Hi folks,

The day we've all been waiting for has arrived. At the following link, you'll find the winners of the Data Sonification Awards 2025:

http://awards2025.sonificationawards.org

To arrive at this list, we looked at every sonification submitted and asked three different judges unconnected to the project to assess if it met the criteria for the category it was submitted in. If at least two of the judges agreed that it did, then the work was awarded.

Huge congratulations to those of you who won - as well as the right to boast about your win on social media, you also get a free copy of Manifest Audio's Sonification Tools plugin for Ableton. We'll follow up with more details on that soon. Meanwhile, an online training session on the Sonification Tools with Noah Pred, open to anyone, is scheduled for today (March 20) at 3pm Boston time (7pm UTC). Register at this link.

If you didn't win then don't be too disheartened - go check out the criteria for the category you work with, and use it as inspiration to create a sonification that could win an award in 2026.

Thanks to everyone who entered the awards this year, and huge huge thanks to those of you who volunteered your time in establishing the category criteria and judging the awards. We couldn't have done it without you.

All the best,

Duncan, Sara & Paolo