Last night, the FT’s global ad operations team was awarded the highly coveted Chairman’s Award and named Best Advertising Operations Team at the Drum Digital Trading Awards. The FT was also highly commended in the Most Effective Use of Data category for its ad blocking strategy.

David Frew from the IAB said: “The Financial Times team has demonstrated how a publisher can identify a hindrance to trading, and respond to it in a measured way that respects their audience and expands the conversation on the value of their proposition. It serves as a model for all premium publishers affected by ad blocking.”

Peter Slaughter, chief operations officer, said: “This is a fantastic endorsement of our skills, capabilities and commitment to excellence. The team has worked tremendously hard over the last two years to create, support and enhance the commercial propositions taken to market by our sales team”.

The prizes follow a string of recent victories for the FT’s commercial team who took home Media Brand of the Year, Media Company of the Year and Partnership of the Year (Hidden Cities) at the British Media Awards.

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