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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-28T16:46:05.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nGB News has been awarded Start-Up of the Year at the prestigious Campaign Media Company of the Year Awards 2026, recognising its rapid growth and its transformational impact on the UK media landscape.\n\nThe award marks a major milestone for GB News, which has established itself as Britain’s fastest-growing media company in just five years.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe Campaign Media Company of the Year Awards celebrate excellence, innovation and performance across the industry, with this year’s competition among the strongest on record.\n\nThe judging panel described GB News as a “compelling start-up and scale-up story.”\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nJudges highlighted GB News’ momentum, audience engagement, commercial progress and market-challenging presence.\n\nAnd they also noted our ability to establish a clear position and credible growth trajectory across multiple platforms in a short space of time.\n\nIn their official comments, the judges described GB News as “a really good example of a business that has seen a gap in the market, executed with conviction and established a position and a future in a short space of time”.\n\nAngelos Frangopoulos, CEO of GB News, said: “Winning Start-Up of the Year is a proud moment for everyone at GB News.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n“Five years since launch, our philosophy remains the same: we don’t follow the news cycle, we challenge it.\n\n“By putting the people of Britain at the heart of everything we do, we’ve built a distinctive media brand which reflects and engages communities right across the United Kingdom.”\n\nOver the past year, GB News has delivered strong growth across television, radio and digital.\n\nIn 2025, it became the UK’s most-watched commercial news channel, ending Sky News’ three-decade lead.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIts radio audience has grown to 684,000 weekly listeners, while more than 10 million people follow GB News across social platforms.\n\nThe company’s digital output has also surpassed one billion pageviews.\n\nThis growth has been supported by continued innovation, including the in-housing of programmatic advertising, expansion into connected TV and FAST platforms, and the development of community-led initiatives such as Friends of GB News.\n\nGB News was also named a finalist in the News Brand of the Year category alongside DMG Media, The Guardian, Reach plc and The Telegraph.\n\nDMG were named winners in that category.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "GB News named Start-Up of the Year at Campaign Media Awards 2026"
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