Magzter's Angus Urquhart presents ‘Editor of The Year’ to Jane Toft at the PPA 2013

July 4, 2013 - PRLog -- At the recently held PPA Awards 2013 in London, Magzter played an integral role as the evening’s prestigious ‘Editor of the Year’ category was sponsored by Magzter. The Professional Publishers Associations Awards, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on the 19^th of June was a very well attended event indeed. Present at the award ceremony, were several important publishers including IPC, Dennis Publishing, Haymarket, Future, Hearst and Conde Nast among others.

The award sponsored by Magzter, was one of the most significant ones of the night, as Editor of the Year and Magazine of the Year are among the most eagerly awaited presentations. Future’s Jane Toft won the Editor of the Year (Consumer Media) and Angus Urquhart, Head of Sales; Magzter (UK) presented the award.

Future, the international specialist media group and leading digital publisher, picked up two awards at the Professional Publishers Association Awards, only two weeks after being named Consumer Digital Publisher of the Year for an unprecedented third year running by the Association of Online Publishers.

Angus Urquhart expressed his delight on having Magzter sponsor the ‘Editor of the Year’ category. In the running for Editor of the Year with Jane Toft from Future Publishing – Editor of Mollie Makes, were several strong candidates from publishing companies such as Hearst, Conde Nast and Imagine. Close contenders included Lisa Smosarski at Stylist, Michelle Ogundehin at ELLE Decoration and Lindsay Nicholson at Good Housekeeping. Toft was recognised for her commendable work on the UK’s number one contemporary craft brand.

The magazine Mollie Makes, takes a unique approach to curating the best online craft content into a beautiful and collectible magazine. Their innovative digital strategy, weekly interactive sister-brand Gathered by Mollie Makes and its significant international presence, has redefined the craft sector.

“Magzter is pleased to continue an on-going relationship with the PPA to support their efforts; to promote and develop the UK magazine publishing industry and provide the leading global digital newsstand to help publishers drive more digital sales.” – said Angus Urquhart, Head- Sales, Magzter (UK).

For images of the event, please click here http://www.ppa.co.uk/events/ppaawards2013/winners/

About PPA

The Professional Publishers Association (PPA) represents more than 200 companies, covering everything from consumer magazine publishers to business-to-business data and information providers and smaller independents.

We promote the industry in all its forms, protect members through lobbying activities, and advise the industry through communications and training work.

About Magzter

Magzter Inc. is the world’s largest and fastest growing self-service digital magazine store and newsstand with over 10 million digital consumers, more than 2000 magazine titles and over 675 publishers. Headquartered in New York, Magzter has its offices in London, Chennai and Singapore. Founded by global entrepreneurs, Girish Ramdas and Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan in June 2011, Magzter enables magazine publishers around the world to offer digital editions of their titles to global consumers allowing them to easily access and subscribe to them with a single touch, powered by the ‘Orey Click Publishing System’. Magzter also enables publishers to publish interactive/ audio-visual content because it supports HTML 5.

The Magzter app is available on Apple iOS, Android (Google Play), Windows 8, the Web, Amazon App Store and Huawei App Store and is expanding to more platforms soon. Users can buy their magazines on any of the above devices/platforms and seamlessly port their purchases to any other devices; a feature unique to Magzter.

The company counts among its publisher customers some marquee names including Hearst (USA), Newsweek (USA), AMI (USA), Dennis Publishing (UK), Haymarket (UK), Media24 (South Africa), Edipresse Asia (HK), India Today Group (India), Alpha Media (USA), Black Enterprise (USA), Singapore Press Holdings (Singapore) and has been rapidly expanding its publisher base with magazines from more than 30 countries including USA, UK, Germany, Spain, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, etc., making Magzter truly the #1 choice for magazine readers and publishers the world over.