Communicate (magazine)
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| Editor | Brittany Golob |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Format | Trade magazine |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Company | Cravenhill Publishing |
| Country | UK |
| Based in | London |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 2046-4649 |
Communicate is a monthly trade magazine for the UK corporate communications community. Branding itself as ‘the single voice for stakeholder relations’, Communicate’s focus is on how organisations engage with their stakeholders: the press, investors, employees, regulators, the supply chain and the communities in which they operate. As such, Communicate covers corporate communications, public relations, investor relations, internal communications, corporate social responsibility, crisis communications and public affairs.
With a monthly circulation of 10,000, it is read by in-house communications departments in the private and public sectors as well as communications consultancies and service providers across the UK.
In addition to the magazine, Communicate publishes a weekly e-newsletter and hosts a website of the same name.
Communicate magazine is published by Andrew Thomas, and edited by Brittany Golob. It is owned by Cravenhill Publishing, an independent publishing company based in London. Cravenhill Publishing also publishes Transform Magazine.
The magazine runs a number of awards programs to celebrate achievement within the corporate communications sphere. These include: The Corporate Content Awards, The Corporate Content Awards North America, The Digital Impact Awards, The Transform Awards, The Corporate Engagement Awards, The Corporate & Financial Awards, The Internal Communications and Engagement Awards and The Employer Brand Management Awards.
Columnists and contributors
Columnists and contributors have included:
- Vikki Chowney, editor of Reputation Online
- Caroline Parry, former news editor of Marketing Week
- Rebecca Richmond, content director for internal communications training firm Melcrum Publishing[1]
- Ruth Sunderland, associate city editor of Daily Mail
Each issue features a profile of a key figure in corporate communications. These have included: Jane Wilson of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, Andraea Dawson-Shepherd of Reckitt Benckiser and Simon Lewis when he was head of comms at 10 Downing Street.
Events
Communicate organise a number of awards events and conferences on key areas of corporate communications. Their awards events include:
- The Corporate Content Awards
- The Corporate Content Awards North America
Launched in 2018 in Europe, the Corporate Content Awards is the only awards event to benchmark and reward corporate storytelling and the use of narrative to all corporate audiences, across owned, earned and bought media. Communicate is launching the Corporate Content Awards in North America in February 2020.
Founded in 2010, the Digital Impact Awards sets the industry-wide benchmark in digital stakeholder engagement. The event honours the best corporate digital communications work in Europe.
- The Transform Awards
Sister to Communicate, Transform magazine honours and rewards the most innovative, creative and successful brand work across the world. Each of the prestigious award programmes focuses on specific aspects of the branding process and provides a platform from which to benchmark and showcase excellence. In Europe, we also run Transform's Young Contenders which identifies the next generation of strategic, creative, and innovative brand specialists. Transform awards have been running since 2010.
Founded in 2011, the Corporate Engagement Awards recognises the most successful and innovative corporate partnerships and sponsorships, and the communication strategies around those collaborations.
Since 2012, Communicate has been running the Corporate & Financial Awards: the only true benchmark of companies’ communication with the City and its influencers. The awards programme celebrates and showcases excellence in financial communications and provides recognition for the efforts of staff, companies, agencies and beneficiaries.
The Internal Communication and Engagement Awards was launched in 2019 to celebrates and recognise the importance of internal stakeholders and employees as one of the most important audiences in organisations. The event highlights the impact internal communications has on a business, the role of the internal communicator within an organisation and the creative strategies developed to promote an engaged workforce. The Internal Communications and Engagement Awards is sponsored by the CIPR Inside group.
Founded in 2016, the awards programme exists as the true benchmark of the employer brand management process. Metrics such as retention and cost per hire go so far, but, until now, there has been nothing that compares and contrasts the different aspects of successful employer branding, nothing that fully rewards excellence and celebrates the campaigns and the organisations that excel in this field.
Their conferences include:
- Social Media in a Corporate Context (held in London, Manchester and Amsterdam)
- Transform - the annual conference for rebranding
- Reputation in Financial Services
- Reputation in Oil, Gas and Mining
Honours
In December 2009, Communicate magazine won the Best Launch category at the Independent Publisher Awards,[3] organised by the Periodical Publishers Association.
In December 2010, Communicate magazine won the Media Brand of the Year category at the PPA's Independent Publisher Awards[4]
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-14. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ [1] Archived 2010-04-04 at the Wayback Machine Digital Impact Awards recognise excellence in digital communication, Communicate magazine, March 2010
- ^ "Think Publishing takes top accolade at Independent Publisher Awards". PPA. Periodical Publishers Association. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
- ^ "Independent Publisher Awards 2010 - winners". InPublishing. InPublishing. Retrieved 2010-12-20.