2009 Podcast Awards Slate Finalized
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 Award Nominations are Now Open
Nominations are now open for the 2009 People’s Choice Podcast Awards! You only get to nominate your favorite shows a single time so take your time in filling out the form. As expected site traffic started to climb as soon as we cut the site loose.
A big thanks to all of the current sponsors.
2009 Podcast Award Banners
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The 2009 Podcast Award Banners are up on the website, as you know nominations open in a few short days. We hope that you have your audiences prepared to nominate your show.
We are still seeking some sponsors, I hope you will consider being one of our 2009 Podcast Ambassadors by purchasing a sponsorship!
2009 Podcast Awards Sponsorship Update
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
It’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!
Podcast Awards Ceremony is Saturday Dec 6th!
The 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards Ceremony is this coming Saturday December 6th at 1pm PST. We will award these trophies and prizes and announce the People’s Choice and Best Produced Winners. It will be a great event.
2008 People’s Choice Podcast Award Winners
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
Podcast Awards Winner Announcement Today
The 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards Winner announcement happens today at 4pm Pacific / 7 PM Eastern / 1AM GMT. Watch here or join chat at live event at www.podcastawards.com
Blue Mic Sponsors Podcast Awards!
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.
