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Immediate celebrates three wins at the AOP Digital Publishing Awards

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Four people stand on stage, smiling and holding an award. Behind them, a screen displays DIGIDAY DIGITAL PUBLISHING AWARDS 2023, Winner, IM, and The Employer Excellence Award. Colorful stripes are in the background.

Monday 15 June 2026

Immediate took home three awards at last week’s AOP Digital Publishing Awards 2026, which celebrate the top talent, teams and companies driving growth and innovation across the digital publishing industry.

Immediate was crowned with the AOP Employer Excellence Award, with judges praising the company as “A solid example of community first innovation, inclusion and learning at every level – a great place to work โ€“ all the judges want to work there!”

The Best Research / Insight Project was bestowed upon the project Understanding Why Audiences Choose What To Watch: Turning Audience Motivation Into Advertiser Strategy.ย Judges said that “This brand championed their own editorial content and provided valuable research and insights for advertisers. The judges appreciated the innovative look at the content theyโ€™re curating and for that they win this category.”

Good Health by Good Food won The AOP Publishing Innovation Award for Audiences, as judge’s commended the entry for showing “incredible innovation in finding a brand new audience on an original platform, growing this organically.”

The AOP Digital Publishing Awards are one of the UK’s leading celebrations of digital media excellence, now in their 24th year. The awards recognise outstanding achievement across a wide range of categories, from Individual and Team excellence through to Publishing and Grand Prix.

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