Your audience
is the asset.
Own it.
Sponsorships rent your credibility out one post at a time. A branded award program builds a franchise on it — recurring revenue, a season of content, and the deepest authority play in your category. We do the work. Your name goes on the trophy.
Recognition as a Service for influencers: Business Intelligence Group builds and runs an award program under your brand — nomination platform, volunteer judges from your own network, winner content, and a live awards show — so your audience becomes a business, not just a channel.
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Every sponsorship
starts you back at zero.
Pitch, post, invoice, repeat. Your reach keeps growing, but the product never changes — you're selling posts. And posts don't compound.
Meanwhile, the real asset you've built is trust. Your audience believes you know who's actually good in your space. That judgment is worth more than any placement — and nobody's paying you for it yet.
Stop renting out your feed. Start running a franchise on your judgment.
Your own
award program
An award program productizes your authority. Your audience nominates. Judges recruited from your own network score the entries. Winners celebrate publicly — under your brand. And the whole season, from open nominations to the live awards show, is content only you could make. Business Intelligence Group builds and operates all of it behind the scenes.
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From audience to franchise
We build it. You brand it.
Platform, categories, judge recruitment, entry logistics — handled. You approve the big calls, and your name goes on everything your audience sees.
The season runs itself
Nominations open and your audience engages. Volunteer judges score every entry. Each stage — announcement, finalists, winners, live show — is a fresh reason to show up in the feed.
You collect the upside
Entry fees, program sponsors, and a winner community that promotes you across their own networks — plus authority no sponsored post can buy. You're the one handing out the trophies.
Your audience, your judgment, your brand — finally working as a business.
A product, not a placement
A sponsorship ends when the post scrolls away. An award program comes back every season — bigger, with more entrants, more judges, and more winners carrying your name across their networks.
Talk to Us →Recurring, not one-off
Entry fees and program sponsorships turn your credibility into annual revenue — an asset that grows season over season instead of resetting every month.
A season of programming
Category reveals, finalist announcements, winner interviews, a live awards show. A full calendar of content built around your brand — not squeezed into it.
You define the category
The person who hands out the awards owns the conversation. Winners cite you in their press releases. Everyone else enters again next year.
An inner circle that works for you
Hundreds of judges and winners with a real stake in your program — sharing it, promoting it, and coming back every season.
None of the work
Platform, judging coordination, content production, winner logistics — Business Intelligence Group runs it all. You host. We operate.
White-labeled, fully yours
Your program, your name, your trophy. We stay behind the curtain — the spotlight is yours.
Evan did it.
Here's season two.
When top B2B tech influencer Evan Kirstel wanted to turn his 550K-follower network into a recognition engine, he launched the We ♥ Tech Awards — a branded award program built and operated end-to-end by Business Intelligence Group.
Now in its second season, the program has drawn winners from EY, Experian, Paysafe, DailyPay and more — with nearly 400 volunteer judges scoring entries and a live online awards show hosted by Evan and BIG's Chief Recognition Officer.
“These are not slide decks or roadmaps. They are products in production, platforms protecting real customers and real revenue — and I am proud to put a spotlight on every one of them.”
Before you ask, we answered
What do I actually have to do?
Lend your name, host the moments that matter, and promote the program to your audience. We handle the platform, judge recruitment, entry logistics, and content production. Most partners spend a few hours a month on it.
How do I make money from this?
Programs are typically funded through entry fees and program sponsorships. The right mix depends on your audience and category — we'll walk through the economics of your specific program on a call.
Won't my audience see this as pay-to-play?
Not if it isn't one. Every nomination is scored by volunteer industry judges — many recruited from your own network — using real criteria. It's the same crowd-sourced model Business Intelligence Group has run since 2012 across all 12 of its programs.
How big does my audience need to be?
There's no magic follower count. What matters is an engaged audience in a defined niche. If your audience trusts your judgment about who's actually good in your space, a program can work.
How fast can we launch?
Most programs launch within a few weeks of kickoff. Platform setup, category structure, and judge recruitment happen in parallel, not in sequence.
Who owns the program?
You do. It's built and run under your brand — the platform, judging, and content are all white-labeled. We Love Tech Awards belongs to Evan Kirstel, not to us. Yours will belong to you.
Let's build your franchise
Tell us about your audience and we'll sketch what your award program could look like — categories, season calendar, and the economics.