THE Glasgow-based media and marketing magazine, The Drum, has been named Business Magazine of the Year at UK-wide awards celebrating the best of magazine publishing.
The magazine was presented with the accolade at the PPA Awards held last night in London and organised by the Professional Publishers Association.
Said Gordon Young, editor of The Drum: “As many have been cutting back, The Drum has continued to invest over the last three years and now has more journalists on its team than ever before.
“It is great to see this strategy pay off and it really does demonstrate that content is king.”
From its base on the Gallowgate, The Drum is now reporting, UK-wide and beyond. It says that 19 per cent of its web traffic now comes from the USA.
Other winners last night included Radio Times (Consumer Magazine of the Year), NME (Chairman’s Award) and Time Out (Cover of the Year).
The winners’ list reads as follows:
PPA Hall of Fame
Sylvia Auton
Designer of the Year (Business Media)
Ewan Buck, Economia, Progressive Customer Publishing
Designer of the Year (Consumer Media)
Tanita Montgomery, Company, Hearst Magazines UK
Writer of the Year (Business Media)
James Halliwell, The Grocer, William Reed Business Media
Writer of the Year (Consumer Media)
Ed Caesar, GQ, Condé Nast
Columnist of the Year (Business Media)
Mark Ritson, Marketing Week, Centaur Media
Columnist of the Year (Consumer Media)
Lucy Mangan, Stylist, Shortlist Media
Publisher / Manager of the Year (Business & Consumer Media)
Julia Saunders, Olympics and Paralympics Daily Programmes, Haymarket Network
Publishing Innovator of the Year (Annual Turnover Under £10 million)
Marc Hartog, British Journal of Photography, Apptitude Media
Digital Innovation of the Year (Business Media)
Tesconnect.Com, TSL Education
Digital Innovation of the Year (Consumer Media)
Digital Camera World Presents…, Photography Week, Future Publishing
Event of the Year (Business Media)
Farmers Apprentice, Farmers Weekly, Reed Business Information
Event of the Year (Consumer Media)
Your Horse Live, Bauer Media
PPA Chairman’s Award
NME, IPC Media
Editor of the Year (Business Media)
Alastair Mclellan, Health Service Journal, Emap
Editor of the Year (Consumer Media)
Jane Toft, Mollie Makes, Future Publishing
Front Cover of the Year
Take Me, I’m Yours, Time Out
Customer Magazine of the Year
Olympics and Paralympics Daily Programmes, Haymarket Network
Specialist Consumer Magazine of the Year
Elle Decoration, Hearst Magazines UK
Business Magazine of the Year
The Drum/TheDrum.com, Carnyx Group
Consumer Magazine of the Year
Radio Times, Immediate Media Co
International Consumer Media Brand of the Year
Time Out, Time Out
Business Media Brand of the Year
Procurement Leaders, Sigaria
Consumer Media Brand of the Year
Wired, Condé Nast
