Hey, I'm a reader/business owner/nominee/person whose browser autofilled to clevescene.com instead of cleveland.com, and I'm now looking at the winners of your Best of Cleveland 2025 issue.

It's out now! It's pretty exciting, right?

It is. But I have some questions.

We're bleary eyed from the production cycle but we have nothing but time and focus for you.

How were these winners chosen?

As in recent years, all the winners were chosen by the readers in a process that started more than a month ago with a nomination round followed by two weeks of finalist voting.

Did you guys publicize this at all?

As best we could! On every available platform and social channel.

I have a friend who used to work in sales/marketing for Scene and they said it's all a scam, that winners are chosen based

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