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Title: The Golden Globes will start giving an award to the best podcast of
the year

Date: Wed, 07 May 2025 15:49:05 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/the-go...

The Golden Globes is expanding beyond film and TV with a new category. It
will dole out an award for the best podcast of the year starting at next
January's ceremony. Organizers told Variety that the idea was to recognize
the influence and reach of podcasts within the spectrum of entertainment.

Six finalists will be selected from the 25 most popular podcasts across audio
and video formats (sorry, middle-aged dads who spent hundreds of dollars on
recording gear to grouse about their team in their basement studios). So it's
likely that more celebrities could appear on the show.

Amy Poehler and Trevor Noah have podcasts that are among the 25 largest in
the US on Spotify. SmartLess ΓÇö the show hosted by actors Jason Bateman,
Will Arnett and Sean Hayes ΓÇö is on the list too. As such, the best podcast
award feels like a ploy by the Golden Globes to get more stars on the show,
which would make it quite funny if, say, The Daily won instead.

It feels like an odd move for the Golden Globes (which started handing out an
award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement last year) to wade into the
podcasting world. Still, it's nice to see a mainstream awards ceremony
shining a spotlight on podcasts. There are dedicated awards shows for
podcasts, but the Golden Globes is putting them on a bigger stage.

Other awards shows have been refining their category lineups. We'll soon
start seeing a long-overdue category for stunt work at the Oscars. On the
other hand, it was a little disappointing to see the Emmy for short-form
animated program being cut last year due to a drop in submissions.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/the-go...
award-to-the-best-podcast-of-the-year-154905589.html?src=rss

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