The Drum is named the UK’s Business Magazine of the Year

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