Adweek handed out more than 50 awards at its Hot List dinner Monday night at Capitale, including one for the best news app, which went to the New York Post.
The awards, which once honored only magazines, has broadened to cover TV and digital.
Vince Gilligan, creator of “Breaking Bad,” was named TV creative of the year. Editor of the year went to Joanna Coles of Cosmopolitan.
“It is a bit of a relief to be here because normally on a Monday night I’d be at home testing out sex positions. Every position is personally tested by moi,” she said.
Forbes, which put itself up for sale last month, got a boost when it snagged hottest business magazine.
People, the biggest money-maker in the soon to be spun off the Time Inc. empire, was named hottest celebrity/entertainment magazine while sister title Sports Illustrated, was tapped as best sports magazine.
Mayor Mike Bloomberg kicked off the evening and drew cheers when he said, “I’m still a big believer in print.”
Cecily Strong, of “Saturday Night Live,” hosted the event.
Digital editor of the year was Johah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, was a no-show but still snagged digital executive of the year.
WSJ magazine was named hottest lifestyle title. Like The Post, it is owned News Corp.
Quickest to the exits were Condé Nast President Bob Sauerberg and the rest of the Condé Nast tables. It may have been because one of the hot list winners was Bon Appétit magazine, named hottest food magazine. Some in the audience thought that perhaps Condé was upset after Harper’s Bazaar was named hottest fashion magazine in a category that Vogue, the Condé flagship, had generally owned.
Also in the Condé family, Wired publisher Howard Mittman was named publisher of the year, and Teen Vogue won in the hottest magazine on social media.