Winners 2025

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.

This award celebrates podcasts doing deep dives into specific topics, from expertly explaining the latest geopolitical event to expanding on new research.

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.

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

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 celebrates the best limited series produced by publishers.

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.

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.

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.

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. Here are some publisher seeing success with monetising podcasts, from individual series and episodes to audio's vital role in wider commercial campaigns.

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.