2024 winners

Congratulations to all of our 2024 winners and highly commended - view them by category below. 

Business Publication of the Year
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Winner: MRO Management, Real Response Media

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Judges noted that the winning entry is successfully delivering must have information to its readers, is cleverly designed and well thought out and commended their effort to champion environmental issues.

Highly Commended

Highly commended: Logistics Matters, Western Business Media

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A good looking and lively magazine that is very focused on their markets needs, proven in the excellent metrics results.

Campaign of the Year
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Winner: We Are Able, Think

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The winning entry has powerful messaging, strong audience understanding and excellent engagement figures. This innovative campaign is unique and the judges agreed a worthy winner.

Commercial Leader of the Year
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Winner: Matt Roclawski, TTG Media

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Judges recognised a number of strengths in this winner, not only delivering commercial value to audiences and revenue internally, but also delivering team coaching and integrating ethics and values into the business objectives.

Commercial Partnership of the Year
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Winner: The Hot 100, The Scotsman and The List

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The judges felt the winner redefines and evolves the partnership norm, something that was impressive commercially and also hugely beneficial to the sector is commendable.

Highly Commended

Highly commended: Women's Running and SportsShoes Anthem Publishing

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An innovative approach to content, resulting in significant engagement measures and excellent commercial results.

Consumer Publication of the Year
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Winner: Britannia's What on Earth! Magazine

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The worthy winner impressed judges with the brands engaging content, customer engagement, and efforts to obtain insights to tailor content and communications.

Content Piece of the Year
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Winner: ‘It terrifies me’: Girl landed in A&E after buying Wegovy from Boots, C+D, Citeline

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Our judges were impressed with a marvellous piece of journalism which had wide, important and far-reaching impact.

Cover of the Year
Winner

Winner: Saga Magazine - March, Saga

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For the winner of this category the cover is striking, original and technically brilliant whilst connecting with audiences and sparking conversations.

Highly Commended

Highly commended: Rouleur, Tour de France Hommes, Gruppo Media

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Fantastic creative vision - creating a desirable image that not only sold well as a magazine cover but sold brilliantly as merch and enticed subscribers.

Creative Director/Designer of the Year
Winner

Winner: Mark Hickling, Britannica's What on Earth! Magazine

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This designer truly knows their target audience and provides imaginative and compelling visuals to bring articles alive and captivate their readers.

Highly Commended

Highly commended: Enric Adell, Rouleur, Gruppo Media

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Beautiful artwork and graphics that really lift the cross-platform content and brand.

Digital Product of the Year
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Winner: Propolis, B2B Marketing

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Judges were impressed with the winning product that successfully brings together a number of streams and provides audiences with an interactive way of engaging with their content.

Diversity & Inclusion Award
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Winner: TTG Media

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Our judges recognised our winner for their absolute commitment to delivering inclusion and diversity best practice not only internally within their business, but also driving significant change within their industry.

Editor of the Year
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Winner: Esther Newman, Women's Running, Anthem Publishing

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Judges were inspired by the winner in this category and commended their ability to display exceptional editorial authority whilst also delivering on commercial aims. Their ability to foster a culture of inclusivity through an authentic and compassionate approach to journalism is commendable.

Event of the Year (Business Media)
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Winner: Credit Week 2024, Shard Financial Media

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Our judges applauded the innovation and creativity this entry displayed in creating a financially successful and extremely well-received event.

Highly Commended

Highly commended: Independent Podcast Awards, whynow Media

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Love this whole entry - truly exceptional performance.

Event of the Year (Consumer Media)
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Winner: ABR Festival, Adventurize

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The judges felt the winner displayed a strong commercial performance through offering attendees a multi-platform approach with creative choices delivering a well-rounded event.

Game Changer of the Year
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Winner: Jon Bickley, Anthem Publishing

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The judging panel decided to award one outstanding winner in this category to someone who pushes the boundaries of traditional publishing to deliver success within their business. Their clear overall strategic vision, impressive innovations and ability to motivate their wider team is commendable.

Independent Publishing Company of the Year (annual publishing turnover less than £5m)
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Winner: TTG Media

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The winning entry wowed judges with their powerful subscription growth, marketing innovations, commercial results, sustainability considerations, commitments to its audience and also to their staff.

Independent Publishing Company of the Year (annual publishing turnover £5m-15m)
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Winner: London Review of Books

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The winning entry wowed judges with their powerful subscription growth, marketing innovations, commercial results, sustainability considerations, commitments to its audience and also to their staff.

Industry Partner of the Year
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Winner: Atlas

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Judges recognised this winner as having a determined strategy, impressive client endorsements, great results and innovative solutions when providing workable strategies to overcome issues.

Innovation of the Year
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Winner: In Focus, Anthem Publishing

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judges were impressed by the outstanding innovation and creativity displayed by the winning entry. Smart decisions, clear strategy and engaging content lead to impressive commercial results.

Launch/Relaunch of the Year
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Winner: Credit Week 2024, Shard Financial Media

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Judges commended bold decision making and willingness to try something new which really resonated with the brands audience and lead to greater internal efficiencies and commercial delivery.

Media Brand of the Year
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Winner: Housing Today, Assemble Media Group

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The winning brands focus and delivery of a multi-channelled, people-focussed service impressed the judges. The hard work in establishing partnerships to help shape the content and the increase the readership and renewals is applaudable.

Membership Publication of the Year
Winner

Winner: Slimming World Magazine

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Judges were impressed with the editorial excellence, professional content and the ability this publication has to captivate and motivate its audience.

Highly Commended

Highly commended: Inspire, CPL One

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Contemporary design, combined with relevant health and lifestyle content, and resonates with its audience - love the strong sense of community.

Newsletter of the Year
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Winner: The Uplift, Happiful

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The winning newsletter caught the judges’ eyes for their commitment to providing reliable and robust content to its readers through clever use of data analysis to provide audiences with relevant content.

Podcast of the Year
Winner

Winner: The Women's Running Podcast, Anthem Publishing

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Judges noted that the journey for this winner has been incredible, with creativity leading to impressive engagement, content extensions and record high numbers.

Highly Commended

Highly commended: The Film Stories Podcast, Film Stories

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Incredible viewing figures and commercial wins due to keeping the method simple and turn up the volume on the stories.

Subscriptions or Membership Strategy of the Year
Winner

Winner: Propolis, B2B Marketing

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The winner of this category performs very well across the board with judges particularly impressed by the increase in revenues, retention rates, deep audience understanding and innovation.

Highly Commended

Highly commended: Britannica's What on Earth Magazine

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This entry saw phenomenal growth and strong engagement through activities and surprise products for subscribers which underlines the deep connection with its audience.

Team of the Year
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Winner: B2B Marketing Team

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The judges awarded this winner based on their collaborative, creative and effective ability to work together to deliver results and create a business people love to work at.

Video Content of the Year
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Winner: A Series of Headaches: Shakespeare’s First Folio Meets the London Review of Books

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The winning entry was a superb example of beautifully made and very interesting content which led to increased brand engagement.

Writer of the Year
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Winner: Madeleine Barber, TTG Media

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Judges felt the winners pieces were important, well researched and personal and were impressed with a the ability to immerse themselves within their audience.