NMAs 2024
The London Marriott Grosvenor Square was the place to be on 22nd May 2024 as we held the prestigious 2024 Newspaper and Magazine awards!
18 hotly anticipated categories were awarded to worthy winners and a night of celebration, fellowship and jubilation ensued. ACE would like to congratulate all our 2024 winners and shortlisted entrants.
Partwork or Collectable of the Year WINNER - Barclays Women's Super League Sticker Collection
Judges comments: "Really showcased the women's game on a level playing field as the men's game, with great results. - Clear disruption in the market to meet a previously untapped customer demand. Impressive numbers to back up a strong campaign to a new and growing audience. Important topic and innovative marketing campaign."
Bookazine or One Shot of the Year
WINNER - Living Without Inflammation
Judges comments: "Brilliant sales results across all regions. Fantastic YoY growth and excellent sales strategy.Truly global campaign with alternative language variations. Smashed expectations, driven sales in foreign markets - Recognised as a trailblazer in a very hot health sub category. The brand innovated through translating and repositioning for global markets and developed a new scalable model for the future."
Subscription Brand of The Year
WINNER - What on Earth! Magazine
Judges comments: "A very impressive entry , one that understood the size of its task , broke it down and then went on to deliver fantastic results - Multi-channel marketing approach. A hugely successful year for What on Earth! Magazine which it can now build on - Great achievement in such a difficult, crowded children's sector."
Subscription Retention Campaign of The Year
WINNER - Reach
Judges comments: "High levels of additional revenue increases and yoy growth in customer retention. - their market knowledge, passion and creativity and a never say no attitude came through loud and clear - Impressive results across a wide portfolio of titles in a challenging market"
Industry Partner of the Year
WINNER - Atlas
Judges comments: "Building a strong footprint for the future - Incredible results, and a big impact made in a short space of time - Excellent results with great case studies to back them up"
Subscriptions Aqusition campaign of the year
WINNER - The Guardian Weekly
Judges comments: "Brilliant acquisition campaign, well thought out and planned meticulously. Amazing execution and fantastic results. - A fantastic campaign, exceeding targets across the board - Impressive data focus - Expanding and diversifying mediums to increase engagement and grow in the sector"
Newspaper of the Year
WINNER - The Daily Mail & The
Mail on Sunday
Judges comments: "The Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday achieved robust performance results, surpassing objectives for print, subscriptions, and HND, thus reaffirming their market leadership. Clearly demonstrated the attention paid to the concerns of the trade to highlight the commercial benefits driven by The Mail delivering value at point of purchase to consumers and retailers alike. Backed up by great results and consistent share growth. "
International Publication of the Year
WINNER - Modern Day Icons Series - Taylor Swift
Judges comments: "Superb campaign branching outside of regular content - well executed on a shoestring budget yielding admirable results - Good spin on their title to drive readership - Real customer insight and engagement with the target audience digitally gave this one-shot the very best chance of success, and it was innovative throughout its approach. Working closely with retailers and directly with key influencers meant that the results were excellent and RSV significant."
Newsstand Magazine of the Year - Children's
WINNER - Puzzler KIDS COLLECTION
Judges comments: "To have the courage to close such a magazine which has been a market leader for over 30 years and reinvent it is impressive but to then see the results that Puzzler have is really impressive"
Regional Publication of the Year
WINNER - The BV magazine
Judges comments: "Really clear objectives, delivered in full - strong results with only 2 staff. Fantastic social media engagement."
Newsstand Magazine of The Year – General
WINNER - Healthy Eating
Judges comments: "A winning entry for seeing the market opportunity , acting upon it and delivering impressive results - A really innovative build on a one-shot strategy. Using clear audience insight the team were able to create a whole new publication category."
Transformation Initiative of the year
WINNER - The Sun, The Times & Sunday Times
Judges comments: "A really is a clear winner! - this project delivered fundamental change across the industry. 3 significant industry partners working together delivering a huge project, with benefits across the supply chain, successfully and on-time"
Rising Star of the Year
WINNER - Shona Robertson
Judges comments: "Incredible entry sharing success on a personal and company level - Outstanding candidate that set and example to both individuals and businesses to continue to encourage young talent through the ranks to provide a strong future to the industry."
Newspaper Newsstand campaign of the year
WINNER - HND Month
Judges comments: "An incredible effort of collaboration across competing companies in the Newspaper industry with outstanding levels of engagement for retailers. - Fantastic example of industry collaboration to create a scalable solution to support sales sustainably. A very well planned and executed campaign with clear leadership demonstrated."
Newsstand Team of The Year
WINNER - Future Circulation Team
Judges comments: "Clear objectives, impressive results and a great team performance - impressive growth. Great results across a wide range of initiatives"
Subscriptions Team of the Year
WINNER - Hearst UK Customer Team
Judges comments: "Five consecutive months of subs net growth is seriously impressive in this market! Achieved sector & industry leading YoY performance, last 5 months of 2023 saw continuous subs growth. Good results beating the market performance as well as launching a new brand extension into the market with Elle Collective"
Magazine Newsstand Campaign of The Year
WINNER - Beano
Judges comments: "Amazing sales uplift - A brilliant campaign making the most of a big anniversary, engaging multiple audiences and getting itself talked about in all elements of the press. As a result it overdelivered on all targets, and got the whole nation celebrating and talking about the magazine - as well as a huge sales increase."
Cover of the Year
WINNER - Vogue
Judges comments: "Strong message of change and inclusiveness from an elite title like Vogue - powerful"
