What's New July 29, 2024

Finalists announced for Australia/NZ Podcast Awards 2024

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
	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
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
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.