Media Voices have revealed the winners of 2025’s Publisher Podcast Awards, following a ceremony which took place on Wednesday 11th June at Vauxhall Arches in London.
The organisers say the awards are a celebration of the podcasting success of publishers and media organisations, whether they’ve been in the podcasting space a while, or have just launched.
From over 160 entries and a strong shortlist of 120 podcasts, Media Voices says its 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 2025 Publisher Podcast Award winners are as follows:
BEST B2B PODCAST
The Lawyer Podcast, The Lawyer
BEST CULTURE & LIFESTYLE PODCAST – CULTURE
The New Statesman
BEST DEEP DIVE PODCAST
Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
BEST ENTERTAINMENT PODCAST
Culture Bites, The National News
BEST HEALTH, WELLBEING & FOOD PODCAST
Developing Mental Wealth: The Positive News Podcast, Positive News
BEST HOBBIES & SPECIAL INTEREST PODCAST
The Plodcast, Our Media
BEST INVESTIGATIVE PODCAST
Scam Factories, The Conversation
BEST LIMITED SERIES
World of Secrets S1: The Abercrombie Guys, BBC Sounds
BEST LOCAL & COMMUNITY PODCAST
The Steamie, The Scotsman
BEST NEWS PODCAST
Here’s Why, Bloomberg
BEST PARTNER PODCAST
The Next Five, Financial Times
BEST POLITICAL PODCAST
Political Fix, Financial Times
BEST SCIENCE & MEDICAL PODCAST
Wild Frequencies, Mongabay India
BEST SPORT PODCAST
Everything is Black & White, Reach PLC
BEST TECHNOLOGY PODCAST
Tech Tonic, Financial Times
BEST COMMERCIAL STRATEGY
The New Statesman Podcast, The New Statesman
BEST PODCAST LAUNCH
The Daily T, The Telegraph
BEST VIDEO PODCAST STRATEGY
The Royals with Roya & Kate, The Times
To secure podcasting as a successful part of a publisher’s strategy, there are often key people within the business driving best practice, seeking inspiration, and looking for new opportunities, added Media Voices. They say the Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year award celebrates an individual who has gone above and beyond to demonstrate the value of podcasting to their organisation.
PUBLISHER PODCAST HERO OF THE YEAR 2025
Daniel J McLaughlin, Reach PLC
From these 19 category winners, the Media Voices team chose an overall winning podcast.
PUBLISHER PODCAST OF THE YEAR 2025 (sponsored by Syno)
Political Fix, Financial Times
To finish, Media Voices had a surprise new category. They say they saw some consistently excellent work coming across verticals from some publishers that they wanted to celebrate. Media Voices claims this particular publisher has been entering the Awards since the start, and say they have watched their work grow in quality and depth each year, to the point they were placed in the top 3 of every single category they entered this year.
PODCAST PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR 2025
The Conversation
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