Introducing the winners of The Publisher Podcast Awards 2025

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

Trailer Best B2B Podcast – The Lawyer Podcast, The Lawyer

News
From: The Lawyer
Hosted by: Buzzsprout4.5 ★

Best Culture & Lifestyle Podcast – Culture, The New Statesman

News
From: The New Statesman
Hosted by: Acast4.3 ★

Best Deep Dive Podcast – Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

True Crime
From: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Hosted by: Captivate4.9 ★

Trailer Best Entertainment Podcast – Culture Bites, The National News

Culture
From: The National News
Hosted by: Podbean

Trailer Best Health, Wellbeing & Food Podcast – Developing Mental Wealth: The Positive News Podcast, Positive News

Mental
From: Positive News
Hosted by: Acast4.7 ★

Trailer Best Hobbies & Special Interest Podcast – The Plodcast, Our Media

Science and Society & Culture
From: Our Media
Hosted by: Megaphone4.5 ★

Trailer Best Investigative Podcast – Scam Factories, The Conversation

News
From: The Conversation
Hosted by: Captivate4.5 ★

Best Limited Series – World of Secrets S1: The Abercrombie Guys, BBC Sounds

Society & Culture
From: BBC
Hosted by: BBC4.7 ★

Trailer Best Local & Community Podcast – The Steamie, The Scotsman

News
From: Laudable
Hosted by: Megaphone4.6 ★

Best News Podcast – Here’s Why, Bloomberg

Business and News
From: Bloomberg
Hosted by: Omny Studio

Best Partner Podcast – The Next Five, Financial Times

News
From: FT Partner Studio
Hosted by: Acast4.8 ★

Trailer Best Political Podcast – Political Fix, Financial Times

News and News & Politics
From: Financial Times
Hosted by: Acast4.4 ★

Trailer Best Science & Medical Podcast – Wild Frequencies, Mongabay India

Science and News
From: Mongabay.com
Hosted by: Libsyn

Best Sport Podcast – Everything is Black & White, Reach PLC

Sports
From: Reach Podcasts
Hosted by: Megaphone4.7 ★

Trailer Best Technology Podcast – Tech Tonic, Financial Times

Culture
From: Financial Times
Hosted by: Acast

Best Commercial Strategy – The New Statesman Podcast, The New Statesman

News
From: The New Statesman
Hosted by: Acast4.3 ★

Trailer Best Podcast Launch – The Daily T, The Telegraph

Culture
From: The Telegraph
Hosted by: Acast4.1 ★

Trailer Best Video Podcast Strategy – The Royals with Roya & Kate, The Times

News
From: The Times
Hosted by: Acast3.8 ★

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.

Trailer Publisher Podcast of the Year 2025 (sponsored by Syno): – Political Fix, Financial Times

News and News & Politics
From: Financial Times
Hosted by: Acast4.4 ★

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

The above list of podcasts is available as an OPML file for your podcast player