Immediate celebrates five wins at the ACE Newspaper & Magazine Awards

ACE NMA (Newspaper Magazine Awards) 2025. Awards compared by Janet Street Porter. Opening address by James Beardow, Chair of ACE. Held at The London Marriott Grosvenor Square, London. On the 13 May 2025

Tuesday 13 May, 2025

Immediate, home to trusted brands people love, won five awards at this year’s ACE (Association of Circulation Executives) Newspaper & Magazine Awards which recognise the outstanding achievements in innovation, marketing, and distribution in the industry

Radio Times legendary Christmas issue scooped two awards, as did Good Food, for Bookazine of the Year and Subscription Brand of the Year, whilst Immediate’s Subscription team won the Team of the Year category.

“The winner has seen huge growth figures plus app installs as modern metrics of success showcase forward thinking approaches to subscription strategies. Fantastic results developing their app delivering incredible increases in subscriber numbers, they are also generating substantial cash revenues of the back of that growth.”

Judges’ comments on Good Food winning Subscription Brand of the Year

Immediate’s 2025 ACE Newspaper & Magazine Award wins include:

Magazine Newsstand Campaign of the Year, Radio Times (Christmas)

Judges’ comments: “This is a standout campaign across multiple channels and harnessing on and offline promotions, influencers and partnerships to drive buzz, focus and a huge growth in sales. This was a mammoth campaign with a mammoth payoff at the end.”

Magazine Cover of the Year, Radio Times (Christmas)

Judges’ comments: “The ACE Judges said, the Winner was not just a cover – an event in itself, and used brilliantly in creative and behind the scenes work. Encapsulated the key TV moment of the season, but handled with innovation and creativity”

Oneshot/Bookazine of the Year, Good Food Air Fryer

Judges’ comments: “The award winner had fantastic sales performance and capitalising on an every increasing market with amazing sales results ”

Subscriptions Team of the Year, Immediate Customer Marketing & Subscriptions

Judges’ comments: “You can’t argue with results like those, they did the job very well -Delivering record breaking results and successful in meeting business objectives. – Great success in improving subscription targets”

Subscription Brand of the Year, Good Food

Judges’ comments: “The winner has seen huge growth figures plus app installs as modern metrics of success showcase forward thinking approaches to subscription strategies. Fantastic results developing their app delivering incredible increases in subscriber numbers, they are also generating substantial cash revenues of the back of that growth.”

Plus, Immediate’s distribution partner Frontline Group was recognised with Sustainability Initiative of the Year for their work repurposing unsold magazines.

The awards highlight the exceptional work delivered across Immediate’s market-leading brands and teams.