Who’s in the British Podcast Awards “longlist”?

Who’s in the British Podcast Awards “longlist”?

Sponsored by SpotsNow. Ask any podcast advertising question inside Claude or ChatGPT. The SpotsNow connector brings competitor analysis, campaign planning intelligence, competitor conflict vetting and new-client opportunities into the AI tools your team already uses. Try it free until July 22. Connect your AI to SpotsNow [https://podnews.net/class-click/3568/2026-07-06] * The British Podcast Awards 2026 released its longlist [https://podnews.net/press-release/british-podcast-awards-longlist-26] - 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! [https://podnews.net/podcast/i6i4]. Goalhanger, the UK's largest independent podcast company, did not enter; Global also appears not to have put their shows forward. * The British Podcast Awards has announced that the final round of the Listener's Choice Award - the listener-voted prize in the competition - will be chosen using the Spotify platform [https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/listeners-choice-2026?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-06]. After an open vote on the British Podcast Awards website, the top 20 will move forward to a vote that requires listeners to use Spotify to make their final vote. "Any podcast currently available on Spotify is eligible for nomination". The award last year went to history podcast Betwixt The Sheets [https://podnews.net/podcast/i9zhz]. * The awards are celebrating their tenth year. Above: Deborah Frances-White, winner in 2020 for The Guilty Feminist [https://podnews.net/podcast/i1lt]. * The Crossed Wires [https://crossedwires.live/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-06] 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx6_jj9RxhI&utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-06] - and much of it works if you ignore "YouTube" and replace it with "Podcast". > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website [https://podnews.net/update/bpa-longlist-26]: and get our free daily newsletter. 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Jamie East has bad blood

Sponsored by SpotsNow. Ask any podcast advertising question inside Claude or ChatGPT. The SpotsNow connector brings competitor analysis, campaign planning intelligence, competitor conflict vetting and new-client opportunities into the AI tools your team already uses. Try it free until July 22. Connect your AI to SpotsNow [https://podnews.net/class-click/3568/2026-07-03] * At some point 1 in 2 people will be affected by cancer. "Whenever I read that stat, I just always felt sorry for the other guy. Plot twist… you will occasionally be the other guy," says Jamie East, who releases Bad Blood: The Diary of a Cancer [https://podnews.net/podcast/i11g2e] today. Jamie, who is Head of Podcasts at DMG Media, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia in June 2025; the show, which starts today, includes real-life conversations from his doctors appointments, and an audio diary. * The Escucha Podcast newsletter has published its final issue. [https://www.escuchapodcast.com.ar/2026/07/este-es-el-final.html?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-03] Starting in November 2020, the fortnightly Spanish-language publication focused on podcast reviews and criticism. "The crushing emergence of AI and the shift towards video by a large part of the industry have created a significant cocktail of two things that don't interest me in the slightest", writes Pablo Fisher; but he adds "Escucha Podcast was a beautiful project, the loveliest and best thing I've done in my professional life. It led me to meet incredible people, to listen to the best minutes of audio in our language (also the worst; the selection task hasn't been easy)." * Goalhanger has licensed its fiction podcast Sherlock & Co [https://podnews.net/podcast/iatxp] to BBC Sounds. The show currently gets 800,000 downloads each month, and will perform two sell-out live shows at London's Southbank centre later this year. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website [https://podnews.net/update/bad-blood]: and get our free daily newsletter. Classifieds - your job or ad here [https://podnews.net/classifieds/] * The Craft Beer Podcast You’ll Recommend [https://podnews.net/class-click/3486/2026-07-03] — No lectures, no pretension. Just great beer and real laughs. Greg & Flex bring brewery vibes with sharp, genuinely funny conversations. The kind of show you wish you made. 😜🍻 * Podcast growth engine for agencies [https://podnews.net/class-click/2334/2026-07-03] — ATTN Production and Promotion Agencies: you can now white-label Amaze Media Labs’ industry-leading audience growth products and resell them to your clients. 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Who listens to podcasts? Best not to assume

Sponsored by SpotsNow. Ask any podcast advertising question inside Claude or ChatGPT. The SpotsNow connector brings competitor analysis, campaign planning intelligence, competitor conflict vetting and new-client opportunities into the AI tools your team already uses. Try it free until July 22. Connect your AI to SpotsNow [https://podnews.net/class-click/3568/2026-07-02] * Who really listens to podcasts? Be careful with your assumptions [https://www.numbereight.ai/newsroom-articles/who-really-listens-to-podcasts-why-audience-assumptions-can-mislead-advertisers?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-02], says numbereight, quoting from a study across five markets. Podcast listeners aren't just young; seniors are not just an edge case; and it's not just boys listening. The piece gives us the right questions to ask when planning podcast campaigns. * A new remote recording service called SureTake [https://www.suretake.io/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-02] is deliberately simple - and does one thing: high quality local audio and video recording. Aimed at editors and studios, the tool doesn't "nudge clients towards DIY tools or AI editing", it says - wonder who they could possibly mean... the company, which hails from Canada, is looking for beta testers - there's a free trial on the website. * More and more people are using podcast app Overcast. Buzzsprout's platform stats for June [https://www.buzzsprout.com/stats?date=2026-06-01&utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-02] show that podcast consumption by Overcast has increased by +28% year-on-year. Most other apps are relatively static - except Spotify, which shows a slump of -26%. (Some of this could be attributed to Spotify video, which is hosted by Spotify themselves). "Web browsers" are up by 4.4%. * Transistor's stats [https://transistor.fm/global-stats/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-02], meanwhile - archived here [https://livewire.io/transistor-stats-visualized/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-02] - also show a 22% increase in Overcast year-on-year, and a drop for Spotify of -40%. Apple Podcasts shows a modest increase. > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website [https://podnews.net/update/who-listens]: and get our free daily newsletter. Classifieds - your job or ad here [https://podnews.net/classifieds/] * Think it. Talk it. Script it. Podnami.com [https://podnews.net/class-click/3483/2026-07-02] — Start with a conversation, not a blank page. 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A new Riverside

Sponsored by SpotsNow. Ask any podcast advertising question inside Claude or ChatGPT. The SpotsNow connector brings competitor analysis, campaign planning intelligence, competitor conflict vetting and new-client opportunities into the AI tools your team already uses. Try it free until July 22. Connect your AI to SpotsNow [https://podnews.net/class-click/3568/2026-07-01] * Riverside 2.0 [https://riverside.com/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-01] begins to roll out today, which the company calls the biggest update in its history - with a new fully rebuilt recording studio and AI editor, social scheduling to automatically post to every channel, motion graphics in the video editor, and an upcoming MCP integration to connect AI assistants like Claude or ChatGPT (here's the waitlist [https://riverside.com/mcp/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-01]). No longer just a remote recording tool, Riverside's Mac app will do in-person multicam recording too; and because you're only truly fashionable if you have your own newsletter, Riverside has added that as well, with an automatic publishing tool. The company says it's the "first agentic platform to span the entire creative workflow", and says that it takes just minutes after a recording session finishes to automatically deliver a rough cut, short-form clips, a newsletter, and a posting calendar. It's a three-week rollout, with a number of features launching today. * Happy Canada Day. The podcast Gloves Off [https://podnews.net/podcast/iz9u1] was only intended to be a limited series last year, but it's back for a new season from today [https://podnews.net/press-release/gloves-off-s2], after being honoured at the Webby Awards and becoming one of the most listened-to podcasts in Canada. This year, it'll also be available in video, as well as an after show, called Cross Check; and focuses on lessons Canada could adopt to form alliances with other middle powers. * One of the largest buyers of audio and podcast advertising, Ad Results Media (ARM) has been acquired [https://podnews.net/press-release/arm-miroma] by Miroma Group. No terms were given; we're told it's the biggest expansion into the US market by Miroma, "increasing the group’s annual media investment to more than $750 million". > > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website [https://podnews.net/update/riverside-2]: and get our free daily newsletter. Classifieds - your job or ad here [https://podnews.net/classifieds/] * Podcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! [https://podnews.net/class-click/2736/2026-07-01] — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth, monetization, and online business strategies. 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Power-up your podcast in July

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