European Magazine Award

The European Magazine Award welcomes media companies that create and market content-driven products, as well as their suppliers, service partners and service providers. Deadline for submissions is December 13th, 2024 (Early Bird) or January 31st, 2025.

 

Categories

Magazine Story of the Year

The jury is looking for excellent magazine stories – in terms of relevance, outstanding content and stunning design. Please choose one piece per media brand as your “magazine story of the year”. This should have been published in the course of the year 2023.









Design

Best contemporary magazine design which supports the editorial approach and audience’s needs. Submissions should explain the design idea and include a minimum of two features from one issue or the whole issue itself. Enter your magazine according to the segment:
- Politics & Society
- Economy
- Service
- Lifestyle, Fashion & Beauty
- Special Interest
- B2B
- Indie

Magazine Relaunch

Please submit both one issue before and one after the relaunch. You may want to briefly describe the underlying idea of the relaunch: why it happened, what was changed and how it works for readers and editorial team.










Infographic

Best use of infographic to reveal magazine content, be it part of a story or a stand-alone piece. Submissions should include a brief description of the subject and context – and, if appropriate, also the challenge in visualizing the topic.










Photography

Outstanding photography. The picture(s) can be of any kind and must have been published in a magazine. Entries should include the whole story or feature to illustrate the context and subject. Please select your category: Portait or Sequence.


Cover Concept

The category awards visual concepts of cover page design. Please describe the underlying creative principles and submit an appropriate number of cover examples.




Cover One-shot

Single outstanding cover that has been published, reflecting perfect collaboration of editors, design and distribution in order to sell the cover story or enhance reading experience. An entry consists of one cover only; however, there is no limitation to the number of entries.

Illustration

The jury is looking for excellent illustrations which enrich a magazine story. You can enter single stories or, in case the illustration principles are used throughout an issue, the whole issue.



Typography

Best use of typo – be it in a single element of a magazine or globally across the magazine. Solid and visually harmonic typography may be as succsessful in this category as surprising or bold approaches. Please name the font(s) employed.

Storytelling:
Feature, Report, Q&A

This category is for long pieces like features, reports or Q&A formats. The jury looks for outstanding ways to tell a story and to reveal the content.




Storytelling:
Short Piece

This category focuses on short pieces which run on less than one page. The jury looks for outstanding ways to tell a story and to reveal the content.




Content Marketing
(print)

Outstanding magazines produced by a publisher or consultancy on behalf of a client or by the organization itself. The submission should contain owned media at a high quality level.


 

Jury

Markus Wiegand

Editor-in-Chief


kress pro

Julia Rotherbl

Member of the editorial board


Wort & Bild Verlag

Javier Errera –

CEO


Errera Communication

Barbara Haas

Deputy editor


Styria Medienhaus Lifestyle

Stefan Regez

Head of Public Magazines


Ringier Axel Springer Schweiz

Martin Schumacher

Managing Director


kicker business solutions

Malte von Bülow

CPO (Chief Product Officer) Publishing Germany


Bauer Media Group

Jessica MacDermot

Global Portfolio Director


Haymarket Media Group

Jan Blender

Managing Director & Head of Content


Readly

Gerald Grünberger

Geschäftsführer


Verband Österreichischer Zeitungen

Kerstin Hasse

Head of Digital


Tages-Anzeiger
 

Submission

HOW MUCH IS AN ENTRY?
The entry fee is EUR 390 for each media brand and award section. A media brand may consist of different media products operating under the same brand and publishing responsibility. Award sections are European Magazine Award, European Digital Publishing Award and European Corporate Media Award.
For all submissions completed by December 13th, 2024, this entry fee will be reduced to EUR 290 per brand and section. All prices excl. VAT.
WHEN IS THE DEADLINE?
Early Bird: 13-12-2024,11.59 pm (EUR 100 off per brand and section)
Deadline: 31-01-2025, 11.59 pm
PROCEDURE AND PARTICIPATION TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Entries can be submitted in multiple categories. The jury is allowed to move entries to other categories. The winners will be notified after the jury session in March 2025, but external communication will start after the awards show at the European Newspaper Congress. The jury’s decisions are final. The jury is allowed without further explanatory statement to disqualify entries which are formal incorrect or entries with missing data. By submitting your entry, you accept that your data will be proceeded electronically in the course of the judging process and filed in a database containing of selected entries. In case an entry gets nominated or awarded, the abstract and a selection of the submitted pictures will be published. Within your entry, you can highlight certain statements or data as “confidential” in the sense of “nor for publishing”.
 
 

Contact


Mail: publishing-awards@oberauer.com
Phone: +49 (0) 30 364 286 513