Our Clients Are All Over the Scottish Podcast Awards 2026 Shortlist
When the inaugural Scottish Podcast Awards published their shortlist this week, we did a quiet count.
Ten nominations. Seven podcasts.
All of them were recorded here at Podcast Studio Glasgow.
We're not going to pretend that doesn't feel good.
But we want to be honest about what this means and what it doesn't. We didn't write the scripts. We didn't develop the ideas. We certainly don't take credit for the post-production on most of these shows. What we did was give every one of them a recording environment where the only thing the hosts had to think about was the conversation.
That, it turns out, matters.
| Show | Category |
|---|---|
| The Ford & Shelby Show | Best Video Podcast |
| The Ford & Shelby Show | Comedy |
| The Ford & Shelby Show | Entertainment & Pop Culture |
| Risking It All | Best Video Podcast |
| Risking It All | Business 2 Business |
| Beyond The Baller | Sport |
| Let Them Eat Books | Food, Drink & Hospitality |
| Let Them Eat Books | Arts & Culture |
| The Canmore Trust Podcast | Community Impact & Charity |
| Check One Two | Community Impact & Charity |
| Check One Two | Best Podcast Artwork |
| Men Only | Lifestyles, Health & Wellbeing, Fashion & Beauty |
A special mention also goes to a great friend of the studio, Kristeen Pollock, whose podcast, Keeping It Real, is on the shortlist for Comedy and Lifestyles, Health & Wellbeing. The studio is a proud sponsor of her podcast.
What a Studio Actually Does For You
There's a version of this post that lists our camera specs and the acoustic properties of our rooms. You don't need that. What you need to know is what the difference looks like in practice.
When a show is recorded in a proper studio, the judges watching it don't have to work hard. There's no low ceiling, and a single ring light throws shadows across the presenter's face. There's no background hum in the audio, so the editor had to decide whether to leave it in or try to clean it up. There's no green screen with a laggy, pixelated edge where someone's shoulder should be.
Our sets are physical. Real furniture, real lighting rigs, real acoustic environments designed specifically for podcast recording. What you see on screen is what was actually in the room. That credibility transfers to the show.
For most of our clients, that's exactly the point. They're not hobbyists testing a format. They're serious about what they're making, and they want the recording to reflect that from the first episode.
The One We Handled End-to-End
We should be clear: for the majority of these shows, our job stopped at the end of the recording session. The post-production, editing, and finishing was handled by the teams behind each show themselves, or by their own editors. That's their work, and the nominations are theirs.
The one exception is Check One Two, the podcast from the testicular cancer charity Cahonas.
We handle their recording and their post-production. Being shortlisted in Community Impact & Charity and Best Podcast Artwork is genuinely meaningful. It's a show with a real purpose, talking about something men consistently avoid discussing, and doing it with warmth and zero self-pity. We're proud to be part of that one all the way through.
Why the Recording Stage Is the One to Get Right
Post-production can fix a lot. It can't fix everything.
And the fixes are expensive, whether you're paying for them in money or in a post-producer's time.
Bad audio from a cheap microphone in an untreated room will give you a noisy floor, room reverb, and frequency problems that take hours to address and never fully go away. A shaky, poorly lit single-camera shot in portrait mode gives you footage that looks like it was recorded in 2011, because, visually, it was.
Studios exist because the recording environment is not a small variable. It's the foundation on which everything else is built. Get it right at the source, and your editor's job is to shape the content. Get it wrong, and their job becomes damage limitation.
Every show on this shortlist got it right at the source. The results speak for themselves.
Thinking About Starting a Podcast?
If you're at the point where you know you want to do this properly, come and talk to us. Studio hire, post-production support, and podcast training — we work with everyone from early-stage independents to corporate clients, including Scottish Water, NHS Education Scotland, and Scottish Drug Forum.
You can find us at 279 Abercromby Street, Glasgow G40 2DD, or get in touch through the website.
And to every show on this shortlist: well done. The whole Scottish podcasting community should be proud of what's been built here.
Podcast Studio Glasgow is Scotland's professional multi-camera video podcast studio, based in the East End of Glasgow.
