iHeartRadio podcast awards

Will Ferrell opens the 2022 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards joined by two of his sons

Brian Baumgartner, host of “The Office Deep Dive,” entertained with comedic skits throughout the night

 “You’re Wrong About” takes home the highly coveted Podcast of the Year Award presented by surprise guest Dua Lipa

NEW YORK – February 4, 2022 – Last night, the fourth annual iHeartRadio Podcast Awards brought together the most influential names in podcasting to honor the most entertaining and innovative podcasts of 2021, celebrating the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the thriving podcasting industry. The virtual awards event was exclusively video streamed on iHeartRadio’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page and broadcast across iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and on the iHeartRadio App.

Renowned actor, comedian and producer Will Ferrell, joined by his sons Mattias and Magnus Ferrell, kicked off the 2022 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards with a hilarious opening. The comical tone continued throughout the night with skits from Brian Baumgartner, host of "The Office Deep Dive.” His hilariously awkward appearances included wearing a facial mask and eating cheese puffs while presenting because, “the whole thing about podcasts is not being on camera.” Throughout the show, Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers ("Las Culturistas"), and Miles Gray (“The Daily Zeitgeist”) also kept viewers laughing with original comedy skits and games such as "Name That Podcast Host.” The memorable night additionally featured a variety of appearances by award nominees, celebrity presenters, special guests and surprise appearances by Dua Lipa and Jamie Lee Curtis. Featured guests included Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, Martha Stewart, Paris Hilton, Shonda Rhimes, Bethenny Frankel, Wilmer Valderrama, Roy Wood Jr., Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, Baratunde Thurston, Holly Frey and more.

The 2022 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards event highlights include:

• Dua Lipa’s surprise appearance to present the coveted Podcast of the Year award, a public-voted category, to "You're Wrong About.” Dua Lipa also shared with the audience the launch of her own podcast, “Dua Lipa: At Your Service.”
• Will Ferrell kicked off the show with the help of his sons Mattias and Magnus Ferrell.
• Shonda Rhimes named Laci Mosley, host of "Scam Goddess," as the winner of the Best Crime Podcast award. Mosley gave an emotional and heartfelt speech, stating, "As a Black woman especially, it is overwhelming to know that people hear me and care about what I have to say because that is something that is not very typical."
• Roy Wood Jr. and Flame Monroe presented the Best Overall-Female Host to Nicole Byer. Flame Monroe also shared a good-humored conversation with Roy Wood Jr. by educating him on what a “He-She-We” is.
• Fans, special guests and presenters played the game "If you could choose your perfect co-host, who would it be?" Participants included Paris Hilton, who picked the late Marilyn Monroe; Bethenny Frankel, who picked Charles Barkley; Baratunde Thurston, who picked Brian Williams, and a lucky fan who got to tell Martha Stewart just how amazing she is.
• Martha Stewart teased fans with a few key details about her very own upcoming podcast.
• Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey presented the winner of the Best Comedy Podcast to "SmartLess." The ladies waited in their driveway for the hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett to meet them in person and accept their award, but in a hilariously priceless moment, they never showed up.
• Paris Hilton presented the winner of the Best Music Podcast to "Song Exploder," hosted/created by Hrishikesh Hirway.

Full list of category winners below:

Podcast of the Year

● “You’re Wrong About” (Sarah Marshall /Michael Hobbes)

 

Innovator Icon Award

● Descript

 

Social Impact Icon Award

● “Force Multiplier” (Salesforce.org)

 

Audible Audio Pioneer Icon Award

● “My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark” (Exactly Right)

 

 Best Overall Host -- Male

● Sam Sanders (“It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders” - NPR)

 

Best Overall Host – Female

● Nicole Byer (“Why Won’t You Date Me? with Nicole Byer” - Team Coco)

 

Best Comedy Podcast

● “SmartLess” (Wondery/Amazon)

 

Best Crime Podcast

● “Scam Goddess” (Earwolf/Team Coco/Laci Mosley)

 

Best History Podcast

● “Throughline” (NPR)

 

Best Music Podcast

● “Song Exploder” (Hrishikesh Hirway)

 

Best News Podcast

● “The Daily” (The New York Times)

 

Best Fiction Podcast

● “Bridgewater” (iHeartPodcasts/Grim & Mild)

 

Best Sports Podcast

● “The Bill Simmons Podcast” (The Ringer/Bill Simmons)

 

Best Science Podcast

● “Ologies with Alie Ward” (Alie Ward)

 

Best Political Podcast

● “Pod Save America” (Crooked Media)

 

Best Pop Culture Podcast

● “Keep It!” (Crooked Media)

 

Best Food Podcast

● “Doughboys” (Headgum/Doughboys Media)

 

Best Kids & Family Podcast

● “Story Pirates” (Gimlet)

 

Best Technology Podcast

● “There Are No Girls On The Internet” (iHeartPodcasts)

 

Best Ad Read

● “SmartLess” (Wondery/Amazon)

 

Best Wellness & Fitness Podcast

● “Therapy For Black Girls” ​​(Joy Harden Bradford/iHeartPodcasts)

 

Best TV & Film Podcast

● “How Did This Get Made?” (Earwolf/Paul Scheer/June Diane Raphael/Jason Mantzoukas)

 

Best Business & Finance Podcast

● “How I Built This with Guy Raz” (NPR)

 

Best Spanish Language Podcast

● “Radio Ambulante” (NPR)

 

Best Advice/Inspirational Podcast

● “We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle” (Glennon Doyle/Cadence13)

 

Best Beauty & Fashion Podcast

● “Forever 35” (Kate Spencer/Doree Shafrir)

 

Best Travel Podcast

● “Women Who Travel” (Condé Nast Traveler)

 

Best Spirituality & Religion Podcast

● “On Being with Krista Tippet” (On Being Studios)

 

Best Green Podcast

● “Living on Earth” (PRX)

 

Best Branded Podcast

● “Inside Trader Joe’s” (Trader Joe’s)

 

Best Emerging Podcast

● “Films To Be Buried With” (Brett Goldstein)

 

Best International Podcast

● “Morbidology” (Morbidology)

 

The 2022 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards is part of iHeartMedia’s roster of incredibly successful, nationally-recognized events including the iHeartRadio Music Awards, iHeartRadio Music Festival, the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego and iHeartRadio Wango Tango. Executive producers for the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards are John Sykes, Tom Poleman and Conal Byrne for iHeartMedia and Deviants Media Studio founder Ivan Dudynsky and show runner Jayson Belt. Proud sponsors of this year’s event include Audible, Long John Silver’s and Progressive® Insurance. More information can be found at iHeartPodcastAwards.com.

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Annual Event Celebrating the Best in Podcasting Will Video Stream On iHeartRadio’s YouTube and Facebook Pages and Broadcast Across iHeartMedia Stations Nationwide and on the iHeartRadio App

Podcast of the Year Nominees Include “Bunga Bunga,” “Dolly Parton’s America,” “Nice White Parents,” “Office Ladies,” “Reply All,” “Stuff You Should Know,” “The Breakfast Club,” “The Daily,” “The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos” and “Wind of Change”

The Virtual Ceremony Will Honor the Very Best in Podcasting in 30 Categories; Baratunde Thurston, Serial Productions’ Sarah Koenig and Julie Synder and QCODE Will Receive This Year’s Icon Awards

NEW YORK – December 8, 2020 – iHeartMedia, the No. 1 podcast publisher globally according to Podtrac, today announced the return of the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 9 p.m. local time. Since nominees will be unable to attend the third annual iHeartRadio Podcast Awards in person given the limitations on live events during the pandemic, this year’s virtual event will be recorded from multiple locations, span 30 categories and honor the most entertaining and innovative podcasts of 2020, celebrating the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the booming podcasting industry. The virtual awards event will exclusively video stream on iHeartRadio’s YouTube and Facebook pages and broadcast across iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and on the iHeartRadio App.

Podcast fans themselves will once again decide the winner of the Podcast of the Year award by voting on Twitter through December 31, 2020. This year’s Podcast of the Year nominees include “Bunga Bunga,” “Dolly Parton’s America,” “Nice White Parents,” “Office Ladies,” “Reply All,” “Stuff You Should Know,” “The Breakfast Club,” “The Daily,” “The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos” and “Wind of Change.” Nominees in other categories include podcasts from all creators, distributors and platforms with a judging panel composed of blue-ribbon podcast industry leaders, creatives and visionaries who will determine the winners across categories including entertainment, comedy, crime, news, sports, food, business and more. More information can be found at iHeartPodcastAwards.com.

In addition, the 2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards will present three Icon Awards to pay tribute to the creators, organizations and podcasts that have made groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture. Baratunde Thurston will be honored with the 2021 Social Impact Award, Serial Productions’ Sarah Koenig and Julie Synder will receive the 2021 Audible Audio Pioneer Award and QCODE will be honored with the 2021 Innovator Award.

“We’re thrilled by the opportunity to recognize today’s most talented podcast creators for the third straight year at the 2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards,” said Conal Byrne, President of the iHeartPodcast Network. “Today, Americans are consuming more podcasts than ever before, across an increasingly broad array of subjects including business, entertainment, education, news and more as a result of how COVID-19 has affected our daily lives. And although we all won’t be in the same room this year, we’ll still be able to celebrate the best of the best in the podcast medium.”

Last year’s winners at the second annual iHeartRadio Podcast Awards included “The Dropout” (ABC News) for Podcast of the Year; “Man in the Window” (L.A. Times/Wondery) for Best Crime Podcast; “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” (Team Coco/Earwolf)) for Best Comedy Podcast; “30 For 30” (ESPN) for Best Sports and Recreation Podcast; Nora McInerny (American Public Media) for Best Overall Host – Female and Aaron Mahnke (Lore) for Best Overall Host – Male, among many other categories and winners. In addition, the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards honored the New York Times' “1619” podcast with the Icon Social Impact Award, NPR's “Life Kit” with the Icon Innovator Award and Tenderfoot TV's Payne Lindsey and Donald Albright with the Icon Audible Audio Pioneer Award.

The event also featured appearances by award nominees, an array of celebrity presenters and other special guests including Will Ferrell, Conan O’Brien, Sebastian Maniscalco, Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon, Becca Tilley, Brooke Burke, Brooks Laich, Dean Unglert, Eric Winter and Roselyn Sanchez, Gavin DeGraw, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Meghan King Edmonds, Nick Viall, Stassi Schroeder, Teddi Mellencamp and Yeardley Smith as well as podcast nominees Aaron Mahnke, Holly Frey, Jake Brennan, Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, plus many more. In addition, the event also featured iHeartRadio top on-air personalities Tanya Rad, Ellen K, The Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy as well as Enrique Santos.

Podcast listenership in the United States alone has grown exponentially with listening now exceeding 50 percent of the population. iHeartMedia, which reaches a quarter of a billion monthly listeners in the U.S. with just its broadcast radio stations and on-air personalities alone, will celebrate the best in podcasts with existing fans, while also continuing to introduce millions of new listeners to this incredible medium every single day.

Category finalists (in alphabetical order) are:

Podcast of the Year: Socially Voted Category

• “Bunga Bunga” (Wondery)
• “Dolly Parton’s America” (WNYC Studios/OSM Audio)
• “Nice White Parents” (Serial/The New York Times)
• “Office Ladies” (Earwolf /Jenna Fischer/Angela Kinsey)
• “Reply All” (Gimlet)
• “Stuff You Should Know” (iHeartRadio)
• “The Breakfast Club” (iHeartRadio)
• “The Daily” (The New York Times)
• “The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos” (Pushkin Industries)
• “Wind of Change” (Crooked/Pineapple Street Media/Spotify)

Best Business & Finance Podcast:

• “Business Wars” (Wondery)
• “Earn Your Leisure” (Independent)
• “Freakonomics” (Freakonomics Radio & Stitcher)
• “How I Built This” (NPR)
• “Pivot” (New York Magazine)

Best Comedy Podcast:

• “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” (Team Coco/Earwolf)
• “Office Ladies” (Earwolf/Jenna Fischer/Angela Kinsey)
• “The Read” (Loud Speakers Network)
• “Smartless” (Independent)
• “Fake Doctors, Real Friends” (iHeartRadio)

Best Crime Podcast:

• “Crime Junkie” (AudioChuck)
• “Criminal” (PRX/Radiotopia)
• “Deep Cover: The Drug Wars” (Pushkin Industries)
• “Forgotten: Women of Juarez” (iHeartRadio)
• “My Favorite Murder” (Exactly Right)

Best Pop Culture Podcast:

• “Bitch Sesh” (Earwolf/Casey Wilson/Danielle Schneider)
• “Las Culturistas” (Big Money Players/iHeartRadio)
• “Pop Culture Happy Hour” (NPR)
• “Still Processing” (The New York Times)
• “The Read” (Loud Speakers Network)

Best Food Podcast:

• “Burnt Toast” (Food52)
• “Gastropod” (Independent)
• “Home Cooking” (Samin Nosrat/Hrishikesh Hirway)
• “Spilled Milk” (Molly Wizenberg & Matthew Amster-Burton)
• “The Sporkful” (Dan Pashman/Stitcher)

Best Wellness & Fitness Podcast:

• “Happier with Gretchen Rubin” (Gretchen Rubin/The Onward Project)
• “On Purpose with Jay Shetty” (Jay Shetty & Kast Media)
• “Sleep with Me” (Dearest Scooter & Night Vale Presents)
• “Ten Percent Happier” (ABC News)
• “Therapy For Black Girls” (Joy Harden Bradford/iHeartRadio)

Best History Podcast:

• “Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History” (Dan Carlin)
• “Noble Blood” (iHeartRadio)
• “Revisionist History” (Pushkin Industries)
• “Slow Burn” (Slate)
• “Throughline” (NPR)

Best Kids & Family Podcast:

• “But Why: A Podcast For Kids” (Vermont Public Radio)
• “Hank The Cowdog” (QCODE & HTC Productions)
• “Smash Boom Best” (APM)
• “Story Pirates” (Gimlet)
• “Wow In The World” (NPR)

Best Music Podcast:

• “Bobbycast” (The Nashville Podcast Network)
• “Broken Record” (Pushkin Industries)
• “Disgraceland” (Jake Brennan)
• “Dolly Parton’s America” (WNYC & OSM Audio)
• “Song Exploder” (Hrishikesh Hirway)

Best News Podcast:

• “Pod Save America” (Crooked Media)
• “The Daily” (The New York Times)
• “The Journal.” (The Wall Street Journal/Gimlet)
• “Today, Explained” (Vox)
• “Up First” (NPR)

Best Fiction Podcast:

• “Blood Ties” (Wondery)
• “Borrasca” (QCODE)
• “Dirty Diana” (QCODE)
• “The Left Right Game” (QCODE)
• “Welcome To Night Vale” (Night Vale Presents)

Best Sports Podcast:

• “All The Smoke” (The Black Effect)
• “Fantasy Footballers” (Fantasy Football)
• “Pardon My Take” (Barstool Sports)
• “The Bill Simmons Podcast” (The Ringer/Bill Simmons)
• “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” (iHeartRadio)

Best Science Podcast:

• “Hidden Brain” (NPR)
• “Invisibilia” (NPR)
• “Radiolab” (WNYC Studios)
• “Science Vs.” (Gimlet)
• “Stuff To Blow Your Mind” (iHeartRadio)

Best Technology Podcast:

• “Rabbit Hole” (The New York Times)
• “Recode by Vox” (Recode)
• “Reply All” (Gimlet)
• “TED Radio Hour” (NPR)
• “Waveform” (Studio71)

Best Ad Read:

• “Comedy Bang Bang” (Earwolf / Scott Aukerman)
• “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” (Team Coco/Earwolf)
• “Hollywood Handbook” (Earwolf)
• “Office Ladies” (Earwolf / Stitcher)
• “Revisionist History” (Pushkin Industries)

Best Overall Host – Male:

• Conan O’Brien (Team Coco/Earwolf)
• Dax Shepard (Armchair Umbrella)

• Jonathan Van Ness (Earwolf/Stitcher)

• Michael Barbaro (The New York Times)
• Questlove (iHeartRadio)

Best Overall Host – Female:

• Ashley Flowers (Parcast)
• Brené Brown (Parcast)
• Michelle Obama (Higher Ground/Spotify)
• Nicole Byer (Headgum)
• Nora McInerny (APM)

Best Political Podcast:

• “FiveThirtyEight Politics” (FiveThirtyEight/538/ABC News, Nate Silver)
• “NPR Politics” (NPR)
• “Pod Save America” (Crooked Media)
• “Political Gabfest” (Slate)
• “Stay Tuned with Preet” (Cafe)

Best TV & Film Podcast:

• “Fake Doctors, Real Friends” (iHeartRadio)
• “How Did This Get Made?” (Earwolf/Paul Scheer/June Diane Raphael/Jason Mantzoukas/Stitcher)
• “Office Ladies” (Earwolf/Jenna Fischer/Angela Kinsey)
• “Rewatchables” (The Ringer/Bill Simmons)
• “You Must Remember This” (Karina Longworth)

Best Spanish Language Podcast:

• “Duolingo Spanish Podcast” (Duolingo)
• “La Nota Roja” (Imperative Entertainment/Blue Guitar)
• “Leyendas Legendarias” (Sonoro/All Things Comedy)

• “Radio Ambulante” (NPR)

• “Spanish Aqui Presents” (Earwolf /Spanish Aqui Presents)

Best Advice/Inspirational Podcast:

• “Dear Prudence” (Slate)
• “Dear Sugars” (WBUR/The New York Times)
• “Terrible, Thanks For Asking” (APM)
• “Unlocking Us with Brené Brown” (Parcast)
• “Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel” (Esther Perel Global Media/Gimlet)

Best Beauty & Fashion Podcast:

• “Articles of Interest” (Avery Trufelman/99% Invisible)
• “Beauty Needs Me” (Independent)
• “Blamo!” (Independent)
• “Dressed: The History of Fashion” (iHeartRadio)
• “Forever 35” (Independent)

Best Travel Podcast:

• “Escape” (WEBVID)
• “Extra Pack of Peanuts” (Independent)
• “JUMP with Traveling Jackie” (Independent)
• “Let’s Go Together” (Travel & Leisure)
• “Travel with Rick Steves” (Rick Steves)

Best Spirituality & Religion Podcast:

• “Calm It Down” (Independent)
• “Doing Great with Vicky Vox” (Earwolf & Vicky Vox)
• “Elevation with Steven Furtick” (Independent)
• “On Being with Krista Tippett” (Independent)
• “Whoa That’s Good Podcast” (Independent)

Best Green Podcast:

• “America Adapts” (Independent)
• “Broken Ground” (Southern Environmental Law Center)
• “Citizens’ Climate Lobby” (Citizens’ Climate Lobby)
• “Costing The Earth” (BBC Radio 4)
• “How To Save A Planet” (Gimlet)

Best Branded Podcast:

• “Bring Back Bronco” (Ford)
• “Hackable?” (McAfee)
• “Humans Growing Stuff” (ScottsMiracle-Gro)
• “Inside Trader Joe’s” (Trader Joe’s)
• “The Only Way Is Through” (Under Armour)

The 2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards is part of iHeartMedia’s roster of incredibly successful, nationally-recognized events, including the iHeartRadio Music Awards, the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego and iHeartRadio Wango Tango.

Select category winners will be announced during the virtual show and stream with more details to be shared soon. For more information visit iHeartPodcastAwards.com.

Executive producers for the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards are John Sykes, Tom Poleman and Conal Byrne for iHeartMedia and Deviants Media Studio founder Ivan Dudynsky and Buzz Chatman. Proud sponsors of this year’s event include Audible with more to be announced.

Will Ferrell Kicks off the Event with Hilarious Monologue about Podcasting Pre-internet

“The Dropout” Rallies Fans and Takes Home Highly Coveted Podcast of the Year Award

Conan O’Brien “Claws His Way into Radio” Winning Best Comedy Podcast for “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend”

NEW YORK – January 18, 2020 – The second annual iHeartRadio Podcast Awards brought the biggest names in podcasting together at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles last night, Friday, January 17. The live awards event honored the very best in podcasting spanning 30 categories and was broadcast on iHeartMedia radio stations from across the country as well as live streamed online via LiveXLive. The evening celebrated the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the booming podcasting industry. 

The live event kicked off with a hilarious opening from renowned actor, comedian and producer, Will Ferrell. The comedian, who is behind iHeartRadio’s “The Ron Burgundy Podcast,” reminisced about his love for podcasting and his instrumental role in the creation of the internet and audio streaming. The eventful night featured appearances by award nominees, an array of celebrity presenters and other special guests including Conan O’Brien, Sebastian Maniscalco, Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon, Becca Tilley, Brooke Burke, Brooks Laich, Dean Unglert, Eric Winter and Roselyn Sanchez, Gavin DeGraw, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Meghan King Edmonds, Nick Viall, Stassi Schroeder, Teddi Mellencamp and Yeardley Smith as well as podcast nominees, Aaron Mahnke, Holly Frey, Jake Brennan, Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, plus many more. In addition, the event also featured iHeartRadio top on-air personalities, Tanya Rad, Ellen K, The Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy as well as Enrique Santos.

Event highlights include:

• Will Ferrell kicked-off the 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards with a sidesplitting opening - claiming that he created Apple in his garage and reinforcing just how much he loves Burbank, California.
• Stand-up comedian and actor, Sebastian Maniscalco and actress and writer Yeardley Smith, best known for her long-running role as Lisa Simpson on the animated television series “The Simpsons,” presented the Best Comedy Podcast award.
• Conan O’ Brien won Best Comedy Podcast for “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” and had the audience roaring with laughter from his acceptance speech, letting the audience know how happy he is to have finally clawed his way to the top of the radio format.
• Gavin DeGraw, co-host of iHeartRadio’s “How Men Think” podcast, performed a live medley of his hits for the audience, which was streamed on LiveXLive.com.
• “The Dropout” scored the big win of the night with Podcast of the Year, a socially voted category.
• “The Breakfast Club” took home Best Pop Culture Podcast for the second year in a row.
• The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards honored the New York Times' “1619” podcast with the Icon Social Impact Award, NPR's “Life Kit” with the Icon Innovator Award and Tenderfoot TV's Payne Lindsey and Donald Albright with the Icon Audible Audio Pioneer Award.

Full list of category winners below:

Podcast of the Year:

• “The Dropout” (ABC News)

Icon Award - Innovator Award, Presented by Zoom:

• “Life Kit” (NPR)

Icon Award - Audible Audio Pioneer Award:

• Donald Albright & Payne Lindsey (Tenderfoot TV)

Icon Award - Social Impact Award:

• “1619” (The New York Times)

Best Crime Podcast:

• “Man in the Window” (L.A. Times/Wondery)

Best Pop Culture Podcast:

• “The Breakfast Club” (iHeartRadio)

Best Music Podcast:

• “Disgraceland” (iHeartRadio)

Best News Podcast:

• “The Daily” (The New York Times)

Best Sports & Recreation Podcast:

• “30 For 30” (ESPN) 

Best Comedy Podcast:

• “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” (Team Coco & Earwolf)

Best Political Podcast:

• “Pod Save the People” (Crooked Media)

Best Branded Podcast:

• “Songland” (NBC)

Best Kids & Family Podcast:

• “Story Pirates” (Gimlet)

Best Food Podcast:

• “The Dave Chang Show” (The Ringer & Majordomo Media)

Best Fiction Podcast:

• “Blackout” (Endeavor Audio & QCODE)

Best Beauty & Fashion Podcast:

• “Forever35” (Independent)

Best Overall Host - Female:

• Nora McInerny (American Public Media)

Best Overall Host - Male:

• Aaron Mahnke (Lore)

Best Business & Finance Podcast:

• “How I Built This with Guy Raz” (NPR)

Best Green Podcast:

• “Drilled” (Critical Frequency)

Best Travel Podcast:

• “Overheard at National Geographic” (National Geographic)

Best Spirituality & Religion Podcast: 

• “On Being with Krista Tippett” (On Being Studios)

Best Advice / Inspirational Podcast:

• “Why Won’t You Date Me? With Nicole Byer” (HeadGum)

Best TV & Film Podcast:

• “How Did This Get Made?” (Earwolf)

Best Spanish-Language Podcast:

• “Radio Ambulante” (NPR)

Best Ad Read Podcast:

• “Conan O’ Brien Needs A Friend” (Team Coco & Earwolf)

Best Science Podcast:

• “Hidden Brain” (NPR)

Best Technology Podcast:

• “Reply All” (Gimlet)

Best Wellness & Fitness Podcast:

• “Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel” (Esther Perel Global Media/Gimlet)

Best History Podcast:

• “Revisionist History” (Pushkin Industries)

The 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards is part of iHeartMedia’s roster of incredibly successful, nationally recognized events, including the iHeartRadio Music Festival, iHeartRadio Music Awards, the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour Presented by Capital One®, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego and iHeartRadio Wango Tango.

Executive producers for the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards are John Sykes, Tom Poleman and Conal Byrne for iHeartMedia and Augie Max Vargas.

NEW YORK – December 23, 2019 – iHeartMedia, the No. 1 commercial podcast publisher globally, announced today the recipients of the three Icon Awards at the 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards streaming live Friday, January 17 at 8 p.m. PT via a LiveXLive stream and on iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide from the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles. The second annual event will honor the New York Times’ “1619” podcast with the Social Impact Award, NPR’s “Life Kit” podcast with the Innovator Award Presented by Zoom and Tenderfoot TV’s Payne Lindsey and Donald Albright with the Audible Audio Pioneer Award.

The iHeartRadio Podcast Icon Awards pay tribute to the creators, organizations and podcasts that have made groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture.

“We’re thrilled to honor ‘1619,’ ‘Life Kit’ and Tenderfoot TV as this year’s iHeartRadio Podcast Icon winners,” said Conal Byrne, President of the iHeartPodcast Network. “From history to true crime to everyday guidance, their work is as diverse as it is trailblazing, and they make it easy to understand why podcasts have become a must-listen for millions of people each and every day.”

The New York Times’ “1619” podcast, recipient of the 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Social Impact Award, is a five-episode series that is part of a major initiative by the newspaper to observe the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery and reframe the history of the United States by understanding that 1619 was the nation’s true founding. The podcast series is hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, an award-winning journalist who serves as a domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine focusing on racial injustice.

The 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Innovator Award Presented by Zoom winner, NPR’s “Life Kit,” provides listeners with practical information and guidance to help them improve their lives. Launched in December 2018, “Life Kit” is designed for search as it seeks to reach beginners and those with more knowledge on topics that include personal finance, health and wellness, and parenting. The podcast episodes are aggregated in topical playlists for deep dives. “Life Kit” is produced by NPR, which received the first-ever iHeartRadio Podcast Pioneer Award in 2019.

The 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Audible Audio Pioneer Award recipients – director/independent filmmaker, Payne Lindsey, and music industry veteran, Donald Albright – paved the way for true crime podcasts. They launched Tenderfoot TV in 2016 with their first podcast, “Up and Vanished,” which showed that an aspiring filmmaker/musician could take an unsolved murder and turn it into a compelling story and hit podcast – with the alleged killer ultimately confessing due to the podcast investigation. The award-winning podcast has received over 330 million downloads and created the blueprint for Tenderfoot TV’s other No. 1 critically acclaimed podcasts, “Atlanta Monster,” “To Live and Die in LA,” “Culpable” and “Sworn.” “To Live and Die in LA,” which received 50 million downloads in 2019, was also named Podcast of the Year by the Associated Press. Since its launch in 2016, Tenderfoot TV has surpassed 500 million downloads as a company, including 185 million downloads in 2019 alone.

The 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards will honor the most entertaining and innovative podcasts of 2019 and will span 30 categories, celebrating the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the booming podcasting industry. Nominees were announced on November 12 and include podcasts from all creators, distributors and platforms with a panel of blue-ribbon podcast industry leaders, creatives and visionaries determining the winners across categories including Music, Comedy, Crime, News, Sports & Recreation, Food, Business & Finance and more. Podcast fans themselves will once again decide the winner of the Best Podcast of the Year award through social voting on Twitter through January 10. Select category winners will be announced during the live show and stream filled with unique celebrations at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles. For a full list of categories, visit iHeartPodcastAwards.com.

The 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards is part of iHeartMedia’s roster of incredibly successful, nationally recognized events including the iHeartRadio Music Awards, the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego and iHeartRadio Wango Tango. Executive producers for the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards are John Sykes, Tom Poleman and Conal Byrne for iHeartMedia and Augie Max Vargas.

 

“The Daily,” “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “Stuff You Should Know,” 

“My Favorite Murder,” “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend,” “Revisionist History,” 

“The Ron Burgundy Podcast,” “The Dropout,” “The Shrink Next Door” and 

“The Read” Nominated for Best Podcast of the Year 

NEW YORK – November 12, 2019 – iHeartMedia, the No. 1 commercial podcast publisher globally, today announced the nominees for the 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards on Friday, January 17 at 8 p.m. PT held at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles. Fans across the country will also be able to tune in to the second annual live awards event via a LiveXLive stream and on iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide. The event will honor the most entertaining and innovative podcasts of 2019 and will span 30 categories, celebrating the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the booming podcasting industry. 

Podcasts nominated for Best Podcast of the Year include “The Daily,” “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “Stuff You Should Know,” “My Favorite Murder,” “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend,” “Revisionist History,” “The Ron Burgundy Podcast,” “The Dropout,” “The Shrink Next Door” and “The Read.” Additional nominees include podcasts from all creators, distributors and platforms with a panel of blue-ribbon podcast industry leaders, creatives and visionaries determining the winners across categories including Music, Comedy, Crime, News, Sports & Recreation, Food, Business & Finance and more. Podcast fans themselves will once again decide the winner of the “Best Podcast of the Year” award through social voting on Twitter now through January 10. More information can be found at iHeartPodcastAwards.com.

In addition, the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards will present three Icon Awards to pay tribute to the creators, organizations and podcasts that have made groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture. The winners for the 2020 Pioneer Award, Social Impact Award and Innovator Award will be announced at a later date.

Last year’s winners of the inaugural iHeartRadio Podcast Awards included Slate’s “Slow Burn” for Podcast of the Year; “Up and Vanished” for Best Crime Podcast; “The Joe Rogan Experience” for Best Comedy Podcast; Marc Smerling, host of “Crimetown” and “The RFK Tapes,” for Podcast Innovator; “Fantasy Footballers” for Best Sports Podcast; and Dax Shepard and Monica Padman of “Armchair Expert with Dax Shephard” for Breakout Podcast of the Year, among many other categories and winners. The 2019 event featured appearances by award nominees, celebrity presenters and other special guests including Mike Tyson, Dax Shepard, Jillian Michaels, Jana Kramer, Topher Grace, Dr. Drew, Becca Tilley, Scheana Shay, Dean Unglert, Vanessa Grimaldi, Jake Brennan, Charlamagne Tha God, Holly Frey and more. NPR was also honored with the first-ever iHeartRadio Podcast Pioneer Award. 

This year’s category finalists (by alphabetical order) are:

Best Podcast of the Year (Socially Voted Category)

• “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” (Team Coco & Earwolf) 
• “My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark” (Exactly Right) 
• “Revisionist History” (Pushkin Industries) 
• “Stuff You Should Know” (iHeartRadio) 
• “The Daily” (The New York Times) 
• “The Dropout” (ABC News) 
• “The Joe Rogan Experience” (Independent) 
• “The Read” (Loud Speakers Network) 
• “The Ron Burgundy Podcast” (iHeartRadio) 
• “The Shrink Next Door” (Wondery/Bloomberg) 

Best Comedy Podcast

• “Comedy Bang Bang” (Earwolf & Scott Aukerman)
• “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” (Team Coco & Earwolf)
• “My Dad Wrote A Porno” (Independent) 
• “The 85 South Show” (Independent) 
• “The Joe Rogan Experience” (Independent) 
• “The Read” (Loud Speakers Network) 
• “The Ron Burgundy Podcast” (iHeartRadio) 

Best Crime Podcast

• “Crime Junkie” (audiochuck) 
• “Hit Man” (iHeartRadio) 
• “Man In The Window” (L.A. Times/Wondery) 
• “Root of Evil” (TNT & Cadence 13) 
• “The Clearing” (Pineapple Street Media/Gimlet) 
• “The Shrink Next Door” (Wondery/Bloomberg) 
• “White Lies" (NPR) 

 

Best Music Podcast

• “All Songs Considered” (NPR) 
• “Bobbycast” (iHeartRadio) 
• “Broken Record with Malcolm Gladwell, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam” (Pushkin Industries) 
• “DISGRACELAND” (iHeartRadio) 
• “expediTIously with Tip ‘T.I.’ Harris” (PodcastOne) 
• “Song Exploder” (Radiotopia) 
• “Sound Opinions” (WBEZ Chicago) 

Best News Podcast

• “Pod Save The World” (Crooked Media) 
• “Post Reports” (The Washington Post) 
• “The Daily Zeitgeist” (iHeartRadio) 
• “The Daily” (The New York Times) 
• “The Journal” (The Wall Street Journal & Gimlet) 
• “Today, Explained” (Vox) 
• “Up First” (NPR) 

Best Sports & Recreation Podcast

• “30 For 30” (ESPN) 
• “Fantasy Footballers” (Independent) 
• “Knuckleheads” (The Players' Tribune) 
• “Pardon My Take” (Barstool Sports) 
• “Sports Wars” (Wondery) 
• “The Bill Simmons Podcast” (The Ringer) 
• “The Herd w/ Colin Cowherd” (iHeartRadio & FOX Sports Radio) 

Best Overall Host - Male

• Aaron Mahnke (iHeartRadio) 
• Bill Simmons (The Ringer) 
• Glynn Washington (WNYC) 
• Jonathan Van Ness (Earwolf / Stitcher) 
• Malcolm Gladwell (Pushkin Industries) 
• Marc Maron (Independent) 
• Roman Mars (Radiotopia) 

Best Overall Host - Female

• Amanda Seales (Starburns Audio)
• Anna Sale (WNYC) 
• Holly Frey (iHeartRadio) 
• Jenna Wortham (The New York Times) 
• Kelly McEvers (NPR) 
• Nora McInerny (American Public Media) 
• Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) 

 Best Business & Finance Podcast

• “Business Wars” (Wondery) 
• “How I Built This with Guy Raz” (NPR) 
• “Marketplace” (American Public Media) 
• “The Chris Hogan Show” (Ramsey Network) 
• “The Indicator from Planet Money” (NPR) 

Best Pop Culture Podcast

• “The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast” (iHeartRadio) 
• “Off the Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe” (PodcastOne) 
• “Pop Culture Happy Hour” (NPR) 
• “Talk Is Jericho” (Westwood One) 
• “The Breakfast Club” (iHeartRadio) 

Best Food Podcast

• “Doughboys” (HeadGum/Doughboys Media) 
• “Gastropod” (Independent) 
• “The Splendid Table” (American Public Media) 
• “The Dave Chang Show” (The Ringer & Majordomo Media) 
• “The Sporkful” (Dan Pashman & Stitcher) 

 Best Wellness & Fitness Podcast

• “Happier with Gretchen Rubin” (Gretchen Rubin/The Onward Project) 
• “Last Day” (Lemonada Media) 
• “Life Kit” (NPR) 
• “Therapy For Black Girls” (Independent) 
• “Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel” (Esther Perel Global Media/Gimlet) 

Best History Podcast

• “1619” (The New York Times) 
• “Lore” (Independent) 
• “Mobituaries with Mo Rocca” (CBS) 
• “Revisionist History” (Pushkin Industries) 
• “Stuff You Missed In History Class” (iHeartRadio) 

Best Kids & Family Podcast

• “#MOMTRUTHS with Cat & Nat” (Independent) 
• “Brains On!” (American Public Media) 
• “Story Pirates” (Gimlet) 
• “The Longest Shortest Time” (Stitcher) 
• “Wow In The World” (NPR)

Best Fiction Podcast

• “Blackout” (Endeavor Audio & QCODE) 
• “Carrier” (QCODE) 
• “Limetown” (Two-Up) 
• “Passenger List” (Radiotopia) 
• “Welcome To Night Vale” (Night Vale Presents) 

 Best Science Podcast

• “Hidden Brain” (NPR) 
• “Invisibilia” (NPR) 
• “Science Vs” (Gimlet) 
• “StarTalk Radio” (Independent) 
• “Stuff To Blow Your Mind” (iHeartRadio) 

Best Technology Podcast

• “TechStuff” (iHeartRadio) 
• “This Week In Tech” (Independent) 
• “Reply All” (Gimlet) 
• “Recode Decode” (Recode) 
• “Vergecast” (The Verge) 

Best Ad Read 

• “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard” (Armchair Umbrella) 
• “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” (Team Coco & Earwolf)
• “Pod Save America” (Crooked Media) 
• “Revisionist History” (Pushkin Industries) 
• “The Ron Burgundy Podcast” (iHeartRadio) 

Best Political Podcast

• “Intercepted” (The Intercept) 
• “NPR Politics” (NPR) 
• “Pod Save The People” (Crooked Media) 
• “Political Gabfest” (Slate) 
• “The Ben Shapiro Show” (The Daily Wire) 

Best TV & Film Podcast

• “Binge Mode” (The Ringer) 
• “How Did This Get Made?” (Earwolf) 
• “Rewatchables” (The Ringer & Bill Simmons) 
• “Straight Up with Stassi” (Radio.com) 
• “The Bechdel Cast” (iHeartRadio)

 Best Spanish Language Podcast

• “El Cine De LoQueYoTeDiga” (LoQueYoTeDiga) 
• “El Show de Piolín” (Eduardo “Piolín” Sotelo | reVolver Podcasts) 
• “Nadie Sabe Nada” (Cadena SER) 
• “Radio Ambulante” (NPR) 
• “TED en Español” (TED) 

Best Advice/Inspirational Podcast

• “Call Her Daddy” (Barstool Sports) 
• “Dear Prudence” (Slate) 
• “Death, Sex & Money” (WNYC)
• “Life Kit” (NPR) 
• “Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations” (OWN) 
• “Terrible, Thanks For Asking” (American Public Media) 
• “Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer” (HeadGum) 

Best Beauty & Fashion Podcast

• “Dressed: The History of Fashion” (iHeartRadio) 
• “Fat Mascara (At Will Media) 
• “Forever35” (Independent) 
• “Naked Beauty” (Independent) 
• “The Cut On Tuesdays” (Gimlet) 

 Best Travel Podcast

• “On She Goes” (Independent) 
• “Overheard at National Geographic” (National Geographic) 
• “She Explores” (She Explores) 
• “The Wild” (KUOW) 
• “Travel with Rick Steves” (Independent) 

Best Spirituality & Religion Podcast

• “A Little Juju Podcast” (Independent) 
• “Almost 30” (Independent) 
• “Elevation with Steven Furtick” (Elevation Church) 
• “On Being with Krista Tippett” (On Being Studios) 
• “The Joel Osteen Podcast” (Independent) 

Best Green Podcast

• “Climate One” (The Commonwealth Club) 
• “Drilled” (Critical Frequency) 
• “Sustainability Defined” (Independent) 
• “Terrestrial” (KUOW News and Information) 
• “Warm Regards” (Independent) 

Best Branded Podcast

• “Camp Monsters” (REI Co-Op) 
• “Going Through It” (MailChimp) 
• “NBC’s Songland” (NBC) 
• “Spit” (23&Me) 
• “Trained” (Nike) 

The 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards is part of iHeartMedia’s roster of incredibly successful, nationally recognized events including the iHeartRadio Music Awards, the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego and iHeartRadio Wango Tango. 

Select category winners will be announced during the live show and stream filled with unique celebrations at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles. For more information visit iHeartPodcastAwards.com.

Executive producers for the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards are John Sykes, Tom Poleman and Conal Byrne for iHeartMedia and Augie Max Vargas. 

 

iHeartRadio’s Second Annual Major Live Podcast Awards Ceremony Will Return to the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles on January 17, 2020

NEW YORK – September 30, 2019– In celebration of International Podcast Day, iHeartMedia, the No. 1 podcast publisher globally, today announced the return of the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards to the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles on Friday, January 17, 2020 at 8 p.m. PT. The second annual live awards event, which will broadcast and stream live across iHeartMedia stations nationwide, will honor the most entertaining and innovative podcasts of 2019 and will span 30 categories, celebrating the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the booming podcasting industry.

Last year’s winners at the inaugural iHeartRadio Podcast Awards included Slate’s “Slow Burn” for Podcast of the Year; “Up and Vanished” for Best Crime Podcast; “The Joe Rogan Experience” for Best Comedy Podcast; Marc Smerling, host of “Crimetown” and “The RFK Tapes,” for Podcast Innovator; “Fantasy Footballers” for Best Sports Podcast; and Dax Shepard and Monica Padman of “Armchair Expert” for Breakout Podcast of the Year, among many other categories and winners. The event featured appearances by award nominees, celebrity presenters and other special guests including Mike Tyson, Dax Shepard, Jillian Michaels, Jana Kramer, Topher Grace, Dr. Drew, Becca Tilley, Scheana Shay, Dean Unglert, Vanessa Grimaldi, Jake Brennan, Charlamagne Tha God, Holly Frey and more. NPR was also honored with the first-ever iHeartRadio Podcast Pioneer Award.

“The podcasting landscape has truly grown and is now reaching a mainstream audience,” said Anya Grundmann, Senior Vice President for Programming and Audience Development at NPR. “As a ‘Podcast Pioneer’ we are thrilled to see the range of terrific new programs out there and excited that iHeart has created such a powerful platform to showcase standout shows.”

International Podcast Day celebrates the power of podcasts, which continues to see tremendous growth into mainstream audiences with millions of new listeners. Podcast listenership in the United States alone has grown exponentially with an estimated 17 million more monthly podcast listeners in 2019 than in 2018. Today podcasts reach 90 million active listeners in America, exceeding the listenership of both satellite radio and all major streaming music services. iHeartMedia, which reaches a quarter of billion monthly listeners in the U.S. with just its broadcast radio stations and on-air personalities alone, will celebrate the best in podcasts with existing fans, while also continuing to introduce millions of new listeners to this incredible medium every single day.

“When we introduced the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards last year, we knew we wanted to celebrate the most talented podcast creators out there – the key reason that podcasting continues to grow exponentially,” said Conal Byrne, President of the iHeartPodcast Network. “The response to last year’s awards was amazing. This is the one time of the year that all the most popular podcasters come together to celebrate the community of podcasting truly as colleagues, not competitors. The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards bring everyone into one room – the biggest hosts, producers and distributors – all committed to this amazing podcast medium and to seeing its incredible growth continue.”

Podcast fans themselves will once again decide the winner of the “Podcast of the Year” award through online and social voting across Twitter and Instagram. Nominees will include podcasts from all creators, distributors and platforms, and a panel of blue-ribbon podcast industry leaders, creatives and visionaries will determine the winner across remaining categories including entertainment, comedy, crime, news, sports, food, LGBTQ+, business and more. In addition, this year’s awards will include three Icon Awards -- The Innovator Award, The Social Impact Award and The Pioneer Award. Select category winners will be announced during the live show and stream filled with unique celebrations at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles. More details will be shared soon.

The 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards is part of iHeartMedia’s roster of incredibly successful, nationally-recognized events, including the iHeartRadio Music Awards, the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego and iHeartRadio Wango Tango. For more information visit iHeartPodcastAwards.com.

Hosted by Holly Frey, Charlamagne Tha God and Bobby Bones, Plus Livestream Host Mario Lopez With Special Guest Appearances by Mike Tyson, Dax Shepard, Jillian Michaels, Jana Kramer, Topher Grace, Dr. Drew and More

Coveted Podcast of the Year Award Presented To “Slow Burn”

NEW YORK, N.Y. – January 19, 2019 – The first annual iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® brought the biggest names in podcasting together at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles last night, Friday, January 18. Voted by the listeners, the live awards event honored the very best in podcasting and spanned 22 categories. The evening celebrated the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the booming podcasting industry.

The live 90-minute event was hosted by Holly Frey, Charlamagne Tha God, Bobby Bones, and livestream host Mario Lopez. It was broadcast on more than 150 iHeartMedia radio stations from across the country and livestreamed on iHeartRadio’s Twitter. The event featured appearances by award nominees, celebrity presenters and other special guests including Mike Tyson, Dax Shepard, Jillian Michaels, Jana Kramer, Topher Grace, Dr. Drew, Becca Tilley, Scheana Shay, Dean Unglert, Vanessa Grimaldi and more.

Event highlights include:

• NPR honored with the first-ever iHeartRadio Podcast Pioneer Award at the inaugural iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One®.
• Slate’s “Slow Burn” took home the coveted Podcast of the Year award.
• Marc Smerling, host of “Crimetown” and “The RFK Tapes,” was awarded Podcast Innovator by a blue-ribbon panel of podcast industry leaders.
• Legendary boxer Mike Tyson and Mario Lopez presented the award for Best Sports Podcast to “Fantasy Footballers.”
• Breakout Podcast of the Year awarded to Dax Shepard and Monica Padman for “Armchair Expert.”
• Joe Rogan won Best Comedy Podcast and took time out from his vacation to thank iHeartRadio and his loyal listeners for the award.

Full list of category winners below:

Podcast of the Year:

• "Slow Burn"

Best Business Podcast:

• "RISE Podcast"

Best Comedy Podcast:

• "The Joe Rogan Experience"

Best Crime Podcast:

• "Up and Vanished"

Best Food Podcast:

• "Sips, Suds, & Smokes"

Best Entertainment TV Podcast:

• "Whine Down with Jana Kramer"

Best Curiosity Podcast:

• "Stuff You Should Know"

Best Health & Fitness Podcast:

• "Sleep With Me"

Best History Podcast:

• "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History"

Best Kids & Family Podcast:

• "Wow in the World"

Best LGBTQ Podcast:

• "Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness"

Most Bingeable Podcast:

• "Dr. Death"

Best Multicultural Podcast:

• "The Breakfast Club"

Best Music Podcast:

• "Bobbycast"

Best News Podcast:

• "The Ben Shapiro Show"

Best Scripted Podcast:

• "Wolverine: The Long Night"

Best Sports Podcast:

• "Fantasy Footballers: Fantasy Football Podcast"

Best Science & Tech Podcast:

• "Reply All"

Breakout Podcast:

• "Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard"

Best Branded Podcast:

• "DTR - The Official Tinder Podcast"

Best Social Impact Podcast:

• "Ear Hustle"

The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® is part of iHeartMedia’s roster of incredibly successful, nationally recognized events, including the iHeartRadio Music Festival, iHeartRadio Music Awards, the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour Presented by Capital One®, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego and iHeartRadio Wango Tango.

Proud partners of the 2019 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® include ESPN’s “30 for 30” podcasts, Ketel One, Investigation Discovery and Megaphone. For a full list of nominees visit iHeartPodcastAwards.com.

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NEW YORK – November 13, 2018 – iHeartMedia, the No. 1 commercial podcast publisher globally with over 20,000 podcasts available on its platform, announced today that NPR will be honored with the first-ever iHeartRadio Podcast Pioneer Award at its inaugural iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® on January 18, 2019 at 8 p.m. PT at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles.

iHeartRadio will recognize NPR as a driving, innovative force in the creation of the podcasting industry and will pay tribute to the renowned non-profit multimedia organization’s groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture. NPR launched its first digital-only podcasting predecessor, “All Songs Considered,” in April 2000 and officially debuted NPR Podcasts in August 2005 with a full slate of 174 programs, including 17 original podcasts. In less than a year, they reached 13 million downloads for all of their podcast programming and reached more than 80 million downloads by February 2007. Today, NPR remains a leading podcasting publisher with over 40 active podcasts on topics ranging from the day’s news to arts, culture, and science, that reach a unique monthly audience of 16,386,000 (per podtrac).

“When we decided to honor the biggest names in podcasting with our first awards show for podcasts, we knew we wanted to recognize NPR’s unparalleled impact on how millions of listeners consume audio content,” said Conal Byrne, President of the iHeartPodcast Network. “We’re thrilled to be able to honor their trailblazing efforts with our first-ever iHeartRadio Podcast Pioneer Award in January.”

“We are honored to receive the Podcast Pioneer Award. Podcasts have been a major source of innovation for NPR,” said Anya Grundmann, Senior Vice President for Programming and Audience Development at NPR. “They have given our reporters the chance to flex their storytelling muscles, pursue creative ideas and longer stories, and play with form in ways not always possible on a daily show. They have also helped us connect with listeners in new ways and helped us evolve our sound.”

The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One®, voted by the listeners to honor the very best in podcasting, will span 22 categories and will celebrate the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the booming podcasting industry.

Hosted by Holly Frey, co-host of “Stuff You Missed in History Class,” one of today’s biggest history podcasts; Charlamagne Tha God, nationally-syndicated on-air host and co-host of “The Brilliant Idiots” and “The Breakfast Club” podcasts; and Bobby Bones, top Country radio host, multiplatform personality and host of the leading Country music focused podcast “Bobbycast” and creator of the Nashville Podcast Network, the event will run 90 minutes and will include a live audience with a live stream hosted by on-air and TV personality Mario Lopez. Presenters include Payne Lindsay (“Up & Vanished”), Aaron Mahnke (“Lore”), and Jake Brennan (“Disgraceland”), with more to be announced.

The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® will honor the most entertaining and innovative podcasts of 2018 as well as celebrate podcast fans by giving listeners the opportunity to decide the winners in 17 of the 22 categories.

A panel of blue-ribbon podcast industry leaders, creatives and visionaries including Marc Smerling, “Crimetown”; Jake Brennan, “Disgraceland”; Jody Avirgan, ESPN “30 for 30”; Anna Hossnieh and Shereen Lani Younes, “Ethnically Ambiguous”; Alex Blumberg, Gimlet; Conal Byrne and Chris Peterson, iHeartMedia; Aaron Mahnke, “Lore”; Anya Grundmann, NPR; Max Cutler, Parcast; Owen Grover, Pocket Casts; Maggie Taylor, PRX; Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark, “Stuff You Should Know”; Holly Frey, “Stuff You Missed in History Class”; Donald Albright and Payne Lindsay, Tenderfoot TV; Sim Sarna, Unqualified Media; and Hernan Lopez, Wondery will determine the winner in five major categories: Podcast of the Year, Breakout Podcast, Best Branded Podcast, Best Social Impact from Podcast/Host and Podcast Innovator Award.

Fans can vote for their favorite podcasts through January 6, 2019 online and socially across Twitter and Instagram. Visit iHeartPodcastAwards.com for a complete list of nominees and voting details. Winners will be announced during the live show and stream filled with unique celebrations at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles.

Hosted by Holly Frey, Bobby Bones and Charlamagne Tha God with Live Stream Hosted by Mario Lopez, The First-Ever Major Live Podcast Award Ceremony Voted by the Listeners Will Be Held at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles 

 Atlanta Monster, Dirty John, Hardcore History, Joe Rogan, Radiolab, Serial, Slow Burn, Stuff You Should Know, The Daily and The Habitat Nominated for Podcast of the Year

 Panel of Judges to include Industry Leaders from Gimlet, iHeartMedia, NPR, Parcast, PRX, Tenderfoot TV, Wondery and others

 NEW YORK -- October 22, 2018 -- iHeartMedia, the No. 1 commercial podcast publisher globally with over 20,000 podcasts available on its platform, today announced the first annual live iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® to be held at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles on Friday, January 18, 2019 at 8 p.m. PT. The first-ever major live awards event voted by the listeners to honor the very best in podcasting will span 22 categories and will celebrate the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the booming podcasting industry. 

Hosted by Holly Frey, co-host of “Stuff You Missed in History Class,” one of today’s biggest history podcasts; Charlamagne Tha God, nationally-syndicated on-air host and co-host of “The Brilliant Idiots” and “The Breakfast Club” podcasts; and Bobby Bones, top Country radio host, multiplatform personality and host of the leading Country music focused podcast “Bobbycast” and creator of the Nashville Podcast Network, the event will run 90 minutes and will include a live audience with a live stream hosted by on-air and TV personality  Mario Lopez. Presenters include Payne Lindsay (“Up & Vanished”), Aaron Mahnke (“Lore”), and Jake Brennan (“Disgraceland”), with more to be announced.

Since the introduction of podcasts more than a decade ago, the entertainment industry has seen a steady increase in listenership and popularity across the medium, with over 44 percent of Americans having listened to a podcast.  Today, podcasts have twice the reach than all of satellite radio and the iHeartRadio Podcast Network has seen a nearly 200 percent year-over-year growth in podcast listening in the past year.

“Podcasting has roared onto the audio scene, creating the most excitement since the advent of streaming music services. The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® will provide a forum to celebrate the high-caliber, creative content that has made podcasting a major new audio category -- and that truly reflects America’s favorite podcasts, voted by the listeners themselves,” said Conal Byrne, President of iHeartMedia’s Podcasting Division. “We look forward to hosting this transformative, annual event and encouraging everyone in the podcasting industry to push the envelope and inspire even more creators in this space.” 

The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® will honor the most entertaining and innovative podcasts of 2018 as well as celebrate podcast fans by giving listeners the opportunity to decide the winners in 17 of the 22 categories with podcasts “Atlanta Monster,” “Dirty John,” “Hardcore History,” “Joe Rogan,” “Radiolab,” “Serial,” “Slow Burn,” “Stuff You Should Know,” “The Daily” and “The Habitat” nominated for Podcast of the Year. 

A panel of blue-ribbon podcast industry leaders, creatives and visionaries including Marc Smerling, “Crimetown”; Jake Brennan, “Disgraceland”; Alex Blumberg, Gimlet; Conal Byrne and Chris Peterson, iHeartMedia; Aaron Mahnke, “Lore”; Anya Grundmann, NPR; Max Cutler, Parcast; Owen Grover, Pocket Casts; Maggie Taylor, PRX; Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark, “Stuff You Should Know”; Holly Frey, “Stuff You Missed in History Class”; Donald Albright and Payne Lindsay, Tenderfoot TV; Sim Sarna, Unqualified Media; and Hernan Lopez, Wondery will determine the winner in five major categories: Podcast of the Year, Breakout Podcast, Best Branded Podcast, Best Social Impact from Podcast/Host and Podcast Innovator Award. 

Fans can vote for their favorite podcasts beginning today through January 6, 2019 online and socially across Twitter and Instagram. Visit iHeartPodcastAwards.com for a complete list of nominees and voting details.  Winners will be announced during the live show and stream filled with unique celebrations at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles.

“The podcasting space is on fire and we are excited to recognize its leaders, as decided by the fans and a panel of industry creatives and experts,” said Bob Pittman, Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia, Inc. “We are delighted to use our expertise with events and awards shows to build the first major industry awards show for podcasts, to use our unparalleled size and scale to promote and market the event – and to include these great companies and luminaries in the celebration.”   

Nominees include podcasts from all creators, distributors and platforms — not just those developed by or available on the iHeartRadio Podcast Network. The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® is part of iHeartMedia’s roster of incredibly successful, nationally recognized events, including the iHeartRadio Music Festival, iHeartRadio Music Awards, the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour Presented by Capital One®, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego and iHeartRadio Wango Tango.

iHeartRadio carries more than 20,000 podcasts from its own podcasts to other major podcast publishers ranging from NPR, Wondery and WNYC to ESPN and Gimlet.  iHeartMedia also recently acquired Stuff Media, LLC, the leading for-profit publisher of entertaining and informative podcast content, which includes the HowStuffWorks podcasting business. Conal Byrne, President and CEO of Stuff Media has now become the President of the iHeartRadio Podcast Division.