Shortlist 2024

Whether your podcast is about a global or a niche industry, if it's for a B2B audience, this is the category celebrating your work.

This category is for podcasts looking to help their readers live their best lives and expand their cultural horizons, through improving their finances, careers, relationships, skills, family life or more.

Please note: This category was renamed from Family & Lifestyle after entries closed.

A brand new category for 2024, this award celebrates podcasts doing deep dives into specific topics, from expertly explaining the latest geopolitical event to expanding on new research.

Please note: This category was created after entries closed in response to overwhelmingly high-quality submissions.

From cinema to TV, celebrities, culture, books, gaming and more, this category is for podcasts which bring the entertainment genre into their audience's ears.

Whether you're discussing making the perfect roast potatoes or bringing inspiration to bakers around the world, this category celebrates podcasts tickling listeners' tastebuds.

Health - both physical and mental - has never been more important. Whether you're fronting a fitness podcast or bringing mental wellbeing tips to your audience through audio, this category recognises those efforts.

This award celebrates podcasts that are targeted at specific interests and hobbies, from entertaining a niche audience with gardening tips to bringing a specialist topic like stargazing to a wider listenership.

This category recognises the depth of reporting and quality of storytelling publishers are presenting as part of deep-dive investigative podcasting. Whether it's for a short run of episodes or a full podcast series, here are some of the industry's best investigative podcasts.

Whether you've produced a season dedicated to a specific topic or have written an outstanding fictional audio series, this category is to celebrate your efforts.

N.B. To qualify for this category, the series must have run for a minimum of three episodes and a maximum of 12.

Like publishers, podcasts have an important part to play in reaching and engaging local communities. Here are some of the industry's best local and community podcasts.

For podcasts keeping audiences up-to-date with the latest news, whether that's daily breaking news updates or deep dive analysis of world events.

As much of the world gears up for elections, this category recognises the unique work that goes into building podcasts that cover the political landscape.

This category is for podcasts or episodes that are developed alongside a partner, either as part of a commercial relationship or for audience reach. This shortlist shows off some of the best podcast partnerships we've seen.

This category is for podcasts that deal with science and medicine. Everything from breaking down complex scientific concepts for a consumer audience, to deep dives for professionals are celebrated here.

Audio is a really valuable way of engaging sports audiences, from analysis of matches to tips and techniques on a wide range of disciplines. Here are some of the industry's best sports publisher podcasts.

From deep dives into technical topics to consumer-focused tech trends, this is the category celebrating podcasts from the world of technology.

As podcasting matures as a medium, its importance to publisher's revenue streams will be crucial for future sustainability. We want to know if you're having success with monetising your own podcasts, and want to reward you for it with this award.

We love launches. Here are some of the best podcast launches from publishers over the past 12 months.

Video podcasts are growing in importance as a way of broadening audiences and aiding discoverability. Whether you have a killer audiogram strategy on social or have seen success with video podcasts on YouTube, we want to celebrate it.

Here are some of the industry's driving forces shaping publisher podcast strategies and inspiring others in podcasting.