We're delighted to announce the shortlist for 2025's Publisher Podcast Awards!
The winners will be revealed in an in-person celebration on Wednesday 11th June 2025 in London, following the Publisher Podcast and App Summits.
Early Bird tickets for the Summits and Awards are now available until Friday 11th April.
Content Awards
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Best B2B Podcast
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.
ASHRAE Journal Podcast, ASHRAE Journal
Engineering Matters, Reby Media
Hot Air, ASHRAE Journal
Startup Europe, Sifted EU Ltd
The Campaign Podcast, Haymarket Media Group
The Lawyer Podcast, The Lawyer
4
Best Culture & Lifestyle Podcast
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.
Booky, National World
Culture from the New Statesman, The New Statesman
Feel better about Money, The Times and The Sunday Times
Money Clinic with Claer Barrett, Financial Times
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Best Deep Dive Podcast
This award celebrates podcasts doing deep dives into specific topics, from expertly explaining the latest geopolitical event to expanding on new research.
Constructive Voices, Constructive Voices
Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Developing Mental Wealth (The Positive News Podcast), Positive News
Econ World, Reuters
Know Your Place from The Conversation Documentaries, The Conversation
Talk Eastern Europe, New Eastern Europe
The Catch, Foreign Policy
The Conversation Weekly, The Conversation
Why It Matters, Council on Foreign Relations
4
Best Entertainment Podcast
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.
Booky, National World
Culture Bites, The National News
Screen Babble, National World
Talking Pictures, Max / Warner Bros. Discovery
5
Best Health, Wellbeing & Food Podcast
Health - both physical and mental - has never been more important. Whether you're fronting a fitness podcast or bringing wellness and cooking tips to your audience through audio, we want to recognise your efforts with this category.
*Combined with Food & Drink once entries had closed
Developing Mental Wealth (The Positive News Podcast), Positive News
In Conversation, Medical News Today (Healthline Media UK)
Scran, The Scotsman
The Good Food podcast, Immediate Media
Untold: The Retreat, Financial Times
5
Best Hobbies & Special Interest Podcast
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.
BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Podcast, Immediate Media
Behind The Money, Financial Times
Booky, National World
The Athletics Weekly Podcast, Athletics Weekly (NationalWorld)
The Plodcast, Our Media
7
Best Investigative Podcast
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.
Bed of Lies, The Telegraph
Cocaine Inc., The Times, The Sunday Times and News Corp Australia
Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Jan Marsalek: The Tech Boss Who Was Russia's Secret Spy, The Telegraph
Scam Factories from The Conversation Weekly, The Conversation
Who Killed Jennifer Judd?, ID / Warner Bros. Discovery
World of Secrets, Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys, BBC Long Form Audio for BBC Sounds
10
Best Limited Series
Whether you've produced a season dedicated to a specific topic or have written an outstanding fictional audio series, this category celebrates the best limited series produced by publishers.
After Hotel Rwanda, Foreign Policy
Bed of Lies: Conflict, The Telegraph
Cocaine Inc., The Times, The Sunday Times and News Corp Australia
Everything Environment, Wild Frequencies
Jan Marsalek: The Tech Boss Who Was Russia's Secret Spy, The Telegraph
Know Your Place from The Conversation Documentaries, The Conversation
The Athletics Weekly Podcast: Olympics 2024, Athletics Weekly (NationalWorld)
The Northern Agenda: Our Kids In The North, Reach
The Positive News Podcast: Developing Mental Wealth, Positive News
World of Secrets, Season 1 - The Abercrombie Guys, BBC Long Form Audio for BBC Sounds
5
Best Local & Community Podcast
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.
Parched Pea Podcast, National World/Blog Preston CIC
The Northern Agenda, Reach
The Steamie, The Scotsman
WAM CAST, We Are Makers
Wearside Echoes, National World / Sunderland Echo
10
Best News Podcast
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.
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe, Bloomberg
Here's Why, Bloomberg
Reuters World News, Reuters
Sweden in Focus, The Local Europe
The Daily T, The Telegraph
The News Agenda Explained, Reach
The Rachman Review, Financial Times
The Story, The Times & The Sunday Times
Trending Middle East, The National News
Ukraine The Latest, The Telegraph
6
Best Partner Podcast
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.
Engineering Matters, Reby Media
Into the Mix - Season 3, Vox Creative
Scran, The Scotsman
The Negotiators, Foreign Policy and Doha Debates
The Next Five Podcast, Financial Times
The Parched Pea Podcast, National World / Blog Preston
10
Best Political Podcast
In a year which has seen the most extraordinary political shifts across the world, this category recognises the challenging work that goes into creating professional political podcasts which engage and educate audiences.
Beyond The Headlines, The National News
Bloomberg UK Politics, Bloomberg
Foreign Policy Live, Foreign Policy
Know Your Place from The Conversation Documentaries, The Conversation
Political Fix, Financial Times
Politics from the New Statesman, The New Statesman
PoliticsHome - The Rundown, Total Politics
The Lede, New Lines
The President's Inbox, Council on Foreign Relations
The Steamie, The Scotsman
8
Best Science & Medical Podcast
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.
Curiosity Weekly, Discovery / Warner Bros. Discovery
In Conversation, Medical News Today (Healthline Media UK)
Instant Genius, Our Media
Living Planet, Deutsche Welle
Mongabay Explores, Mongabay
Science in Parallel, Krell Institute
The Nature Podcast, Nature
Wild Frequencies, Mongabay India, Everything Environment
4
Best Sport Podcast
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.
Claret & Blue, Reach
Everything is Black and White, Reach
Rugby Lives, Rugby Journal, Sporting Eric
The Athletics Weekly Podcast, Athletics Weekly (NationalWorld)
7
Best Technology Podcast
From deep dives into technical topics to consumer-focused tech trends, this is the category celebrating podcasts from the world of technology.
ASHRAE Journal Podcast, ASHRAE Journal
Beyond the Valley, CNBC
Constructive Voices, Constructive Voices
Engineering Matters, Reby Media
Science in Parallel, Krell Institute
Tech Tonic, Financial Times
The Times Tech Podcast, The Times and The Sunday Times
Strategic Awards
2
Best Commercial Strategy
As podcasting matures as a medium, its importance to publisher's revenue streams will be crucial for future sustainability. Here are some publisher seeing success with monetising podcasts, from individual series and episodes to audio's vital role in wider commercial campaigns.
Reby Media, Engineering Matters
The New Statesman, The New Statesman podcast
7
Best Podcast Launch
We love launches. Here are some of the best podcast launches from publishers over the past 12 months.
Euro Thrash, Reach
Millennial Masters, QWERTY Media Ltd
Rugby Lives, Rugby Journal, Sporting Eric
The Athletics Weekly Podcast, Athletics Weekly (NationalWorld)
The Daily T, The Telegraph
The Positive News Podcast, Positive News
Your History, The Times and The Sunday Times
6
Best Video Podcast Strategy
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.
DC Studios Showcase: The Official Podcast, Max / Warner Bros. Discovery
The Index, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
The New Statesman podcast, The New Statesman
The Royals with Roya and Kate, The Times and The Sunday Times
Underworlds with Mark Shaw, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
WAM CAST, We Are Makers
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Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year 2025
Here are some of the industry's driving forces shaping publisher podcast strategies and inspiring others in podcasting.
Andrew Musgrove, Reach
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Andrew hosts, produces and edits The Everything is Black and White Podcast - whilst also providing a helping hand to the popular 1904 Club in Hull.
Andrew continues to grow the Everything is Black and White Podcast to huge numbers - and is the face of the podcast as well as the man behind the camera.
Producing and hosting five of the six episodes that are released every week, Andrew is crucial to the podcast's output as well as maintaining that important element of quality.
He has become well known among Newcastle fans for his sometimes wild predictions and opinions - that often turn out right (he was one of the few who voiced his view NUFC were getting to Wembley the semi-final draw was even made)
Andrew has in the last year focused on growing the YouTube Channel - through engaging pieces to camera and getting onto the street to talk to fans.
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Bethany Burgoyne, The Sassy Show
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As a bearded woman destigmatizing all things sex and body image, Bethany 's very presence reflects her determination to help others feel confident and liberated to be themselves. For 6 years, Bethany has been elevating voices from across the globe focusing on gender-diverse realities and inspiring LGBTQ+ communities across cultures. As a producer, she's worked with over 170 guests to promote their voices and transform the portrayal of women and gender in media leading her to self-fund trips to five continents gathering interviews and documenting stories that far too often get silenced, shame or banished from mainstream media. At the heart of The Sassy Show is Bethany's unwavering determination to provide society with fresh, realistic and liberated examples of the human experience.
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Daniel J McLaughlin, Reach Plc
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Daniel J McLaughlin is undoubtedly the most passionate journalist I’ve come across about podcasting and audio in my 20 years in the industry.
As Podcast Editor for Reach and its Reach Studio project, Dan oversees the commissioning, production, and publication of the audio output for the regional and national newsrooms that are part of the publisher’s portfolio.
Podcasts Dan’s worked on have been recognised for their excellence within the media industry, with praise and accolades from the Publisher Podcast Awards, the Global Media Awards, the Press Gazette (Coronavirus Journalism Excellence) and more.
And he’s contributed to a hugely diverse range of podcasts on different subjects, like Pod Save the King; Testimony - A True Crime podcast; The North in Numbers; The Pride of Britain podcast; The Trial of Santa Claus; and Christmas on a Budget.
Dan presents and produces Reach’s LGBTQ podcast, The Out Crowd, as well as being on the committee for ReachOut, the LGBTQ inclusion network at the company.
He’s also using his experience in the journalism industry in the education sector, working as a guest lecturer at the University of Salford on modules including Podcasting.
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Joshua Sommer, Reuters
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Joshua was employed by the team at Reuters in the testing stage of the company's Reuters World News podcast, with little or no experience of current affairs production and podcasting sound design. From the very first moment Joshua joined the team he has been an inspiration with his creativity and ability to adapt sounds for our podcasts. Joshua writes and creates much of the music that is used on the podcast, layering sounds from reporters around the world alongside music and sound fx that enrich the storytelling of our podcast. I have never worked with anyone as skilled as Joshua in the art of sound production - and for this podcast he is critical to its success and development. He is technically skilled but also adapatable to ideas and feedback from the journalist team - as he enjoyed a learning journey alongside the rest of the team involved. He also helped train and guide journalists around the world, so that they can record for the podcast (using virtual studios, iphones, mics etc). Without Joshua it would not have been possible to launch Reuters World News to a global audience.
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Louisa Wells, The Telegraph
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Louisa Wells is the glue that holds together the hugely successful podcast team at The Telegraph together, and in particular over the past year has overseen massive developments in the audio department and an enormous amount of growth across various shows.
Louisa has the unenviable task of being across everything from two daily news shows covering British politics and Ukraine war updates to several magazine format shows that stretch across comment, sport, money and foreign affairs, plus a roster of limited investigative series. She does a fantastic job of supporting several different teams with very different demands, and always with good humour.
Under her watch, The Telegraph has launched a brand new daily news show, The Daily T, which has successfully entered a very crowded market.
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Maxine Betteridge-Moes, New Internationalist
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Maxine deserves recognition for her hard work and diligence in getting our newly-launched podcast, The World Unspun, off the ground with limited budget and editorial capacity. We are a small independent magazine, totally worked off our feet, and Maxine has gone above and beyond in exploring new avenues for digital products including but not limited to the podcast.
Not only was she the driving force behind taking this new direction, but she quite simply does it all (with light assistance from myself) - overseeing logistics, liaising with freelance audio editors, researching & sourcing interview guests, recording and hosting, production, publishing and promotion. The team shows our appreciation, of course, but I believe she deserves the title of Podcast Hero.
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