Industry’s most prized technology awards are open to all to enter
IABM, the international trade association for broadcast and media technology suppliers, has announced that entries are now open for the 2024 IBC Show edition of its BaM Awards®. The BaM Awards® recognize and reward outstanding technological innovations that deliver real business and creative benefits. The BaMs® are the only truly independent technology awards in the industry, and are widely recognized as the gold standard for rewarding Broadcast and Media innovation.
Submissions for the BaM Awards® are open to every company (whether an IABM member or not) that has launched a new product or service within 12 months prior to IBC 2024; the nominated product must be available to view during the show. One entry is free for IABM members. Judging is carried out by a panel of 40+ independent, expert judges and the winners will be announced during the Awards ceremony on 14 September.
The BaM Awards®, which run in two editions – at NAB Show Las Vegas and IBC each year, honor innovations in the nine categories that together make up the BaM Content Chain®, accurately modeling the structure of the industry today. In addition, a tenth category recognizes an outstanding project, event or collaboration.
The deadline for submissions is 12 August 2024. More information about the awards and categories, and the online entry form can be found here.
Watch IABM CTO, Stan Moote, explaining How to submit a winning entry to the BaM Awards® here.
All the winners from both the NAB Show and IBC editions are automatically shortlisted for the IABM Peter Wayne Golden BaM Award®, with the overall winner receiving this ultimate industry accolade in December 2024.
“Because the BaM Awards® are the industry’s only totally independently judged awards – and by acknowledged experts in their fields – winners place great value on the industry-wide recognition and publicity that they confer,” said Stan Moote, CTO at IABM and Chair of the judges. “As to why you should enter the BaM Awards®, listen to what one of our long-standing judges, Mark Chiolis of Mobile TV Group, has to say: ‘Not only are the submissions of very high quality, but a number of them I’ve actually sought out to get into more detail with and see where they’ve evolved to. The quality of the entries provides for future technologies we may want to use in our business or that our clients may want to use in their businesses. I would really encourage people to submit and add all the information they can to support their entry so that it’s sold to the judges even more so than you would to a potential client.’”
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