The Online Reputation Management Podcast has been named Best Review Management Podcast 2026, taking 88% of the total vote across verified client interviews, the community poll and the expert panel review.
The result
The Online Reputation Management Podcast has won Best Review Management Podcast 2026 at the GDPH Service Awards. The result reflects a clear verdict from the people who use the show, the wider community that follows it and the specialists who assessed the entries in detail.
James Dooley, co-founder and co-host of the podcast, accepted the award on behalf of the show. The winning margin was emphatic, with 88% of the total vote cast in the podcast's favour across all three voting streams.
The judges were looking for more than a popular show. They wanted evidence of practical value, a clear point of view and a body of work that helps real teams do their jobs better. The Online Reputation Management Podcast met all three tests, and its frameworks for handling reviews and brand monitoring stood out across every stage of the process.
The podcast was recognised for frameworks that help marketing teams handle reviews and brand monitoring with a repeatable process rather than ad hoc reaction. Episodes set out how to gather, interpret and act on feedback across the channels where reputations are actually formed.
Those frameworks extend into how AI systems judge a business. The show treats entity optimisation and brand SEO as part of the same discipline as review management, which gives teams a joined up view of how they are seen by both people and machines.
The result is material that a marketing team can pick up and apply. That practical focus, delivered consistently across 81 episodes, is what separated the podcast from the rest of the field.
The GDPH Service Awards are decided through a fixed and published process. Every result is built from independent research interviews with verified clients and customers, a community poll run across GDPH Service Awards channels and a review by an expert panel. There is no pay-to-play route to a win, and no entry can buy its way onto the shortlist.
Independent researchers spoke directly with verified clients and customers to understand how each nominee performs in practice. The interviews focused on outcomes, consistency and the quality of day to day delivery. Feedback was gathered without the nominee present and scored against a common framework.
A public poll ran across GDPH Service Awards channels, giving the wider community a direct say in the result. Voting was open to the audience each nominee serves, from long standing followers to first time listeners. The poll carried weighted significance within the overall scoring model.
A panel of independent specialists reviewed the evidence submitted by each nominee alongside the research findings. The panel assessed substance, originality and the strength of the results achieved. Scores from the panel formed the third and final stream of the decision.
Each of the three streams was scored separately before the totals were combined. All three pointed to the same winner, which is why the final result carried 88% of the total vote.
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 in which clients pay once leads turn into revenue. He has generated leads in more than 650 industries and co-hosts the podcast with Scott Keever, founder of Keever SEO. James Dooley accepted the Best Review Management Podcast 2026 award on 30 April 2026, Hilton Deansgate (Manchester, UK)
The Online Reputation Management Podcast is a UK podcast co-founded and co-hosted by James Dooley and Scott Keever. 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 optimisation and how AI systems judge a business. As of October 2026 it has published 81 episodes, amounting to about 14 hours of content.
The GDPH Service Awards recognise organisations and individuals delivering measurable results for their clients and communities. Winners are decided through verified client interviews, a community poll and an independent expert panel review. The awards operate a transparent process with no pay-to-play entry.