AOP Announces Winners of the Digital Publishing Awards 2025
Published: 12 Jun 2025
London, UK, 12th June 2025 – The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) celebrated its 23rd Awards yesterday, honouring the digital publishing industry’s top talent at the in-person ceremony, held at Old Billingsgate in London.
AOP’s flagship event was hosted by comedian Ivo Graham and recognised the individuals, teams and companies driving the growth and innovation of the digital publishing sector. There were 27 category winners, including Sheri Reefer, Audience & Digital Insights Specialist, who received the prestigious Bill Murray Award for Outstanding Contribution to Digital Publishing.
Categories were judged by a panel of digital industry experts under the guidance of co-chairs Katie Le Ruez, former Director of Digital at Guardian News & Media, and Thomas Lake, Product & Technology Director at Infopro Digital.
“With so much transformation in the digital publishing industry, I’m hugely proud that we are able to take a moment to celebrate the hard work and dedication of all those driving the industry forward,” comments Richard Reeves, Managing Director at AOP. “Congratulations to all the winners and highly-commended entries, who are driving innovation and helping to future-proof the industry.”
Among the other winners on the night was Charlotte Collins of SheerLuxe, who took home the prestigious Editor of the Year accolade, Newsquest, who won Best Digital Publishing Innovation for The AI-Assisted Reporter, and Utiq, who were awarded Best Media Technology Partner: Audiences. Meanwhile, Trang Nguyen of Telegraph Media Group won the Rising Star award.
The full list of winners is as follows:
Editor of the Year
Journalist of the Year
Rising Star
Sales Person of the Year
The AOP Award for Inspiring Local Journalism, sponsored by Google News Initiative
Advertising Operations Team of the Year, Sponsored by Index Exchange
Audience Development Team of the Year, sponsored by UKOM
Editorial Team of the Year: B2B
Editorial Team of the Year: Consumer, sponsored by Teads
Product Development Team of the Year
Sales Team of the Year, sponsored by Utiq
Best Creative Solutions Led / Content Marketing Campaign, sponsored by Avid Collective
Best Digital Publishing Innovation
Best Diversification of Commercial Strategy, sponsored by Google
Best Media Technology Partner: Audiences
Best Media Technology Partner: Revenues
Best Publisher-led Social Good Initiative or Campaign
Best Research / Insight Project
Best Use of Audio
Best Use of Data
Best Video Strategy
Winner: Radio Times, entered by Immediate
The AOP Employer Excellence Award, sponsored by Lewis Silkin
Best Online Brand: B2B
Best Online Brand: Consumer, sponsored by Mantis
Small Digital Publisher of the Year, sponsored by Deloitte
Best Digital Publishing Company 2025
The Bill Murray Award for Outstanding Contribution to Digital Publishing, in partnership with UKOM and supported by Haymarket Media Group
Additional details on the AOP Digital Publishing Awards 2025 can be found here.
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The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) is an industry body representing digital publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content. AOP champions the interests of media owners from diverse backgrounds including newspaper and magazine publishing, TV and radio broadcasting, and pure online media. For more information, please visit www.ukaop.org.
