2021 iHeart Podcast Awards
• iHeartMedia announced the return of the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards on Thursday, January 21, 2021. This year’s virtual event will be recorded from multiple locations, span 30 categories and honor the most entertaining and innovative podcasts of 2020. The event will exclusively video stream on iHeartRadio’s YouTube and Facebook pages and be broadcast across iHeartMedia radio stations and on the iHeartRadio App at 9pm local time.
Podcast fans will once again decide the winner of the Podcast of the Year award by voting on Twitter through December 31. 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. The 2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards will also 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.” More information can be found at iHeartPodcastAwards.com.
