The Specialist Media Show welcome Audience Media as sponsor for the 2012 Awards.
Now in their third year, the Media Pioneer Awards celebrate the inventiveness, energy and ambition of niche publishers, who often embrace new ideas and technology in print, digital media and events before larger media organisations.
The 2011 award winners were:
• Songlines, the world music publisher, for their partnerships with Amazon and itunes
• Advanstar’s Chromatography market for their innovative online community, digital magazine and e-learning service
• K9 magazine, for their digital magazine subscriptions and repackaging of content
• Stylist Network, for their live events and online networking for female entrepreneurs
The 2012 shortlist so far includes:
• LOOP digital media for their global P1 app which they built in-house
• Factory for their MPORA gear ecommerce site
• Total Telecom for launching global events and digital publications
• Precious Online for building a community and events
Read about all Media Pioneers and how to enter here.
Nominations are still open for 2012, with shortlisted businesses being featured on the show website and InPublishing. Contact carolyn@thespecialistmediashow.com for more details.
Judging takes place in May, with winners announced and awards presented in the conference theatre at the show on 24 May 2012.
Audience Media reflect the values of the Media Pioneer Awards, says Carolyn Morgan. They provide an innovative and flexible web-based SaaS content management system that publishers can use to create, manage and publish content, advertising and subscriptions across print, web, mobile and tablet, social media and other platforms, and, amongst other capabilities, manage their digital assets and reader data across all channels. Audience Media’s solution is designed to suit the needs of niche publishers and with low set-up fees (which includes development or redevelopment of the website and apps), it is available on an affordable and all inclusive monthly subscription fee, and can grow as the publishers’ business expands.
Audience Media will offer winners of the Media Pioneers Awards a free project build for one of their brands, which will include the design and build of the CMS, new website, native HTML5 iPad app and a free 3 months trial.
Audience Media will be running a free workshop on multi-platform publishing at the Specialist Media Show.
