Money Talks, hosted by Liam Dann, won Gold in the Best Business Podcast. Photo / NZME
Money Talks, hosted by Liam Dann, won Gold in the Best Business Podcast. Photo / NZME
New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) has picked up 12 placements at the New Zealand Podcast Awards, including picking up two Gold awards.
The awards are in their second year, and recognises the best podcasts produced in New Zealand across 25 categories.
NZ Herald’s Business Editor at Large Liam Dann picked up Gold for the Best Business category for Money Talks, where he talks to notable New Zealanders about their relationship with money. Long-running series Cooking the Books, hosted by BusinessDesk’s Frances Cook, took silver in the same category.
ZM's Bree and Clint won Gold for Best Radio Podcast. Photo/ File
The Front Page, the New Zealand Herald’s daily news podcast, hosted by Damien Venuto, took Silver in Best Current Affairs and Bronze in Best Factual. The ACC’s interview podcast Between Two Beers, hosted by Steven Holloway and Seamus Marten , also scored Silver in two categories, Best Interview and Best Sport.
Detour: Antarctica, which was inspired by NZ Herald travel writer Thomas Bywater’s experience being stuck on a trip to the frozen continent at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, scored Silver in the Best History category. Bronze was won by the NZ Herald’s One Day You’ll Thank Me, hosted by Jenni Mortimer and Rebecca Haszard, and Coast’s We Need to Talk with Toni Street in the Best Family and Best New categories respectively.
The iHeartRadio and NZME network of podcasts took out Silver in the Best Network category.
James Butcher, NZME Head of Digital Audio, said he is proud of today’s wins across NZME, which has one of the country’s fastest expanding and most diverse podcast networks in the country.
“Podcasting is one of the fastest growing digital media platforms in the world and we are proud to offer a hugely diverse and expansive range of world-class global and local content across NZME’s network. These awards truly showcase the growth of podcasting, and the breadth of content available for Kiwis to access anytime, anywhere. This is not only great news for audiences and advertisers, but also the country’s media and digital audio industries.”
The overall Best Podcast award went to Stuff’s The Commune, about the Centrepoint cult, while Culture Vulture won the audience-voted Listener’s Choice Award.
