On July 8 the Publisher Podcast Awards 2026 were held near Paddington in London. The winners were announced as follows:
BEST B2B PODCAST
Winner: When Charity Goes Wrong, Haymarket Media Group
BEST CULTURE & LIFESTYLE PODCAST
Winner: The Purpose Pioneers (The Positive News Podcast), Positive News
BEST DAILY PODCAST
Winner: Daily Politics, The New Statesman
BEST DEEP DIVE PODCAST
Winner: Westminster Insider, POLITICO
BEST ENTERTAINMENT PODCAST
Winner: The Official Game of Thrones Podcast: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, HBO / Warner Bros. Discovery
BEST FOOD & DRINK PODCAST
Winner: Scran, The Scotsman
BEST HEALTH & WELLBEING PODCAST
Winner: Strange Health, The Conversation
BEST HOBBIES & SPECIAL INTEREST PODCAST
Winner: HistoryExtra podcast, Immediate Media Company London Limited
BEST INVESTIGATIVE PODCAST
Winner: Pipeline: Left to Die, The Daily Mail
BEST LIMITED SERIES
Winner: The Poppy Day Bomb, The Times & Sunday Times
BEST LOCAL & COMMUNITY PODCAST
Winner: Love Scotland, Think Publishing
BEST NEWS AND ANALYSIS PODCAST
Winner: Iran: The Latest, The Telegraph
BEST PARTNER PODCAST
Winner: In The Mixer, Reach plc
BEST PODCAST LAUNCH
Winner: The Mishal Husain Show, Bloomberg
BEST POLITICAL PODCAST
Winner: Berlin Briefing, Deutsche Welle (DW)
BEST SCIENCE & MEDICAL PODCAST
Winner: In Conversation, Medical News Today/Healthline Media
BEST SPORT PODCAST
Winner: The Women's Running Podcast, Anthem Publishing
BEST TECHNOLOGY PODCAST
Winner: Go Doxx Yourself, Reach plc
BEST USE OF AI
Winner: Ukraine: The Latest, The Telegraph
BEST VIDEO PODCAST
Winner: Table For Four, immediate
PUBLISHER PODCAST HERO OF THE YEAR 2026
Winner: Ollie Guillou, New Scientist
Winner: Rowan Hooper, New Scientist
From the winners, the MediaVoices team say they 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
Winner: When Charity Goes Wrong, Haymarket Media Group
The final category celebrates a leading publisher of podcasts, added MediaVoices. This year, they say they’ve chosen a publisher who produces consistently excellent work across a number of categories. The team says they 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.
PODCAST PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR 2026
Winner: The Telegraph
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