Voting is now open for the 2009 Podcast Awards. It’s the fifth year for the annual event, which has the goal to “recognize the best podcasters in the world by allowing the people (Listeners and Podcasters) to nominate, and then vote for their favorite podcast.” Voting for the slate of podcast nominees is open through […]

Podcasts just got another dose of mainstream validation. The NYTimes reports that podcasts are now eligible for National Magazine Awards: Podcasters, rejoice, for you are now eligible for a National Magazine Award. The creators of the prestigious awards plan to announce on Wednesday that they are adding 12 new categories covering online media. The categories […]

The winners of the first European Podcast Awards have been announced. Choosing from ten participating countries across Europe and over 750 nominations, a panel of judges awarded the inaugural European Podcast Award to five winners from Germany, England and Spain. The European podcasts of the year 2008/2009 are: Schlaflos in München [Sleepless in Munich] / […]

World travel publishing house Lonely Planet recently announced the winners of their 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards contest. The winner of the sole podcast award in the bunch is the Indie Travel Podcast. Indie Travel Podcast is the brainchild of Craig and Linda Martin, a husband-and-wife team of traveling podcasters. Craig Martin’s profile explains, […]

Podcasting pioneer and author Michael Geoghegan contacted us this morning with awful news: Brian Clark, a great friend and partner in GrapeRadio.com was involved in a horrible car accident in Central California last Friday. He is currently in the ICU and has received in excess of 13 units of blood and platelets. Many of you […]

Todd Cochrane (Blubrry, GeekNewsCentral), creator of the People’s Choice Podcast Awards, is looking for a new home for the event: I am working on my plan for the 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. I am looking at some major changes, part of it has to do that we have no venue at New Media Expo […]

Voting for The People’s Choice Podcast Awards is open through the end of the day August 11. Podcast Awards creator Todd Cochrane recently announced the nominees, in categories including Best Produced Podcast, Business Podcasts, Comedy, Podsafe Music and more. This is the second annual Podcast Awards, which was created and is managed by Cochrane’s Podcast […]

Podcasting guru Todd Cochrane (Geek News Central, Blubrry.com) has announced the nominee slate for the 2006 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. Voting for the nominees will be open July 28th to August 11th. Cochrane notes that the overall quality of the RSS feeds for podcasts that were nominated was surprisingly poor. “I have never been so […]

The Podcast Peer Awards, a community of podcasters organized to recognize quality podcasts, is looking for podcasters to take part in its nomination and voting process.Membership at the site is limited to podcasters who have done at least six shows and who have been podcasting for at least three months. Members have access to a […]