✦ NYC Podcast Awards: Audience Choice 2026 ✦
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Voting Open · Closes March 12, 2026 at Noon ET
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All 19 categories will receive Audience Choice honors, but only one fiction and one nonfiction podcast will take home an Audience Choice Libby — awarded to the shows with the most votes overall across their respective categories.
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Fiction & Creative
4 categories
Best Fiction Podcast: Comedy
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Minor Legends
Set Sail!
StanLand
The Murderer Killings — a True* Crime Podcast
Best Fiction Podcast: Drama
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Dirt — An Audio Drama
Hamlet
KIND: An LGBTQ+ Mythical Noir Audio Drama
Sucker
Best Fiction Podcast: Genre
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Deepfake
Hearthbound: An Untelling of the Odyssey
Home for the Holidays
Liminal
The Tower
Visionaries Audio Drama
Breaking Conventions — Most Innovative
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abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast
Creatures of the Wind
Planet Possible
So We've Been Told with Sahaj Kaur Kohli
The Secret Life of TK Dutes
Nonfiction
8 categories
Best Documentary Podcast
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Dancing with Shadows
Defiant
James Hemings: America's Culinary Founding Father
TENDING: Black Farmers Fight Against the USDA
THE WILD with Chris Morgan
Best Interview Podcast
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AW Confidential Podcast
Behind the Money
Building Friendships
In Tune with Tradition
The Black Men Speak Podcast
The Lede
Best History Podcast
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Awakenings In Real Life
None Of The Above: '90s Rewind
The Butterfly King
The People's Recorder
Tracing The Path
Best True Crime Podcast
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Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders
Hell in Heaven
Trained to Kill
Unreliable Witness
Best Science & Tech Podcast
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Altered States
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Pick Your Poison
Planet Possible
Science Vs
Tech Tonic
The Ultimate Human
Best Entertainment & Pop Culture Podcast
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Fandom Hybrid Podcast
In Tune with Tradition
The Creator Spotlight Podcast
The Downside With Gianmarco Soresi
What I really, really want
Best Society & Culture Podcast
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A People's Climate
Arts & Culture
Beyond 6 Seconds
Big Korean Energy
Eugène Ionesco's Theatre of the Absurd
In Tune with Tradition
Quintessential Poetry
Voices of Jackson Heights
Best News, Politics & Public Service Podcast
Voted Today
Future Hindsight
Orbit: Science for kids / Cráneo: Ciencia para niños
Science Vs
Surviving Trump
Swamp Notes
The Climate Story Project
The Tenant Law Podcast
Wellbeing & More
7 categories
Best Wellness & Relationships Podcast
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Advice Unfiltered with Chris and Tony
Get Lean and Lit with Lindy
Sh!t That Goes On In Our Heads
So We've Been Told with Sahaj Kaur Kohli
The Ultimate Human
Best Personal Growth & Spirituality Podcast
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Footsteps of Faith — A Celtic Pilgrimage
So We've Been Told with Sahaj Kaur Kohli
The Cancer Caregiver
The Secret Life of TK Dutes
Wonderstruck
Best Kids Podcast
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Imagine This
Orbit / Cráneo
Orbit: Science for kids on the move!
TALES FROM THE CLOUD SEA
The Bedtime Scientist
Best Indie Podcast
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7 Days: The Audio Drama
Conjure
Far From Home
rePROs Fight Back
The Secret Life of Books
The Secret Room
Best Student & Education Podcast
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Footsteps of Faith — A Celtic Pilgrimage
Odd One In
P.S. Weekly
The Film Festival Doctor Podcast
Best Host or Hosting Team
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Sh!t That Goes On In Our Heads
Gretchen Schoser & Charleen Deneen
TENDING: Black Farmers Fight Against the USDA
Shirlette Ammons
The Advisor With Stacey Chillemi
Stacey Chillemi
The Wine Pair Podcast
Joe Mele & Carmela Mele
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Hala Taha