Become a Sponsor
The Media Innovation Awards celebrate and promote the cream of the creative industries and it is a joint initiative by the media, design and music clusters in the South West comprising some 8,000 people working in the creative industries.
The clusters involved in this initiative are based as far afield as Bournemouth, Gloucestershire and Penzance and include: Bristol Media; Creative Bath, Gloucestershire Media Group; Swindon Media Group, Wessex Media Group; Plymouth Media-Partnership; Cornwall Media Focus; Digital Peninsula Network; and the South West Design Forum nodes of Designed in Devon; Cornwall Design Forum; West of England Design Forum; Somerset Design Enterprise Network, Dorset Design Forum and Gloucestershire Design Network.
The Media Innovation Awards is the South West’s leading award ceremony for the creative industries and as a result the awards command widespread attention locally, regionally and nationally via media coverage, web streaming, promotional collateral and highly distinguished supporters and guests.
The winners will be announced at a special gala dinner event to be held in March. Winners will receive a specially designed award and in addition the winner of the Most Innovative New Talent/New Business award will receive a cash prize of £500
Sponsorship is a great way of reaching people working in the sector as well as the wider business community right across the South West. The initiative will be publicised regularly in the region and beyond and in previous years the awards generated more than two million opportunities to see across the regional press, and in addition received television and radio coverage.
That's why we pay very close attention to making sponsorship good value for all of our supporters. A principal benefit is that it associates your business with an event that is successful, creative, dynamic, well established and well respected. Highlights of the awards will be streamed on our website and direct links to the material can be provided for use on our sponsors’ websites. One of our sponsors is Insider Magazine and they will be featuring the awards in their monthly magazine and in ebulletins that are circulated to thousands of businesses in the South West.
Sponsors have included the BBC, ITV, O2, Audio Network, Bishop Fleming, Pyramid, Out of Hand, Plymouth City Council, Bristol City Council, Tell Systems, PR Dogs, University of the West of England, University of Plymouth, University College Falmouth, Plymouth College of Art, City College, Twofour, Silverstream, Business Link and the South West RDA. The Media Innovation Awards offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities and advertising packages.
AWARD SPONSORSHIP
We are inviting sponsors for each of the award categories and the cost of sponsoring an award is just £2,000 for categories 1-17 and £2,500 for category 18, the Outstanding Contribution to Innovation Award.
In return your organisation will be credited in all press releases as the award sponsor, as well as on the website and in the event brochure. The website and brochure will include your logo and a 60 word synopsis about your organisation, and your logo will appear on the website homepage. Award sponsors will receive two free tickets to the gala dinner along with the opportunity of presenting the award. Categories are likely to include:
1. Television - SOLD
2. DVD/CD
3. Community Web Use
4. Corporate Web Use - SOLD
5. Mobile Communications - SOLD
6. Multi-platform project - SOLD
7. Independent Film/Video - SOLD
8. Print Graphics - SOLD
9. Screen Graphics
10. Photographic - SOLD
11. Installation/Exhibition
12. Audio/Music for Screen
13. Virtual World/Gaming
14. Branding - SOLD
15. Live Events - IN NEGOTIATION
16. Collaboration between business & young people
17. New Talent / New Business - SOLD
18. Outstanding Contribution to Innovation - SOLD
EVENT SPONSORSHIP
There is a range of event sponsorship packages available. Event sponsors receive the following benefits:
Platinum (£10,000 and above)
• Logo on the front of the awards brochure;
• Full page advert inside the awards brochure
• Company name and synopsis included at the top of the event sponsors page in the brochure and on the website;
• Logo included at the top of promotional literature and on the website homepage;
• 10 free places at the gala event.
Gold (£5,000-£9,999)
• Full page advert in the awards brochure;
• Company name and synopsis included in the event sponsors page of the brochure and on the website;
• Logo to be included on all promotional literature and on the website homepage.
• 4 free places at gala event
Silver (£3,000-£4,999)
• Half page advert in the awards brochure;
• Company name and synopsis included in the event sponsors page of the brochure and on the website;
• Logo to be included on all promotional literature and on the website homepage
• 3 free places at gala event
Bronze (£2,000 - £2,999)
• Quarter page advert in the awards brochure;
• Company name and synopsis included in the event sponsors page of the brochure and on the website;
• Logo to be included on all promotional literature and on the website homepage
• 2 free places at gala event
OTHER SPONSORSHIP AND ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES
You can also take advantage of the captive media and new media audience by advertising in our awards brochure and on our website. The brochure is distributed to everyone who attends the gala dinner, and to VIPs after the event. Advertising rates are as follows:
Quarter page in brochure and credit on the website: £249
Half page in brochure and credit on the website: £499
Full page in brochure and credit on the website: £999
To discuss how sponsorship can be made to work for you, please contact Karen Stockdale on 01752 346530 or email: Karen@pm-p.com