PTS Awards 2025
​Celebrating the Best in the Business
​The PTS Awards and People's Choice Awards 2025 recognises the very best in the philatelic trade as well as an Ambassador contributor award open to anyone in philately. ​And we are excited to be celebrating some new categories this year.
Congratulations to our Winners
The PTS Awards 2025 (voted for by our judging panel)
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Collaboration of the Year
Winner: Heinrich Köhler
Runner Up: Åland Post Stamps
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Campaign of the Year
Winner: Royal Mail
Runner Up: Cwiakala Auctions
Publication of the Year
Winner: Siegel Auctions
Runner Up: Stamp Active Network
Trade Ambassador of the Year
Winner: Bill Barrell
Runner Up: Franz Fedra
Philatelic Ambassador of the Year
Winner: Simon Martin-Redman
Runner Up: Abhishek Bhuwalka
People's Choice Awards 2025 (voted for via public vote)
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Collaboration of the Year
Winner: Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Foundation
Runner Up: Stanley Gibbons
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Campaign of the Year
Winner: Bill Barrell
Runner Up: Kelleher Auctions
Publication of the Year
Winner: Gibbons Stamp Monthly
Runner Up: Corinphila
Trade Ambassador of the Year
Winner: Bill Barrell
Runner Up: Benjamin Combes
Philatelic Ambassador of the Year
Winner: Joseph Stephen
Runner Up: Sam Chiu
Award Categories
Which PTS Members are working successfully with each other, or with others in the philatelic ecosystem, or in new spaces with third parties to promote philately, their product / service, and / or boost the hobby?
Terms and Conditions (Nominations)
1) All nominations must be completed via the nomination form by 15th December at 23:59 (UK time)
2) For the four main awards categories, only PTS Members can be nominated.
3) You can nominate as many companies / people as you like, and you can nominate into as many award categories as you like
4) You can nominate yourself and/or you can nominate others
5) The winners will be revealed on the 30th December after the People's Choice and Judging voting period closes. The People's Choice and Judging voting period runs from the16th - 29th December.
6) If required (and if you have shared your details with us), we may reach out to you for more information relating to your nomination
7) All information provided can be used for publicity purposes but we will never share your name or email address.
8) Nominees and Winners will receive marketing material they can use to promote their involvement in the Awards
9) Nominations may be shortlisted based on number of nominations if the list of nominees exceeds 10 in any one category. Shortlisting criteria includes number of nominations, and quality of rationale for nomination.
Terms and Conditions (People's Choice Voting)
1) You can vote once in each awards category.
2) All votes must be submitted by 23:59 (UK time) on the 29th December
3) Only votes completed via the voting form will be eligible.
4) Voting is anonymous but our system uses email address/ IP Address recognition to identify where duplicate votes have been made. Duplicate votes within the same one category by the same IP Address will be disqualified. If you vote more than once using the same email address, your last cast vote will be considered final.
5) The winner of each category will be the nominee with the most votes. Winners will be announced on the 30th December. Runners up will also be announced.
6) Your email address is used to validate the "one vote per email address" term. If you tick the box requesting that you be subscribed to our Newsletter, your email address will be used to subscribe you. Else, your email address is not used or shared in any way other than for the purposes of this Awards voting process.