Categories & enter

Calling all business-to-business publishers! Whether your newsletter is about a global or a niche industry, if it’s for a B2B audience, this is the category for you.

This category is for newsletters publishing daily content to keep readers up-to-date with the fast-paced news cycle.

*NEW FOR 2026*: Increasingly, the inbox is a place people go for more focused reading. If you've got a feature-length newsletter bringing deep dives or longform writing to readers, we'd love to hear about it and the strategy behind it.

From cinema to TV to books, from celebrities to gaming to podcasts, this category spotlights newsletters that bring recommendations and reviews to their audience’s inbox.

From saving strategies to pension tips, these publisher newsletters are helping readers get in their best financial shape.

Whether you’re discussing making the perfect roast or the best wine to pair with it, enter your newsletter in this section to tickle our judges’ tastebuds.

This category is for newsletters looking to help their readers live their best lives, through improving their wellbeing, careers, relationships, skills, family life and more.

Audiences can build strong, deep relationships with individual journalists and editors leading publisher newsletters. This category is for publications who have news and current affairs newsletters fronted by an individual.

Note: The newsletter name doesn't necessarily have to be built around the individual, but they do need to be a visible presence the majority of the time in the newsletter to qualify for this category.

Audiences can build strong, deep relationships with individual journalists and editors leading publisher newsletters. This category is for publications who have special interest newsletters fronted by an individual.

Note: The newsletter name doesn't necessarily have to be built around the individual, but they do need to be a visible presence the majority of the time in the newsletter to qualify for this category.

Whether you've produced a pop-up newsletter dedicated to a specific event or have created a newsletter course for your publication, this category is to celebrate newsletters with a dedicated start and end point.

Newsletters have an important part to play in reaching and engaging local communities. If you’ve got a newsletter that’s smashing its community outreach, enter it here.

For newsletters that keep their audiences informed about the latest news, whether that’s daily breaking news updates or deep dive analysis of world events.

We love launches. Tell us about why you’ve decided to launch a newsletter and what key audience needs it addresses, for a chance to win the best newsletter launch award.

Please note that in order to qualify for this category, the newsletter must have launched between March 2025 and April 2026.

This category is for newsletters that are developed alongside a partner, either as part of a commercial relationship or for audience reach. Whole newsletters, individual editions or series can apply.

This award recognises the unique work that goes into delivering a newsletter that keeps readers up-to-date within the rapidly shifting political landscape.

From in-depth analysis of the newest developments in climate science to consumer-focused medical advances, this showcases the best science newsletters.

This award celebrates newsletters that are targeted at specific interests, from gardening and stargazing to charts and investigations.

From match-day updates to player predictions, we’ve seen plenty of examples of publishers feeding their audience’s thirst for sports through newsletters. Tell us all about it here.

Whether it's a newsletter covering crypto technology, AI developments or new regulation, this category celebrates publishers excelling in tech newsletters.

*NEW FOR 2026*: AI is being used by publishers to transform workflows, speed up research and analysis, and reach new audiences through translation, marketing and more. Tell us about how you're using AI as part of your newsletter process to be in with a chance of winning this new award.

We created this award last year to honour the exceptional work being done across a number of categories by a publisher. This category isn't available to enter, but will be chosen by the team to recognise a publisher who has produced excellent newsletters across multiple categories.

*FREE TO ENTER*: Is someone in your publishing business driving your newsletter strategy forwards? Or has someone in the wider industry inspired your newsletter efforts? Nominate them for Newsletter Hero of the Year!

The best of the best, this newsletter will be the one that stands head and shoulders above all others. This category isn’t open for entry, but will be chosen from among the winners of all the other categories.