Categories & enter

Calling all Business-to-Business publishers! Whether your podcast is about a global or a niche industry, if it's for a B2B audience, this is the category for you.

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.

*NEW FOR 2026*: This category celebrates podcasts being published daily*, for essential news briefings, sporting updates and more.

*Mon-Fri weekday publishing counts as well as a full 7 day schedule

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.

If you've got a podcast talking about food and/or drink, we want to hear it! Whether you're discussing making the perfect roast potatoes or bringing inspiration to bakers in lockdown, enter this to tickle our judge's 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, we want to recognise your efforts with this category.

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 recognisies 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, enter your investigative podcasts here.

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.

Like publishers, podcasts have an important part to play in reaching and engaging local communities. If you've got a podcast that fits the bill, enter it here.

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

This category is for podcasts or episodes that are developed alongside a parter, either as part of a commercial relationship or for audience reach. A perfect opportunity to show off your partnership.

For podcasts which cover the highs and lows of politics, whether that's global shifts or local elections.

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 can enter here.

From Olympic coverage to local football results, this category celebrates publishers using audio to bring sports news and updates to their audience.

From deep dives into technical topics to consumer-focused tech trends, this is the category for all technology-themed podcasts.

We love launches. Tell us about why you've decided to launch a podcast for your publishing business, and what key need it addresses for your audience to be in with a chance of winning the Best Podcast Launch award!

*NEW FOR 2026*: AI is being used by publishers to transform workflows, speed up research and analysis, and reach new audiences through translation, marketing and more. Tell us about how you're using AI as part of your podcasting process to be in with a chance of winning this new award.

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 hear about it.

Please note podcasts entering this category don't have to have full video - if you've got a smart strategy involving logos, cards or more output as a video, that also qualifies.

*FREE TO ENTER*: Have you got someone in your publishing business driving your podcast strategy forwards, or someone in the wider industry who has inspired your podcasting efforts? Nominate them for Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year!

We created this award last year to honour the exceptional work being done across a number of categories by a publisher. This category isn't available to enter, but will be chosen by the team to recognise a publisher who has produced excellent podcasts across multiple categories.

The best of the best, this podcast will be the one that stands head and shoulders above all other podcasts. This category isn't open for entry, but will be chosen from among the winners of the other categories.