or about two weeks, anyone can nominate any podcast through the nomination portal. Once nominations close, a committee made up of Discover Pods staff and outside podcast folks will sift through the nominations and determine up to 20 finalists for each category.

While total nominations are a factor in determining the finalists, they are not the sole factor. We aim to balance and pair nominations along with committee opinions to ultimately determine the finalists. Basically, there’s essentially no advantage to stuffing the ballot.

One final round of voting will determine the winners for each category. The final voting is a pure popular vote without any committee interjection. The winners will be announced shortly after.

Yes, definitely. Encourage your listeners to vote and help spread the word.

From the rooftops. By carrier pigeon or smoke signal is fine. Telegraph if you can find it.

We have an email gate that verifies valid emails are used in both the nominations and final voting. Any additional entries using the same email address will be delete the previous entry automatically. We also ensure there’s no voting discrepancies by monitoring IP addresses and similar voting patterns.

For the nominations, there’s no benefit to loading the ballot box unfairly.

If a podcast is identified as stuffing the ballot, we’ll automatically disqualify it.

Absolutely. You can see the past winners here.

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