THE WINNERS
Newspaper Newstand Campaign of the Year
WINNER - HND Month
Judges comments: "This nomination delivered an exciting blend of industry-wide collaboration, expanded reach and drove strong results. The 2024 campaign grew YEAR ON YEAR through better planning and execution, encouraging more retailer engagement which in turn yielded better uptake from consumers."
Sponsored by Smiths News
Magazine Newstand Campaign of the Year
WINNER - Christmas Radio Times
Judges comments: "This is a standout campaign across multiple channels and harnessing on and offline promotions, influencers and partnerships to drive buzz, focus and a huge growth in sales. This was a mammoth campaign with a mammoth payoff at the end."
Sponsored by Mail Newspapers
Sustainability Initiative of the Year
WINNER - Frontline
Judges comments: "The winner stands out as a strategic and highly comprehensive sustainability strategy, that is delivering tangible value for the business, its customers, and the broader industry alike. Incredibly strong levels of leadership and stakeholder buy-in is demonstrated throughout. - Impressive list of achievements towards the company’s sustainability goals. Incredible entry with a full end-to-end sustainability solution. "
Sponsored by InPost Newstrade
Newsstand Magazine of the Year - Children's
WINNER - Puzzler Junior
Judges comments: "The winner showed impressive results. A brave, bold move too! Brilliant work in rebranding and delivering exceptional growth. The team were really focused on understanding what their young audience really wanted - and what carers buying for their children would be delighted by."
Sponsored by ACE
Regional Publication of the Year
WINNER - Liverpool Echo
Judges comments: "The winning nominee of this award was chosen for having a great understanding of local community and audience, building loyalty and sales by focusing on key local issues. This nomination showcased an array of initiatives and community engagement that have cemented the importance of the brand to the local area."
Sponsored by PaperRound
Subscriptions Acquisition Campaign of the Year
WINNER - Mail+
Judges comments: "The winner has a strong performance for a very challenging campaign converting a large free audience to paid for. - This launch created a foundation for future subscriptions, in what is a very challenging market, a joint effort by all involved was focused on the long term commitment rather than the short term fix.
In just 10 months, their efforts culminated in 100,000 paying subscribers across the UK and Australia—a remarkable accomplishment. "
Sponsored by HH&S
Subscription Brand of the Year
WINNER - Good Food
Judges comments: "The winner has seen huge growth figures plus app installs as modern metrics of success showcase forward thinking approaches to subscription strategies.
Fantastic results developing their app delivering incredible increases in subscriber numbers, they are also generating substantial cash revenues of the back of that growth."
Sponsored by DSB Net
Newsstand Magazine of the Year - General
WINNER - National Geographic Traveller
Judges comments: "The winner of this category grew revenue, volume (6%), and market share in 2024. Maintaining their position as market leader in the category, through outstanding audience engagement they grew market share YoY, significantly climbed the overall magazine rankings and published a record-breaking issue, showcasing strategic foresight and adaptability. Outstanding performance across every metric - a worthy winner."
Sponsored by Marketforce
International Publication of the Year
WINNER - Flow
Judges comments: "The winner had a great re-launch with strong retail partnerships and impressive revenue impact in a very short space of time. Impressive collaboration by agents and retailers seeing impressive consumer outcomes. Excellent performance established through distributor and publisher collaboration. - Grew sales achieving 3rd highest RSV selling title in USA, globally achieved high sales efficiency of 73%”
Sponsored by Frontline
Business Innovation Initiative of the Year
WINNER - Daily Mail / i / Sun / Times / Sunday Times / Newsprinters
Judges comments: "A fantastic example of cross publisher collaboration, delivered at an impressive pace, that has had significant and instant benefit to profitability and sustainability. Unprecedented publisher collaboration and engagement at the very highest level. This is a true industry-level innovation—not just a business success, but a blueprint for how collaboration can reshape legacy operations for sustainability and efficiency."
Sponsored by Hearst
Newsstand Team of the Year
WINNER - DCT Newspaper Sales and Marketing Team
Judges comments: "They demonstrate that they have a talented multi-skilled team with great community initiatives. They evidenced innovation and teamwork across multiple disciplines with measurable results. In customer relationship excellence their home delivery service stands out. These awards reflect commitment to excellence and community engagement."
Sponsored by NewtrAid
Newspaper of the Year
WINNER - The Press & Journal
Judges comments: "The winner had excellent interaction with their readers, providing tangible benefits to the communities it serves whilst engaging more readers to improve YOY performance. - An impressive range of activity throughout the year to ensure continued engagement and community support with its readers - A newspaper that places itself right at the heart of the community, with a plethora or local initiatives and charitable activities."
Sponsored by NewsTeam
Partwork or Collectable of the Year
WINNER - Warhammer 40,000
Judges comments: "The ACE judges said; Our winner had superb launch campaign and visuals - A successful TV digital and social media advertising campaign combined with launch day merchandising at major supermarkets, helped the launch of this partwork to reach the sales over and above what was initially forecast - Impactful nomination, commercial results clearly demonstrated against objectives"
Sponsored by The FT
Industry Partner of the Year
WINNER - Atlas
Judges comments: "Our winner clearly demonstrated multi-channel subs growth and know how to listen to their clients who provided brilliant feedback. They have helped to grow the New Scientist and Fundstrat in the US with significant subscriptions and revenue growth."
Sponsored by The i Paper
Subscriptions Team of the Year
WINNER - Customer Marketing and Subscriptions Team Immediate Media
Judges comments: "You can't argue with results like those, they did the job very well -Delivering record breaking results and successful in meeting business objectives. - Great success in improving subscription targets"
Sponsored by The Telegraph
Bookazine or One Shot of the Year
WINNER - Good Food Airfryer
Judges comments: "The award winner had fantastic sales performance and capitalising on an every increasing market with amazing sales results "
Sponsored by Frontline
Subscription Retention Campaign of the Year
WINNER - The FT
Judges comments: "Innovative use of AI has demonstrated a truly innovative approach to dealing with a perennial Subscription challenge. A multi-faceted initiative personalised the customer experience. The initiative demonstrated transformative potential in retention, upsell, and cross-sell strategies, driving sustainable subscription growth."
Sponsored by The ACE NMA Committee
Cover of the Year
WINNER - Christmas Radio Times
Judges comments: "The ACE Judges said, the Winner was not just a cover - an event in itself, and used brilliantly in creative and behind the scenes work. Encapsulated the key TV moment of the season, but handled with innovation and creativity"
Sponsored by CDS Global
Rising Star of the Year
WINNER - Viktorija Trajkova
Judges comments: "The winner of this award was highlighted by the judges for demonstrating ambition, drive and determination to move through roles, taking on increased responsibility, with impressive results "
