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About Us
North America’s #1 Consumer-Voted Awards Program
The Best New Product Awards is North America’s most credible and influential consumer product innovation award. For over 20 years, it has proudly recognized thousands of new products, from hundreds of different manufacturers and categories. It is the most leveraged award by marketers and the most recognized award by consumers.
The award is conducted by BrandSpark International, a global independent market research firm that works alongside many of the largest consumer goods brands in the world. This means that you can feel confident that your entry will not be subjected to bias because the Best New Product Awards is hosted by a team of professional market researchers. Winning a Best New Product Award is the ultimate way to stand out in the increasingly crowded and competitive landscape of retail. It provides manufacturers and their agencies with the opportunity to position their products with an effective point of difference.2 Get Supported Right Away
How it Works
The Best New Product Awards prides itself on being the most credible consumer product award in North America because of what it is not. The Best New Product Awards is not decided by Juries, Panels, or Editorial bias. It is exclusively voted by a national sample of thousands of consumers.
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Enter as a Nominee
All new and innovative products in Food & Beverage, Health & Personal Care, Beauty, Household, Pet, Kid and Home Goods categories launched between July 1st of the previous calendar year, and October 15th of the current calendar year are eligible to participate.
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Get Supported Right Away
We support your new products upon entry with our New & Noteworthy campaign including a dedicated landing page, homepage ad, email broadcasts, and dedicated social posts on Shopper Army’s social media channels. Entrants also have access to the New Launch Nominee logo to highlight their products as Nominees on their own marketing materials.
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Consumers Vote
Thousands of consumers participate in the Best New Product Awards survey and vote on products from categories in which they purchase and/or have tried before. Consumers vote on product appeal and repurchase intent.
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Winners Announced
Products that score the highest in their categories win the highly-coveted best new product awards title and have access to use the winner’s logo on their product and all materials associated with the product, indefinitely. Winners are showcased on ShopperArmy.com as well as BestNewProductAwards.com
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National PR Campaign
(7 Million+ Impressions)
We support all winners with an exclusive national PR campaign with millions of multi-media impressions. Opportunities include TV segments, editorial features, influencer features, ads and additional earned opportunities.
Proven Results
Why enter the Best New Product Awards? Because our logo works . See two independent studies that show the effectiveness of leveraging the logo at retail and on product packaging.
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Skor minis chocolate experienced a 47% sales lift when they replaced the ‘new’ symbol on their packaging to the Best New Product Awards logo.
Top Logo Influence
The Best New Product Awards logo is independently tested annually against other award logos and consistently shows to have the highest influence on purchase.
Logo A
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Logo B
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Logo C
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Logo D
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Logo E
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Logo F
25%
Logo G
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Logo H
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See Why Marketers Love the Best New Product Award
Super excited to announce that we have not only won one, but two awards this year [2021] for the Best New Product Awards, we’re so overwhelmed and happy to see that consumers love our products as much as we do. The Best New Product Awards is a universally recognized symbol. Being able to use this through our social media and packaging is amazing. Myself and the team are super proud of our awards and look forward to next year.
-Associate Brand Manager, Dr. Oetker
The best new product award and seal is something that I value highly as both a marketer and as a consumer. It’s the easiest, the most transparent and the most trusted way to tell consumers that a product has superior performance or taste in its category, that it’s a great quality and most of all that, it’s relevant for Canadians. It’s an honour to have achieved this symbol of trust and quality in the eyes of Canadians and to be celebrated among such an esteemed group of wonderful products
-Senior Marketing Director, Ferrero
We are so thrilled that our Joy razor was voted number one by Canadian consumers and that they love our Joy razor as much as we do. This award means a lot to the entire P&G team that brought the Joy brand to Canada. We are so honored to be among the other recipients, the incredible brands and the incredible marketers, congratulations to all the 2021 winners.
-Senior Brand Manager, Procter & Gamble
I’m honored to accept the 2021 Best New Product Award for our new Revlon Photo Ready Prime Plus makeup and skincare primers. We are very proud and excited to use the Best New Product Awards icon.
-Associate Marketing Manager, Revlon
On behalf of our team at Jamison, we want to thank you for our four Best New Product Awards in Probiotics, Clear Skin, Magnesium and Vitamin C. We are very proud to have received these, and we will definitely let our consumers know that we’ve received these awards because we know that it adds to that layer of trust that we have built with them, that a third party has recognized us in these areas. So, thank you very much for another four best new product awards.
-Sr. Marketing Director, Jamieson
Frequently Asked Questions
How is the Best New Product Awards different from all other awards programs?
- Backed by leading market-research firm BrandSpark International
- Supports all entrants right away, not just winners
- 100% consumer-voted- no panels, juries or editorial biases
- Voted by a national sample so you can make claims like ‘Thank you Canada for voting our product #1’
- Most leveraged by award marketers and most recognized award by consumers
How are the products selected?
The Best New Product Awards is open to all manufacturers to enter their new food and beverage, health and beauty, household care, kids, pet and tech products. We include categories most relevant to current consumer trends and attitudes.
Who votes?
Thousands of real Canadian shoppers are invited to vote on the products via an online survey. We conduct an extensive screening to ensure the voters are the principal shoppers for their homes and purchase products in the category they are voting on.
How does scoring work?
Each product receives a score based on the repurchase intent of consumers who have tried the product, and how appealing shoppers find the product to be. Our proprietary scoring system engages real shoppers who have actually tried the product and are prepared to repurchase it again – a very high standard.
How are categories set?
Categories are new each year and are set based on that years’ product innovation and trends. Each product is part of a category that consists of a minimum of two products from at least two different manufacturers. This ensures no single company can buy a win.
How is a winning product chosen?
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What is the BeandSpark Canadian shopper study ?
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Who conducts the BNPA survey and BrandSpark shopper study?
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How is BNPA different than other awards?
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Product Life Cycle
