The BIMA Awards are a highlight of the year for those in the digital industry.

The event itself bucks tradition with more of a party vibe and much to see in the way of innovative digital demos, but what really brings people to the event are the awards themselves and the opportunity to meet with others who are at the top of their game.

The shortlist has recently been announced for this year’s awards. There are a lot of familiar faces; R/GA London have been shortlisted seven times in six separate categories, We Are Social have been shortlisted six times and Razorfish four times, but there is also new blood in the Startup of the Year category.

Individuals are nominated for the Student of the Year category, a Premium Award alongside the Grand Prix and Agency of the Year categories. All other categories are organised under Sectors, which includes Automotive, B2B & Professional Services and Consumer Goods, and Disciplines, which includes Content, Data and Immersive.

Bridget Beale, managing director at BIMA, says, "This year we have seen a dramatic increase in submissions into the Immersive category and a surge in innovative tech and agency start-ups entering. Proof of effectiveness was key on judging day, with the high quality of work making for an exciting judging process. I am really looking forward to celebrating with such an exceptionally talented bunch at the BIMA Awards party on 17 September."

2015 Finalists:

Startup of the Year

Cornerstone — 383

Get Invited — Get Invited

Only — Only

Seenit — Emily Forbes

StashMetrics — Sam Oakley

The Happiness Index — The Happiness Index

Student of the Year

Bamboozle — Mads and Charlie

Countdown for Npower — Joel Buckley

Endangered Soles — Frazer Price, Teddy Souter, John Trainor

Game On or Game Over — Nicholas Kugge & Zoe Jezeph

Give a shit — Elin Jarlstrom & Søren Birk

Urban Bees — Carine Olsen

Automotive

C-Class iPad App — Digital Annexe

Lexus NX House — Amaze

The AA Breakdown and Traffic App — Rufus Leonard & The AA

The Attention Test — ais London

What drives us is you — Isobar

B2B & Professional Services

Allianz Presents #SchoolRunStories — Gravity Thinking

Honeywell RMU — Sequence Agency

Licence Bureau Compliance Portal — DotLabel

Sky's the limit: FerroNATS — CDD

Soundjack — Nimbletank

The world is in beta — VML

Consumer Goods

#STANDFORSOMETHING — ODD

Ben McBean's #First Big Poppy Run — AKQA

Glenfiddich: Father's Day Restoration Project — Gravity Thinking

Like A Girl — Holler and Leo Burnett

Lucozade Sport Conditions Zone — Knit and TRO

Taste With Tarquin — Havas Helia

The Spirit of BACARDI, a graphic novel — Citizen

TWEET TO EAT — AMVBBDO

Consumer Retailers

#MINDFCUK — Lost Boys

#UGGSOS — Lost Boys

Fortnum & Mason E-Commerce re-design and build — Red Badger

Online Field Trips — Zone

THE OUTNET Sergio the Shoe Hunter — Atelier

Consumer Services

Do-it — SOON_

PlayStation.com — BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

Scottish Friendly Refresh — Blonde

Tesco Bank Mobile Services — Nile, Tesco Bank & Tesco Bank customers

Education

FeelingNuts — DF London, Attention Seekers

Online Field Trips — Zone

Pelican Books — Fiasco Design

Rugged Rovers — Preloaded

The Holidays are Made With Code — Nexus Interactive Arts

Internal Communications

'Throw it out there' — Aviva Customer Cup — Big Dog agency

Orange — Global brand guidelines — e3

Sainsbury's History Timeline — We are Tilt Ltd

Shell Ideas 360 — Browser London

Media

Adventure Time: Finn & Jake's Big Adventure — Waste Creative Ltd

BFI Player 2.0 — Ostmodern

Don't Stop The Music — Rocket / Fresh One / Oxfam

Madeon: Adventure Machine — Sony Music Digital Creative & We Make Awesome Shit

The New Doctor Lands — Red Bee Media

Public Life

#DontPanicButton — We Are Social

BFI Player 2.0 — Ostmodern

FeelingNuts — DF London, Attention Seekers

Google Year In Search — R/GA London

Look at Me — WCRS

Reverse The Odds — Maverick Television & Chunk

The Next Photo — Wunderman UK

Sport & Leisure

#allin or nothing — We Are Social

Brazuca — We Are Social

Google World Cup — R/GA London

Hilton Weekends — 383

House of Mamba — AKQA

Lucozade Sport Conditions Zone — Knit and TRO

Wellbeing & Health

ghd Christmas 2014 #getthehintdarling — Atelier

The London Stare — Razorfish

The Story of the Tooth — Hometown

UV Blaze — Redweb

Why A & E? — 2am

Content

#allin or nothing — We Are Social

BBC Earth — BBC

Best Summer Ever Project — AnalogFolk

Brazuca — We Are Social

THE OUTNET Sergio the Shoe Hunter — Atelier

The Spirit of BACARDI, a graphic novel — Citizen

Data

Brainlabs & Which? - Mad Scientists — Brainlabs

Google World Cup — R/GA London

Google Year In Search — R/GA London

Karen — Blast Theory

Lucozade Sport Conditions Zone — Knit and TRO

Immersive

Canon at photokina 2014 — Imagination

Inside Rolls-Royce — Imagination

Kasabian in 360 — Visualise Creative Ltd

Monty's Magical Toy Machine — Techdept Limited, Microsoft Advertising UK, adam&eveDDB, Manning Gottlieb OMD

Sunset Overdrive Glitch — McCann London / B-Reel

Integrated

Africa United — We've Got Your Back — M&C Saatchi London / TouchCast / Freuds / KYNE

DesignSpark Power Hack — Freestyle Interactive

Don't Stop The Music — Fresh One / Rocket / Oxfam

FeelingNuts — DF London, Attention Seekers

Kinder Surprise — Storymakers — Pablo London

Location

Hiut Denim Shop Window Hack — Knit and TRO

Look at Me — WCRS

Lucozade Sport Conditions Zone — Knit and TRO

TWEET TO EAT — Clear Channel UK, Talon, OMD UK, AMV BBDO

Mobile

Heineken @wherenext — R/GA London

Pelican Books — Fiasco Design

Taste With Tarquin — Havas Helia

The New Eurosport — Huge

The Next Photo — Wunderman UK

TWEET TO EAT — AMVBBDO

Native Mobile Apps

FanDuel — Kotikan

Liftshare — DigitasLBi

Minicabit — Nimbletank

RTE International — Nice Agency

The AA Breakdown and Traffic App — Rufus Leonard

Performance

Brainlabs & Alpharooms: Real Time Bidding For The First Time Ever — Brainlabs

Flight to Ferry — DigitasLBi

Unleashing the potential of broad tail search to increase audience, traffic and revenue — iCrossing

Ve-Etihad Abandoned Booking Campaign — Ve

Social

Brazuca — We Are Social

FeelingNuts — DF London, Attention Seekers

Forza Fuel — DF London

Language of Football — AKQA

Like A Girl — Holler and Leo Burnett

My Burger — Razorfish

THE OUTNET Sergio the Shoe Hunter — Atelier

UX & Service Design

BFI Player 2.0 — Ostmodern

Easyfundraising ios mobile app — ribot

Google World Cup — R/GA London

Jump — London Bus Tracker — Noble Union

My Burger — Razorfish

Ximbio — Cyber-Duck

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Video

Google Year In Search — R/GA London

Like A Girl — Holler and Leo Burnett

Online Field Trips — Zone

The Attention Test — ais London

THE OUTNET Sergio the Shoe Hunter — Atelier

Web Design & Build

Brompton Bicycles — Ngoar (Development) Webcredible (UX & Design)

Fortnum & Mason E-Commerce re-design and build — Red Badger

My Burger — Razorfish

The Guardian Bookshop — Lab

The Independent — i100 — Nice Agency

The New Eurosport — Huge

World Baking Day — M&C Saatchi London