Cream of the Crop: NZ Podcast Awards
Some of the winners of the NZ Podcast Awards 2023.
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The New Zealand Podcast Awards 2023 released its list of winners last Friday, capturing a broad spectrum of top-notch Kiwi podcasts from categories spanning arts and culture, business, climate, documentary, comedy, education, and more.
Presented by Duncan Garner: Editor in Chief (ROVA), more than 30 judges informed the rankings across 29 categories. Check out the winners below:
BEST ARTS AND CULTURE PODCAST
Gold: Studio Stories
Silver: What Matters Most
Bronze: Voices
BEST BRANDED PODCAST
Gold: The Curve Podcast
Silver: This is Kiwi Podcast
Bronze: The Good Sex Project
BEST BUSINESS PODCAST
Gold: Cooking the Books with Frances Cook
Silver: Lead on Purpose
Bronze: Business is Boring
BEST COMEDY PODCAST
Gold: Did Titanic Sink?
Silver: Tom Sainsbury's Small Town Scandal
Bronze: Tic-Heads with Uncle Tics
BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS PODCAST
Gold: Gone By Lunchtime
Silver: True Story
Bronze: Newsable
BEST DOCUMENTARY PODCAST - Supported by RNZ
Gold: True Story
Silver: Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me
Bronze: Across the Board
BEST EDUCATION PODCAST
Gold: ICYMI
Silver: PhD Unpacked
Bronze: Taringa
BEST ENTERTAINMENT PODCAST - Sponsored by rova
Gold: Grey Areas
Silver: The Morning Shift
Bronze: The Art Of Entertaining
BEST FACTUAL PODCAST
Gold: Black Sheep
Silver: Our Changing World
Bronze: Voices
BEST FAMILY PODCAST
Gold: The Human Race
Silver: What The CF! A Cystic Fibrosis Podcast
Bronze: Untidy
BEST FICTION PODCAST
Gold: Tom Sainsbury's Small Town Scandal
Silver: The Reading
Bronze: Dear Bastard
BEST HEALTH AND WELLBEING PODCAST - Sponsored by rova
Gold: No Such Thing As Normal
Silver: The Human Race
Bronze: Are You Mental?
BEST HISTORY PODCAST
Gold: Black Sheep
Silver: History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast
Bronze: The Aotearoa History Show
BEST INDEPENDENT PODCAST
Gold: Studio Stories
Silver: Are You Mental?
Bronze: The Morning Shift
BEST INTERVIEW PODCAST
Gold: Lead On Purpose
Silver: Between Two Beers podcast
Bronze: K' Road Chronicle
MAORI OR PASIFIKA PODCAST OR HOST
Gold: The TAHI
Silver: Nau Mai Town
Bronze: When an Irani Meets a Māori
BEST RADIO PODCAST - Sponsored by rova
Gold: ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley
Silver: Mai Morning Crew
Bronze: George FM Drive with Sin and Brook
BEST SEX AND RELATIONSHIP PODCAST - Sponsored by rova
Gold: Sex.Life
Silver: The Good Sex Project
Bronze: Sex in Space
BEST SPORTS PODCAST - Sponsored by rova
Gold: The Sporting Rumble
Silver: The Dom Harvey Podcast
Bronze: Warriors Anonymous
BEST CLIMATE AWARD
Gold: Our Changing World
Silver: DOC Sounds of Science
Bronze: Scigest
BEST SPOTLIGHT AWARD
Gold: The Detail
Silver: Between Two Beers podcast
Bronze: The Morning Shift
BEST TRUE CRIME PODCAST
Gold: The Trial
Silver: Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me
Bronze: GUILT
LISTENERS CHOICE
Morning Shift
#BHN Big Hairy News
Girls Uninterrupted
GREAT FINDS
Interconnector
Sex in Space
Hundy Hundy Hippos
BEST CREATIVITY AWARD
Gold: Studio Stories
Silver: Tom Sainsbury's Small Town Scandal
Bronze: Voices
BEST RISING STAR AWARD - Supported by RNZ
Gold: Connor Scott
Silver: Evie Orpe
Bronze: Sophie Garth
BEST NETWORK OR PUBLISHER
Gold: RNZ
Silver: iHeart
Bronze: rova
BEST NEW PODCAST – Sponsored by Hindeberg Systems
Gold: Studio Stories
Silver: No Such Thing As Normal
Bronze: The TAHI
BEST PODCAST OF THE YEAR
Gold: Black Sheep
Silver: Studio Stories
Bronze: Did Titanic Sink?
