Finalists announced for Australia/NZ Podcast Awards 2024
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Our 2024 Australia/NZ Podcast Awards finalists have been revealed. Here’s the full list.
From hundreds of entries, we have a list of 63 finalists for this year’s awards.
Winners will be announced at the end of next week, giving you about two weeks to vote in the People’s Choice section of the awards.
In most cases we have named about three podcasts that scored the highest marks in each category. Not all entries and categories were awarded*.
The judges had a big job this year, with some categories receiving large numbers of submissions. Thanks very much to our judges for their hard work over the past few weeks. In the biggest categories we have named more than three finalists.
The largest categories were: Factual, Health and Wellness, Interview, New Podcast, Society & Culture and Sport.
Click the Tile to go through to the Finalist’s podcast feed. Share using #PodcastAwards, #Listenerschoice and podcast name hashtags.
With so much competition, just getting to the finalists stage is recognition in itself, so give a big round of applause to these top performing podcasts for 2024… drum roll please!
Category | Entry |
Best Comedy Podcast | 16 Days On The Ultimate World Cruise |
Hangin’ Out With The Old Fellas | |
Best Crime Podcast | Dying Rose |
Cocaine Inc. | |
Best Education Podcast | The GlobalEd Podcast |
Best Factual Podcast | I’m at a Crossroad |
Secrets We Keep: Shame, Lies & Family | |
Who Listens to the Radio? | |
House of Skulls | |
Twoboo | |
Fairground F*ck Ups
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From 2SB to 2BL… The rich history of Australia’s first radio station | |
Best Fictional Podcast | Diversity Work |
The Glam Gizmo | |
Best Health and Wellness Podcast | Bounce Forward |
Songs That Changed You | |
It’s How You Think | |
Fade Out: Conversations for Men | |
KICPOD with Steph Claire Smith & Laura Henshaw | |
Best Interview Podcast | Something To Talk About |
Head Game | |
I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin | |
The Good People Podcast | |
A Breath of Fresh Air | |
Best New Podcast (AFTRS sponsored) | Too Much by Future Women |
Born Funny with Jimmy & Nath | |
A Good Mind To | |
Big Business with Brittney Saunders | |
The Ned & Josh Podcast | |
Ready For It – A Taylor Swift Inspired Podcast
It’s In Our Name |
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Best News Podcast | Global Roaming |
iHeart Far South Coast | |
The Briefing | |
Best Podcast Publisher (Triton sponsored) | LiSTNR |
Best Society and Culture Podcast | Living Loss |
Everyday Conspiracy Theories – Mena Soliman and Sean Craig Murphy | |
Agents for Change | |
Ready For It – A Taylor Swift Inspired Podcast | |
High Scrollers | |
Best Sport Podcast | Optus Sport Football Podcast |
Cricket Unfiltered | |
Stories of Origin | |
Australian MMA – Best Sports Indie Podcast | |
Biz by the Water | |
Branded Podcast of the Year | The Chapters |
CommSec Invest: The Share Market Simplified | |
ECC Everything Caravan and Camping Podcast | |
Beauty IQ Uncensored | |
Podcast Audio Producer of the Year | Phillip Crawford |
Cameron Horn | |
Matt Nikolic | |
Podcast Company of the Year | Acast |
LiSTNR | |
Podcast Hardware / Software of the Year | LiSTNR One
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Podcast Host or Presenter/s of the Year | Linda Marigliano’s Tough Love |
Australian MMA – Presenter of the Year (Mitchell Tinley) | |
Everyday Conspiracy Theories – Mena Soliman and Sean Craig Murphy | |
Podcast Innovation of the Year | The LiSTNR AdTech Hub |
Podcast Platform of the Year | LiSTNR |
Podcast Thought Leader/Innovator of the Year | Olly Newton |
Socials Content Creator/Producer of the Year | Oscar Gordon |
Australian MMA – Social Creator |
Vote for your People’s Listener Choice here.
* Judging in The Radio Today Podcast Awards 2024 follows a rigorous quality process. Usually the top three submissions are chosen as finalists, but where the marks are very close, more finalists are included. Marking is done out of 100. If a finalist is named in this list, it is likely they scored in a range between 80-100%.
Other entries that may not have achieved finalist status would likely have scored 50-80%, which is also considered a significant achievement. If entries did not reach at least the 50% cut-off mark they were not eligible to be a finalist.
From eligible finalists, one Indie and one Major winner will be selected if there are suitable entries in each division. Winners will be awarded a trophy and featured in our stories and socials.
Winners of the Rode Prize are currently with the judges at Rode and will be announced separately.
Songs That Changed You is the best and no ones works harder than Aiden to pump out great episode, week after week, after week. So well deserved mate!