Media Awards: PPA Awards, winners 2015

GLASGOW-headquartered The Drum media and marketing magazine has been named a winner at an UK-wide competition celebrating the best of the magazines sector.

It has taken the Event of the Year (Business Media) category prize at the annual awards hosted by the Professional Publishers Association (PPA).

Reports the magazine itself, here: “The Drum Live, where Europe’s best read media and marketing publication created a magazine in front of an audience within the space of a day, has won the Best Event Prize at this year’s PPA Awards.”

The winners’ list reads, as follows:

PPA Chairman’s Award

Woman’s Weekly, Time Inc. (UK)

PPA Hall of Fame

Stephen Quinn

Best Use of Social Media

Heat, Bauer Media

Designer of the Year (Business Media)

Darren Endicott, professional manager, Think

Designer of the Year (Consumer Media)

Stuart Selner, Cosmopolitan, Hearst Magazines UK

Writer of the Year (Business Media)

James Halliwell, The Grocer, William Reed Business Media

Writer of the Year (Consumer Media)

Will Self, Esquire, Hearst Magazines UK

Columnist of the Year (Business Media)

Mark Ritson, Marketing Week, Centaur Media

Columnist of the Year (Consumer Media)

Alison Graham, Radio Times, Immediate Media Co

Team Leader of the Year (Consumer & Business Media)

Kathy Day, managing director, Radio Times, Immediate Media Co.

Publishing Innovator of the Year (Annual Turnover Under £10m)

Nicholas Rapley, Open Door Media

Digital Innovation of the Year (Business Media)

HSJ Intelligence, EMAP

Digital Innovation of the Year (Consumer Media)

The Economist Espresso App, The Economist

Event of the Year (Business Media)

The Drum Live

Event of the Year (Consumer Media)

The Photography Show, Future

GameChanger of the Year

Porter Magazine, Net-A-Porter

Editor of the Year (Business Media)

Eric Musgrave, Drapers, EMAP

Editor of the Year (Consumer Media)

Lindsay Nicholson, Good Housekeeping, Hearst Magazines UK

Front Cover of the Year

The Big Issue

Customer Magazine of the Year

N by Norwegian, Ink

Specialist Consumer Magazine of the Year

Cyclist, Dennis Publishing

Business Magazine of the Year

The BMJ

Consumer Magazine of the Year

The Week, Dennis Publishing

International Consumer Media Brand of the Year

Jamie Magazine

Business Media Brand of the Year

HSJ, EMAP

Consumer Media Brand of the Year

Good Housekeeping, Hearst Magazines UK