All that glitters isn’t gold at the Golden Globes.

When the annual film and TV awards show announced a new best podcast category for 2026, content creators were seeing stars.

Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and Dave Portnoy on the same red carpet as Taylor Swift!?

But while the Globes heralded its “landmark inclusion” of the medium at the 83rd awards on Jan. 11 — “by recognizing the extraordinary and diverse talents in podcasting” — pod pros were privately fuming when they deduced the fine print.

Top content execs are calling the new Best Podcast category a new Penske Media “racket” rather than an innovation.

When the press release for the new Best Podcast award came out in May, it explained, down in the copy, “The top 25 podcasts will qualify for the award with a total of six final nom

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