Winners 2026
Best B2B Podcast
When Charity Goes Wrong, Haymarket Media Group
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Best Culture & Lifestyle Podcast
The Purpose Pioneers (The Positive News Podcast), Positive News
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Best Daily Podcast
Daily Politics, The New Statesman
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Best Deep Dive Podcast
Westminster Insider, POLITICO
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Best Entertainment Podcast
The Official Game of Thrones Podcast: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO / Warner Bros. Discovery
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Best Food & Drink Podcast
Scran, The Scotsman
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Best Health & Wellbeing Podcast
Strange Health, The Conversation
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Best Hobbies & Special Interest Podcast
HistoryExtra podcast, Immediate Media Company London Limited
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Best Investigative Podcast
Pipeline: Left to Die, The Daily Mail
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Best Limited Series
The Poppy Day Bomb, The Times & Sunday Times
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Best Local & Community Podcast
Love Scotland, Think Publishing
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Best News and Analysis Podcast
Iran: The Latest, The Telegraph
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Best Partner Podcast
In The Mixer, Reach plc
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Best Podcast Launch
The Mishal Husain Show, Bloomberg
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Best Political Podcast
Berlin Briefing, Deutsche Welle (DW)
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Best Science & Medical Podcast
In Conversation, Medical News Today/Healthline Media
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Best Sport Podcast
The Women's Running Podcast, Anthem Publishing
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Best Technology Podcast
Go Doxx Yourself, Reach plc
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Best Use of AI
Ukraine: The Latest, The Telegraph
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Best Video Podcast
Table For Four, immediate
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Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year 2026
Ollie Guillou, New Scientist
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Rowan Hooper, New Scientist
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From the winners, the MediaVoices team chose a podcast that had scored highly in all the categories it had entered, as well as been remarked on specifically by judges for its quality.
Publisher Podcast of the Year 2026 – When Charity Goes Wrong, Haymarket Media Group
Our final category celebrates a leading publisher of podcasts. This year, we’ve chosen a publisher who produces consistently excellent work across a number of categories. We were especially impressed by not only continuing a daily podcast about a vital war long after mainstream media interest has faded, but taking the same model and launching a second one this year.
