2024 Podcast Awards Winners Announcement

Hi everyone!

First off, I need to personally thank you for your participation and patience in the 2024 Discover Pods Awards process. And today, we get to announce the 2024 podcast awards winners.

Participation and, especially, voting this year far outpaced our expectations, so things took slightly longer to put together than we thought. It’s not a bad first world problem to have, and it speaks volumes about the state of independent podcast creators in this community.

Speaking for myself, I was turned onto a number of new to me podcasts that I’ve been checking out during the past several weeks. So thank you to everyone who participated and to your audiences for rallying around the fantastic work that you do.

Without further delay (I know there’s been quite enough of that).

2024 Podcast of the Year

Winner: Resilience Gone Wild

Runner Up: My Favorite Murder

Best New Podcast of 2024

Winner: Conspiracy, She Wrote

Runner Up: 500 Open Tabs

Best Arts Podcast

Winner: Book It, A Book Podcast

Runner Up: Swish and Flick

Best Business Podcast

Winner: Taming the Hustle

Runner Up: Conversations on Careers and Personal Life

Best Comedy Podcast

Winner: Improv is Dead

Runner Up: Crime in Sports

Best Education Podcast

Winner: How to Love Lit

Runner Up: Women Road Warriors

Best Fiction Podcast

Winner: The Armitage Account (Apple | Spotify)

Runner Up: Swish and Flick

Best Health & Fitness Podcast

Winner: PTSD and Beyond

Runner Up: The Insomnia Project

Best History Podcast

Winner: Fresh Hell Podcast

Runner Up: The History Chicks

Best Kids & Family Podcast

Winner: Unspookable

Runner Up: Brains On

Best Leisure Podcast

We had a tie for the winner of the best leisure podcast category. Which seems competitive for the leisure category, but here we are. So these are in no particular order.

Winner: The Diecast Podcast

Winner: The Splendid Table

Runner Up: The Great Fail

Best LBTQA Podcast

Winner: Welcome to Night Vale

Runner Up: The Magnus Protocol

Best Music Podcast

Winner: Cinematic Sound Radio

Runner Up: Guitar Nerds Podcast

Best News Podcast

Winner: Up First from NPR

Runner Up: The Daily

Best Science Podcast

Winner: Resilience Gone Wild

Runner Up: What the Duck?

Best Society & Culture Podcast

Winner: OURGEN Pod

Runner Up: Cidiot

Best Sports Podcast

Winner:Swimming with the Pod

Runner Up: Unsung

Best Technology Podcast

Winner: 404 Media Podcast

Runner Up: Hardfork from the NY Times

Best True Crime Podcast

Winner: Murder, She Told

Runner Up: Coffee and Cases

Best TV & Film Podcast

Winner: Visions in Sound

Runner Up: Popcorn Psychology

Conclusion

There you have it. The voters have spoken. An example of the Democratic process at its purest.

Once again, we would all collectively like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s awards season and thank you for turning us on to some shows we’d never heard of. Can’t wait to see what everyone creates in 2025 and beyond.

With Award Season now behind us, we’ll focus on clearing the backlog of the Podcast Spotlight Series.