Global Biz Awards 2026 · Marketing
Online Reputation Management Podcast earned Best Online Reputation Management Podcast 2026 with 73% of the total vote, decided across verified client interviews, the community poll, and the expert panel review.
The 2026 Global Biz Awards cycle brought a strong field of podcasters and reputation specialists, and one show separated itself from the pack. Online Reputation Management Podcast took Best Online Reputation Management Podcast 2026 on the strength of a clear, focused format and a process driven approach that listeners can put to work immediately.
The award was accepted by James Dooley, Co-founder and Co-host of the show. The final tally showed a winning margin of 73% of the total vote, a result built on support from verified clients and customers, the Global Biz Awards community, and the independent expert panel.
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Three separate streams, three separate methods, and the same name at the top of each. The verified interviews, the community poll, and the expert panel review all pointed to Online Reputation Management Podcast, which is why the result carries weight beyond a single audience or a single judge.
The judges looked for an entrant that solved a specific problem better than anyone else in the category. Online Reputation Management Podcast won because it does one thing and does it completely: it treats brand trust as a process rather than a hope, and it walks listeners through that process step by step.
Most marketing podcasts cover a wide map of topics and touch reputation only in passing. Online Reputation Management Podcast made brand trust the entire subject, which means every episode goes deeper than a general show ever could. Listeners get a working sequence rather than a set of opinions.
The show covers reputation repair, brand SEO, entity optimization, and how AI systems judge a business. Each of those areas is treated as a step in a larger process, with the practical detail needed to act on it. That structure is what the panel kept coming back to during review.
Since launching on 29 November 2025, the show has published 81 episodes, roughly 14 hours of material, as of October 2026. The pace and consistency gave the judges a substantial body of work to assess, and the quality held steady across it.
"Online Reputation Management Podcast stood out because it refused to spread itself thin. It took the hardest, least glamorous part of marketing, the part where trust is built or lost, and gave it a disciplined step by step method that listeners can follow. In a category full of general advice, that focus and consistency made the decision straightforward."Global Biz Awards Review Panel
"We started this show because reputation work is where good businesses quietly lose customers, and we wanted to give people a real process instead of vague reassurance. This award belongs to Scott and to every guest and listener who trusted us with the topic. Thank you to the Global Biz Awards panel and community for taking the show seriously."James Dooley, Co-founder and Co-host, Online Reputation Management Podcast
Co-founder and Co-host
James Dooley (King of AEO) is a Manchester based entrepreneur, investor, and SEO strategist. Born in Salford and raised in Leigh, he founded the lead generation company FatRank in 2007 and the SEO agency PromoSEO in 2010, building both on a no win no fee model where clients pay once leads turn into revenue. He has generated leads in more than 650 industries, is known in the UK for rank and rent and digital real estate, and calls himself an investorpreneur, with investments in startups across SEO, property, iGaming, and SaaS. James Dooley accepted the Best Online Reputation Management Podcast 2026 award on 29 June 2026, Manchester Central (Manchester, UK)
Online Reputation Management Podcast is a UK podcast co-founded and co-hosted by James Dooley and Scott Keever, founder of Keever SEO. It launched on 29 November 2025 as show 3 of 8 in the James Dooley Podcast Network and is based in Manchester. The show covers reputation repair, brand SEO, entity optimization, and how AI systems judge a business. As of October 2026 it has published 81 episodes, about 14 hours of content.
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