The Publisher Podcast Awards

Media Voices are delighted to reveal the winners of 2022’s Publisher Podcast Awards, following a ceremony which took place on Wednesday 27th April at Proud Cabaret City in London.

The awards are a celebration of the podcasting success of publishers and media organisations, whether they’ve been in the podcasting space a while, or have just launched their first one.

From over 220 entries and an exceptionally strong shortlist of 124 podcasts, our judges marked the podcasts on a range of factors, including production quality, how well the podcast reflected the publisher’s brand, and growth strategy.

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CONTENT AWARDS

Best B2B Podcast

1: ASHRAE Journal Podcast – ASHRAE
2: The Global Franchise Podcast – DC Thomson Media
3: Policing Matters – Lexipol
4: The WTiN Podcast – World Textile Information Network
5: Engineering Matters – Reby Media
6: COP26 Covered – edie – Faversham House
7: Journalism.co.uk podcast – Journalism.co.uk
8: Energy Voice Out Loud – DC Thomson Media

Winner: Energy Voice Out Loud – DC Thomson Media

 

Best Books & Literature Podcast

1: Author In Your Classroom – DC Thomson Media
2: Amplify! With Karen Curry Parker – GracePoint Publishing
3: The Penguin Podcast – Penguin Random House
4: Reading Between The Lines  – DC Thomson Media

Winner: Author In Your Classroom – DC Thomson Media

 

Best Entertainment & Culture Podcast

1: Urban Legends with the Ghost Brothers – Discovery, Inc
2: The Radio Times podcast – Immediate Media
3: Film Stories with Simon Brew – Film Stories
4: FT Weekend – Financial Times
5: A brush with… – The Art Newspaper Ltd

Winner: Film Stories with Simon Brew – Film Stories

 

Best Food & Drink Podcast

1: The English Wine Diaries – The Southern Quarter
2: Scran – JPI Media, Laudable
3: olive magazine podcast – Immediate Media
4: Radio Cherry Bombe – Cherry Bombe
5: The Cocktail Lovers Podcast – The Cocktail Lovers magazine

Winner: The Cocktail Lovers Podcast – The Cocktail Lovers magazine

 

Best Health & Wellbeing Podcast

1: In Conversation – Medical News Today
2: Bryony Gordon’s Mad World – The Telegraph
3: Life Before Birth – Reby Media
4: Walk To Wellbeing – DC Thomson Media

Winner: Life Before Birth – Reby Media

 

Best Hobbies & Special Interest Podcast

1: Travel Tales by AFAR – AFAR Media
2: History Extra – Immediate Media
3: A brush with… – The Art Newspaper Ltd
4: BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast – Immediate Media

Winner: BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast – Immediate Media

 

Best Investigative Podcast

1: Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime – Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
2: Art Bust: Scandalous Stories of the Art World – USG Audio
3: Smoke Screen – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Auddy
4: Salem: Investigating the Witch Trials – BBC History Magazine, Immediate Media
5: Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson story – The Times & Sunday Times
6: Bed of Lies – The Telegraph
7: Thinking Straight – The Times & Sunday Times
8: Under Review – The Harvard Crimson

Winner: Smoke Screen – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Auddy

 

Best Lifestyle Podcast

1: Growing Up With gal-dem – gal-dem
2: The Plodcast – Immediate Media
3: Biscuits & Jam – Meredith
4: The Reset Room – JPI Media, Laudable
5: Working It – Financial Times
6: Imposters – The Telegraph
7: Brummie Mummies – Reach PLC, Laudable

Winner: Working It – Financial Times

 

Best Limited Series

1: Nature Podcast: Starting up in science – Springer Nature
2: Stories of our Times: The legacy of Penrhyn Castle – The Times & Sunday Times
3: The Anthill: Climate Fight – The Conversation
4: COP26 Covered – edie – Faversham House
5: Hong Kong Silenced – The Telegraph
6: Behind the Money: Inside ESG – Financial Times
7: Westminster Reimagined, with Armando Iannucci – The New Statesman
8: Energy Voice Out Loud: 10 Point Pod – DC Thomson Media
9: Bed of Lies – The Telegraph

Winner: Bed of Lies – The Telegraph

 

Best Local & Community Podcast

1: Weird Norfolk – Archant
2: The Moldovan Coffee Break – The European Network
3: News Engine – Times-Shamrock Communications
4: Epicenter NYC – Epicenter NYC
5: Election West – BBC Radio Bristol
6: The Door County Pulse Podcast – Peninsula Publishing & Distribution
7: Brummie Mummies – Reach PLC, Laudable

Winner: Brummie Mummies – Reach PLC, Laudable

 

Best News Podcast

1: The Week Junior Show – Future PLC
2: New Statesman World Review – The New Statesman
3: Stories of our times – The Times & Sunday Times
4: The Conversation Weekly – The Conversation
5: News Briefing – Financial Times
6: Planet Normal – The Telegraph

Winner: News Briefing – Financial Times

 

Best Political Podcast

1: Election West – BBC Radio Bristol
2: New Lines Podcast – New Lines Magazine
3: The New Statesman Podcast – The New Statesman
4: Chopper’s Politics – The Telegraph
5: The Stooshie – DC Thomson Media

Winner: The New Statesman Podcast – The New Statesman

 

Best Science & Medical Podcast

1: Curiosity Daily – Discovery, Inc
2: Nature Podcast – Springer Nature
3: Stereo Chemistry – American Chemical Society
4: New Scientist Weekly – New Scientist
5: eLife podcast – eLife Sciences Publications
6: Mysteries of Science – Future PLC
7: The Jab – The Economist
8: Sharp Scratch – British Medical Journal
9: All Things Photonics – Laurin Publishing Company

Winner: Mysteries of Science – Future PLC

 

Best Sponsored & Branded Podcast

1: Engineering Matters – Reby Media
2: All to Play For – JOE Media
3: olive magazine podcast – Immediate Media
4: A brush with… – The Art Newspaper Ltd
5: Mysteries of Science – Future PLC
6: Energy Voice Out Loud – DC Thomson Media
7: American Metamorphosis – The Atlantic, BCG

Winner: American Metamorphosis – The Atlantic

 

Best Sport Podcast

1: Halcyon Podcast – Halcyon Publishing
2: The Everything is Black and White Podcast – A Newcastle United Podcast – Chronicle Live, Reach PLC
3: Equestrian Voices – NOËLLE FLOYD
4: The Greatness with Kareem Maddox – USG Audio
5: Kings of Anglia – Archant Suffolk
6: The bunkered Podcast – DC Thomson Media

Winner: The bunkered Podcast – DC Thomson Media

 

Best Technology Podcast

1: In Machines We Trust – MIT Technology Review
2: PC Pro – Future PLC
3: Engineering Matters – Reby Media
4: Science in Parallel – Krell Institute
5: Tech Tonic – Financial Times

Winner: Engineering Matters – Reby Media

 

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STRATEGIC AWARDS

Best Commercial Strategy

1: Walk To Wellbeing – DC Thomson Media
2: FT Weekend – Financial Times
3: The New Statesman podcast & World Review from the New Statesman – The New Statesman
4: Africa Calling – France Medias Monde, Radio France Internationale
5: Energy Voice Out Loud – DC Thomson Media

Winner: The New Statesman podcast & World Review from the New Statesman – The New Statesman

 

Best Podcast Launch

Sponsored by  

1: The Radio Times podcast – Radio Times, Immediate Media
2: In Conversation – Medical News Today
3: Brummie Mummies – Reach PLC, Laudable
4: The Conversation Weekly – The Conversation
5: FT Weekend – Financial Times
6: HERO or The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women – Foreign Policy
7: Mysteries of Science – Future PLC
8: Walk To Wellbeing – Grow Your Own, DC Thomson Media

Winner: Mysteries of Science – Future PLC

 

Best Student Podcast

1: Mapping Paris – Pauline Blanchet, Renée Rodriguez and Sumayyah Sheikh, University of London Institute in Paris
2: In the Gray Zone – Mithil Aggarwal, Chloe Ching and Teele Rebane, The University of Hong Kong
3: Sharp Scratch – Pat Lok, Anglia Ruskin University, British Medical Journal
4: Under Review – Matteo Wong and Olivia Oldham, Harvard University

Winner: In the Gray Zone – Mithil Aggarwal, Chloe Ching and Teele Rebane, The University of Hong Kong

 

 

Publisher Podcast of the Year 2022:

This year’s winners are an especially strong cohort. But for us, there was one podcast in particular that stood out. The Awards team were each blown away by its quality, and the numerous comments from judges have reinforced the decision.

Winner: Bed of Lies – The Telegraph

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Many congratulations to all the winners and shortlisted podcasts. Hear from many of the winners on how to level up your podcast strategy at our Publisher Podcast Summit in October 2022. Entries for 2023’s Awards will open in September – subscribe below for updates on entries, judges, the Summit, and more.