Asia Podcast Awards 2024: FINALISTS REVEALED

Our 2024 Asia Podcast Awards finalists have been revealed. Here’s the full list.

From hundreds of entries, we have a list of 61 finalists for this year’s awards.

Winners will be announced at the RadioDays Asia Conference in Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 September, giving you about two weeks to vote in the People’s Choice section of the awards.

In most cases we have named about three podcasts that scored the highest marks in each category, but in the largest categories more than three high quality finalists have been selected. Not all entries and categories were awarded*.

The judges had a big job this year, with some categories receiving large numbers of submissions. Thanks very much to our judges for their hard work over the past few weeks.

The largest categories were:  Interview, Money & Business, Society & Culture, Health and Wellness, Fiction and News.

The countries with the strongest podcast industries, according to entry submission and finalists’ success are: Singapore, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Japan.

Click the Tile to go through to the Finalist’s podcast feed. Share using #PodcastAwards, #Listenerschoice and podcast name hashtags.

With so much competition, just getting to the finalists stage is recognition in itself, so give a big round of applause to these top performing podcasts for 2024… drum roll please!

Category Entry
Best Children’s Entertainment Podcast Chinese Folk Tales

The Land Before Bedtime: In Space

Best Education Podcast Takeaway Chinese

The GlobalEd Podcast

The Guiding Voice

Best Factual Podcast Climate Connections

Money Fact

Aging in China: Living with Alzheimer’s

Best Fictional Podcast Ghost Maps

Echoes of Kuliang

Pontianak

Seram Story Time

Best Health and Wellness Podcast Overcoming cancer to complete two marathons

Mind Your Business of Health

Thank Fitness it’s Friday

Best Interview Podcast A Vietnam Podcast

Muzik Roundtable

Sports Minutes: Finding strength from struggle; a Father’s Day special

R.I.C.H.

The Bridge

Confession Bilik Gelap

Filming in Thailand

Life Confession

Forward Podcast_Best Interview Podcast

Best Money and Business Podcast Big Take Asia

Money Talks

The Financial Coconut

Money and Me: How a Contrarian Investor Reads a Sell-Off

Unibizity

Thought Leader Club

Forward Podcast_Best Money and Business Podcast

Chat Lounge

Best New Podcast Big Take Asia

Climate Watch

Breakfast Bites

Gen Bridge

Best News Podcast Big Take Asia

Siti Mimah

Deep Dive

Deep Dive Podcast

Best Radio Show Podcast Liang Wenfu Music Journey

World Today

Borak Selebriti SINAR

Best Society and Culture Podcast Love Buzz

The Reading Room

Love Matters

Round Table China

Sembang Atas Dulang

K-Wave with Hongbin Jeong

The Daily Ketchup

Let’s Talk About Art with Art Teller Tony

Best Sport Podcast Suited & Booted

Bats, Balls Banter

Sports Minutes: New Year, New Me (4-part series)

Sideline Story

Podcast Host or Presenter/s of the Year Filming in Thailand – Host StephaneLambert
Michelle Martin – Presenter of the Year

Niu Honglin: Dragonboat Festival extravaganza

Podcast Publisher of the Year (major) SYOK – Publisher of the year

CGTN Radio

Acast – Podcast Innovation of the year

Vote for your People’s Listener Choice here.

* Judging in the Asia Podcast Awards 2024 follows a rigorous quality process. Usually the top three submissions are chosen as finalists, but where the marks are very close, more finalists are included. Marking is done out of 100. If a finalist is named in this list, it is likely they scored in a range between 75-100%.

Other entries that may not have achieved finalist status would likely have scored 50-75%, which is also considered a significant achievement. If entries did not reach at least the 50% cut-off mark they were not eligible to be a finalist.

From eligible finalists, one Indie and one Major winner will be selected if there are suitable entries in each division. Winners will be awarded recognised in our Winners list and profile stories and will be announced at the RadioDays Asia Conference in September in KL. We hope to see you there!

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