Headlinemoney Awards 2017

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AWARDS 2017
Financial Blog of the Year
Winner
, Andy Webb
As you might imagine, the financial blogosphere
is a diverse space nowadays with both
professional and amateur commentators alike
offering their views on everything from global
macroeconomics to how best to save money
on the weekly supermarket run. Once the judges
had delivered their initial sets of scores and then
sat down to discuss the merits of the names on
this year’s shortlist, the original five names on the
shortlist were soon whittled down to three. After
some intensive, debate it was Andy Webb and
his BeCleverWithYourCash blog who emerged
triumphant. Andy’s blog hit the crossbar in this
category last year and this time round did more
than enough to convince the judges of its merits.
“Andy’s blog offers great ideas that are well
executed. He comes up with common sense
insights that still have the capacity to make
you think ‘ooh yeah, good point’,” one judge
commented. “I originally had this category
down as being between two contenders.
BeCleverWithYourCash has the edge because it is
consistent throughout, knows its niche and does
a really good job. It also manages to avoid the
laziness trap, which some money blogs fall into,
of appearing to be consumer-orientated only for
its content to be steeped in financial jargon as
if every reader was already an expert,” another
judge pointed out.
The Shortlist
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• Spectator Money blog
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