Digiday Media Awards
The Digiday Media Awards, formerly the Digiday Publishing Awards, recognize the companies modernizing digital media. Over the years, the awards have honored industry-leading work from The New York Times, Dotdash Meredith, PopSugar and more.
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Key Dates
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Early Deadline: Jan 10, 2025$499 per entry
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Regular Deadline: Feb 07, 2025$599 per entry
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Last Chance Deadline: Mar 14, 2025$729 per entry
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Categories
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Best Use of AI-Generated Content
Awarding an AI-generated content strategy that has most successfully achieved stated objectives.
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Best Design
Awarding the design work that has been most creative, cohesive and effective for a publisher or media company across products and platforms.
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Product Team of the Year
Awarding the publisher product team that has been most effective in developing products that achieve both user experience and business goals.
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Best Subscription Acquisition Campaign
Awarding the most innovative and successful subscription acquisition campaign executed by a media company.
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Best Use of Livestreaming
Awarding a livestreaming strategy that most successfully achieved stated objectives.
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Best Use of TikTok
Awarding a TikTok strategy for a publisher or media company that most successfully achieved stated objectives.
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Most Committed to Sustainability
Awarding the media organization that excels in promoting eco-friendly practices and environmental awareness.
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Best Website
Awarding the site that has been most innovative and effective in both delivering a high-quality user experience and achieving business objectives.
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Best Story
Awarding the best single editorial article created by a newsroom.
Last Winner:The Markup -
Best Commerce Strategy
Awarding the commerce strategy that has most successfully achieved set goals.
Last Winner:Canidae & January Digital -
Best Use of Emerging Tech
Awarding the best use of emerging technology in a campaign, including but not limited to, AR, VR, Metaverse, or NFT.
Last Winner:Playwire -
Best Editorial Package
Awarding the best editorial package created by a newsroom.
Last Winner:Insider -
Best Newsletter
Awarding the newsletter that has been most successful in achieving both audience and business goals.
Last Winner:ESPN -
Best Brand Partnership - B2B
Awarding a B2B brand/publisher partnership that has successfully promoted a brand, product or service.
Last Winner:Indeed with essenceMediacom and Insider -
Best Brand Partnership - B2C
Awarding a B2C brand/publisher partnership that has successfully promoted a brand, product or service.
Last Winner:Frito Lay North America, OMD & Amazon -
Best Branded Content Program - B2B
Awarding the most outstanding B2B branded content program created by a publisher.
Last Winner:Cisco and WP Creative Group -
Best Branded Content Program - B2C
Awarding the most outstanding B2C branded content program created by a publisher.
Last Winner:OMD & Ancestry -
Best Event
Awarding the virtual, hybrid and/or live event that most successfully achieved business, audience and content objectives.
Last Winner:Apartment Therapy -
Best Use of Social
Awarding a social media strategy by a publisher or media company that has most successfully achieved stated objectives.
Last Winner:Twitch -
Best Use of Video
Awarding the video strategy by a publisher or media company that most successfully achieved stated objectives.
Last Winner:Aki Technologies and Nature Valley -
Best Podcast
Awarding a podcast that has most successfully achieved stated objectives.
Last Winner:Harvard Business Review -
Best Use of Audience Insights
Awarding a strategy that has successfully deployed audience insights to grow set KPIs.
Last Winner:Merkle & Hilton Pupadvisor -
Best Custom Advertising
Awarding non-standard advertising options that best serve user experience and commercial goals.
Last Winner:OMD & Ancestry -
Best Video Platform
Awarding the video platform that has most successfully helped publishers achieve stated objectives.
Last Winner:STN Video -
Best Publisher Platform
Awarding a technology provider that best helps media companies produce, publish and syndicate content.
Last Winner:Wurl -
Best First-Party Data Strategy
Awarding the best strategy for collecting, organizing and utilizing first-party data.
Last Winner:PepsiCo Media & Data -
Best Subscription or Membership Product
Awarding a paid subscription/membership product that has most successfully achieved stated objectives.
Last Winner:Tempt to laugh - VGTV -
Best Digital Product Innovation
Awarding the digital product innovation that best enhanced user experience and improved content or ad delivery.
Last Winner:Xaxis and Mediacom -
Editorial Team of the Year
Awarding the editorial team that has delivered the best reporting in terms of originality, depth and overall quality.
Last Winner:Grid -
Content Studio of the Year
Awarding the in-house content team that has successfully achieved client objectives and delivered high-quality media products.
Last Winner:T Brand Studio -
Most Engaged Community
Awarding the publisher that has most consistently achieved high audience engagement and a strong sense of community.
Last Winner:The Dad -
Media Brand of the Year
Awarding the media property that has established the strongest and most differentiated brand.
Last Winner:Bustle -
Media Company of the Year
Awarding a media company that best displays original thinking, creativity and overall excellence in its approach to media.
Last Winner:TOGETHXR -
Best Contextual Targeting Offering
Awarding the contextual advertising offering that is most effective in helping clients achieve business objectives.
Last Winner:AccuWeather & The Vitamin Shoppe -
Best Ad Tech Platform
Awarding the ad tech platform that has most successfully achieved stated advertising objectives.
Last Winner:DeepIntent
Judges
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Nicholas StoeckleEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, STRATEGY + INNOVATIONPPK
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Chris HunterVP, MEDIATHE ARENA GROUP
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Bess BrowningVICE PRESIDENTECHOPOINT MEDIA
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Anna HoffmanEXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTORAPARTMENT THERAPY MEDIA
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Ryan GilbertVP, DIGITAL MEDIARAIN THE GROWTH AGENCY
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Hasan RamadanGLOBAL HEAD OF DIGITAL ADVERTISINGEURONEWS
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Anna MerSVP, MARKETING & MEDIACRITICAL MASS
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Michelle BuffardiVICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGYWARNER BROS. DISCOVERY
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Aaron EdwardsCEOTHE CHARLES GRP
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Francia MillerSENIOR PARTNER, CLIENT INVESTMENT LEADMINDSHARE
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Tammesia GreenDIRECTOR, DIGITAL MARKETINGIMAX
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Lindsay GarfinkleVP, STRATEGYMEDIA EXPERTS
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Melissa ConnerPARTNER AND MANAGING DIRECTORJENNIFER BETT COMMUNICATIONS
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Sandro BelliniMARKETING DIRECTORYAHOO
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Nick PanayotopoulosCO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTORYOUNG HERO
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Lina RenzinaMEDIA PARTNERSHIPS LEAD, LIFESTYLE AND EDUCATIONTIKTOK
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Shruti SamantDIGITAL MARKETING LEADER, CPG, BANKING AND TECHPROCTER & GAMBLE
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Ivan AdaimePRESIDENTIMPREMEDIA
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Neylu LongoriaVP, ACCOUNT MANAGEMENTREMEZCLA
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Danielle BetrasVP, PARTNERSHIPS & PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENTTHE NEW YORK TIMES
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Danielle McMurrayVP, MARKETINGAARP MEDIA AD NETWORK
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Bill RigbyVP, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & DIGITAL MEDIA, USFOUNDRY
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Carolyn CoxSVP, HEAD OF U.S. DIGITAL PLANNING & OPTIMIZATIONHILL+KNOWLTON STRATEGIES
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Ainsley RossittoSENIOR DIRECTOR, PODCAST MARKETINGPARAMOUNT
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Jessica KellyVP, CREATIVE STUDIO (SKM LAB)THESKIMM
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Phil AndraosSENIOR DIRECTOR, COMMERCIAL STRATEGY & OPERATIONSREUTERS
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Brett GandelVP, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTUSA TODAY SPORTS MEDIA GROUP
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Shachar OrrenCO-FOUNDER & CMOEX.CO
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Maureen HochEDITOR, HBR.ORG & VICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL CONTENTHARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
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Faith AndersEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTEGRATED INVESTMENTOMD USA
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Jacquie KingCHIEF OPERATING OFFICERSTN VIDEO
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Caroline TredgetCOMMERCIAL DIRECTOR, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMESNEWS UK
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Janey LeeSENIOR PRODUCERDIVE BILLBOARDS
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Stephanie ChangVICE PRESIDENT OF CONTENT, GLOBAL EDITORWALL STREET JOURNAL CUSTOM CONTENT
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Izzy FinneganDIGITAL MEDIA MARKETING ECOMMERCE TEAM LEAD (DMC) ICE CREAM, US MARKETUNILEVER
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Leslie DiardEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MEDIA + ANALYTICSDUNCAN CHANNON
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Benoit SkinaziCHIEF MARKETING OFFICERSHARETHROUGH
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Jainnie ChoVICE PRESIDENT, BBC STORYWORKS, EMEABBC STUDIOS
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Jarell ThompsonVP OF GAMING, HAVAS PLAYHAVAS MEDIA NETWORK
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Mia de GraafDEPUTY EXECUTIVE EDITORBUSINESS INSIDER
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Lauren AlfanoSENIOR DIRECTOR INTEGRATED MARKETINGACCUWEATHER
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Mary Gail PezzimentiHEAD OF CREATIVETHE WASHINGTON POST
Judging Criteria
Judges will be looking for companies or campaigns that can clearly demonstrate success over the past 12 months. Judges are seeking companies or campaigns that have seized challenges and created opportunities and will evaluate entries based on the following criteria: Innovation, Creativity, Consumer Value, Results and Overall.
Judges will require evidence to substantiate all entries. This can include details of financial performance, specific KPIs, creative evidence in the form of a sizzle reel, campaign images, or links to the final project or related sites. The judges will also consider the structure, presentation and clarity of each entry.
Judging Process
Judges will score each entry prompt and consider any supporting materials submitted. After each judge submits their score for the above criteria, the scores of each criteria will then be averaged and then combined to determine an overall score for each entry. The highest scoring entries will appear on the shortlist and winner lists.
Confidentiality
All material will remain confidential to the judges. Only the 'Credits' section of an entry will be made public via the shortlist/winners announcement. If you win a particular category, our team may summarize the entry for shortlist/winner announcements and winners guides.
Partnership opportunities
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