Podcast Awards

The People's Choice Podcast Awards, better known as the Podcast Awards, are a global awards given annually to the best podcasts as voted by the general public. Founded in 2005 by Todd Cochrane of Podcast Connect Inc., the Podcast Awards changed hands for a short period by New Media Expo in September 2014 until New Media Expos demise. The first Podcast Awards show was held in 2006 (awarding shows for the 2005 calendar year) had over 350,000 people vote for their nominated podcasts, with nearly 1000 people attending the awards ceremony. The 10th annual Podcast Awards Show, the first show run exclusively by the New Media Expo, took place at Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino on April 14, 2015. It was hosted by Chris Jericho and Emily Morse. The 12th Annual event started with a complete site rebuild and change to the overall process.
==Rules==
The nominations begin on a set date (July 1, 2017 for the 2017 awards) and continue for thirty days. Listeners can nominate shows from 20 categories over the 30 day period once a day. Podcasts have had to pre-regoster in order to participate and listeners are allowed to select the shows they want to nominate from within the pre-registered list of shows.Podcast Award Rules (as of October 23, 2010)
After the thirty days of nominations, Podcast Connect Committee will review all the nominations over a 15 day period and a slate announced.
Once up to ten nominees in each category have been established, the final voting slate is released. Voting in this round are selected by a panel of judges as outlined in the podcast awards rule. 
==Categories and winners==
The Podcast Awards consists of twenty-two categories. Winners are announced during a ceremony which includes a live web stream. The prizes awarded to winners are donation/sponsor-driven via PayPal. In 2009, they were able to award podcasters almost $3,500 in prizes, with additional website exposure through 2009-2010 of seventeen million plus hits.
Categories 	2005 	20062006 Podcast Award winners	20072007 Podcast Award winners 	2008 	2009 	2010 	2011 	2012 	2013 	2015† 	2016 	2017
People's Choice 	This Week in Tech 	MuggleCast 	Keith and The Girl 	Manager Tools 	ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football 	Tell 'Em Steve Dave! 	4Player Podcast 	ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football 	The Morning Stream 	Rob Has A Podcast 	The Fantasy Footballers 	The Fantasy Footballers
Best Produced 	Daily Source Code 	The Signal 	Firefly Talk 	Totally Rad Show 	Best of the Left 	Radiolab 	Inside the Magic 	Best of the Left 	Rob Has a Podcast 	Radiolab 	--- 	---
Best Video Podcast 	--- 	--- 	Ask a Ninja 	Geek Brief TV 	This Week in Tech 	TED 	This Week In Tech 	The Young Turks 	Rob Has a Podcast 	Night Attack 	--- 	---
Best Mobile Podcast 	--- 	Catholic Insider 	Xbox 360 	DL.TV 	AppSlappy 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	---
Arts 	--- 	Geek Nights with Rym and Scott	This American Life 	This American Life 	Imprint 	Decoder Ring Theatre 	This American Life 	The Moth 	This American Life 	This American Life 	The Beerist Podcast 	We Like Drinking
Business 	Media Artist Secrets 	Manager Tools 	Manager Tools 	Manager Tools 	Planet Money 	Career Tools 	Planet Money 	Manager Tools 	NPR: Planet Money Podcast 	Freakonomics 	The Bizarre Briefing 	Dreamers Podcast
Comedy 	Distorted View Daily 	Distorted View Daily 	Nobody Likes Onions 	You Look Nice Today 	Daily Giz Wiz 	Tell 'Em Steve-Dave! 	WTF with Marc Maron 	WTF with Marc Maron 	The Morning Stream 	The Morning Stream 	Matt and Mattinglys Ice Cream Social	Plumbing the Death Star
Education 	Tips from the Top Floor 	Tips from the Top Floor 	Grammar Girl 	Grammar Girl 	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	The History of Rome 	Stuff You Missed in History 	Grammar Girl 	Grammar Girl 	Hardcore History 	Scam School 	Grammar Girl
Entertainment 	--- 	Pottercast 	The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack	MuggleCast 	MuggleCast 	The Fringe Podcast 	The Morning Stream 	Rob Has a Podcast 	Walking Dead 'Cast 	Rob Has a Podcast 	We Have Concerns 	We're Drunk & We Know Things
Food and Drink 	Good Beer Show 	Good Beer Show 	CoffeeGeek 	Grace before meals 	Munchcast 	BeerDownload 	The Splendid Table 	The Beerists 	The Beerists 	The Alton Browncast 	--- 	---
Games & Hobbies 	Orange Lounge Radio 	Podtacular 	CAGcast 	The Instance 	4Player Podcast 	4Player Podcast 	4Player Podcast 	Rooster Teeth Podcast 	Rooster Teeth Podcast 	The Instance 	The Angry Chicken 	Trivial Warfare
General 	illinoise! 	Rosary Army 	ShowGirls 	Extralife Radio 	This American Life 	The Survival Podcast 	Greetings From Nowhere 	Internet Box 	Internet Box 	Internet Box 	--- 	---
GLBT 	--- 	Feast of Fools 	Feast of Fools 	Feast of Fools 	Feast of Fun 	Savage Love 	Feast of Fun 	Throwing Shade 	Throwing Shade 	Psychobabble / Throwing Shade 	Diary of a Trans Woman 	Derek and Romaine
Health 	MARINA's Walking & Aerobics"	Sex is Fun! 	Sex is Fun! 	Healthy Catholic 	QuackCast 	QuackCast 	QuackCast 	The Mental Illness Happy Hour 	The Fat Burning Man 	The Dr. Drew Podcast 	Sleep With Me 	Optimal Living Daily
Government & Organizations	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	Politics Politics Politics 	Everyday Superhumans
Kids & Family 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	Hypothetical Help 	What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood
Mature 	Dawn and Drew Show 	Dawn and Drew Show 	Keith and the Girl 	Distorted View Daily	Adam Carolla Podcast 	WTF with Marc Maron 	SModcast 	Savage Lovecast 	Savage Lovecast 	Night Attack 	JuRY 	Between Us Girls
Music 	--- 	Accident Hash 	Catholic Rockers 	Catholic Rockers 	Irish Celtic Music Podcast 	Irish & Celtic Music Podcast 	Coverville 	Coverville 	Coverville 	Coverville 	Joe and Meg's Musical Adventure 	Irish & Celtic Music Podcast
News & Politics 	Free Talk Live 	Free Talk Live 	Free Talk Live 	Free Talk Live 	The Young Turks 	Free Talk Live 	The Majority Report 	The Majority Report 	The Majority Report 	The Majority Report 	No Agenda 	The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Religion & Spirituality 	Catholic Insider 	Daily Breakfast 	Daily Breakfast 	Daily Breakfast 	Reasonable Doubts 	Atheist News Podcast 	Mormon FAIR-Cast 	Ardent Atheist with Emery Emery 	Mormon FAIR-Cast 	The Scathing Atheist 	Oh No Ross and Carrie 	Five Minute Devotions
Science & Medicine* 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Radiolab 	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Weird Things 	STEM-Talk
Society - Culture 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	--- 	The Phileas Club 	Sword and Scale
Sports & Recreation 	1954 and Counting 	Fantoo Girls 	Phedippidations 	SkyDiverGirlsTv 	ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football 	The B.S. Report 	ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football 	ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football 	ESPN: Fantasy Focus Baseball	ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football 	The Fantasy Footballers 	The Fantasy Footballers
Technology* 	This Week In Tech 	Diggnation 	Security Now 	This Week in Tech 	Security Now 	This Week In Tech 	Tech News Today 	The Audacity to Podcast 	Tech News Today 	Daily Tech News Show 	Hak5 	School of Podcasting
Travel 	Richard Vobes Radio Show 	Mouse Tunes 	WDW Radio 	WDW Radio 	WDW Radio 	WDW Radio 	WDW Radio 	WDW Radio 	WDW Radio 	WDW Radio 	--- 	---
TV & Film* 	TheForce.net 	The Signal 	Firefly Talk 	The Signal 	Spill.com 	Doug Loves Movies 	Film Sack 	Spill.com 	Film Sack 	Film Sack 	Post Show Recaps 	The Hollywood Outsider
†The Podcast Awards were not held in 2014.
*Prior to 2010, Science and Technology were combined as one category.
Podcast awards are awarded for the previous calendar year. For example, the 2014 awards ceremony took place on April 14, 2015.
===One-time awards===
*2005 - Music/Radio: Coverville
*2005 - Nonenglish: Annik Rubens: Schlaflos in München 
*2005 - Top Rated: Slice of SciFi
*2005 - World News: Kathleen Keating
*2006 - Best Podcast directory: Apple iTunes
==References==
==External links==
* Podcast Awards website
* Podcast Connect Inc.
* Podcast Connect archive of the Podcast Awards
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