2023 Winners
The PPA Awards are all about recognising and rewarding the talented people, the innovative work, and the dynamic media publishers, suppliers, and partners that make up our vibrant industry. Entries for 2024 are now open, and the shortlist will be revealed in the spring. Until then, see below to find out who took home a coveted award last year.
The Week Junior
Future
The judges admired this magazine which plays an incredibly important role in children’s publishing, offering informative, engaging and accessible content in creative ways.
Ingrid Fuchs
Nursing Times
emap
Ingrid's writing as incredibly honest, powerful and moving. She charted her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment as both a healthcare professional themselves and as a patient, using their own experience and industry title to provide a truly authentic and informative account.
Sadly Ingrid Fuchs passed away last September, but with the permission of her family, Nursing Times wanted to share her columns with as wide an audience as possible.
24 Hours in Farming, #Farm24
Farmers Guardian
Arc
This entry wowed judges with their ability to go beyond a traditional partnership to engage an entire industry, linking passion and commercial results to deliver an impactful partnership with wide reach.
Sunday
Sunday delivered strong evidence of collaboration, creativity and commercial performance across a varied portfolio of work delivered for their clients.
Country Life
Future
This cover was crucial in setting the tone and becoming the centre piece for what became the fasting selling issue in Country Life's history. Not only did the cover help sell more magazines, boost engagement on social media and clicks to the website, it’s a perfect snapshot of what was a in fact a compelling and gritty issue.
Lifestyle Magazine
Motability
Wonderly
Haymarket Media Group
This cover carefully considers its audience, is accessible to its readers and has driven engagement across the brand.
Campaign
Haymarket Media Group
Our judges agreed that this magazine had a fantastic cover strategy and a clear understanding of its audience.
Diversity and Inclusion at Reach
Reach is a business not only dedicated to driving ED&I work but also ensuring accountability for those implementing the strategies. Their initiatives are both internally and externally focussed giving an effective and wide reaching campaign.
Chloe McCulloch
BuildingAssemble Media Group
Under their editorship, Building yielded excellent results formed from a well thought out strategy delivering high quality journalism across a variety of initiatives and content streams.
Lewis Corner
GAY TIMES
GT Group
Lewis wowed our judges with evidence of extraordinary brand transformation using a bold, modern and informative strategy. The reach of the brand under their leadership has grown astronomically.
George Kipouros
Wanderlust
Wanderlust Travel Media
The judges were keen to give a shout out to George, who is committed to diversifying his product by including more voices, developing digital strategy through immersive experience and is consistently providing impressive results.
Immediate Media
The judges all agreed that Immediate Media shows a fantastic demonstration of not only having a powerful plan, but putting it into action. The dedication to supporting staff through a number of initiatives is commendable and it’s clear their employees feel the benefit of their strategies, creating an environment to thrive.
Nursing Times Workforce Summit & Awards
emap
The judges were very impressed with this event as it considered the audience journey, offered multiple points for engagement and showed strong commercial performance.
Marketforce
Marketforce showed total commitment to the success of the industry as a whole, made efforts to tackle sustainability issues and evidenced exceptional client confidence.
Propolis
B2B Marketing
This entry impressed with their ability to create pivotal change within the brand by turning challenges into new opportunities.
M&S
The judges were impressed with how M&S produced market-beating sales and are committed to ensuring magazines have a place in stores.
Campaign
Haymarket
Campaign's brand has a clearly thought-out strategy and true understanding of their audience which in turn provides insight to fuel impressive business growth.
SheerLuxe Daily Newsletter
SheerLuxe
The judges were impressed by the SheerLuxe Daily Newsletter's overall look, strong content, engagement figures and financial performance.
Room 106
Planning
Haymarket Media Group
Room 106's use of innovative format adds value to an existing brand, produces original and exciting content that drives impressive levels of engagement.
WIRED
Condé Nast
The judges agreed that WIRED displayed outstanding commercial performance, impressed with a thought-out long term digital strategy and commitment to diversity and inclusion.
TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes
TTG Media
The judges admired TTG's clear objectives, ability to influence on such a large scale and the impressive results which are driving much needed change towards sustainability in their industry.
Editorial team
Dezeen
Dezeen's editorial team produces highly creative content, displays superb team work in and the face of the most trying of circumstances pulled together to produce record-breaking traffic and revenue growth.
RadioTimes.com
Immediate Media
The RadioTimes.com team recognises those producing remarkable audience growth, consistently implementing innovative and fresh ideas and through internal changes and development, have created a really effective team structure.
Graham Lawton
New Scientist
Harmsworth Media
Graham wowed judges with his amazingly consistent standard of work, dedication to his job through the hardest of times, and ability to deliver best-selling features.
William Cash
The Catholic Herald
The judges found it impossible not to give a shout out to a William, who went above and beyond to deliver incredibly important pieces directly from the frontline in Ukraine.