Tips for your perfect digital publishing award application

We hope you are doing fine with your digital publishing award 2025 submissions! Just to be sure you know how to design the perfect application, here’s our 5 short tips – especially for applications in the “Product / Business Model”, “Start-up” and “Process / Technology” categories:

1. Keep it simple!

Make sure the subject of your application is a single project, product or process. The more easily we can understand the scope of your subject matter, the more likely our awards jury can see its potential!

2. Make it stand out!

You work on some LLM that helps in publishing books? Great. But please tell us how your model or your interface differs from the others. 

3. Done is better than perfect!

No time for the perfect application? Send it in anyways – ideally considering the other tips in this e-mail.

4. Make sure we find something on your subject, ideally some independent source!

Your product is already on the market? That’s wonderful. Make sure we find some info on it on the web – maybe that’s press coverage, interviews or just some feature description on your website. 

We know this is harder to accomplish with a yet-to-be-released product, but maybe there’s some pre-launch coverage? If not, please include a sentence about it in your application and make sure we see that the product is about to be launched.

5. Include some notes on your target audience.

Tell us who you want to help with your solution – and how. Make us see that you are solving a real-world problem.

We are really looking forward to your application! Find all the info on the dpa2025 here.