Media Awards: PPA Digital Awards 2014

BEGINS the Glasgow-headquartered The Drum media and marketing magazine (here): “The Drum was named content team of the year at [Wednesday] night’s PPA Digital Awards, with judges praising the editorial team’s use of multimedia.

“Scooping the prize for the business media sector, judges said they were ‘impressed with this transformation from print-first to a classy digital offering, and a successful re-evaluation of content strategy around news’.”

The full winners’ list reads, as follows:

DIGITAL BRAND OF THE YEAR – CONSUMER MEDIA

Grazia, Bauer Media

DIGITAL BRAND OF THE YEAR – BUSINESS MEDIA

Procurement Leaders, Sigaria

DIGITAL PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR

Dennis Publishing

SALES TEAM OF THE YEAR: MARKETING SOLUTIONS

Digital sales team, Shortlist Media

SALES TEAM OF THE YEAR: PAID CONTENT

Community Care Inform, Reed Business Information

Highly commended: Profile Group: A Path to High Growth and High Margin, Centaur Media

ECOMMERCE INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR

Immediate Media Enterprise launch, Immediate Media Co.

DATA/ANALYTICS INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR

Direct Debit Churn and Price Elasticity Model, Bauer Media

DEVELOPMENT TEAM OF THE YEAR

Profile Group, Centaur Media

DIGITAL START-UP OF THE YEAR

adnostic, Dennis Publishing

Highly commended: Tech City News

DIGITAL MARKETING TEAM OF THE YEAR

Subscriptions marketing team, Immediate Media Co.

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL TALENT

Ed Vanstone, digital editor, Men’s Health, Hearst-Rodale

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL LEADERSHIP OF THE YEAR

Martin Belson, managing director, Dennis Enterprise, Dennis Publishing

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

HSJ Intelligence, EMAP

APP OF THE YEAR

Readly

Highly commended: MadeForMums Baby Weaning App, Immediate Media Co

INNOVATION OF THE YEAR – CONSUMER MEDIA

The Debrief Launch, Bauer Media

INNOVATION OF THE YEAR – BUSINESS MEDIA

Foresight News, Centaur Media

CONTENT TEAM OF THE YEAR – CONSUMER MEDIA

BBC Top Gear digital content team, BBC Worldwide/Immediate Media Co.

Highly Commended: NME Editorial, Time Inc. (UK)

CONTENT TEAM OF THE YEAR – BUSINESS MEDIA

The Drum editorial team, Carnyx Group

Highly commended: UBM Live Built Environment content team, UBM