IHeartRadio Podcast Awards

The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards is a podcast awards show that celebrates podcasts heard throughout the year across iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and on iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia's digital music platform. Founded by iHeartRadio in 2019, the event recognizes the most popular podcasters and podcasts over the past year. Winners are chosen in a few categories by judges, but the majority of categories are voted on by fans through the iHeart Podcast Awards website and social media. The inaugural event was held on January 18, 2019, at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles.

WWW iheart.com/podcast-awards

Overview

Fans vote on their favorite podcasts through the iHeart Podcast Awards website and social media over the course of a couple of months leading up to the ceremony. A panel of judges who are blue-ribbon podcast industry leaders determines the podcast winners of several of the categories.

Award categories

The categories cover an array of genres, including fiction, religion and spirituality, music, and political podcasts. Categories voted on by judges are indicated with a double dagger.

Special awards

Podcast Innovator Award

2019: Marc Smerling
2020: Life Kit
2021: QCode
2022: Descript
2023: Ashley Flowers
2024: Rotten Mango
2025: Daniel Alarcón

Podcast Pioneer Award

2019: NPR
2020: Tenderfoot TV's Payne Lindsey and Donald Albright
2021: TBD

Social Impact Award

2019: Ear Hustle
2020: 1619
2021: TBD

Multiple wins and nominations

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