companies based in the region. We’re delighted that this year we’ve introduced 3 new categories for Animation, Marketing & Advertising B2B and Marketing & Advertising B2C. We hope that this will encourage the most innovative design and marketing companies in the South West to have a go and enter the awards”.

CLICK HERE for more information and to enter the awards