Recognizing top companies and podcasters every year

The Quill Podcast Awards is a yearly digital awards event that celebrates podcasters and industry professionals for their production, innovation, and work to elevate the medium and industry.
Through a hybrid of a public nominations and a judging period by a panel of experts, the awards are given to companies and podcasts that have built strong audiences, innovated within their category, and created outstanding content.

Public nominations have closed. All Finalists will be announced on March 17th.

Eligibility

Anyone and any podcast can submit to the Quill Podcast Awards for free (there is zero cost to participating in the awards). You do not need to be the podcast owner or work at the company being submitted to vote.

All podcasters or brands can only be nominated to be a finalist for TWO award categories. If your podcast or company was nominated to be a finalist for more than two categories, the top two categories with the highest amount of nominations will be selected to move on to the judging round.

How it works

1. Voting opens February 24th, 2022

Everyone is welcome to vote and participate in the Quill Podcast Awards! Once voting opens, click the button above to fill out the nomination form. Only one vote per person.

2. Voting closes March 11th, 2022

Voting will close on March 11th, 2022. Once this date passes, the judging process will begin and you can no longer vote for your favorite podcast and brand.

3. Finalists selected and announced on March 17th, 2022

5 finalists will be selected and announced to move on to the judging round.

4. Judging begins on March 17th, 2022

The Quill Podcast Awards judges will begin reviewing the top podcasts to select the winner. The judges are made up of various podcast companies and experts. Judging will be based on items such as:

Podcast Structure
Technical Quality
Content Quality
Creativity
Sound Design

5. The final winners are announced on March 30th, 2022.

We will be announcing the final winners on March 30th, 2022. We will be getting in contact with all the winners to present them with their virtual award via the contact information they provided in their award submission form.

Award Categories:

General Awards

Best Podcast of the Year
Presented by Acast
People's Choice Award
Most Innovative Podcast
Presented by AudioGO

Podcast Company Awards

Best Podcast Agency
Presented by PlayerFM
Best Podcast Publisher
Presented by Quill
Best Podcast Advertising Software
Presented by Squadcast
Best Podcast Marketing Software
Presented by LWC Studios
Best New Podcast Company
(Must be 2 years old or less)
Presented by Simplecast
Best Podcast Tech
Presented by Sounds Profitable
Best Podcast App
(Must have an active app on either Android or iOS devices)
Presented by Podfest
Best Podcast Listening Platform
Presented by Buzzsprout
Innovator of the Year
Presented by JAR Audio
Fastest Growing Podcast Company
Presented by Quill

More Details

The public voting period starts February 24th, 2022 and ends March 11th, 2022
You can have as many people vote as you want, you do not need to own the podcast or the company to nominate. Only one vote per person will count
Finalists will be announced on March 17th, 2022
Winners will be announced on March 30th, 2022
All winners will receive a virtual award icon to add to any promotional material that they would like

Quill Podcast Awards shall examine the Entrant’s Application in order to verify that all information provided conforms with all required formats and has the right to evaluate appropriateness and relevancy of the submission.

Have questions? Get in touch with us at info@quillit.io

Quill Podcast Awards