Headlinemoney Awards 2017

AWARDS 2017

Financial Blog of the Year

Winner BeCleverWithYourCash.com, 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

• BeCleverWithYourCash.com • LottyEarns.co.uk • Spectator Money blog • TheComplainingCow.co.uk • YoungMoneyBlog.co.uk

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