409 entrants are recognised this year - but not Goalhanger or Global.
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British Podcast Awards
The British Podcast Awards 2026 released its longlist - recognising 409 entrants across 27 categories. Almost half the longlist are claimed to be independent titles and talent. We see at least 53 nominations for the BBC, eleven for Audible, eight for Audio Always, Platform Media and Bauer Media, seven for Persephonica and Fun Kids, five for Rethink Audio, Sky News, Bloomberg and History Hit, four for Novel and Podmasters, three for Sony and Avalon. One notable indie who has a nomination: the 19 year-old Answer Me This!. Goalhanger, the UK’s largest independent podcast company, did not enter; Global also appears not to have put their shows forward.
The Crossed Wires podcast festival has been taking place in Sheffield, England. We’ll have a full round-up tomorrow.
“If you’re watching this because you want to make stuff - just go and make stuff. That’s the only way to get better”. Tom Scott, a well-known YouTuber and podcaster, gives some incredible advice in this YouTube video - and much of it works if you ignore “YouTube” and replace it with “Podcast”.
Podcasts made it to another streaming video platform earlier this year - this time, in New Zealand. For the last few months, TVNZ+ has carried six video podcasts from indie producer Frank, including Between Two Beers and Extremely Casual Gamers.
Fancy taking your show to the next level? Mercury Podcasts is looking for new shows - and is planning to give one podcast a free four-hour session in a studio… in the Bahamas.
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The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com“Follow people, not shows” says GuestVine, a tool that lets you follow any person and every podcast they guest on. You get the results in a private RSS feed in your existing podcast app (or, via email). Here’s an example of Seth Godin; and here is one for football people.
There’s been a significant drop in new episodes published on Spotify for Creators, according to Livewire. The podcast host only published 19.8% of all new episodes in June - that’s the lowest figure since the data was first compiled in 2021. (Our section sponsor RSS.com remains on its best-ever figures.)
Podcasting is still vulnerable to the Amazon-apocalypse; almost 60% of all podcast episodes are released using Amazon’s Cloudfront (including ours).

With Airwave and TWiT.tv: This Week in Tech is the top-ranked flagship tech podcast with Leo Laporte and friends. This week, good news for digital privacy thanks to the Supreme Court; and BYD sells the most EV cars again. He’s joined by Jason Hiner, Lisa Schmeiser, and Owen JJ Stone.

A three-part fiction series in Spanish, Red Hot Chili Dinos, launched last month. Produced by one independent creator, June Curiel, AI was used right through the production process, from scriptwriting and music to voice direction, sound design and post-production - with human creative direction at every stage. She tells us that this might be a glimpse of what independent podcast production may look like over the next few years.

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“The most successful ways that I’ve seen podcasters making money is really to adapt to a layered monetization strategy.” In PodBiz this week: Rebecca Dalby, VP of Demand at Triton Digital. Rebecca shares how creators can maximize their earnings by adopting a layered monetization strategy, outlines the strategic alignment behind the Spreaker and Triton merger, and offers practical advice on shifting metrics from rigid CPMs to total revenue yield.

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Today, Berlin’s new worker-owned magazine HEIST launches its podcast - also called HEIST. It kicks off with three episodes, featuring HEIST founding editors in conversation with journalists covering the most relevant stories for Berlin, Europe, and the world. In the next weeks, you’ll hear investigative journalists and experts discussing: refitting Volkswagon factories to build tanks; life as a Palestinian in Berlin after October 7; and new American-style saunas hitting the Berlin scene.

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Can AI be conscious? Why are tech leaders increasingly turning to faith leaders for guidance? And what happens when the world’s oldest belief systems collide with its newest technology? Hosted by researcher and educator DZ Kalman, Belief in the Future returns for a new season to bring together religious leaders, academics, technologists, and policymakers to explore the growing collision between faith and technology.
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