Category Archives: Podcast Awards

2009 Podcast Awards Winners

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People’s Choice
ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football

Best Produced
Best of the Left

Best Video Podcast
This Week in Tech

Best Mobile Phone Formatted Podcast
AppSlappy

Best Produced
Best of the Left

Business
NPR Planet Money

Comedy
Daily Giz Wiz

Cultural / Arts
Imprint

Education
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe

Entertainment
MuggleCast

Food and Drink
Munchcast

Gaming
4Player Podcast

General
This American Life

GLBT
Feast of Fun

Health / Fitness
Quackcast

Mature
The Adam Carolla Podcast

Movies / Films
Spill

Podsafe Music
Irish & Celtic Music Podcast

Political
The Young Turks

Religion Inspiration
Reasonable Doubts

Sports
ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football

Technology / Science
Security Now

Travel
WDW Radio

Can we Have more Categories Please!

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trophiesThat is the question I get asked the most when it comes to the Podcast Awards. My response is that each category cost close to $400.00 if we want to keep the standards high. The trophies we have made each year are custom designed.

They are produced by the same company that produces the Country Music Award Bullets. Any podcaster that has received one of these beautiful trophies will tell you that they are amazing. We have them laser engraved as well.

I would love to add categories but we need people to get out their wallets in advance of the 2010 event and step up to the plate.

2009 Podcast Awards Slate Finalized

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The 2009 Podcast Awards show slate is finalized and I hope that we can get it validated, announced and online later today. Possible will do an official announcement on Sunday at the latest.

Each category took our 40+ reviewers over 5 hours each. This is the longest it has ever taken to review the shows. Frankly I was getting a bit nervous. But it is done and I think the slate looks pretty amazing.

Should be a great voting period as there will be some serious competition in almost every category.

2009 Podcast Awards Sponsorship Update

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Keep up to date on Twitter @podcastawards

Last year we introduced Podcast Sponsorships on the Podcast Awards sites largely because the big Podcast companies would not step up to the Table with their wallets. As we head into the 5th year we are seeing a significant number of podcast that sponsored the event last year step up to sponsors again largely due to the great ROI they received on their sponsorships last year.

In 2008 we saw the Podcast Awards website receive over 14 million hits leading up to and through the awards ceremony. I am already starting to see the traffic increase and it will continue to climb as it always does until the day the Podcast Award Nominations start and then the server will have to have dry ice thrown on top of it to keep it from melting down.

So far in 2009 the following companies have stood up to the Plate:
RawVoice and the Blubrry Podcasting Community! $1000.00

Podcast Sponsorships:
Geek News Central $250.00 (Disclaimer My Show)
Electric Politics! $250.00
Comedy4Cast $250.00
The Irish and Celtic Music Podcast $250.00
SDR News $250.00
Best of the Left Podcast $250.00
Trucker Ton Podcast $250.00

Our goal in 2009 is to raise between $5000.00 to $6000.00 the trophies last year where a little over $3500.00 every dime we raise minus the server and auditing firms expenses are turned back into prizes for the winners. This is a not for profit event for Podcast Connect as it has been in years past!

Todd Cochrane
Founder Podcast Awards

2009 Podcast Awards

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pca-2009It’s Podcast Awards Season again,  I am preparing the site tonight. The firm that manages the site will be putting us in pre-nomination mode tomorrow.

Podcast Nominations by your audiences will open at 2100 EST on Oct 4th so start getting your audiences prepared today to nominate your show.

We will be accepting sponsorships exactly as we were last year so be the first to  get your sponsorship dollars in.

The awards take a huge amount of work each year, so much in fact that I had considered not holding the event this year.  Over the past three weeks my email inbox has been exploding and I decided to go ahead and hold the event again. I am hoping that the volunteers step up like they did last year to help because without them it is a monumental job.

Get your audiences ready 🙂

Todd Cochrane
Founder Podcast Awards!

2008 People’s Choice Podcast Award Winners

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This list contains the twenty lower category winners. We will announce People’s Choice and Best Produced during the awards ceremony.

Congratulations to all shows. See you at the Awards Ceremony!

Best Video Podcast – Geek Brief TV

Best Mobile Phone Formatted Podcast –DL.TV

Business – Manager Tools

Comedy – You Look Nice Today

Cultural / Art –This American Life

Education – Grammar Girl

Entertainment – MuggleCast

Food and Drink – Grace Before Meals

Gaming – The Instance

General – Extralife Radio

GLBT – Feast of Fools

Health and Fitness – Healthy Catholic

Mature – Distorted View

Movies and Films –The Signal

PodSafe Music – Catholic Rockers

Political – Free Talk Live

Religion Inspiration – Daily Breakfast

Sports – SkydiverGirls.TV 

Technology and Science – This Week in Tech

Travel – WDW Radio Show

Blue Mic Sponsors Podcast Awards!

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The folks over at Blue Mic have stepped up in a big way giving us 8 microphones to give away as prizes for the 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards.

They reached out to us, and the team at Blue is privileged to support the 2008 Podcast Awards. I hope you will take time and visit the Blue Microphone site..

If your looking for a really awesome deal they have a great microphone package available through Costco which includes their ever popular snowball mic. The pricing on this package really cannot be beat anywhere else.