PEOPLE & TEAMS
COMMERCIAL MARKETING LEADER OR TEAM
Ozone's Commercial Marketing Team
Ozone
Seven years after our launch, Ozone’s B2B marketing continues to be a key driver of business success. Operating as a lean yet integrated team, our marketing approach has been embedded into every customer-facing function – not just to support, but to actively grow revenue and relationships. Over the past 12 months, Ozone delivered +14%...
Commercial Marketing Team
LADbible Group
Young people don’t want to be talked at; they want to be understood. That simple truth underpins everything LADbible Group does – and it’s why marketing sits at the heart of how the business grows. Reaching 70% of Gen Z in the UK and over half a billion followers globally, LADbible Group sees itself as the best mate of the internet. Ma...
JCDecaux UK Marketing Team
JCDecaux UK
How do you market to customers that you don’t yet know? Out-of-Home company JCDecaux UK is now a digital media business, powered by the transformation of its estate into over 30,000 Out-of-Home digital screens nationwide. This digitisation has unlocked data-driven capabilities traditionally associated with online media, including progr...
Tesco Media Marketing Team
Tesco Media
Tesco Media is proud to be recognised as Media Brand of the Year, reflecting our ambition to redefine retail media and become the ultimate media partner for brands. Guided by Stacy Gratz and Rachel Compton, we embedded strategic rigour through brand tracking and annual customer research, ensuring insight-led decisions that drive measur...
MEDIA LEADER OF THE YEAR
Simon Kilby
Bauer Media
Simon Kilby, Managing Director of Bauer Media UK, has delivered standout commercial growth while leading the business through significant transformation. In 2025, Bauer recorded its strongest booking year to date, securing over £180m and achieving +8.3% broadcast growth, alongside a 93% year-on-year increase in digital IP revenues in H...
Jane Wolfson
Captify, part of Verve
Jane’s tenure as UK President at Captify has been defined by steady leadership, successfully navigating the business through a high-stakes acquisition by Verve while simultaneously generating strong growth and new business. By implementing a rigorous commercial ‘Retain, Acquire, Grow’ framework and overhauling operational processes, sh...
Dallas Wiles & Chris Collins
JCDecaux UK
Chris Collins and Dallas Wiles, Co-CEOs, JCDecaux UK “We always remind our team that ‘success is not final, failure is not fatal, it’s the courage to continue that counts,’” say Chris Collins and Dallas Wiles, quoting Winston Churchill. Their careers are intertwined in a way neither expected, ever since Jean-François Decaux elevated t...
Guy Jones & Oliver Deane
The GoodNet
Guy and Ollie are Co-Founders of The GoodNet - a UK-founded data and optimisation company delivering sustainability-powered performance for brands and agencies. Since launching in 2022, and against a backdrop where sustainability has been de-prioritised by many in our industry, we have built a product – GoodIQ – and a vibrant business...
PLANNING OR STRATEGY LEADER
Roxanne Harley
Azerion UK
Roxanne Harley, Head of Growth at Azerion UK, is a dynamic, high-energy leader with 16 years’ experience and a proven track record of driving growth through people, creativity, technology and data. Guided by her leadership values; Curiosity, Authenticity, Enthusiasm and Creativity, she turns insight into action, building frameworks a...
Michael Tull
Digital Cinema Media
In 2025, newly promoted Head of Strategy & Insight Michael Tull, spearheaded a data-first agenda designed to reposition cinema as a commercially powerful, results-driven medium. Recognising the need to move beyond awareness metrics, Michael led ground breaking research, Maximising Price: The Role of Media, exploring how media context ...
SALES PERSON
Abdul Ahad
The Telegraph
Abdul is so much more than a salesperson; he's an accelerant of growth and a transformative, inclusive leader. He single-handedly turned a challenging, two-person sales patch into a powerhouse, delivering an astounding +78% year-on-year revenue growth. More than just volume, he pioneered industry best practices, and secured 57% of reve...
Barney Gibson
Digital Cinema Media
As Business Director at Digital Cinema Media, Barney Gibson has redefined how cinema delivers long-term commercial impact for his clients. While many chase short-term gains, Barney champions cinema as a premium, attention-grabbing environment that builds sustained momentum and real consumer intention. His strategy is rooted in long-ter...
COMPANIES
ADTECH PROVIDER
Captify, part of Verve
As the largest source of onsite search data outside of the walled gardens, Captify’s vision is for Search Intelligence to be indispensable across the full media lifecycle. This empowers brands to understand consumer interests, motivations and mindsets in real time, and activate this intelligence through machine learning technology to p...
Mantis, a Reach product
Mantis, a Reach plc product
Mantis is Reach' proprietary ad technology solution, built to solve one of the most persistent challenges in digital advertising: reaching the right audiences at scale, driving measurable performance, and doing so in environments brands can trust. Mantis approaches brand safety differently. If content is harmful, it is never made avail...
Smartly
Smartly is a global, leading AI-powered advertising technology platform that unifies creative production, media activation and measurement into one workflow. With global headquarters across Europe, Smartly has a main hub and dedicated operations in London to serve the UK market. The company delivers creative automation, intelligence, c...
Azerion UK
Azerion is an omnichannel adtech vendor designed to reduce fragmentation in digital advertising by giving agencies and brands a single point of access to premium inventory, bespoke audiences, creative services and outcome-led measurement. Its platform supports planning, activation and measurement across DOOH, CTV, online video, rich me...
Overwolf Ads
66 games drive 80% of global playtime. Getting into coveted titles like Fortnite & Roblox is lengthy & expensive. Bespoke in-game builds demand high costs & long lead times, pushing brands to bet on a single title even when their audience spans many. Overwolf Ads changes that. With one turnkey integration, brands reach 113M+ monthly g...
Veridooh
Veridooh is the world’s leading Independent Verification platform for out-of-home (OOH) advertising. With its proprietary SmartCreativeTM technology, Veridooh independently tracks, measures and verifies the performance of OOH advertising campaigns, bringing digital-level accountability to the UK OOH sector. OOH advertising has traditi...
AUDIO AND PODCAST
Goalhanger
Over the past year, Goalhanger has completed a decisive transformation. What began as an audio-first podcast company is now a platform-agnostic cultural media brand, shaping national and international conversation across audio, video, live events, social platforms, and membership. This evolution has delivered exceptional audience growt...
Bauer Media
2025 has been a defining year for Bauer Media UK’s audio and podcast business. Reaching over 27 million people weekly, Bauer delivered its strongest booking year to date, securing £180m, with broadcast revenues up 8.3% and digital IP revenues increasing 93% year-on-year in H2 2025. Central to this growth was the launch of audioXi, now ...
BRANDED CONTENT
LADbible Group
LADbible Group is a social culture powerhouse for branded content, built to earn Gen Z attention at scale. We reach 70% of Gen Z in the UK every day and more than half a billion followers globally, giving us real-time proximity to how youth culture moves, what lands on our platforms, and what gets ignored. We combine that audience clo...
Electric Robin
Electric Robin is a multi-award-winning production company specialising in branded content that rivals the biggest titles on global streaming platforms and broadcast TV. We combine entertainment with authentic storytelling, brand values, and audience insight to deliver work that resonates. Our portfolio spans long-form programming fo...
Monocle
Monocle is an independent global media brand creating distinctive branded-content partnerships across print, digital, radio, retail and live experiences. In 2025, our integrated model delivered record results, driven by ambitious multi-platform special projects, a significant growth in live events and real-world activations, as well as...
The Telegraph
In 2022, The Telegraph introduced a new commercial partnership model. One that would ensure branded content enhanced the subscriber experience and delivered better results for brands. Having a fresh start meant we had the freedom to shape a new team, vision and processes. Today, The Telegraph’s Editorially Integrated Partnerships te...
GAMING
Overwolf Ads
66 games drive 80% of global playtime. Getting into coveted titles like Fortnite & Roblox is lengthy & expensive. Bespoke in-game builds demand high costs & long lead times, pushing brands to bet on a single title even when their audience spans many. Overwolf Ads changes that. With one turnkey integration, brands reach 113M+ monthly g...
DMG New Media: The Respawn
DMG Media
The Respawn stands as a testament to how a legacy media company can lead the future of gaming culture. Within just one year, it has evolved from a start-up social channel into a global destination for gaming news, humour, and insight, built on journalistic integrity and creative innovation. From breaking gaming news to shaping viral m...
INFLUENCER & CONTENT CREATOR
Influencer
In 2025, Influencer delivered 1,094 campaigns for global brands including Spotify, Monzo, The Red Sea, Viator, Nike and H&M – driving a 128% uplift in sales and paying out over $30 million to creators. We brought in 36 new brand partners, strengthened our senior leadership team across commerce and growth, maintained a 98% employee ret...
Brainlabs
At Brainlabs, we combine the science of social with real human intelligence to transform influencer marketing from isolated activations into measurable business drivers. Our approach rejects generic playbooks, treating every brief as a unique challenge that demands deep audience insights, performance-driven strategy, and authentic crea...
NewGen
Pepsi Pioneers is Pepsi MAX’s bold response to a shifting cultural landscape and a rethink of how an iconic brand earns relevance with the next generation. With declining affinity among younger audiences and a celebrity-led model losing impact, Pepsi recognised that culture is now shaped by creators, communities and participation, not ...
Word on the Curb
Word on the Curb is a creator-powered media publisher that helps brands to gain cultural relevancy predominantly amongst youth audiences. We work with a diverse network of creators, pages and individuals of genuine influence, to co-create platform-native content that audiences choose to watch and share. Our edutainment model blends en...
MAGAZINE
Immediate
Immediate is home to iconic brands including Radio Times, Good Food, and BBC Gardeners’ World. Under the leadership of CEO Sean Cornwell, the business has continued it journey into a cross-platform innovator, successfully transforming its digital offer to drive continued growth and new revenue opportunities in a volatile market. Imme...
The Spectator
2025 was a landmark year for The Spectator – quite possibly the most significant in its illustrious198-year history. It marked the first year under new ownership following a protracted sale process, and a period of change felt at virtually every level of the business. These changes were designed to strengthen our products, enhance the ...
MEDIA TRADE BODY
Radiocentre
Why should Radiocentre be amplified as the winner? Radiocentre is the voice of one of the UK’s most trusted, creative and effective media channels: commercial radio. Our uniquely broad remit, spanning advertising expertise, policy advocacy and copy clearance, enables us to champion the commercial radio and audio industry in every way...
Newsworks
In an increasingly polarised and fast-moving world, quality journalism has never mattered more. In 2025, Newsworks delivered a high-impact, agenda-setting programme of activity to champion news brands to advertisers, encouraging investment to ensure a vibrant and sustainable future for publishers. Building on its award-winning Youth re...
Thinkbox
Thinkbox is the home of TV advertising. We live, breathe, sweat TV, and we’re on a mission to get it the investment it deserves. We’re in perfect storm. Adland is reshaping; short-termism abounds; money floods into big tech; the definition of TV is being gaslit. Within that, Thinkbox is a relentless voice of reason, dragging conver...
Digital Cinema Media
As the UK’s leading cinema media owner, and with no dedicated trade body, DCM acts as the sector’s principal representative, championing cinema’s value to advertisers. In 2025, DCM accelerated its data-first strategy. Its flagship study, Maximising Price: The Role of Media, provided robust, independent evidence that media context infl...
NEWS BRAND
DMG New Media
DMG Media
In one extraordinary year, DMG New Media has proven that even a heritage news brand can lead the future of digital media. Through Daily Mail, The Daily Mail UK, Mail Sport, The Spotlight, The Respawn, and This is Money, our team has built one of the UK’s largest and most trusted social publishing networks, driving billions of views, pr...
GB News
GB News Ltd.
In 2025, GB News became Britain’s number one news channel, overtaking Sky News and the BBC News Channel in one of the most significant shifts in the UK broadcast landscape for decades. This milestone reflects the strength of its journalism and its growing audiences across television, radio and digital platforms. Approaching its fifth a...
Manchester Evening News, Reach
Manchester Evening News, Reach Plc
For 150 years, the Manchester Evening News (the MEN) has served as the trusted voice of a city that is constantly evolving. Today, our mission remains to hold power to account and reflect the diverse spirit of Greater Manchester through fearless investigations, innovative digital storytelling, and essential live coverage. As a flagshi...
The Guardian
2025 was a record year for the Guardian and one of the strongest financial performances in our 200-year history. Revenue reached £275.9m, operating losses were cut from £39m to £24m and our supporter model continued to grow. Millions of people chose to fund independent journalism that they can access for free. In a world of disruption,...
The Telegraph
Despite the spotlight and distraction of a very public and ongoing sale process, The Telegraph is more together in its ambition to build deeper connections with long-lasting, paying subscribers at scale. This is a story of how company-wide collaboration has increased our effectiveness, productivity and wellbeing, and is helping to secu...
ONLINE PLATFORM
Pinterest UK
When the internet felt louder, more polarised and more automated than ever, Pinterest UK made a clear choice: demonstrate how an online platform designed for decisions - not distraction - is possible.We’re different by design. People come with intent: to plan and shop for a home, a holiday, a wardrobe, a recipe, a life moment. Because ...
Ozone – The Audience Connection Platform
Ozone is the Audience Connection Platform. Built by the UK’s leading publishers, we represent the audience-first alternative to big tech and social platforms. In the past twelve months, we have accelerated our platform evolution and focused on delivering The Connection Advantage for brands: the multiplier effect created when human con...
LADbible Group
LADbible Group has redefined what an online platform can be. In a crowded, fast-moving media landscape, we’ve earned trust and attention of by building communities that laugh, think and act. Reaching 70% of Gen Z in the UK and more than half a billion followers globally, we combine social-first storytelling, real-time insight and platf...
Leafletdrop
Leafletdrop, part of the Whistl Group
Leafletdrop.co.uk is the digital platform that didn't just digitise traditional media - it redefined it. A turnkey solution for booking a doordrop including leaflet design, targeting, print and distribution that has changed the way agencies and clients interact with the medium. By merging the tangible power of Royal Mail's unparalleled...
SheerLuxe Ltd
SheerLuxe has grown from an online retail directory into a leading multi-channel fashion, beauty and lifestyle publisher, reaching 6.1 million women globally each month. As a trusted voice in digital media, it delivers stylish, aspirational and relatable content across editorial, video, podcasts, newsletters and social platforms. Built...
OUT OF HOME
Ocean Outdoor
In 2025, Ocean Outdoor amplified women’s rugby through the Women’s Rugby World Cup, launched record-breaking campaigns like Frazzled and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, and grew Ocean Studio and Labs to deliver more DeepScreen® campaigns while driving direct client engagement. Their Pinwheel initiative, the first agency-...
i-media
In 2025, i-media didn’t just grow - we redefined the role of Out of Home for our clients and the industry. Our revenue growth surged at 6x the market rate, fuelled by our "Driving Connections" philosophy: using deterministic data to turn motorway stops into high-impact, measurable brand experiences. In 2025, we substantially expanded o...
Alight Media
Alight Media are a leading out-of-home and place-based media business. Our screens reach more people across the UK than any other digital billboard provider. We exist to make a positive difference by connecting brands and communities in the real world , and to grow out-of-home and beyond. We make a positive difference by connecting br...
JCDecaux UK
In 2024, JCDecaux UK’s Commercial Team delivered 18% revenue growth year-on-year, better than Meta and more than Google, outperforming OOH and the wider advertising market. Entering 2025, the challenge was how to sustain momentum in a tougher trading environment while continuing to innovate and deliver for customers. The answer was a ...
Next-Gen Media
Next-Gen Media (NGM) is an audience-first media owner, connecting brands with 16-24-year-olds in trusted, real-world youth environments across the UK and ROI. Working in close partnership with universities, colleges, and student accommodation providers, NGM connects brands with Gen Z where they live, study, and play. Its growing netw...
Open Media
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Open Media completed a transformative year in 2025, marked by significant commercial growth, strategic data investment, and ground breaking creative executions. Data capabilities were further strengthened by the integration of AdMobilize technology for real-time traffic and people measurement across ke...
Veridooh
Veridooh is the world’s leading Independent Verification platform for out-of-home (OOH) advertising. With its proprietary SmartCreativeTM technology, Veridooh independently tracks, measures and verifies the performance of OOH advertising campaigns, bringing digital-level accountability to the UK OOH sector. OOH advertising has traditi...
RETAIL
Tesco Media
Tesco Media is honoured to be named Media Brand of the Year at the Media Week Awards, recognising our ambition to redefine retail media. In a year of rapid RMN growth, we focused on innovation and measurable impact to become the ultimate media partner. As the UK’s longest-standing retail media network, we connect brands to 24 million h...
START-UP
GB News
As GB News approaches its fifth anniversary in June 2026, it has become one of the UK’s most disruptive and fastest-growing media organisations. Founded on the belief that journalism should be open, confident, and willing to challenge orthodoxies, GB News champions free speech, scrutinises power, and delivers content with integrity, fa...
The GoodNet
During the judging period, The GoodNet proved that sustainability-powered performance delivers measurable commercial growth and environmental impact at scale. The GoodNet is a UK-founded data and optimisation company built on one conviction: sustainability is not a constraint, it is an under-used performance signal. Through our propri...
Future Stores London
Future Stores is a new kind of media company built for brands that need impact, not infrastructure. Created to close the gap between brand storytelling and commercial performance, Future Stores transforms prime high-street locations into flagship-scale media environments that can be deployed on demand. Each space operates as a controll...
Veridooh
Veridooh launched in the UK in 2024 to bring Independent Verification to the out-of-home (OOH) sector. Veridooh is the world’s leading Independent Verification platform for out-of-home (OOH) advertising. With its proprietary SmartCreativeTM technology, Veridooh independently tracks, measures and verifies the performance of OOH advertis...
TV, VIDEO AND STREAMING
Sky Media
After a period of sustained assault, television is no longer on the defensive. It has been a long, drawn‑out battle for the TV industry. Huge viewing fragmentation caused by IP content distribution and the democratisation of content creation; ad spend leaking into frictionless platforms; and a weak economy pushing advertisers into proc...
Digital Cinema Media
Through a data-first strategy, creative innovation and commercial reinvention, DCM grew revenue 7% year-on-year. Its Groundbreaking research, Maximising Price: The Role of Media, demonstrated that cinema delivers a 10% higher price premium versus the all-channel average, reframing the channel as a driver of financial outcomes, not jus...