BCI Amplify Award

The BCI Amplify Award recognizes highly effective and top-rated campaigns, programs or communications that serve to inform, educate and promote the battery industry.

The submission process is now officially open for our 2026 Amplify Awards, which will be announced as part of the BCI Convention + Power Mart Expo in Nashville on May 5.

Download the submission form and instructions here.

Excellence Recognized

Each year, BCI presents its Amplify Awards recognize marketing campaigns that help elevate unique energy storage products and applications, as well as the core values of our industry.

There are a host of campaigns are eligible for each year’s Amplify Awards. These include print and digital ads, public relations and government relations campaigns, videos, infographics, tradeshow booths, social media campaigns, website launches, and much more.

There are two categories of Amplify Awards: The award for Product Marketing, and the award for Industry Leadership.

Congratulations to our two 2025 winners, East Penn Manufacturing and Stryten Energy!

Amplify Award for Product Marketing

Campaigns focused on a wide range of energy storage solutions, battery chemistries, services and applications are eligible for the Amplify Award for Product Marketing. They include work areas such as:

SLI and low-voltage applications in vehicles, marine, and power sports equipment
Motive power products for non-road-going vehicles and industrial and material handling equipment
Stationary storage, local backup power, and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) applications
Renewable energy support, EV fast-charge support, and grid regulation services

A panel of judges reviews external product marketing campaigns that were launched after Jan. 1, 2025, ranking them on three criteria.

Innovation – The campaign effectively raises awareness for new products, services or cutting-edge applications
Uniqueness – The campaign demonstrates a high level of creativity  
Clarity – The campaign is engaging, and makes technically complex features easy to understand 
Design/Aesthetic – The campaign has visual appeal and effective design components

Amplify Award for Industry Leadership

The Amplify Award for Industry Leadership recognizes marketing campaigns that help raise awareness around the work of the association that is supported by the BCI members, the association’s core values, and the positive influence of the energy storage industry.

Core values – The campaign effectively raises awareness for at least one of BCI’s core values including essentiality, innovation, sustainability, safety.
Uniqueness – The campaign demonstrates a high level of creativity  
Clarity – The campaign is engaging, and makes technically complex features easy to understand 
Design/Aesthetic – The campaign has visual appeal and effective design components 
Overall reach and execution

Judging Criteria and Submission Details

Judges are drawn from both within the battery industry itself but will include marketing experts outside the field. Applicants are permitted from firms that also have provided judges, but entrants are prohibited from scoring their own firm’s submission.

Companies do not need to be a member of BCI to apply for the Amplify Award. We do, however, require a representative from the winning firm to attend the BCI Convention + Power Mart Expo to receive the award, with an opportunity to deliver remarks.

All campaigns active after Jan. 1, 2025, are eligible for submission in either award category.

Possible Submissions

The following is a list of potential campaigns and projects to consider for your submission. Please note the following list is meant to provide inspiration and includes examples that qualify for the award; this is not an all-inclusive list. The Amplify Award will be awarded to one (1) submission each year that potentially falls within the following categories. Submissions can include, but are not limited to:

Events: Includes seminars, open houses, networking events and webinars.
Branding: Includes logos and any kind of design or key messaging related to identity enhancement, including new identity design, tagline and/or key messaging.
Promotional and Collateral Materials: Includes brochures, annual reports, integrated brand materials, advertising, promotional giveaways, mailings/announcements and tradeshow booths.
Media Relations/PR: Includes press releases, news conferences and other non-paid media coverage, media training programs, charitable and community service programs and pro bono projects.
Content Marketing: Includes planning and execution of campaign that primarily involves the creation of content around a specific topic, including use of rich media, photo gallery, videos and podcasts.
Internal Marketing: Includes internal marketing initiatives designed to improve the performance and relevancy of the marketing and business development departments within a company.
Diversity and Inclusion: Includes company-wide efforts that engage the marketing department to help the company or industry become more diverse, or to raise awareness for diversity.
Recruitment: Includes external marketing efforts to recruit new employees.
Social Media / Email Marketing / Other Digital Promotions: Includes innovative campaigns that involve social media platforms, email and related campaigns. Can also include proactive efforts to improve website traffic through strategic SEO initiatives.
Software / Technology Platforms: Includes implementation of applications and innovative uses of software and technology. Can include noteworthy blogs or ancillary websites, as well as development of specific technology applications, such as mobile apps. Can also include innovative use of platforms, such as CRM, experience management tools or marketing automation platforms to further a company’s marketing goals.
Website Design and Development: Includes websites, blogs and microsites.

The submission process for the 2026 Amplify Awards begins in September. Please check back later for updates.

Congratulations to 2025’s Winners!

East Penn Manufacturing has won the 2025 BCI Amplify Award for Industry Leadership for its innovative “Mission Possible” video campaign that highlights the latest developments in domestic lithium and lead battery manufacturing and the company’s support for first responders and the military.

Stryten Energy has won the 2025 BCI Amplify Award for Product Marketing for its innovative video campaign promoting Enhanced Flooded Batteries, which features the Not-So-Grim Reaper in the ‘Grim Reaper Enhanced Flooded Battery’ campaign.

See Past Winners and Submissions