Nominations will be open from October 2 - October 19, 2012 and voting will be from October 22nd - November 5th. Winners will be announced shortly afterwards at a live event in San Francisco.

Everyone is invited to nominate companies for award consideration. For each award category, each person is invited to submit one company for consideration per day. The final top 6 nominated companies will be selected based on the quantity of submissions received, along with Stitcher List rankings.

All shows and podcasts are eligible for consideration based on content created calendar 2012. Companies may be nominated for multiple award categories. Stitcher reserves the right to discard any and all votes that it reasonably determines to be fraudulent or submitted by bots or other computer-generated voting applications.

The final award winners will be determined based on the popular votes received through voting, along with Stitcher List data. The award winners will be announced live at the Stitcher Awards ceremony to be held in San Francisco at the end of the year.