With 18 categories encompassing the entire digital publishing spectrum, this year’s awards are expected to be the biggest ever – a true reflection of the immense growth digital publishing is currently experiencing, says the AOP.
2014’s front-runners include Immediate Media Co with a total of 7 nominations including Best Consumer Editorial team (Top Gear Magazine) as well as Guardian News and Media and Hearst Magazine, nominated for 6 awards each. Other high profile organisations such as AOL UK and Dennis Publishing are also up for awards.
In-line with the ever changing online publishing landscape, this year’s awards include two new categories, Digital Commercial Individual of 2014 which recognises the top publishing personal working online within a publishing organisation and Digital Marketing Campaign Innovation 2014 which rewards the best innovation within digital marketing for publishers.
All entries were scrutinised earlier this week by a panel of judges from all corners of the online publishing industry, including The Huffington Post UK, editor in chief, Carla Buzasi, James Chandler, Global Mobile Director at Mindshare and Ross Sleight, Chief Strategy Officer at Somo before the shortlist was made final. The winners will be announced at a glittering awards ceremony on July 3rd.
Such was the quality and closeness of entries submitted, says the AOP, that three categories – Digital Ad Ops Team, Media Technology Partner and Commercial Partner required further deliberation from the judging panel, set to take place in the coming days. The shortlist for these categories will be released early next week.
Reflecting on the calibre of this years’ entry, Jon Bentley, Head of Digital development, Incisive Media said: “It is inspiring to be part of a process that recognises such a huge array of talent, passion, intelligence and commercial sense. The quality in these entries is a reflection of the organsiations that sit at the heart of our industry as it continues to evolve despite the many incredible challenges it has faced.”
Charlie Calton-Watson, Digital Director at Bauer Media added: “Judging this year’s awards was a fantastic way to experience first hand the high quality of work the digital publishing space carries out day-in and day-out. It was hard throughout the scoring process to distinguish a clear winner as entry quality was so high. The industry is clearly in a good position, not just in the short-term but also for the longer road ahead.”
Tim Cain, Managing Director of AOP, also commented: “The entries to this year’s awards were amongst the strongest the AOP has ever seen – a true reflection of the strong position the online publishing industry is in. We were particularly delighted to receive a large number of submissions for our two new categories, which aim to reward the very best in digital publishing innovation. It’s never an easy task for the judges to select a shortlist, but I’d like to thank and commend them on a job well done.”
Tickets for this year’s event to be held at The RoundHouse in Camden, London are now on sale.
AOP Awards 2014 Shortlist
EDITORIAL TEAM 2014 – BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
Winner 2013 - Community Care – Reed Business Information
The Drum Editorial Team - Carnyx/The Drum
Health Service Journal - EMAP
Planning Editorial Team - Haymarket Media Group
C+D Editorial - UBM
Nursing Times Editorial Team - Emap
Dezeen - Dezeen
EDITORIAL TEAM 2014 – CONSUMER
Winner 2013 - Guardian Sport, Olympics 2012 – Guardian News and Media
Vice UK - VICE Media
NSA Editorial Team - Guardian News & Media
Digital Spy - Hearst Magazines UK
BBC Good Food - BBC Worldwide
Shortlist.com - ShortList Media
Xcar - CBS Interactive
The Huffington Post UK - AOL UK
Top Gear Editorial - BBC Worldwide/Immediate Media
DIGITAL COMMERCIAL TEAM 2014
Winner 2013 - Shortlist Media Digital Sales – Shortlist Media
Radio Times Digital Sales Team - Immediate Media Co.
Future Commercial Team - Future Plc
The Guardian News & Media Commercial Team - Guardian News & Media
Adnostic - Dennis Publishing
IPC Digital Advertising - IPC Media
Shortlist Media Digital Sales Team - Shortlist Media
Hearst Digital Pureplay Team - Hearst Magazines UK
DIGITAL COMMERCIAL INDIVIDUAL 2014 (NEW CATEGORY)
Nicola Inchmore - Digital Sales Director - Hearst Magazines UK
Diane Young - Managing Director - Carnyx Group/The Drum
Adam Bulleid - Creative Media Manager, NME - IPC Media
Jonny Hill - Agency Advertising Manager - Future Plc
Jonathan Kitchen - Head of Agency - Adnostic/Dennis Publishing
DIGITAL ADVERTISING OPERATIONS TEAM 2014
Winner 2013 - Johnston Press
Shortlist to be announced next week.
DIGITAL EDITORIAL INDIVIDUAL 2014
Winner 2013 - Luke Westaway – CBS Interactive
Kate Lucey - Digital Content Lead, Cosmopolitan, Hearst Magazines UK
Clive Martin - Staff Writer - VICE UK , VICE Media
Carla Buzasi - Editor-in-chief, The Huffington Post UK, AOL UK Ltd
Felicity Morse - Social Media Editor, Independent.co.uk, The Independent
Alex Goy - Cars Editor, XCAR, CBS Interactive
Jake Wallis Simons - Features Writer, Telegraph Multimedia, The Telegraph
Jeff Meyer - Editor, DigitalCameraWorld.com, Future Publishing
Jessica Vince - Editor of GraziaDaily, Bauer Media UK
RESEARCH AND INSIGHT PROJECT 2014
Winner 2013 - Audiences Not Platforms – Guardian News and Media
RealView by FireFish/ Internet Advertising Bureau - FireFish/IAB
Planning, Insight and Research - AOL UK
GNM Commercial Insight - Guardian News & Media
Immediate Insight - Radio Times DiscoverTV app - Immediate Media
INTEGRATED MEDIA PROJECT 2014 (PREVIOUSLY TITLED “CROSS MEDIA PROJECT”)
Winner 2013 Farmers Apprentice – Reed Business Information
Telegraph Media Grou p - Media Man - Telegraph Media Group
The Guardian with Brand USA - Guardian News & Media
XFM and Bulmers - Global Radio
CarBuyer Videos - Dennis Publishing
IPC Creative Media - IPC Media
XFM Presents with FordSync - Global Radio
Stylist - Shortlist Media
GuardianWitness powered by EE - Guardian News & Media
LAUNCH 2014
Winner 2013 - Mr Hyde – Shortlist
UsVsTh3m - Trinity Mirror
Consumer Rights - Which?
Esquire - Hearst Magazines UK
Radio Times - Discover TV - Immediate Media
GuardianWitness - Guardian News & Media
Radio Times - Enterprise - Immediate Media
LiveIntent - LiveIntent
IPC Digital Advertsing - IPC Media
USE OF MOBILE 2014 (PREVIOUSLY TITLED “MOBILE AND TABLET INNOVATION”)
Winner 2013 The Wider Image - Reuters
MadeForMums & Heinz Baby - Immediate Media Co.
T3 - Future Plc.
Sell Squad - AutoTrader
Immediate App Publishing Team - Immediate Media Co.
The Times and Sunday Times Digital Team - News UK
film.list.co.uk - The List Ltd.
ESI Media Mobile Team - ESI Media
COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIP 2014
Winner 2013 - Future and Tesco: Home of Gaming – Future Publishing
Shortlist to be announced next week.
MEDIA TECHNOLOGY PARTNER 2014 (PREVIOUSLY TITLED “TECHNOLOGY PARTNER”)
Winner 2013 – Outbrain
Shortlist to be announced next week.
DIGITAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN INNOVATION 2014 (NEW CATEGORY)
Subscriptions Marketing - Immediate Media
Digital Magazines Marketing Team - IPC Media
Jobsite - The Advantage - Jobsite
Telegraph Media Man - Telegraph Media Group
USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA 2014
Winner 2013 - MSN UK Social Voices - Microsoft
Channel 4 Psychopath Night: Psychopath Test - Rckt for Channel 4
NME.com - NME
Independent.co.uk - The Independent
New Scientist - New Scientist at Reed Business Information
VICE UK - VICE Media
Farmers Weekly - Reed Business Information
WEBSITE 2014 – BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
Winner 2013 - Farmers Weekly Interactive – Reed Business Information
Procurement Leaders - Sigaria Ltd
Planning - Haymarket Media Group
TheDrum.com - Carnyx Group
Dezeen - Dezeen
WEBSITE 2014 - CONSUMER
Winner 2013 - The Huffington Post UK – AOL Huffington Post Media Group
MailOnline Editorial - MailOnline
Digital Spy - Hearst Magazines UK
NME.com - NME
Mirror.co.uk - Trinity Mirror
Den of Geek - Dennis Publishing
Autocar - Haymarket Media Group
VICE.com - VICE Media
DIGITAL PUBLISHER 2014 – BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
Winner 2013 - Incisive Media
Carnyx Group - Carnyx Group
Procurement Leaders - Sigaria Ltd
Incisive Media - Incisive Media
Dezeen - Dezeen
DIGITAL PUBLISHER 2014 - CONSUMER
Winner 2013 - Future Publishing
VICE Media - VICE Media
AOL UK - AOL UK Ltd
Trinity Mirror - Trinity Mirror
Dennis Publishing - Dennis Publishing
Haymarket Consumer Media - Haymarket Media Group
