🏆 Such a well-deserved award for Best Local & Community Newsletter from Media Voices! 🏆 Congratulations to Keith Pepper and the Rough Draft Atlanta team for their work and dedication to serving their community. We're grateful for Rough Draft Atlanta's participation in our Revenue Development Program where they made great strides while working with their coach Katie Mercer and fellow cohort publishers.
🎉 Our flagship Rough Draft morning newsletter was recently recognized as Best Local & Community Newsletter in the 2024 Publisher Newsletter Awards, presented by Media Voices. The announcement was made at a July 23 ceremony in London. 📧 Media Voices, a UK-based industry publication, presented awards in 14 categories spanning news, politics, arts, food, and more. Judges from around the world evaluated newsletters on editorial quality, branding, audience, monetization, and overall strategy. 📈 Rough Draft Atlanta launched in 2021 and, thanks to a loyal base of readers and sponsors, has seen sustained growth in both revenue and audience. Our open rate consistently outperforms the industry averages by 2x, and sponsorship slots are filling up months in advance. 🥈 Side Dish, our weekly newsletter about Atlanta’s dining scene was a finalist for Best Food & Drink Newsletter (Winner: The Spectator), and Sketchbook was a finalist for Best Entertainment & Culture Newsletter (Winner: LMAOnaise). 👋 As media organizations seek to deepen relationships with readers, email newsletters have proven to be an effective distribution platform and provide our advertisers with impactful, elegant, and creative advertising products. 🥂 Congratulations to our entire team, which has embraced newsletters as an effective way to connect with subscribers and is committed to putting out a best-in-class product every day. 📲 If you're not subscribed to Rough Draft, text DRAFT to 66866 or visit the Newsletters tab on our website. https://lnkd.in/epr9Sakf #NewsletterAwards #MediaVoices #LocalJournalism #Atlanta #RoughDraftAtlanta