Canadian Cover Awards winners announced

Nov 2014

The winning entries in the Canadian Cover Awards were announced on Tuesday evening in Toronto. Co-sponsored by Magazines Canada and the CMC Circulation Management Association of Canada. The awards recognize covers in the sale of single copies on newsstands, factoring in both design and circulation success and sales of the issue. Finalists were drawn from some 88 entries.

• Toronto Life won both silver and bronze in the general interest, arts, lifestyle and regional category.
• Canadian Business magazine won the gold award in the news, business and celebrity category for its 100 Wealthiest People issue (Winter 2014) which moved 5,300 copies, a 37.1% sell-through.
• Ignition magazine won both gold and silver in the Men’s service category. The gold

  

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  winner was Winter 2014, marking the 50^th anniversary of the Mustang, which sold 3,900 copies (33.7%).
• In the SIP and new magazine category, Legion magazine’s November 2014 issue won gold for its premium-priced issue The Battles which sold more single copies (8,800, a sell-through of 42%) than the magazine has seen in its 90 years of publication.
• Canada’s History won gold and bronze among small magazines. Its gold winner, December 2014/January 2015, was its all-time bestseller, with 6,200 copies sold (42.2% of its draw).
• Mike Martin of distributor CMMI was named 2016 Marketer of the Year.

The winners and finalists in all categories:

General interest, arts, lifestyle and regional

Canadian Geographic, December 201 4 (Gold)

Toronto Life, July 2015 (Silver)

Toronto Life, January 2015 (Bronze)

BC Magazine, Fall 2015 (HM)

Canadian Geographic, Jan/Feb 2015 (HM)

Home & Décor

Canadian House & Home, January 2015 (Gold)

Chez soi, July 2015 (Silver)

Style at Home, July 2015 (Bronze)

Les idées de ma maison, April 2015 (HM)

Style at Home, May 2015 (HM)

Men’s Service

Ignition, Winter 2014 (Gold)

Ignition, Spring 2015 (Silver)

Sharp, April 2015 (Bronze)

Ignition, Buyer’s Guide 2015 (HM)

News, Business & Celebrity

Canadian Business, winter 2014 (Gold)

7 Jours, September 2015 (Silver)

L’actualité, February 2015 (Bronze)

Maclean’s, November 17, 2014 (HM)

Zoomer, June 2015, (HM)

SIPs & New Magazines

Legion, November 2014 (Gold)

Tellement bon, December 2014 (Silver)

Canadian Living Specials – Summer BBQ Book (Bronze)

PAS Mag, Japan Special Edition (HM)

Style at Home, Cottage Style Special (HM)

Small Magazines

Canada’s History, December 2014/January 2015 (Gold)

Rotman Management, Spring 2015 (Silver)

Canada’s History, August/September 2015 (Bronze)

Marriage Québec, Fall/Winter 2014 (HM)

Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, March 2015 (HM)

Sports & Leisure

Fly Fusion, Winter 2015 (Gold)

Canadian Aviator, November/December 2014 (Silver)

The Hockey News, March 2015 (Bronze)

Canadian Traveller, Winter 2014 (HM)

Pacific Yachting, July 2015 (HM)

Women’s Service

Elle Canada, September 2015 (Gold)

Coup de Pouce, December 2014 (Silver)

Canadian Living, November 2014 (Bronze)

Elle Québec, July 2015 (HM)

S/ Style & Fashion, Winter 2014 (HM)

Magazines Canada Cover awards press release

Canadian Cover Awards finalists named; winners to be announced March 22

The finalists have been named for the Canadian Cover Awards, the winners of which will be announced March 22 at 6 p.m. at the Courtyard Toronto Downtown. The annual competition is run by the Circulation Management Association of Canada and Magazines Canada. The winner of the prestigious Newsstand Marketer of the Year will be announced at the same event. The finalists for the best covers of 2015 are:

General Interest, Arts, Lifestyle & Regional
BC Magazine, Fall 2015
Canadian Geographic, December 2014
Canadian Geographic, January/February 2015
Toronto Life, January 2015
Toronto Life, July 2015
Home & Decor
Canadian House & Home, January 2015
Chez soi, juillet 2015
Les idées de ma maison, avril 2015
Style At Home, May 2015
Style At Home, July 2015
Men's Service
Ignition, Winter 2014
Ignition, Spring 2015
Ignition, Buyer's Guide 2015
Sharp, Fall/Winter 2014
Sharp, April 2015
News, Business, Celebrity
7 jours, septembre 2015
L'actualité, février 2015
Canadian Business, Winter 2014
Maclean's, November 17, 2014
Zoomer, June 2015
SIPS & New Magazines
Canadian Living Specials, Summer BBQ Book
Legion, November 2014
PAS Mag, Japan Special Edition
Style At Home, Cottage Style Special Issue
Tellement bon, décembre 2014
Small Magazines
Canada's History, December 2014/January 2015
Canada's History, August/September 2015
Mariage Québec, Fall/Winter 2014
Rotman Management, Spring 2015
Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, March 2015
Sports & Leisure
Canadian Aviator, November/December 2014
Canadian Traveller, Winter 2014
Fly Fusion, Winter 2015
The Hockey News, March 2015
Pacific Yachting, July 2015
Women's Service
Canadian Living, November 2014
Coup de Pouce, décembre 2014
Elle Canada, September 2015
Elle Québec, juillet 2015
S/ Style & Fashion, Winter 2014

Finalists named for Canadian Cover Awards

The finalists have been announced for the Canadian Cover Awards, presented by Magazines Canada and the Circulation Management Association of Canada. The winners in each category will be announced February 24 at a 6 p.m.reception in Toronto at the Courtyard Toronto Downtown. The prestigious Newsstand Marketer of the Year award will also be announced then. 

Finalists are:

General Interest, Arts, Lifestyle and Regional

• Homes & Living Calgary, December 2013/January 2014
• Legion, Victoria Cross issue
• Vancouver Magazine, June 2014
• Vancouver Magazine, Eating & Drinking issue
• Zoomer, June 2014

Home and Decor

• Canadian House & Home, December 2013
• Canadian House & Home, January 2014
• Décormag, July/August 2014
• Les idées de ma maison, 15 mai 2014
• Style at Home, November 2013

News, Business & Celebrity

• 7 Jours, 13 juin 2014
• 7 Jours, 11 juillet 2014
• Hello! Canada, August 25, 2014
• Maclean's, November 25, 2013
• Zoomer, November 2013

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Entries open for Canadian Cover Awards

Entries are open for the Canadian Cover Awards, produced by the Circulation Management Association of Canada and Magazines Canada. Deadline for submissions is January 26.
There are eight award categories. Newsstand sales are worth 50 percent of an entry's final score; the remaining 50 percent is determined by five judges representing our industry: a retailer, a wholesaler, a national distributor, a circulation director and an art director. The entry fee is $90 for the first entry, $75 for the second and $55 for all additional entries. For the Small Magazine category, the cost is $35. Entries are made online. 

Nominations are also welcomed for Newsstand Marketer of the Year, for which there is no entry fee. It is meant to recognize an individual working for a Canadian publishing house, a national distributor or a wholesaler who has demonstrated passion and innovation—and produced results—for a newsstand project. 

Winners of Canadian Cover Awards announced

The winners of the Canadian Cover Awards were announced on Tuesday night in Toronto, with the following results:

Zoomer wins 2 gold and silver

Vero wins gold for launch issue

General Interest, Arts, Lifestyle and Regional
• L'actualité July 2013 BRONZE
• Reader's Digest January 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION
• Vancouver Magazine October 2012 HONOURABLE MENTION
• Zoomer December 2012/January 2013  GOLD
• Zoomer April 2013 SILVER

Home and Decor
• Chez Soi May 2013 SILVER
• Decormag October 2012 GOLD
• House and Home March 2013 BRONZE
• House and Home September 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION
• Style at Home May 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION

News, Business & Celebrity
• 7 Jours February 1, 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION
• Hello! August 12, 2013 GOLD
• Sharp Winter 2013 BRONZE
• Zoomer December 2012/January 2013 SILVER
• Zoomer April 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION

SIPS and new magazines
• Canadian Living Holiday issue HONOURABLE MENTION• Hockey News Draft Preview HONOURABLE MENTION
• Maclean’s Alberta Flood SILVER
• Style at Home 100+ Easy Renos and Makeovers BRONZE
• Vero V01 #1 GOLD

Small Magazines
• Canada's History December 2012/January 2013 SILVER
• Canada's History August/September 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION
• Ottawa Magazine Summer 2013 GOLD
• This Magazine September/October 2012 BRONZE
• Your Workplace September 2012 HONOURABLE MENTION

Sports and Leisure
• The Hockey News January 28, 2013 BRONZE
• Outdoor Canada Winter 2012/2013 SILVER
• PASMAG August 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION
• PRN Ignition Summer 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION
• Sportsnet April 1, 2013 GOLD

Women's Service
• Canadian Living May 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION
• Canadian Living September 2013 BRONZE
• Chatelaine June 2013 GOLD
• Châtelaine August 2013 HONOURABLE MENTION
• Coup de Pouce December 2012 SILVER

For the first time, the Newsstand Marketer of the Year was declared a tie, with Bernie Menchise of TC Media and Craig Sweetman of CRS Media Consulting sharing the honour. 

The awards were co-produced by Magazines Canada and the Circulation Management Association of Canada. The awards reception was sponsored by the Alliance for Audited Media and other sponsors were media sponsor Masthead; marketing sponsor Covers Sell; design sponsor K9 Design Co.; promotional retail sponsor Gateway Newsstands.

Canadian Cover Awards winners announced

August 2012

The new Canadian Cover Awards were presented last night in Toronto -- successor to the Canadian Newsstand Awards. The new competition, co-presented by the Circulation Management Association of Canada (CMC) and Magazines Canada, differs in several respects from its predecessor, including being agnostic about circulation size.  

The new awards are strictly based in seven categories on success of covers in Canadian single copy sales (50% of score based on sales, 50% on jury selection for cover excellence). Previously, small circ titles such as This Magazine were repeat winners among entries under 10,000. This year the smallest circulation winner was Sky News (25,000).

Winners were: 

• Fashion, Shopping and Bridal: Elle Québec, August 2012
• General Interest, Arts, Lifestyle & Regional: Legion Magazine, January/February 2012
• Home & Decor: Style at Home, September 2011
• News, Business & Celebrity: Canadian Business, February 2012
• SIPs and New Magazines: Maclean's, Royal Wedding special issue
• Sports and Leisure: SkyNews, May/June 2012
• Women's Service: Chatelaine, February 2012
• Newsstand Marketer of the Year: Greg Keilty, SkyNews

For details of the editorial and circulation teams behind the winners, see this release from Magazines Canada.

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• Revived Canadian Cover Awards and new logo take flight
• Magazines Canada and CMC will run Canadian Newsstand Awards

Revived Canadian Cover Awards and new logo take flight

We kinda like the new logo for the Canadian Cover Awards -- the renamed Canadian Newsstand Awards, co-sponsored by Magazines Canada and the Circulation Management Association of Canada (CMC). As we reported in an earlier post, the awards were started in 2002 by Masthead, but it decided last year to discontinue them. However, it was such a valued program that the new partnership was struck to carry them on, albeit under a new name. 

The new logo was created by K9Design's Norm Lourenco, who says of it:

"The new logo represents the Canadian magazine industry, and aspires to instill pride in the nominees and winners. Magazine visuals, have been done to death. The Canada Goose, illustrated with feathers like pages, represents many aspects of the awards: the Canadian content, the leader of the flock, the best, the winner…it’s a bird in flight – it’s all good.”

The awards program is open to English- or French-language magazines and must have single copies sold in Canada, containing a minimum of 80% Canadian editorial content. The awards are sponsored by Masthead, Covers Sell, K9Design, LS Travel and the Alliance for Audited Media. Submissions are accepted starting January 7 and close January 25. Single entries are the same as the newsstand awards were ($95) but multiple entries are discounted ($75 for second entry, $55 for each additional). Entries may be submitted online. Full list of categories.  Scores will be determined half by single copy sales  half by a panel of industry judges including a retailer, a wholesaler, a circ director, a national distributor and an art director. Newsstand Marketer of the Year will continue to be awarded.

The new logo seems to complement the logo for the National Magazine Awards, created a few years ago by Hambly & Woolley.