Independent Podcast Awards
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34-35 Eastcastle St, London W1W 8DW, UK
The Independent Podcast Awards are the brand new awards launched for those podcasts that are truly free of corporate ties.
Website: independentpodcastawards.com
About Independent Podcast Awards
The Independent Podcast Awards were launched in 2023 by whynow Media and the Verbal Diorama podcast team to help uncover the talent that we have in the UK but that doesn’t always get recognition it deserves.
Latest news
- Nov 6: The winners of the Independent Podcast Awards 2026 were announced in London. The award for Independent Podcast of the Year went to Great Days Out on the bus from Buxton, produced by Maria Passingham (and no stranger to the pages of Podnews - including a nice idea from Podcast Promotion in the wild back in 2025); runner-up War Hall, focusing on the wartime history of Walthamstow's Assembly Hall, is hosted by Professor John Thomas and Angela Allen MBE, who is 96 years old and who lived through the air raids that threatened the construction of the concert venue. She received a standing ovation.
- Nov 6: Winners of the Independent Podcast Awards 2026 - More than 400 people from the indie podcasting community gathered in a sold-out ceremony in London to find out who had won one of the coveted trophies. PRESS RELEASE
- Oct 14: Irish Books returns for a second season this week. The Independent Podcast Awards nominated show brings academics, writers and curators together to discuss contemporary literature, building your reading list one episode at a time.
- Sep 17: In the UK, the Independent Podcast Awards announced its shortlist.
- Sep 9: YouTube Announced as Headline Partner for Independent Podcast Awards 2026 - The IPAs are now in their fourth year, and received a record number of entries this year PRESS RELEASE
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