The Publisher Podcast Awards are a celebration of the podcasting success of publishers and media organisations.
The judges marked the podcasts on a range of factors, including production quality, how well the podcast reflected the publisher’s brand, and strategies to grow the audience.
The winners:
BEST B2B PODCAST
Energy Voice Out Loud, DC Thomson Media
BEST BOOKS & LITERATURE PODCAST
Author In Your Classroom, DC Thomson Media
BEST ENTERTAINMENT & CULTURE PODCAST
Film Stories with Simon Brew, Film Stories
BEST FOOD & DRINK PODCAST
The Cocktail Lovers Podcast, The Cocktail Lovers magazine
BEST HEALTH & WELLBEING PODCAST
Life Before Birth, Reby Media
BEST HOBBIES & SPECIAL INTEREST PODCAST
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast, Immediate Media
BEST INVESTIGATIVE PODCAST
Smoke Screen, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Auddy
BEST LIFESTYLE PODCAST
Working It, Financial Times
BEST LIMITED SERIES
Bed of Lies, The Telegraph
BEST LOCAL & COMMUNITY PODCAST
Brummie Mummies, Reach PLC, Laudable
BEST NEWS PODCAST
News Briefing, Financial Times
BEST POLITICAL PODCAST
The New Statesman Podcast, The New Statesman
BEST SCIENCE & MEDICAL PODCAST
Mysteries of Science, Future PLC
BEST SPONSORED & BRANDED PODCAST
American Metamorphosis, The Atlantic, BCG
BEST SPORT PODCAST
The bunkered Podcast, DC Thomson Media
BEST TECHNOLOGY PODCAST
Engineering Matters, Reby Media
BEST COMMERCIAL STRATEGY
The New Statesman podcast & World Review from the New Statesman, The New Statesman
BEST PODCAST LAUNCH
Sponsored by Affino
Mysteries of Science, Future PLC
BEST STUDENT PODCAST
In the Gray Zone, Mithil Aggarwal, Chloe Ching and Teele Rebane, The University of Hong Kong
From these 19 category winners, the Media Voices team listened to them all and chose an overall winning podcast:
PUBLISHER PODCAST OF THE YEAR
Bed of Lies – The Telegraph
PUBLISHER PODCAST HERO OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Megaphone
Ross MacPherson, Reby Media
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