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.
