Ö3-Podcast-Award 2025: Comedy podcast wins over the competition!

Ö3-Podcast-Award 2025: Comedy podcast wins over the competition!

Salzburg, Österreich - On April 3, 2025, the highly expected awarding of the 5th Ö3 podcast awards took place, which established itself as a significant award in the podcast landscape. A total of almost 60,000 nominations were submitted, with around 1,400 podcasts to choose from. The best 20 podcasts were determined by a jury and presented in the Ö3 alarm clock on Wednesday. The highlight was the award of the comedy podcast "The Café on the edge of friendliness" by Robin Limpek, Marco Johannes Wagner and Wolfram Felice, who took first place. The podcaster was pleased with the great encouragement of their community and thanked for it.

The other placements also record remarkable contributions: Julian Friedl's interview podcast "Von Nix comes nothing" ended up in second place, followed by "lovely extreme", a podcast about life with twin children by Sarah and Stefan Ager in third place. A new aspect this year was the introduction of a corporate podcast awards that went to the #Glaubandich podcast by Johannes Pracher/Sparkasse Upper Austria. The title of the most popular newcomer podcast goes to "Drama, Tea & Therapy" by Victoria Plank, Simon Öhler and Julia Staffler.

podcast trends of the present

This year's trends show an interesting change in the podcast landscape. More and more listeners are preferring comedy and "Laber" formats towards information and health podcasts. Even a sports podcast found its way into the top 20. These changes reflect the broad interest of the audience, which is attracted by a variety of topics.

The popularity of podcasts is growing worldwide. According to The podcast host are registered a total of 4,396.378 podcasts by January 2025, whereby Apple podcasts 2.758.515 of these formats. However, the number of active podcasts has decreased, which indicates influential consolidation in the market. Over 103 million episodes have been released and the audience is growing steadily, with 67% of the US population, which has already listened to a podcast at least once. This shows the increasing interest in this medium, which also records increasing advertising revenue: for 2021, sales with podcast advertising was estimated at over $ 1 billion.

Ambie Awards 2025 and their winners

parallel to the Ö3 podcast awards, the Ambie Awards took place on Monday evening at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, where a large number of outstanding podcasts were awarded. The "Hysterical" podcast, which addresses a mysterious illness for schoolchildren in New York, was named the podcast of the year. Among the other award winners stands out "Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang" as the best comedy podcast, while "The Ten News" received the prize for the best news podcast. In his speech, host Ira Glass emphasized the importance of facts in reporting and encouraged the industry to stand up for the truth.

The Ambie Awards, organized by the Podcast Academy, show the great diversity and quality that the podcast industry has to offer. With categories that range from messages to comedy to personal growth podcasts, the creativity of the podcaster is celebrated and the importance of the medium is underlined.