Podcast Awards

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The People's Choice Podcast Awards, better known as the Podcast Awards, are an annual set of awards given to the best podcasts as voted by the people. Run by Podcast Connect Inc., the Podcast Awards had over 350,000 people vote for their nominated podcasts in 2006, with nearly 1000 people attending awards ceremony.

The last nomination process began on July 1, 2007 at podcastawards.com, and the winners were announced at the Podcast and New Media Expo[1] on September 28, 2007.

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[edit] Rules

The initial nominations begins at a set date (July 1) and continues for 15 days. Voters are allowed to nominate a set of shows only once, where in the past they could nominate once a day. Duplicate nominations will be thrown out, as will nominations to more than one sub-category. The entry form asks for the name of the podcast, the podcast url, your name, your email address, and comments. The email address must be valid to receive verification on the vote.

After the 15 days, Podcast Connect and 22 listeners volunteers selected in January will review all the nominations over a 7-10 day period. The podcast must be in an appropriate category, started the show prior to May 1, have more than 8 shows produce, and an RSS feed with enclosures visible on their website. A grading sheet is used in the review. The total number of nominations a podcast receives accounts for only 40% of the grading, with the quality of the website's design (15%), quality of sound (15%), quality of deliverance and show format (10%), and relevance of content (20%) also being considered.

Then the top 7-10 nominees in each category will be selected for the final voting slate, voting will last for 15 days (in the past, the maximum number of nominees to choice from was 5). Winners of the People's Choice and Best Produced awards cannot win any categories the following year.

[edit] Categories and Winners

The Podcast Awards consists of 20 sub-categories (Business, Comedy, Sports, etc.) that are announced sometime in fall, and two larger categories (People's Choice and Best Produced) that are announced during the actual ceremony. The prizes rewarded to winners are donation/sponsor-driven via PayPal. In 2006, they were able to award podcasters almost $8,000 in cash and prizes, with additional website exposure through 2006-2007 of eight million plus hits.

Categories 2005 2006 2007
People's Choice This Week in Tech Mugglecast Keith and The Girl
Best Produced Daily Source Code The Signal Firefly Talk
Best Video Podcast --- --- Ask a Ninja
Best Mobile Podcast --- Catholic Insider Praystation Portable
Business Media Artist Secrets Manager Tools Manager Tools
Comedy Distorted View Daily Distorted View Daily Nobody Likes Onions
Culture/Arts --- Anime Pulse This American Life
Education Tips from the Top Floor Tips from the Top Floor Grammar Girl
Entertainment --- Pottercast The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack
Food and Drink Good Beer Show Good Beer Show CoffeeGeek
Gaming Orange Lounge Radio Podtacular CAGast
General illinoise! Rosary Army ShowGirls
GLBT --- Feast of Fools Feast of Fools
Health/Fitness MARINA's Walking & Aerobics Sex is Fun! Sex is Fun!
Mature Dawn and Drew Show Dawn and Drew Show Keith and the Girl
Movies/Films TheForce.net The Signal Firefly Talk
Podsafe Music --- Accident Hash Catholic Rockers
Political Free Talk Live Free Talk Live Free Talk Live
Religion Inspiration Catholic Insider Daily Breakfast Daily Breakfast
Sports 1954 and Counting Fantoo Girls Phedippidations
Technology/Science This Week In Tech Diggnation Security Now!
Travel Richard Vobes Radio Show Mouse Tunes WDW Radio

[edit] 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

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