We’re pleased to announce the lineup of categories for the 2021 National Magazine Awards: B2B! Our program for 2021 features 18 categories, including the B2B Leadership Award, plus additional categories that are part of a new, cross-programming initiative.
Here’s the full lineup:
- Best Column or Regularly Featured Department
- Best Profile of a Company
- Best Profile of a Person
- Best Feature Article: Trade
- Best Feature Article: Professional
- Best News Coverage
- Best How-To Article or Series of Articles
- Best Series of Articles
- Best Photograph
- Best Illustration
- Best Editorial
- Best Art Direction: Single Article or Opening Spread
- Best Cover
- Best Art Direction of a Complete Issue
- Best Issue
- Best Publisher
- Best Magazine
- B2B Leadership Award
Additional Categories
New for 2021, we encourage National Magazine Awards: B2B participants to submit their work to the following categories, which will compete among those submitted to the Digital Publishing Awards and the National Magazine Awards programs. For this cross-programming initiative, all entries will be evaluated by a single panel of judges, and winners will be announced across all three programs. For more information, please see our rules.
- Best Editorial Newsletter
- Best Virtual Event
- Best Podcast: News and Politics
- Best Podcast: Arts and Culture
- Best Online Video: Short
- Best Online Video: Feature
- Best Online Video: Mini-Doc
We will present the winners of the 3rd National Magazine Awards: B2B in the spring of 2021. If you’re interested in submitting to the 2021 National Magazine Awards: B2B, please note that the call for entries opens on December 22, 2020 and closes on January 25, 2021. To save on fees, get your entries in by the early bird deadline of January 15, 2021.