Hello, and welcome back to Awards Update, I'm Dave Gertler. This is the podcast to accompany your participation in the 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. We hope you enjoy being on this journey with us. A quick tip before we jump into today's episode, if you're interested in discovering previous Australian Podcast Awards winners, go to our website and click on the link that says Previous Winners. When you do that, you'll notice that the number of categories recognised has grown every year. From only 10 categories in the first year to 15 this year, to 24 categories that we will be awarding in 2019.

Welcome to the Awards Update, the podcast to accompany your participation in the 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. In this podcast, I plan to answer all your questions and satisfty your curiosity about the Australian Podcast Awards. It's been a week since entries opened on 1st November, and we've already received a lot of entries. People are taking advantage of earlybird entry pricing, and if you're ready to enter, you should too. To do that, just go to auspodcastawards.awardsplatform.com, or just head to our website and click the button that says 'Enter Your Podcast'. Probably the most important thing to note about earlybird entries, is that once you've entered, and actually submitted your podcast, you can always come back and edit it any time before 14th February, which is when entries finally close next year. So if you enter in November, and release an amazing episode in December or January, you can amend your entry to include that episode. So you've got nothing to really lose by entering in November, if you can.