The Guardian comes out on top at AOP Digital Publishing Awards

Last night saw the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) unveil the winners of its ninth Digital Publishing Awards at The Roundhouse, Camden, with the Guardian claiming six separate awards.

The Guardian was the only publisher to pick up multiple awards, for Launch, Research & Insights Project, Innovation, Use of Video and Digital Publisher Consumer, while Matthew Weaver won Best Digital Editorial Individual.

Incisive Media won Best Digital Publisher, while Magenta Technology & 24/7 Real Media won the Best Ad Sales Technology Platform.

Best Website – Consumer went to IPC for NME.com, while RBI took home Best Website -Business for Flightglobal; BBC was awarded Best Cross-Media Project for Headroom; UBM’s Property Week walked away Best Editorial Team/Business, and Telegraph Media Group picked up Best Editorial Team/Consumer; Future Publishing received Best Digital Advertising Sales Team; Global Radio achieved Best Commercial Partnership for its partnership with XBOX; Trader Media snapped up Best Use of Mobile; Magicalia Digital Publishing was awarded Best Specialist Digital Publisher.

Tim Faircliff, AOP chairman and general manager, consumer media, Thomson Reuters, said: “The AOP is pleased to have hosted tonight’s master-class in innovation, commercial success and effectiveness in the digital publishing industry’s continuing drive to produce original, branded, quality content.

“The AOP represents and champions the interests of companies from newspaper and magazine publishing, TV and radio broadcasting and pure online media – and our annual awards recognise and reward those businesses that strive further to grow and develop the sector. Once again, we are delighted that these awards are a showcase for the cream of UK consumer and business publishers.”