Vanessa Raphaely takes AdMag Editor of the Year

Says Charlene Beukes, publisher for Media24 Special Interest Women's Magazines Division, “We are delighted with Psychologies' first award! We're 100% focused on creating a product that delivers on our promise to both readers and advertisers, and believe this is a sign of great things to come.”

Woolworths Taste was named South African Magazine of the Year.

The Best Advert in ADvantage, a relatively new award initiated by Farquhar, saw Video Lab taking top honours.

Category winners, as appointed by Farquhar and his judging panel, are as follows:

• Top Billing – Merit (General Interest)
  
• Drum – Gold (General Interest)
  
• NAG – Gold (Youth Culture 14 years +)
  
• Ideas/Idees – Merit (Crafts)
  
• National Geographic Kids – Gold (Children 5-13 years)
  
• De Kat – Gold (Lifestyle)
  
• Finweek – Gold (Business)
  
• Entrepreneur – Gold (Business)
  
• Sarie – Gold (Women 24-35 years)
  
• Move – Gold (Women 24-35 years)
  
• Cosmopolitan – Gold (Women 24-35 years)
  
• Fit Pregnancy – Gold (Parenting)
  
• Hip2b²– Merit (Custom Publishing)
  
• Woolworths Taste – Gold (Custom Publishing)
  
• Habitat– Gold (Décor & Home)
  
• Visi– Gold (Décor & Home)
  
• House & Leisure – Gold (Décor & Home)
  
• Woman & Home – Gold (Women 35+)
  
• Car – Gold (Motoring)
  
• Africa Geographic – Gold (Environment & Conservation)
  
• Heat – Merit (Celebrity)
  
• SA Country Life – Gold (Travel)
  
• Business Day Wanted – Gold (Newspaper Format Supplements)
  
• Runners World – Gold (Sports)
  
• Golf Digest – Gold (Sports)
  
• Men's Health Best Life – Gold (Male)
  
• Popular Mechanics – Gold (Male)
  
• Psychologies – Gold (Inspiration / Wellness)
  
• Eat Out – Gold (Annuals / Bi-annuals)

The AdMag Judges were: Barbara Cooke, TGI; Kim Weissensee, Applied Media Logic; Chris Botha, The MediaShop; Luisa Belter, Freelancer; Nazeer Suliman, Universal McCann; Philippe Raffray, L'Oreal; Wilma de Bruin, Beeld; Trish Guilford, The MediaShop; Melanie Walter, Starcom; Britta Reid, MediaCompete; Jedd Cokayne, Joe Public and John Farquhar.