Media Voices are delighted to reveal the winners of 2025’s Publisher Podcast Awards, following a ceremony which took place on Wednesday 11th June at Vauxhall Arches 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.
From over 160 entries and an exceptionally strong shortlist of 120 podcasts, our judges marked the podcasts on a range of factors, including production quality, how well the podcast reflected the publisher’s brand, and strategies to grow the audience.
2025 PUBLISHER PODCAST AWARD WINNERS
Best B2B Podcast – The Lawyer Podcast, The Lawyer
Best Culture & Lifestyle Podcast – Culture, The New Statesman
Best Deep Dive Podcast – Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Best Entertainment Podcast – Culture Bites, The National News
Best Health, Wellbeing & Food Podcast – Developing Mental Wealth: The Positive News Podcast, Positive News
Best Hobbies & Special Interest Podcast – The Plodcast, Our Media
Best Investigative Podcast – Scam Factories, The Conversation
Best Limited Series – World of Secrets S1: The Abercrombie Guys, BBC Sounds
Best Local & Community Podcast – The Steamie, The Scotsman
Best News Podcast – Here’s Why, Bloomberg
Best Partner Podcast – The Next Five, Financial Times
Best Political Podcast – Political Fix, Financial Times
Best Science & Medical Podcast – Wild Frequencies, Mongabay India
Best Sport Podcast – Everything is Black & White, Reach PLC
Best Technology Podcast – Tech Tonic, Financial Times
Best Commercial Strategy – The New Statesman Podcast, The New Statesman
Best Podcast Launch – The Daily T, The Telegraph
Best Video Podcast Strategy – The Royals with Roya & Kate, The Times
To secure podcasting as a successful part of a publisher’s strategy, there are often key people within the business driving best practice, seeking inspiration, and looking for new opportunities. Our Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year award celebrates an individual who has gone above and beyond to demonstrate the value of podcasting to their organisation.
Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year 2025 – Daniel J McLaughlin, Reach PLC
From these 19 category winners, the Media Voices team chose an overall winning podcast.
Publisher Podcast of the Year 2025 (sponsored by Syno): – Political Fix, Financial Times
To finish, we had a surprise new category! We saw some consistently excellent work coming across verticals from some publishers that we wanted to celebrate. This particular publisher has been entering these Awards since the start, and it’s been a real honour to watch their work grow in quality and depth each year, to the point they were placed in the top 3 of every single category they entered this year.
Podcast Publisher of the Year 2025: The Conversation
See the full shortlist and winning podcasts over on the Publisher Podcast Summit & Awards website.
Entries for 2026’s Publisher Podcast Awards will open in spring 2026. Subscribe to updates on the Publisher Podcast Awards website.
