This award is for columnists or expert contributors whose personal writing style offers a fresh perspective to either consumer or business magazine media brands. They reach their audiences through a regular column or feature, or by blog, e-mail or newsletter. Their creative approach and view points enable them to be a trailblazer for the community they serve.

Innovation, knowing your audience, and flawless execution are all central components of creating great content. This award is open to content marketing agencies and to in-house teams focused on offering content marketing solutions.

A great designer truly understands their audience and brings to life the essence and personality of their brand.

This award is open to Creative Directors, Art Directors or Designers whose skilful and distinctive work has elevated a media brand or publication.

Editors are the beating heart of a publication. This award celebrates the editors of a B2B media brand or publication whose consistent brilliance and understanding of their industry sector has put their brand at the forefront of the market. They know their audience needs and deliver a high standard of content that is both trusted and helps their communities in their roles.

Editors are the beating heart of a publication. This award celebrates the editors of a consumer media brand or publication whose consistent brilliance and understanding of their industry sector has put their brand at the forefront of the market. They know their audience needs and deliver a high standard of content that is both trusted and helps their communities in their roles.

This award is for businesses who have excelled at engagement with their teams, promoted employee welfare, and have showed strong support for both their internal workforce and for the wider community in which they operate.

Successful teams are goal-focused, communicate well and support each other to deliver on business objectives.

Truly great teams have that bit of extra magic that sees them make a significant impact in their sector, working together to overcome obstacles and collaborating for the benefit of their organisation. This award is for a team or department that has excelled in making a positive and measurable contribution to the company in 2022.

Eligible teams include, but are not limited to: Commercial, Content, Product, Marketing, HR, Operations, Finance, Data, Subscriptions, Business Development and Events.

The best writers have a unique style and an engaging way with words. For those who craft compelling content that connects with an audience, this award is for you.

This award is open to anyone who writes for a media brand or publication on one platform or across multiple platforms.

This award is for a collaboration between a B2B publishing business and commercial partner(s) that has promoted a product, marketing service initiative, or brand through any (or multiple) platform(s), be it print, online, face-to-face, events, broadcast, mobile, or other digital offerings.

This award is for a collaboration between a B2C publishing business and commercial partner(s) that has promoted a product, marketing service initiative, or brand through any (or multiple) platform(s), be it print, online, face-to-face, events, broadcast, mobile, or other digital offerings.

Events bring our brands to life, allowing interaction with customers and forging closer ties with key audiences.

This award will recognise an outstanding event, either in-person, hybrid, or online, at which a B2B publisher brings together its target audience. The event can either stem from an existing parent brand or be a wholly standalone experience.

Events bring our brands to life, allowing interaction with customers and forging closer ties with key audiences.

This award will recognise an outstanding event, either in-person, hybrid, or online, at which a B2C publisher brings together its target audience. The event can either stem from an existing parent brand or be a wholly standalone experience.

Do you go the extra mile for your clients or do you work with a partner that does this for you? This award recognises the suppliers to the specialist media industry with an exemplary record of customer service, who regularly over-deliver, ensure challenges are overcome with minimal fuss and proactively suggest initiatives that deliver.

Any organisation that supplies a product, platform or service to the industry can enter, from distribution and fulfilment, to digital publishing, ad tech, training, subscription management, printing, marketing, event services and beyond.

For the purpose of this award, an innovation is anything which expands the reach and influence of a brand or publication among an existing/new target audience. Innovations can include (but not restricted to) launches, new products, innovative use of data or audience insights, new methods of working, enhanced communication methods or cultural change.

A great media brand stands head and shoulders above its peers. They produce content their audience wants, tackle important topics in their sector, inform their communities and have an authoritative voice in their market.

A great media brand stands head and shoulders above its peers. They produce content their audience wants, tackle important topics in their sector, inform their communities and have an authoritative voice in their market.

This category honours the brilliantly crafted newsletters that showcase a unique voice of a business or publication, providing a personal touchpoint with customers. From regular news digests, sharing ideas and insight, to delivering invaluable information and opinion, this award will recognise the creativity, engagement and personalisation that comes from truly knowing your audience. Entries can be for newsletters created to complement existing brands or publications, to help launch new ones, or as a standalone product.

Truly great podcasts connect specialist media brands with their audiences and engage communities around topics they are passionate about.

This award is for podcasts which are created by publishers to complement existing brands or publications, or stand alone ones. The podcasts can be produced using in-house technology or external production support.

Delivering specialist content to engaged audiences is what this industry is all about. This category celebrates the special interest magazine brands of which the title or description addresses a specific business-to-business community or consumer leisure interest (including food, health, sport, hobbies, homes, interiors, and travel), or one which publishes for a particular industry or a specific sector.

Smart thinking, audience insight and clear goals are key ingredients to highly effective campaigns. This award looks to recognise a campaign with internal or external objectives that overcame challenges and embraced new approaches to deliver significant results. This can be anything from subscriptions campaigns, to campaigns for good where specialist publishers use their platforms to reach key audiences with important causal messages.

Children's brands are uniquely placed to serve a younger audience in clever, creative and informative ways.

This award celebrates any brand or magazine who publishes specialist content for the younger reader, including the teen market.

Standout covers can be headline grabbing, a piece of art, or simply capturing a moment or theme that makes the reader want to find out more.

This award is for the standout front covers from 2022 that were simply unmissable, and which really captured that magical magazine moment.

This award will go to a business who can demonstrate excellent use of data to deliver value to their audience.

This award seeks to recognise a company, brand, or publication that takes recognising the importance of diversity across their business and publications one step further by actively tackling inequalities and dismantling barriers. The winner of this award might have created an inclusive workplace in which all employees not just feel valued but thrive, or a product or campaign which serves, promotes, and upholds underrepresented communities.

Successful retailers are crucial to the vibrant world of magazine media.

Successful subscription business models and strategies are at the core of many brands. This award looks to the teams utilising audience knowledge, smart thinking and clever use of data to deliver new customers and retain loyal ones.

This will celebrate a brand that has maximised revenue through effective implementation of a new or enhanced subscriptions initiative.

This award looks to reward and champion a change, campaign, project or event (internal or external) that has enhanced the social and environmental credentials of the publishing company in 2022.