WHO Magazine wins The Maggies cover of the year
WHO Magazine, published by Seven’s Pacific Magazines, has won The Maggie’s Magazine Cover of the Year award for its October 15 issue featuring Nicole Kidman and won The Maggies weeklies category.
The announcement:
WHO Magazine (October 15, 2013 issue) has beaten off fierce competition to be hailed as winner of The Maggies: Magazine Cover of the Year 2013. The stunning cover featuring Australia’s own, Nicole Kidman, as the ‘Woman in Red’, beat over 200 titles across all eleven categories to be crowned overall Magazine Cover of the Year, as well as winning the Weeklies category.
Category winners are:
Overall Winner & Weeklies Winner – WHO Magazine (October 15, 2012)
Business & Trade Winner – The Walkley Magazine (October / November 2012)
Fashion, Health & Beauty Winner – marie claire (July 2012)
Food & Wine Winner – donna hay (February / March 2013)
House & Garden Winner – Burke’s Backyard Magazine (March 2013)
Lifestyle Winner – Hitched (April 2013)
Motoring – Tarmac (October / December 2012)
Science, Tech & Nature Winner – Wildlife Australia (Autumn 2013)
Specialist Winner – CHOICE Magazine (February 2013)
Sports Winner – Surfing Life (April 2013)
Youth & Pop Culture Winner – EMPIRE (October 2012)Initiated and sponsored by online subscription company, iSUBSCRiBE, the covers entered in The Maggies were shortlisted by a panel of industry heavyweights, including Robin Parkes, Executive Director of Magazine Publishers Australia. This shortlist was then put to a public vote via http://www.themaggies.com.au, where over 60,000 votes were cast during a five week period.
Robin Parkes, said of the winning cover, “This is an extremely impactful cover, and clearly the consumers agree. The combination of Nicole Kidman’s striking appeal with the dramatic use of colour is a real standout. Congratulations to WHO!”
Publishers were encouraged to donate to Alzheimer’s Australia, plus everyone who voted received a $5 iSUBSCRiBE gift voucher, with $1 from each magazine subscription purchased using the voucher going to charity. Over $7,000 has been raised so far, with this figure set to rise.
Source: The Maggies and iSubscribe press release.
Congratulations to WHO magazine and all The Maggies category winners! A great range of world class magazine covers from the biggest to the smallest magazine publishers in the country.
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What a load of old crock. Most of the images were bought in from picture libraries and had been seen countless times before. The Empire cover was the Skyfall film poster from the Bond film for crying out loud. If the magazine industry thinks this is innovative then it deserves to be dying the death it is…
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